Courtney Wittekind
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 120689 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Courtney Wittekind |
| PRENOMES | Courtney |
| SOBRENOME | Wittekind |
| ASSINATURA | WITTEKIND C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8442-3382 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Scams all the way up
Scams have proliferated under digital capitalism; so too have stories of scams and allegations of scamming. In this commentary, we focus on the latter to situate the scam as a “vernacular analytic:” an everyday mode of critique invoked to question the normative systems and institutions that rule our lives, but are experienced as exploitative or rigged. While this vernacular analytic is a powerful and pervasive means to highlight inequality, we ar…
Build the New City as Fast as Possible”
This article examines an ambitious plan to construct a built‐from‐scratch new city outside Yangon, Myanmar and sheds light on the contradictory responses sparked by rapid urban expansion. Despite fears that this megaproject would threaten the region's way of life, hopes for the new city's construction remained high throughout the project's early phases. Residents of areas targeted for development went so far as to publicly demand the city be buil…
Livestreamed land
Scams are endemic to digital capitalism, whether they manifest as bitcoin bubbles or bullshit jobs. Drawing on two years of digital ethnography in Myanmar's Facebook land markets, this article explains what happens when the land scam migrates online. By unraveling warnings of trickery, interviewing wary participants, and inhabiting Facebook Live real estate tours, we argue that the scam is a vocation born of hope and desperation that targets land…
Take Our Land
Focusing on demonstrations held outside Yangon, Myanmar, in favor of urban development, this article intervenes in the binaries of "truth" versus "falsity" and the "genuine" versus "fake" to advance anthropological theorization on demonstration, speculation, and spectacle. The article traces contrasting claims about "real farmers" and their "genuine desires," as marshaled by both supporters of a large-scale urban project and those who oppose it. …
Networks of Speculation
Digital platforms have changed how property is sold and valued in the Global North, yet little is known about digital tools in emerging land markets. Drawing on in situ and digital ethnography, we argue that Facebook plays a key role in making a new kind of market in Myanmar, one in which land is transformed into a speculative asset, exchanged across ever‐expanding networks. While commodification is familiar within longer histories of capitalism,…
Rethinking Land and Property in a “Transitioning” Myanmar
In this article, we assess ideas of “progress” in the evolution of Burma/Myanmar studies, asking whether shifting conditions might offer openings to reconsider narratives about the country. We question two recurring tropes consistent across the work of journalists, policy analysts and scholars: an alleged history of undifferentiated “isolation,” and the ensuing state of Burma/Myanmar following a seemingly “natural” decline. Such language reflects…
A Space “In‐Between”
Drawing on ethnographic research along the Thailand‐Burma border, this article analyzes the experiences of migrating youth, asking how their socially ambiguous positioning relates to the “liminal landscapes” in which they move. Analyzing images captured on “photo‐walks” along the border, I argue that young migrants strategically exploit potentialities intrinsic in the liminal landscapes that surround them, coupling their socially uncertain positi…
Rethinking Land and Property in a “Transitioning” Myanmar
In this article, we assess ideas of “progress” in the evolution of Burma/Myanmar studies, asking whether shifting conditions might offer openings to reconsider narratives about the country. We question two recurring tropes consistent across the work of journalists, policy analysts and scholars: an alleged history of undifferentiated “isolation,” and the ensuing state of Burma/Myanmar following a seemingly “natural” decline. Such language reflects…
Networks of Speculation
Digital platforms have changed how property is sold and valued in the Global North, yet little is known about digital tools in emerging land markets. Drawing on in situ and digital ethnography, we argue that Facebook plays a key role in making a new kind of market in Myanmar, one in which land is transformed into a speculative asset, exchanged across ever‐expanding networks. While commodification is familiar within longer histories of capitalism,…
A Space “In‐Between”
Drawing on ethnographic research along the Thailand‐Burma border, this article analyzes the experiences of migrating youth, asking how their socially ambiguous positioning relates to the “liminal landscapes” in which they move. Analyzing images captured on “photo‐walks” along the border, I argue that young migrants strategically exploit potentialities intrinsic in the liminal landscapes that surround them, coupling their socially uncertain positi…
Livestreamed land
Scams are endemic to digital capitalism, whether they manifest as bitcoin bubbles or bullshit jobs. Drawing on two years of digital ethnography in Myanmar's Facebook land markets, this article explains what happens when the land scam migrates online. By unraveling warnings of trickery, interviewing wary participants, and inhabiting Facebook Live real estate tours, we argue that the scam is a vocation born of hope and desperation that targets land…
Take Our Land
Focusing on demonstrations held outside Yangon, Myanmar, in favor of urban development, this article intervenes in the binaries of "truth" versus "falsity" and the "genuine" versus "fake" to advance anthropological theorization on demonstration, speculation, and spectacle. The article traces contrasting claims about "real farmers" and their "genuine desires," as marshaled by both supporters of a large-scale urban project and those who oppose it. …
Build the New City as Fast as Possible”
This article examines an ambitious plan to construct a built‐from‐scratch new city outside Yangon, Myanmar and sheds light on the contradictory responses sparked by rapid urban expansion. Despite fears that this megaproject would threaten the region's way of life, hopes for the new city's construction remained high throughout the project's early phases. Residents of areas targeted for development went so far as to publicly demand the city be buil…
A Space “In‐Between”
Drawing on ethnographic research along the Thailand‐Burma border, this article analyzes the experiences of migrating youth, asking how their socially ambiguous positioning relates to the “liminal landscapes” in which they move. Analyzing images captured on “photo‐walks” along the border, I argue that young migrants strategically exploit potentialities intrinsic in the liminal landscapes that surround them, coupling their socially uncertain positi…
Rethinking Land and Property in a “Transitioning” Myanmar
In this article, we assess ideas of “progress” in the evolution of Burma/Myanmar studies, asking whether shifting conditions might offer openings to reconsider narratives about the country. We question two recurring tropes consistent across the work of journalists, policy analysts and scholars: an alleged history of undifferentiated “isolation,” and the ensuing state of Burma/Myanmar following a seemingly “natural” decline. Such language reflects…
Networks of Speculation
Digital platforms have changed how property is sold and valued in the Global North, yet little is known about digital tools in emerging land markets. Drawing on in situ and digital ethnography, we argue that Facebook plays a key role in making a new kind of market in Myanmar, one in which land is transformed into a speculative asset, exchanged across ever‐expanding networks. While commodification is familiar within longer histories of capitalism,…
Livestreamed land
Scams are endemic to digital capitalism, whether they manifest as bitcoin bubbles or bullshit jobs. Drawing on two years of digital ethnography in Myanmar's Facebook land markets, this article explains what happens when the land scam migrates online. By unraveling warnings of trickery, interviewing wary participants, and inhabiting Facebook Live real estate tours, we argue that the scam is a vocation born of hope and desperation that targets land…
Take Our Land
Focusing on demonstrations held outside Yangon, Myanmar, in favor of urban development, this article intervenes in the binaries of "truth" versus "falsity" and the "genuine" versus "fake" to advance anthropological theorization on demonstration, speculation, and spectacle. The article traces contrasting claims about "real farmers" and their "genuine desires," as marshaled by both supporters of a large-scale urban project and those who oppose it. …
Build the New City as Fast as Possible”
This article examines an ambitious plan to construct a built‐from‐scratch new city outside Yangon, Myanmar and sheds light on the contradictory responses sparked by rapid urban expansion. Despite fears that this megaproject would threaten the region's way of life, hopes for the new city's construction remained high throughout the project's early phases. Residents of areas targeted for development went so far as to publicly demand the city be buil…
Scams all the way up
Scams have proliferated under digital capitalism; so too have stories of scams and allegations of scamming. In this commentary, we focus on the latter to situate the scam as a “vernacular analytic:” an everyday mode of critique invoked to question the normative systems and institutions that rule our lives, but are experienced as exploitative or rigged. While this vernacular analytic is a powerful and pervasive means to highlight inequality, we ar…
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