“Out of options:” The implications of COVID-19 for hospitalized patients with cognitive impairment by Kelly Colas
“How about a walk today?” I asked Mr. T each morning I arrived to the hospital, visiting him on my morning rounds. …
Zwischen Fremdbild und Selbstbild.
Wertschätzung von Kulturwissenschaftler*innen in Veränderungsprozessen von Julia Koop Als Studentin der Kulturwissenschaft und Bachelorabsolventin habe ich in meinem Leben einige positive, …
Don Nonini: Black Enslavement and Agro-industrial Capital
Don Nonini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Insa Koch’s recent (2020) FOCAAL blog, “The Making of Modern Slavery in Austerity …
Links & Contents I Liked 372
Hi all, This is going to be the final link review before my summer break until early August. I said that last …
The Case Against The ‘Singularity’
GRAHAM WILKES The definition of a ‘Singularity’ is something with ‘an unusual or distinctive manner or behaviour’. Something, or an event, that …
Jonathan Parry, “Classes of Labor: Work and Life in an Indian Steel Town” (Routledge, 2020)
Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town (Routledge, 2020) is a classic in the social sciences. The …
Sarah Knott, “Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History” (Penguin, 2020)
Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the …
#Review: Animal Intimacies
In her book Animal Intimacies Radhika Govindrajan takes us through a series of human-animal relations in India’s Central Himalayas, the Kumaon division …
The Greatest Show on Earth – Zum Verhältnis von Profifußball und Fans in Zeiten von Geisterspielen
von Tobias Kanschick Das Corona-Virus wirkt sich auf nahezu alle gesellschaftlichen Lebensbereiche aus. Große Politik wird per Videokonferenz gemacht und Kommunikation findet …
Arctic view on Russia’s changed constitution
The population of Russia officially supported the suggested changes in the world’s largest country’s constitution, with almost 78% of those who voted. …
Dear White Anthropologists, Let Not Symbolism Overshadow Substance
Racism permeates the academy. We will need more than performative allyship and symbolic statements condemning racism in society if we are to …
Monuments to Hate
We do not sit outside of the world in which we live. The current fight over the fate of Confederate monuments in …
Frank G. Speck Visits the Euchee, Stockbridge, and Seneca Students at Haskell in 1939-1940
Among the objects cataloged as Creek in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History is a doll made by Leona …
Heat and Covid-19 in the Off-Grid City by Nausheen Anwar
Amidst almost unstoppable contagion, many hung their hopes on heat and humidity as a potential defence against contracting Covid-19 in the early …
The Problem With Abstract Threats
[no-caption] Angus Greig Everyone seems to have a story about the moment when the novel coronavirus pandemic stopped being an abstract problem …
IZO: Vortrag „Der Kampf um Chinas Marktreformen: Schocktherapie versus gradueller Experimentalismus“
Vortrag von Isabella Weber (Massachusetts, Amherst) zum Thema „Der Kampf um Chinas Marktreformen: Schocktherapie versus gradueller Experimentalismus“ Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen …
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Mare Nullius is on summer break
Much like the rest of Norway, many of us in the Mare Nullius team are taking our summer break in the month …
#Review: Contesting Leviathan
In Contesting Leviathan, a reference on both the mythical sea-serpent and Thomas Hobbes’ political philosophy, Les Beldo seeks to provide a multi-faceted …
When Sex Becomes a Matter of the State: Peciagraphy as a Qualitative Method for Examining Legal Cases
For the past ten years, I have been conducting ethnographic research on the Federal Supreme Court’s (STF) decisions on sexual identities in …
Web Roundup: Covid-19, Racial Justice, Immigration, Climate Justice, Reproductive Justice, or “How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics” by Whitney Arey
As I was thinking about the task of reviewing the anthropological, bioethical, and/or STS implications of the past month of news, my …
Guest Post: Black Latinx Encuentros: Embodied Knowledge and Reciprocal Forms of Knowledge Sharing
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Amarilys Estrella and Meryleen Mena. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity …
Daniel C. Swan, Museum Leader
Below find the ninth in a series of posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. …
The Murkiness of the Peruvian Lockdown
Around the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students (and …
Haitian Deportees Face an Unconscionable Crisis During the Pandemic
The Trump administration has deported more than 240 Haitian nationals from the U.S. back to Haiti—a country that has a weak health …