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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff

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Please join us for a discussion of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Zuboff (Harvard Business School) makes a number of discussion-worthy arguments, notably that the data collection and processing regimes as pioneered by Google and Facebook generate value through “behavioural surplus,” and that this kind of surveillance is an aberration of capitalism. Drawing … Continue reading →

Critical Cartographies: (Re)Imagining Socio-Spatial Relationships
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Critical Cartographies: (Re)Imagining Socio-Spatial Relationships

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The Ethnography Lab team invites you to our final speaker event of the year as part of our Ethnography Lab 2018/2019 Speaker Series: ‘Ethnographic Experiments’  “Critical Cartographies: (Re)Imagining Socio-Spatial Relationships with Jeff Hackett, Hannah Quinn and Logan QuinnDate: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 (please note the change of day)Location: The Ethnography Lab (Anthropology Building, 19 Russell St., Room … Continue reading →

Disability Anthropology Reading Group Meetings March & April 2019
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Disability Anthropology Reading Group Meetings March & April 2019

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The Disability Anthropology Working Group would like to announce two upcoming reading group meetings to take place on March 25th and April 22nd respectively. Please take a look at the two posters below for details about each meeting. ***Please note that the April 22nd meeting has been moved to May 13th, 2-4pm in AP330.*** Continue reading →

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Join the Visual Ethnography Commercialized Contemporary Art Project!

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The Commercialized Contemporary Public Art Scene in Toronto This winter 2019, UofT anthropology and English major Maisha Mustanzir will be hosting a collective research project and workshop series dedicated to understanding the commercialization of Toronto’s public art scene from an ethnographic perspective. The first meeting for this group will take place on Thursday, March 21st, … Continue reading →

Launching the Urban Ethnography Reading Group and Speaker Series 2019
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Launching the Urban Ethnography Reading Group and Speaker Series 2019

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In an effort to decentralize our academic knowledge and discussion on urban spaces, the Urban Ethnography Group has launched its Urban Ethnography from the Global South reading group and speaker series, dedicated to the study and analysis of ethnographic research produced on the Global South and by academics from the Global South. The initiative has two … Continue reading →

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The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice | Annemarie Mol (2002)

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The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice | Annemarie Mol (2002) A reading group discussion hosted by the Disability Anthropology Working Group (Flyer attached) February 25, 2 – 4 PM The Ethnography Lab, Room 330, 19 Russell St. Toronto https://ethnographylab.ca/disability-anthropology-working-group/ Each month the Disability Anthropology Working group, in collaboration with the Ethnography Lab, hosts a reading discussion of an ethnography related … Continue reading →

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Putting the Graphic in the Ethnographic: A visual ethnography workshop series

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This winter (2019), the Ethnography Lab Visual Ethnography group will be hosting a series of informal workshops designed to encourage ethnographers to experiment with different mediums to enhance their engagement visually and politically with their work. One of the themes for winter 2019 is “Putting the Graphic in the Ethnographic.” The first thematic workshop proposes … Continue reading →