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#38 When good intention isnt enough: Jacqui Hoepner on morally repulsive research & academic freedom
#38 When good intention isnt enough: Jacqui Hoepner on morally repulsive research & academic freedom
“I went into this thinking that objectivity and neutrality were the Name of the Game. That you couldn’t do good research... Read more
26 May 2019
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35mins
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#19 Anthro & policy-making, digital disruption, online research, & what is love? This month on TFS
#19 Anthro & policy-making, digital disruption, online research, & what is love? This month on TFS
Simon starts us off (1:08) asking, how can we make anthropology matter for policy and government? "There’s no reason why... Read more
5 Aug 2018
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22mins
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#33: Getting ready for the field: Themed panel with Dr Siobhan McDonnell
#33: Getting ready for the field: Themed panel with Dr Siobhan McDonnell
This month on TFS, we bring you a special themed panel with Dr Siobhan McDonnell about getting ready to go to the field.... Read more
17 Mar 2019
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26mins
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#48 Nature of Anthropology: Andrew Kipnis on China, Funerals, Conferences & Ethnographic Socialising
#48 Nature of Anthropology: Andrew Kipnis on China, Funerals, Conferences & Ethnographic Socialising
"I think you’d be crazy to go into something like anthropology if you want to learn how to say whatever other people tel... Read more
13 Oct 2019
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29mins
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#29: Multimodal ethnography, monolithic China, online bans & the 'anthro helmet': TFS at AAS
#29: Multimodal ethnography, monolithic China, online bans & the 'anthro helmet': TFS at AAS
We, at The Familiar Strange, would like to acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians on whose traditional lands we... Read more
20 Jan 2019
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22mins
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#51: Newsworthy Stories, Becoming Projects, Ethics Of Danger, Balancing Values: This month on TFS
#51: Newsworthy Stories, Becoming Projects, Ethics Of Danger, Balancing Values: This month on TFS
Jodie [1:26] begins our panel this month with a recent incident in Canberra, Australia, where a woman was shot by a 'ran... Read more
24 Nov 2019
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24mins
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#11 Alternative worlds: Ghassan Hage talks multiculturalism, teaching the enemy & thinking in public
#11 Alternative worlds: Ghassan Hage talks multiculturalism, teaching the enemy & thinking in public
“Any concept -- capitalism, neoliberalism, etc. -- leaves an excess that it is the aim of anthropology to unearth. These... Read more
1 Apr 2018
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36mins
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#49: Intolerable Ads, Introvert Anthros, Irrevocable Ties & Indigenous Symbols: This Month on TFS
#49: Intolerable Ads, Introvert Anthros, Irrevocable Ties & Indigenous Symbols: This Month on TFS
This month, Kylie [0:50] kicks off our conversation by reflecting on our blog about racism in sport and asks us about th... Read more
27 Oct 2019
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19mins
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#34 Knowledge Making: Emma Kowal talks Indigenous health care, difference & genomics
#34 Knowledge Making: Emma Kowal talks Indigenous health care, difference & genomics
“Wherever you work, science and technology are everywhere … [and] ethnographic methods are crucial for answering the kin... Read more
31 Mar 2019
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35mins
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#10 Smoking v. vaping, anthrosmelling, de/colonization, & America's gun "tribes:" this month on TFS
#10 Smoking v. vaping, anthrosmelling, de/colonization, & America's gun "tribes:" this month on TFS
This month, Julia (1:12) questions Australia's black-and-white moral stance against vaping as a way to help people stop ... Read more
18 Mar 2018
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23mins
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#44 Digitising Migrants: Annalisa Pelizza on the European immigration crisis in an age of Big Data
#44 Digitising Migrants: Annalisa Pelizza on the European immigration crisis in an age of Big Data
This is the 7th episode in our Science and Technology interview series. This time, Jodie is interviewing Annalisa Pelizz... Read more
18 Aug 2019
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38mins
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#16 The costs of efficiency: Cris Shore talks neoliberalism in the public sector
#16 The costs of efficiency: Cris Shore talks neoliberalism in the public sector
"Rather than always studying poor, peripheral peasants, pastoralists, and fishermen, let’s turn the critical gaze of our... Read more
24 Jun 2018
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42mins
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#43 Deepfakes, words vs actions, hatred in anth & social dissociation(Re-Release)
#43 Deepfakes, words vs actions, hatred in anth & social dissociation(Re-Release)
This month, we were devastated to discover that the audio file of the awesome podcast panel we had recorded for you was ... Read more
4 Aug 2019
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23mins
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#18 What taste is made of: Brad Weiss talks pig farming and the meaning of food in America
#18 What taste is made of: Brad Weiss talks pig farming and the meaning of food in America
"Livestock are essential to our lives. We live in a world that is saturated with livestock, and not just with the food t... Read more
22 Jul 2018
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45mins
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#14 Thesis writing, picturing cults, Muslims with caste, & fieldwork boredom: this month on TFS
#14 Thesis writing, picturing cults, Muslims with caste, & fieldwork boredom: this month on TFS
Ian (1:25) starts us off, by asking, how well-written does a thesis need to be? "As anthropologists, basically what we d... Read more
12 May 2018
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23mins
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#21 Misogyny, irrational politics, the ontological turn, & multi-media learning: this month on TFS
#21 Misogyny, irrational politics, the ontological turn, & multi-media learning: this month on TFS
Jodie (1:04), drawing on the book Down Girl by Australian philosopher Kate Manne, starts us off by asking what misogyny ... Read more
2 Sep 2018
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23mins
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#23 Decolonizing anthropology, with Sana Ashraf and Bruma Rios-Mendoza: this month on TFS
#23 Decolonizing anthropology, with Sana Ashraf and Bruma Rios-Mendoza: this month on TFS
"We think we are supposed to be comfortable. As long as we are trying to do everything to be comfortable, we will never ... Read more
30 Sep 2018
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23mins
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#31: Field ties, clear truth, cringy rap & liminal states: This month on TFS
#31: Field ties, clear truth, cringy rap & liminal states: This month on TFS
In this panel, we welcome Shamim to the Familiar Strange podcast. This month Ian (1:15) starts us off by asking how we m... Read more
17 Feb 2019
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24mins
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#3 The flies that bind: Assa Doron talks mobile phones, policy impact, and waste in India [RERUN]
#3 The flies that bind: Assa Doron talks mobile phones, policy impact, and waste in India [RERUN]
“The flies that go from feces into the water, into the food, don’t look at your bank account…” When a problem cuts acros... Read more
6 Jan 2019
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43mins
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#36 If Machines Talked: Lucy Suchman on drone warfare, stubborn photocopiers & human-robot relations
#36 If Machines Talked: Lucy Suchman on drone warfare, stubborn photocopiers & human-robot relations
“The claim was 'isn’t this wonderful that remote controls keep humans safe'. Now, all you have to do is recognise that t... Read more
28 Apr 2019
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42mins
