AnthroPod’s newest series, What Concepts Do, contextualizes national and international conversations in anthropological discourse. This series examines, from an anthropological perspective, how different concepts are mobilized by policymakers, media outlets, and in everyday discourse, and understand what these concepts "do" in the world. Each episode features several anthropologists, or anthropologically-oriented scholars and practitioners, whose insights help explain a particular concept.

Series Playlist: What Concepts Do

In this episode, Contributing Editors Joyce Rivera-González and Michelle Hak Hepburn unpack the concept of resilience, alongside anthropologists Roberto Barrios, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts, Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, and Jason Cons. Where did the concept of resilience originate from, and how is it so widespread? What are the benefits and shortcomings of the concept? And how do anthropologists engage with resilience ethnographically? 

For show notes, please visit https://culanth.org/fieldsights/what-resilience-does

What Resilience Does

62. What Resilience Does

This is the second episode in the series "What Concepts Do." In this episode, Contributing Editor Sharon Jacobs unpacks the concept of solidarity, alongside anthropologists Darryl Li, Amahl Bishara, Lesley Gill, and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos. What is solidarity, and who can practice it? Is solidarity something we do within communities, or beside allies? What are some of the shortcomings and challenges of solidarity? For show-notes and resources, visit https://culanth.org/fieldsights/what-solidarity-does

65. What Solidarity Does

AnthroPod is produced by the Society for Cultural Anthropology. In each episode, we explore what anthropology teaches us about the world and people around us.