Amidst.
If there is one thing I’ve processed and accepted at the conferencing revelries of ICA, it is this: Amidst the disjuncture of theory and praxis, the acrobatics of confidence and […]
First world problems from a “mobile office”
Post-PhD, pre-job, I’ve been mobile office-ing a lot. And by […]
Hello. It’s me.
Moshimoshi folks. Am pretty psyched and honoured to be featured in Pacific Standard Magazine’s 30 Top Thinkers Under 30. Special thanks to Natayla Savka for a fun interview and the […]
Facebook, Workbook.
My favourite things about using Facebook for collaborative academic work: 1) Intermittent intimacies, when my peers truncate conversations with mundane life updates (i.e. childminding, chores, daily crises). We see […]
Post-PhD, Limbo, and Closure.
After a 23-week wait, I finally passed my PhD two weeks ago. I told one of my besties I expected the afterglow to last a grand total of three days. In […]
Academia, mean girls, and politicking.
I’ve been trying to work out my politic as an academic and ethnographer. Some of these thoughts were formed during my serial-conferencing this year, because conferences are where young/junior/emergent academics 1) learn to […]
Premature nostalgia at my last conference as a postgrad.
It is 2341hrs. In theory, I am meant to be […]
Academica Dramatica x Packaging Intellect at Conference Presentations.
A series of brainfarts on why 20-min conference presentations to […]
I want to be an academic.
Today, I’ve just wrapped up the first of a string of conferences to end off 2015. It’s 0218hrs. I’m on a squishy air mattress, half trying to edit a paper, half […]
Academia and arrested development.
Hello. My name is Crystal, and it has been ten days since I submitted my PhD thesis for grading. I finished my thesis on a Monday, printed it on a […]
Whoever said it takes a village to finish a PhD,
was probably an anthropologist trying to make a dad joke. […]
Revelations from being at The Last Stretch:
A PhD is difficult. A thesis is difficult. Finishing is difficult. Self-doubt is normal. Inferiority complex is normal. Insecurity is normal. Sleep is good. Food is good. Fresh air is […]
Calling all anthropologists who do Internet research!
Dear anthropologists who do Internet-related research, I’m compiling key terms […]
So near yet so far.
I feel like I am not supposed to be saying this, but today I feel a bit like death. I reckon many of us near The End feel this way, […]
Airtime.
Every time I present my work, there is always a moment when I lapse into a transient reflexivity and wonder: 1) why I’m speaking so quickly 2) why people are […]
Week one at the DERC.
Hello from my first week at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), where I’ll be a Visiting Researcher for a month hosted […]
The bigger picture.
Traveling as a grad student on a very tight budget: You book the cheapest mode of transport with the most transits at the most inconvenient hours. You cook your meals […]
Short-circuit.
Reflecting on how much I paid for this degree, my education is the most expensive thing I own but I’m not sure if it’s the most valuable. This is always […]
Taking stock: 18 weeks to go.
So, as time has willed, I’m already at the halfway mark of my stint with the MMTC. This also means it’s eighteen weeks till the submission of my thesis. ermergerd. I […]
I think kindness in academia is underrated.
I’ve just spent the last five weeks meeting an assortment of academics in Jönköping, Borås, Stockholm, and Göteborg at seminars, in meetings, at fika, and once on a public bus. As […]
Job-hunting.
At present, my inbox is just email after email of rejection letters. Also known as rites of passage in academia and life.
I don’t want to be an armchair anthropologist.
I keep meeting people who think any one can be/is […]
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