Becky Schulthies

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | Rutgers · Department of Anthropology

What does it mean to connect as Moroccans via mass media when there is widespread feeling of communicative failure? This book approaches the question by exploring situated talk about communicative failure, which speaks to how Moroccans seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez. Over the last decade, laments of language and media fai...

What vegetal modalities and botanic intertwinings situate cross-species communications and collectivities, and for whom? In much anthropological writing of previous eras, plants have served as a medium for analysing human sociality. Their ubiquitous presence and seemingly sessile silence, invisibility, anosmia and backgrounding have been one of the...

Just as Moroccans encounter plant parts separated from the ground on a daily basis, so too do they engage more than one model for relating to plants. Different plant partitions entice a varying array of interlocutors and interactants through sensory channels and communicability ideologies. In this article, the author introduces phytocommunicability...

This article explores pan-Arab corporate media management of linguistic diversity in televised talent show competitions from 2003 to 2013. Pan-Arab television operates on an ideology and profit logic of transnational Arab ethnolinguistic unity. However, entertainment programming does not utilize Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as the interactional nor...