Launched in 2012, Fieldsights has helped to catalyze the growth of nonjournal digital publishing in anthropology. Today, its various sections address diverse audiences in both textual and nontextual formats.
Fieldsights posts should not be described as “published in Cultural Anthropology.” The two publications have different tempos, review processes, and forms of credit associated with their output.
Editors’ Forum
These Fieldsights sections feature series of ten or more essays, which bring together scholars across institutions and career stages to weigh in on a shared topic. These pieces are reviewed by the editors of Cultural Anthropology.
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Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo, la teorizació... More
Unbuilding
Confronting the entangled legacies of failed infrastructures, toxic materials, and compromised futures, this series opens up the concept of unbuilding as a crit... More
Settler Colonialism: Unsettling Exceptionalisms with and through Israel-Palestine
This forum focuses on the urgent necessity of understanding settler colonialism as an analytic, especially given the recent political assaults on the concept th... More
Contributed Content
While not formally reviewed, posts in these Fieldsights sections reflect the breadth and pace of anthropological conversations today. Many of them are written by early-career scholars in the SCA's Contributing Editors Program.
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Who Is Ethnography For?: An Interview with Lachlan Summers
In this interview, Lachlan Summers reflects on the craft of his article and offers a compelling critique of liberal tendencies and imaginaries in contemporary a... More
On ‘Indifference’: A Conversation with Naisargi Davé
Naisargi N. Davé won the 2024 Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her book, Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. In awarding the prize, the Society for... More
Discarded Candidates: An Interview with Dr. Tanya Jakimow
In her article “Discarded Candidates: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere),” Tanya Jakimow explores Australian electoral... More
Collaboration Studio
The Collaboration Studio draws together content previously published in different sections of Fieldsights. It also anchors a yearlong seminar that allows Contributing Editors to work together for a fixed period of time on a topic of shared interest. Currently, the Archive of these Studios can be found under Fieldsights, "Collaborative Topics (Archive)."
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