Carl Alfred Lanning Binger, 1889-1976 A few weeks ago, in a lockdown phone call, my ninety-year-old mother Bici reminded me that her father Carl Binger had served as an army doctor in France during World War I, at the peak of the 1918 influenza epidemic. Across the Western Front the flu was killing more soldiersContinue reading “A doctor’s job – Carl Binger and the 1918 influenza pandemic”
Author Archives: jethropettit
Learning for Change – website launched!
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Anthropology Talk Series: Jethro Pettit with Mazharul Islam
Live from Dhaka… Hats off to all who have created and inspired the Reality Checks Approach…. David Lewis, Dee Jupp, Robert Chambers, so many others for your guidance and inspiration. Don’t miss the important disclaimer in the credits… to which I would add: no anthropologists were harmed in the making of this film!Watch the video
Power, Empowerment and Social Change
Edited by Rosemary McGee and Jethro PettitRoutledge, 2020 This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership. The stakes have never been higher. Recent years have seen a rapid escalation of inequalities, the rise of new global powers and corporate interests, increasingContinue reading “Power, Empowerment and Social Change”
Jethro Pettit 