An essay on the anthropology of humanitarian shame
This post is part of a series linked to the workshop “Assessing the Anthropology of Humanitarianism: Ethnography, Impact, Critique”. ————————…
Deutschsprachige Flüchtlingsforschung in sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachjournals und wissenschaftlichen Netzwerken: Eine Sammelbesprechung der psychosozial Bände 149 und 150 verfasst von Andreas Schulz
Nicht nur der Diskurs innerhalb der Zivilgesellschaft, Mainstream Medien und Politik hinsichtlich der sogenannten Flüchtlingsthematik hat sich seit den rezenten Fluchtmigrationen 2015 …
Truth of History
This title is nearly an oxymoron. There are historic truths, but what we known of history is an invention of mostly people …
New book published: Nordic researchers on Racism, Racialization and Anti-racism
New book is out! This book represents a comprehensive effort to understand discrimination, racialization, racism, Islamophobia, anti-racist activism, and the inclusion and …
The Power of Multidisciplinarity: Hackathon-Valencia Case
This weekend we have participated in the II Edition of Hackathon Innova&Acción Business Challenge, an event organized by the Association of ex-students …
How Do We Know Which Historical Accounts Are True?
It all started with a stray goat. On an otherwise nondescript day in the spring of 1947, a young Bedouin boy searched …
Links & Contents I Liked 293
Hi all, Welcome to a fresh link review from stormy and rainy Sweden! Development news: Commitment to development (Sweden is #1!); Rwanda’s …
The Milk of Human Kindness by Penny Van Esterik
Sour Milk At the World Health Assembly (WHA) meetings in late May, 2018, the US delegation tried to water-down or dump a …
Vlad Schüler-Costa: Academic precarity and the false coin of our own dreams
A specter haunted EASA2018—the specter of precarity. Like a “frightful hobgoblin” (that, one could argue, is a more suitable, if inaccurate, translation …
Museum Disaster in Brazil
It has been almost three weeks since a massive fire destroyed the building and most of the collections at Brazil’s National Museum. …
Book Review: Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man’s World edited by Gertrud Pfister and Stacey Pope
In Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man’s World, editors Gertrud Pfister and Stacey Pope offers a collection that examines women’s experiences …
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De institutionalisering van salafisme – Een bespreking
Auteurs: Martijn de Koning (Universiteit van Amsterdam / Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Annelies Moors (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Thijl Sunier (Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam) …
Språk og identitet
Lesetid: 5 minutterSpråk er grunnsteinen i de fleste kulturer, og med et felles språk får man ofte en felles identitetsforståelse. Slik er …
144 – Rosalind Fredericks
Cymene and Dominic debate whether dogs can have bullshit jobs on this week’s podcast. Then (13:46) we are most fortunate to welcome …
The Myth of Badass Sperm
This scanning electron micrograph (SEM) shows healthy spermatozoa emerging from a cavity within the testis. Innerspace Imaging/Getty Images This article was originally …
Web Roundup: Pharmaceuticals, ‘Pharmascolds,’ and Conflicts of Interest by Katherine Warren
Over the past month, a number of researchers, institutions, and pharmaceutical companies have come under pressure for relationships between medical research, clinical …
Michael Levien, “Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Historically ubiquitous at least since the 15th century and integral to the rise and consolidation of capitalism, land dispossession has re-emerged as …
Postmigrantische Visionen
Herausgeber: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Marc Hill und Prof. Dr. Erol Yildiz Um das Verhältnis zwischen Migration und Gesellschaft neu denken zu können, kehren …
Layers – A Photography Exhibition #livesofobjects
Allegra has an extensive archive of photographs. These images are usually incorporated as supporting materials to written essays. This exhibition is a …
David Douglas Shaves Comcomley’s Brother
David Douglas traveled around Oregon, Washington, California, British Columbia and Hawaii from 1824 to 1834. Most of the time Douglas was accompanied …
The village idiot: Language learning for anthropology fieldwork
In preparing for fieldwork, I took a class on language training with Piers Kelly. While Piers was talking more specifically about learning …
EPIC Evidence with Dawn Nafus and Tye Rattenbury
This Anthro Life is opening the conversation with EPIC (the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community) on the theme of Evidence. Taking center …
Call for Papers: Echoing Ecologies – Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Canadian Studies
Calling scholars from all disciplines with an interest the environment, this one is for you! From 22 May–24 May 2019 the Marburg …
Exciting Opening at University of St Andrews: A Three-Year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on “Oil, Money and Climate Change”
For those of you looking for academic work in the field of energy and the Human Sciences, there is an exciting new …