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Hi all, It’s one of those weeks where a very eclectic set of links/post/reports has caught my attention-from Barbados becoming a republic, …
Informality and international trade: The case for an African Customs Union Part 2 by Keith Hart
(Keynote address for a World Customs Organization/World Bank conference on ‘Informality, international trade and customs’, Brussels, 3-4 June 2013) It … More
Lærarspråk i norsk som andrespråk når nynorsk er opplæringsspråket
Lærarar er både språkbrukarar og språklærarar i andrespråksklasserommet. I denne teksten skal me sjå nærmare på den talespråklege variasjonen til lærarar, nærmare …
Philip Zimbardo, “Critical Situations” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Critical Situations is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University. …
Susana Sousa
Read Time:11 Second Licenciada en Filosofía y Letras. Teatrera y escribienta, aunque la RAE no lo acepte. Hija de un picnic. Humani…
Pantomime Terror and Global South Asia on Screen
Cheap paperback stocking stuffers… – though I wonder if 1 left in stock contradicts that whole value-scarcity thing. Pretty sure there is …
Addressing the structural foundations of homelessness in the Bay Area
Ending homelessness in the Bay Area will require a strong commitment at all levels of government, including the political will not only …
How to Write an Op-Ed: A Free SAPIENS Workshop
Do you have an opinion that you hope can change the world? In this free online webinar, SAPIENS’ editor-in-chief Chip Colwell explains …
David Graeber LSE Tribute Seminar: Value
‘Value’ is the one central themes that runs throughout and conjoins all of David Graeber’s writings. This week focuses on his first …
Positioning your position
In the picture above, you see me reading along with Hebrew psalms and prayers during a synagogue (shul) service on simchat torah. …
The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet
At the Sima de los Huesos (“Pit of the Bones”) archaeological site in Spain, researchers recovered DNA from 417,000-year-old hominin fossils that …
Matching Reading to Energy Levels: Reading Strategies of a PhD Student in Anthropology
Anders Norge Lauridsen: Not that long ago, one of my supervisors held an informal presentation about his reading strategies. It was part …
69 Recall this Buck 4: Daniel Souleles on Private Equity (JP, EF)
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk …
Jonatan Leer and S. G. S. Krogager, “Research Methods in Digital Food Studies” (Routledge, 2021)
Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (Routledge, 2021) offers the first methodological synthesis of digital food studies. It brings together contributions from leading scholars …
Devin J. Vartija, “The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should …
Living Water, living with lively waters (part 2)
In What is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction, geographer Jamie Linton (2010: 14) describes “modern water” as the following: “an …
Living Water and the politics and anti-politics of water in Jordan (Part 1)
We are often told that Jordan is one of the most water-poor countries on the planet and it is hard not …
Moving Towards Disability
December 3rd is the UN’s International Day for People with Disabilities. The theme of 2021 was “Building Back Better: toward a disability-inclusive, …
Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway, “Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique” (U Georgia Press, 2021)
In this interview, I speak with Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway about their new book, Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, …
Spielend „in the Loop“: Neue Mensch-Software Relationen in Human Computation Systemen und deren Auswirkungen auf Sphären des Alltags
Projektverantwortliche: Prof. Dr. Johannes Moser/ Libuše Hannah Vepřek, M.A. (DFG, Laufzeit: 11.2021-10.2024) Gegenwärtig sind Algorithmen zwar in verschiedensten Bereichen schneller sowie effizienter…
AK Ästhetik – Digitalität – Kultur
Netzwerk Forschung Kulturelle Bildung, DGfE-Sektion Medienpädagogik, BMBF-Forschungsprojekt DiKuBi-Meta, Wissenschaftliche Sozietät Kunst Medien Bildung (Patrick Bettinger, Benjamin Jörissen, Tanja Kl…
Lehre WiSe 2021/22
Ina Dietzsch: Ist es ein Mythos, dass die ersten Computer Frauen waren? Explorationen zur Technikkulturgeschichte des Digitalen. Seminar. Universität Marburg Ina Dietzsch …
The State of Emergency, Coercive Medicine, and Academia
“Two weeks to flatten the curve,” is what we heard across Canada1 just after March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization unilaterally …
Ancestral Lines: Return to Uiaku
Morning on Ganjiga beach March 2020. I had been in Uiaku for just over a week, but already established a pattern of …