On the Grievability of Palestinian Lives
Richard Rorty once remarked that in times of uncertainties and profound transformations, there is a tendency to turn to philosophy […] The post On the Grievability of Palestinian…
Richard Rorty once remarked that in times of uncertainties and profound transformations, there is a tendency to turn to philosophy […] The post On the Grievability of Palestinian…
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 7 Minuten In ihrem Beitrag „Von High Heels und Yogaleggings: Postfeministische Diskurse über Körperlichkeit am Beispiel von Stripperinnen und Yoga-Praktizierenden“ im Ins…
As toxic polarization deepens in the U.S., some global conflict prevention experts are now addressing political violence at home. An anthropologist shares three key insights from a community…
Podcast with Nickolas Surawy Stepney, Research Associate, King’s College London, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. This episode t…
With recent emphasis on “cancer epidemics” in Asia and Africa (Banerjee 2020; Travis 2007; Lingwood et al. 2008) it has become increasingly clear that cancer is not only…
Literatur im Zeitalter des Paragrafen 175 – vom Inkrafttreten des Paragrafen im Jahr 1872 bis zu seiner endgültigen Abschaffung 1994 – entstand unter heteronormativen Bedingungen. Jene Literatur, die…
For some time now, my colleagues and I at Labirinto (Labyrinth, Laboratory of Socio-anthropological Studies on Technologies of Life, State University of Campinas, Brazil) have been discussing and…
frayed at the edges (me – not her) but the weft and weave was the start, misdirected, of what turned out to be an absolutely revealing and fantastic…
Das RELWISSKOMM-Team, bestehend aus einer Handvoll REMID Mitgliedern, veranstaltet im Frühjahr 2025 eine standortübergreifende Spring School zum Thema Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Religionswisse…
Page 99 of my dissertation offers only a half-page of writing. The top half contains a screenshot from YouTube of the original soundtrack (OST) for the Hum TV…
In Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan, Afaf Jabiri considers the discrimination and violence experienced by Palestinian women displaced from Syria to refugee camps in Jordan. Based on four…
Intending to be in good relations is great, but it isn’t enough. This post outlines some key infrastructure that directly deal with the uneven power relations and legacies…
La foto es de Mahdi Aridj Artículo publicado en BASA, la revista del Colegio de Arquitectos de Canarias, en su número 30-31 (1998). LA VIDA MÁS ALLÁ…
Before we get started some small print: This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and…
Food Cultures and Social Justice The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference 2025 Call for Proposals…
زهرا آخوندی رُم، شهر بی‌دفاع، فیلمی است به کارگردانی روبرتو روسلینی، کارگردان ایتالیایی، که در سال ۱۹۴۵ ساخته شده است. روسلینی از پایه‌گذاران «نئورئالیسم» در سینمای ایتالیا بود…
ترجمۀ آزیتا نیکنام ﺗﻮﺻﻴﻒ ﭼﮕﻮنگی ﭘﻴﺪاﻳﺶ دوﻟﺖ در واﻗﻊ، ﺗﺮﺳﻴﻢ روﻧﺪ ﺗﻜﻮﻳﻦ ﻳﻚ ﺣﻮزه اﺟﺘﻤﺎعی و ﻳﺎ دﻧﻴﺎی ﻛﻮﭼﻚ اﺟﺘﻤﺎعی اﺳﺖ (ﻛﻪ اﺳﺘﻘﻼﻟﺶ را در درون دﻧﻴﺎی اﺟﺘﻤﺎعی…
مقدمه نیمه دوم دهه هفتاد خورشیدی (۷۵ تا ۸۰) در فضای دانشجویی و دانشگاهی ایران بر پیشینهٔ بازگشایی دانشگاه‌ها پس از انقلاب فرهنگی، شکل گرفته بود. من که…
تحلیل عشق به‌مثابه یک موقعیت کالبدی – روانی (psycho-somatic) با مطالعات زیست‌شناسان اجتماعی از جمله ویلسون (O.Wilson)(1975) نقطه عطفی در خور توجه پیدا کرد. ویلسون بر آن بود…
Hyemin Lee: Your book, Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau, offers an insightful exploration of the anthropological question of how senses…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
Anthropologist David Graeber’s celebrated theory of “bullshit jobs” continues to provide a critical window into why modern work is often so useless, soul-sucking, and absurd. This article was…
In Born to Rule, Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves examine how Britain’s elite continues to reproduce itself through entrenched structures of privilege, despite the appearance of increased meritocra…
Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin (Berghahn Books, 2024) by Dr. Meghana Joshi engages with how demographic anxieties and reproductive regimes emerge as forms of…