Enjoy Poverty and Poverty Inc.
In Poverty Inc. the dichotomous obligation of need is presented through the description of charities and NGOs as artificial implants. Citizens of wealthy nations, ...
Perfect Gift for Whom: Ideology and Inequality
“Feed the world/ Let them know it’s Christmas Time”. As what the lyrics has narrated, humanitarian aid to the third world countries in poverty, especially those in ...
Give a man a fish
The element of the film Poverty Inc. that I’d like to talk about is the idiom “give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for ...
Talisman
Objects having supernatural energies may lead to negative impacts in some cultures, but this might not apply to the talismans I received and given in my autoethnographic ...
Global poverty industry: development or thuggery?
The film was punchy on charities, churches and corruption in local governments. However, it was slightly softer regarding NGOs, World Banks, and neo-colonialism. ...
Entrepreneurism Gives Me the Ick
Please indulge me a rant, in the spirit and gusto, if not the incisiveness of Sahlins’ Emeritus rant, because feel-good stories about entrepreneurism give me the ...
Neither accepted nor discarded
At last week’s session, I talked about this copy of the NKJV Bible. For the participant who gave it to me, it represents objective truth and a path to salvation. But ...
OiM23 Family of Gifts
I also wanted to share the photo that I took of our family of gifts yesterday; thank you all for your wonderful contributions. I mentioned Sophie Woodward’s ...
Worn Worlds
In class this week we discussed how clothing that was once worn by deceased relatives or friends may affect us. I have uploaded a chapter by Peter Stalybrass in ...
Morgellons – a mutating conspiracy theory
I recently came across a conspiracy theory that has been around for some time already and has gained new attention since the outbreak of Covid-19. Taking the analogy ...
Food Safety and “Fukushima Foods” in Taiwan
For the assignment this week, I have decided to look into a food safety controversy in Taiwan on the issues of importation of food products from the five prefectures in ...
COVID-19 and “objects/infrastructures in motion”
I wanted to share two stories that link this week's discussion on voices about COVID-19 and more general topics of objects and infrastructure in the class. The first ...
London Trip 2022
After a long day of exhibitions, discussions and drinks..... a very appropriate (infrastructure?) selfie! Thank you for sharing,
Authentic Oxford?
This week's readings/ discussions about the making of authentic places made me think of Arturo Soto's recent photo book about Oxford entitled 'A Certain Logic of ...
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
As an interesting comparison to 'China's Van Goghs', which we will watch this week, I would like to recommend the very entertaining German documentary 'Beltracchi: The ...
Of roads and walls
A few days ago, a friend and I were walking to the hill west of Port Meadow. After making our way over small rivers and fences, we finally came across an impenetrable ...
“Authentic and Unique”: Walking and Talking with an Oxford University student.
I was sat on the steps of the Radcliffe Camera with a friend who was crying about her coursework when a tour group passed us. I joked “They should look at us, this is ...
Slovakian Authenticity in Japan
In "Producing Authenticity in Global Capitalism: Language, Materiality, and Value", authors Cavanaugh and Shankar (2014) deconstruct two ethnographic examples of how ...