Fieldwork at sunset

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Most institutional anthropology departments have a website, to tout credentials, attract students, and offer information. These websites also take up the visual task of disciplinary representation, but their images have skipped the scrutiny that is necessary and overdue. This article analyzes online images of sociocultural anthropology across one hundred high-ranking universities worldwide. We show how, online, a discipline defined by diversity becomes readily reducible to “exotic” geographies and objectified “others.” While the urban serves as an unattractive foil, frequent images of children recall charity campaigns. Such visual tropes—which comprise a significant, public interface for anthropology—are not just awkwardly dated but also do disservice to ambitions for public anthropology. Change, we suggest, must begin at (the) home(page).</jats:p>

Digitalisation in rural areas: exploring perspectives and main challenges ahead

“…However, these changes did not come without issues: the hard circumstances experienced by large shares of vulnerable people, notably the elderly, living in rural areas with little or no healthcare services (OECD, 2020) were in some cases exacerbated by the phenomenon of "coronavirus holidays", i.e., the mass move to second homes observed, for instance, in the Welsh countryside (Goodwin-Hawkins, 2020).…”