Jean and John Comaroff will be visiting UMass this week, and in anticipation of their visit, I spent the morning reading the forum on their book, Theory from the South: How Euro-America is Evolving toward Africa in Cultural Anthropology.  As someone

“The future is already here–it’s just not very evenly distributed.” –William Gibson, cited in “Finding Futures” Whether it’s studying citizens’ responses to wind turbine development or public perception of climate change, social scientists working on urban environments are increasingly drawn

My fabulous colleague Whitney Battle-Baptiste has inspired me to make my blog into…a bona-fide blog.  For the past four years, it has been a nice little webpage without the luxuriant messiness of under-edited, half-baked weekly-ish musings.  Today, all that’s going to