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The relationships between imperialism/colonialism and anthropology have been at the heart of the Zero Anthropology Project since its inception. The articles below discuss diverse aspects of decolonization and anthropology and, as some have called it, decolonizing anthropology. This is just a selection from a larger number of articles. In addition, two graduate-level seminars have been taught which are tied to many of the concerns raised below, namely: Decolonizing Anthropological Epistemology, Theory, Practice and New Directions in Anthropological Research. The date of the most recent edit here was June 26, 2019.

2017. “Cultural Appropriation, Cultural Exploitation, Cultural Genocide: Problems of Neoliberal Diversity Management”. Zero Anthropology, December 19.

2016. “Economic Citizenship and Resource Nationalism”. Zero Anthropology, September 25.

2014. “On Eritrea: Cross-Talk Without Dialogue”. Zero Anthropology, September 20.

2014. “Militarization: It’s All the Same, Everywhere. Or Is It? Zero Anthropology, September 14.

2014. “Imperial Abduction: The Globalization of Residential Schooling”. Zero Anthropology, August 29.

2014. “Anthropology: The Empire on which the Sun Never Sets (Part 3)”. Zero Anthropology, May 16.

2014. “Anthropology: The Empire on which the Sun Never Sets (Part 2)”. Zero Anthropology, May 16.

2014. “Anthropology: The Empire on which the Sun Never Sets (Part 1)”. Zero Anthropology, May 16.

2014. “Decolonizing Thought in the New World”. Zero Anthropology, April 13.

2012. “ANTHROPOLOGY–The Definitive Definition (2nd edition)”. Zero Anthropology, December 11.

2010. “Ethnographies of Resistance Movements: Legible to the Authorities”. Zero Anthropology, October 11.

2010. “Colonial and Anti-Imperial Anthropology”. Zero Anthropology, September 17.

2009. “(Re)Imperializing Anthropology and Decolonizing Knowledge Production”. Zero Anthropology, September 19.

2009. “‘Useless Anthropology’: Strategies for Dealing with the Militarization of the Academy”. Zero Anthropology, May 22.

2008. “Gerald Sider: ‘Can Anthropology Ever Be Innocent?’ Zero Anthropology, November 24.

2008. “Cosmopolitan Anthropology as Responsibility to the Other”. Zero Anthropology, October 20.

2008. “Review of Johannes Fabian’s Ethnography as Commentary”. Zero Anthropology, September 22.

2008. “Como protegerse contra un antropólogo: Un código de ética desde la base”. Zero Anthropology, September 21.

2008. “How to Protect Yourself from an Anthropologist: A Code of Ethics from the Bottom Up”. Zero Anthropology, September 9.

2008. “The Wrong Way and the White Way”. Zero Anthropology, September 6.

2008. “Independence, Nationalism, Indigeneity: Pride in Patrimony or Prostrate before Princes?Zero Anthropology, September 1.

2008. “Eurocentrism comes up for air in the Caribbean: ‘Keep Patois at Bay’?Zero Anthropology, August 29.

2008. “Stuff White People Like: Anthropology, apparently”. Zero Anthropology, August 23.

2008. “Alien Abduction: Doing Calypso ‘the Right Way’ in the USA”. Zero Anthropology, July 28.

2008. “Michael Taussig: The End of the Masterful Explanation”. Zero Anthropology, July 22.

2008. “Show Me Your Motion! (Of Mentors, Peers, and Mimesis and Alterity in Trinidad)”. Zero Anthropology, July 21.

2008. “‘Canada’—Dealing with the Hate Crime: Prime Minister’s Apology to Aboriginals this Wednesday”. Zero Anthropology, June 9.

2008. “‘Canada’—The Name of a Hate Crime”. Zero Anthropology, June 9.

2008. “When does reciprocity not matter? When you’re a journalist and not an anthropologist”. Zero Anthropology, June 6.

2008. “Is the ‘lone researcher’ a myth?Zero Anthropology, June 6.

2008. “And what if I do not want to do ‘collaborative anthropology’?Zero Anthropology, June 6.

2008. “Colonialism and the Archaeological Wild Man: Canadian anthropologists react to Indiana Jones”. Zero Anthropology, June 5.

2008. “Useful Anthropology (and ‘Political Gonorrhoea’)”. Zero Anthropology, May 16.

2008. “Not Radical Enough: Disengaged Anthropology”. Zero Anthropology, May 13.

2008. “Maurice Bloch: ‘Reluctant Anthropologist’ or ‘Anti-Anthropologist’?Zero Anthropology, April 30.

2008. “Conceptual Challenges of Multi-Sited Ethnography”. Zero Anthropology, April 30.

2008. “Dreaming of a New World (Movement²)”. Zero Anthropology, April 28.

2008. “New•World•Knowledge: A Caribbean Legacy and a Future Anthropology”. Zero Anthropology, April 21.

2008. “George Marcus: ‘No New Ideas’ & the After-Life of Anthropology”. Zero Anthropology, April 4.

2007. “The Narrative of Imperialism: Revisiting the Ugly American (Anthropologist)”. Zero Anthropology, December 4.

2007. “Why Ethnography is Needed”. Zero Anthropology, November 24.

2007. “Indigenism and Essentialism, 2”. Zero Anthropology, November 24.

2007. “Fieldwork: Not an Inalienable Right, but an Expendable Rite”. Zero Anthropology, November 23.

2007. “Dominica, Caribs, and a German U-boat? The problem of why ‘we always get people like you’”. Zero Anthropology, November 17.

2007. “Paths Ahead, 3: Decolonization and Open Knowledge”. Zero Anthropology, November 17.

2007. “Paths Ahead, 2: Questions about ‘Academic Colonialism’”. Zero Anthropology, November 17.

2007. “Paths Ahead? 1”. Zero Anthropology, November 2.

2007. “The Ethnographer’s ‘Job’ Makes a Little Boy Laugh”. Zero Anthropology, November 2.

2007. “‘Important Ideas’ in Anthropology”. Zero Anthropology, November 2.

2007. “‘Models’ of Anthropological Colonialism?Zero Anthropology, November 2.

2007. “Anti-anti-essentialism. 1”. Zero Anthropology, October 20.

2007. “‘Deep Hanging Out’? Yeah right”. Zero Anthropology, October 20.

2007. “Yes Master, Ethnography is Truth”. Zero Anthropology, October 19.

2007. “‘We Have Ethnography’”. Zero Anthropology, October 19.

2007. “Anthropology and Colonialism: More from Diane Lewis (1973)”. Zero Anthropology, October 15.

2007. “The Yanomami Controversy”. Zero Anthropology, October 12.

2007. “Anthropology’s Dirty Little Colonial Streak”. Review of the Indigenous Caribbean, October 8.

 

Image: Undated photograph of girls coming from market in Tobago, circa 1920-1940, from the National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago.

 

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