An Anthropology Zine & Café.
We are an innovative and unique online magazine with a diverse group of students from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. We publish monthly articles with a focus on anthropology & the humanities, arts & culture, and the contemporary political landscape.
In addition to the online magazine, we host an Anthropology Café. It is a monthly event held in the Anthropology Department to ensure longevity, public dissemination, and the fostering of a departmental collective. The entire JJC community is invited. It is a space for academic and intellectual rigor, creative experimentation, and artistic expression. By combining those three things we hope to promote innovative research and scholarly self-expression in areas where “muted groups” might have otherwise been rendered.
The idea for the Zine, solidified in spring 2016, as a space for students to share their writing outside the classroom. Many students have expressed a desire to write, their interest spurred by their anthropology classes, but do not know where and how. We hope to offer a space for students to read, to write, and to share their views on domestic and international issues using an anthropological gaze. It is also an arena where professors can share their work with colleagues and students. Through this, we hope to create a sense of community among students and faculty as well as linking budding anthropologists to others in the college and to wider New York City communities. As we—a group of faculty and students—navigate this urban contemporary space we call NYC hoping to experience a feeling of belonging, hence the name of the magazine, A Home @ the End of the World.
The idea of a café, a monthly meeting for face to face discussion on similar issues, is also intended to create community—a physical and social space in which students who may be too inhibited to write might nevertheless come to discuss issues and meet others. We would like to feature poetry readings, music, book releases/launches, guest speakers, writing workshops, film screening, art exhibits, and other forms of artistic expression. This is also a space where majors and minors can get to know each other and share in their fieldwork and archival research. It is a space for Professors to experiment on their next book, research proposals, field notes, and or ethnographic projects. Thus, it is an Anthropology Café.
The Zine & Café will showcase diversity not only as a repository for knowledge formation but a source of learning and engagement. As a diverse collective we appreciate difference because we have already learned from it and hope to learn more. The Zine will be an instrument of instruction through participation, showcasing anthropological training. We hope to become a model and an inspiration by giving voice, vision, and feeling, to underrepresented, non-represented, and marginalized spaces. It is clear that an appreciation for otherness is mandatory if we seek to decrease violence (physical and social) in our society.
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We are an innovative and unique online magazine with a diverse group of students from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. We publish monthly articles with a focus on anthropology & the humanities, arts & culture, and the contemporary political landscape.
In addition to the online magazine, we host an Anthropology Café. It is a monthly event held in the Anthropology Department to ensure longevity, public dissemination, and the fostering of a departmental collective. The entire JJC community is invited. It is a space for academic and intellectual rigor, creative experimentation, and artistic expression. By combining those three things we hope to promote innovative research and scholarly self-expression in areas where “muted groups” might have otherwise been rendered.
The idea for the Zine, solidified in spring 2016, as a space for students to share their writing outside the classroom. Many students have expressed a desire to write, their interest spurred by their anthropology classes, but do not know where and how. We hope to offer a space for students to read, to write, and to share their views on domestic and international issues using an anthropological gaze. It is also an arena where professors can share their work with colleagues and students. Through this, we hope to create a sense of community among students and faculty as well as linking budding anthropologists to others in the college and to wider New York City communities. As we—a group of faculty and students—navigate this urban contemporary space we call NYC hoping to experience a feeling of belonging, hence the name of the magazine, A Home @ the End of the World.
The idea of a café, a monthly meeting for face to face discussion on similar issues, is also intended to create community—a physical and social space in which students who may be too inhibited to write might nevertheless come to discuss issues and meet others. We would like to feature poetry readings, music, book releases/launches, guest speakers, writing workshops, film screening, art exhibits, and other forms of artistic expression. This is also a space where majors and minors can get to know each other and share in their fieldwork and archival research. It is a space for Professors to experiment on their next book, research proposals, field notes, and or ethnographic projects. Thus, it is an Anthropology Café.
The Zine & Café will showcase diversity not only as a repository for knowledge formation but a source of learning and engagement. As a diverse collective we appreciate difference because we have already learned from it and hope to learn more. The Zine will be an instrument of instruction through participation, showcasing anthropological training. We hope to become a model and an inspiration by giving voice, vision, and feeling, to underrepresented, non-represented, and marginalized spaces. It is clear that an appreciation for otherness is mandatory if we seek to decrease violence (physical and social) in our society.
Welcome to our home!
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Anthropological Zine & Café was created as a space for students to read, write, and share their views on domestic and international issues with an anthropological gaze.
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