Adam Hodges’s 2019 “Words & Power” column on Anthropology News
Link to Adam Hodges’s 2019 “Words & Power” column on Anthropology News. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/category/opinion/words-and-power/
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When Words Trump Politics: Resisting a Hostile Regime of Language by Adam Hodges (SUP, 2019)
Book information from Stanford University Press: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32097 Trumpism has not only ushered in a new political regime, but also a new regime of language—one that… Read More »When Words Trump Politics: Resisting a Hostile Regime of Language by Adam Hodges (SUP, 2019)
Guns in America: Simple solutions are not easy
In this opinion article, Chad Nilep suggests that empathy, informed by cultural relativism is necessary to help gun control advocates and foes understand one another’s positions and to work toward solutions to the problems of mass shootings and gun violence in America.
“Club G’itmo” and semiotic status claims. Anthropology News
Linguistic anthropologist Robin Shoaps examines how American conservatives outside of media punditry engage with the American Right’s claims of embattled minority status in this month’s Anthropology News.
On socialism, liberalism, and neo-liberalism
“Socialism” and “liberalism” are poorly defined in US politics; the former is over-applied to left-of-center positions, and the latter used in two almost reverse ways. “Neoliberalism” is a hot topic in contemporary anthropology, but the word is sometimes used without sufficient reflection. One way to spot the best work is to look for authors who take pains to define the terms.