Sophie Schor

Bio: Sophie Schor is an academic researcher from University of Massachusetts Amherst. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnography & Public anthropology. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 25 citations.

Teaching (with) Postcards: Approaches in the classroom, the field, and the community

Abstract: This article showcases the pedagogical possibilities of working with postcards for teaching anthropology and related disciplinary fields by introducing a set of multifaceted tools and examples. It provides a framework for tangible reflexive teaching practices and a research methodology that supports, both intellectually and emotionally, a vibrant and mobile community of scholars. We commence with the emergence of the postcard, and its (widely undervalued) role as a research subject in the social sciences. Examples from the arts, literature, teaching and research offer inspiration for engaged and creative teaching formats. These cases support our claim that as seemingly ‘anachronistic’ object of communication, postcards are useful for teaching in the classroom, for teaching ethnography, and for community-based work and teaching. In fact, as a traveling communication device, the repurposed postcard lends itself to connect the oft-physically and conceptually divided spaces of the classroom and the ethnographic ‘field.’ Concurrently, the opening of postcards allows for a critique of the medium’s historical use in exoticization the ‘other.’ In other writing [anonymized], we explore in more detail the multimodal qualities of working ethnographically on, within, or through postcards. We here extend the pedagogical potentials to use postcards for innovative approaches in ethnographic research, public anthropology, and applied community work.

The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking (Chicago Series in Law and Society)

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Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data

Abstract: In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist Suzanne Briet, Day explores the understanding and uses of indexicality. He examines the transition as indexes went from being explicit professional structures that mediated users and documents to being implicit infrastructural devices used in everyday information and communication acts. Doing so, he also traces three epistemic eras in the representation of individuals and groups, first in the forms of documents, then information, then data. Day investigates five cases from the modern tradition of documentation. He considers the socio-technical instrumentalism of Paul Otlet, \"the father of European documentation\" (contrasting it to the hermeneutic perspective of Martin Heidegger); the shift from documentation to information science and the accompanying transformation of persons and texts into users and information; social media's use of algorithms, further subsuming persons and texts; attempts to build android robots -to embody human agency within an information system that resembles a human being; and social \"big data\" as a technique of neoliberal governance that employs indexing and analytics for purposes of surveillance. Finally, Day considers the status of critique and judgment at a time when people and their rights of judgment are increasingly mediated, displaced, and replaced by modern documentary techniques.

Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power:

Abstract: legal books at a junior woman scholar, first in the public media and now to cash in with this book. Lubet isolates her by giving her advisors a pass, flaunts his own liberal credentials, shows his magnanimity in forgiving ethnographers who collaborated with him in writing this book, repeats rumors about identity politics; and, of course, he selectively marshals evidence. Lubet’s treatment of Goffman confirms Latour’s point that ‘‘science is politics by other means’’ (1988:229). A young ethnographer itching to learn the trade should ignore this passive-aggressive hatchet job and consult primary sources of the people who did the work. Read the ethnographies first and then familiarize yourself with the debates and methodological writings. Fact-checking matters, but so do many other methodological issues that render ethnography compelling and have been part of the canon for decades. Lubet’s book is not a shortcut; it’s a distraction. References