On Taking Credit: Textile Traditions and Fashion Rip-Offs
Below find a guest post by Carrie Hertz, Curator of Dress and Textiles at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa …
It takes two to tango by Miriam Verhage
This post draws on findings from a phone-based qualitative interview project in the Netherlands. During April 2020, we interviewed 59 seniors about …
Asian Medicines, COVID-19 and the Politics of Science: An Unpublished Letter to the Editor of Nature by Sienna Craig
We are sharing below a ‘Letter to the Editor’ submitted to Nature. On May 6, 2020, an article titled “China is promoting …
Wednesday Round Up #10
The Big Melt As Serreze makes clear, the Arctic climate system is now entering uncharted territory, with the computer models no longer …
Insecurity on Both Sides of the Line of Control
Although Prime Minister Modi’s revocation of Article 35A and Kashmir’s Special Status on August 5, 2019 has…
El Islam en sus pliegues
Foto de Edward Grazda Reseña de Observando el Islam. de Clifford Geertz (Paidós), publicada en La Esfera, el suplemento de libros de …
What Many Don’t Know About Welfare
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. When Americans talk about people receiving public …
Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie-Upper Umpqua
There are two areas of Oregon with athapaskan speaking tribes. Southwest Oregon has a large number of athapaskan speaking tribes that extend …
Outsides and insides: Covid-19 seen from the first floor of a house in Mirpur, Dhaka by Hasan Ashraf
In this contribution to Somatosphere’s Dispatches from the Pandemic we attend to practices of boundary making, of separating outsides from insides. The …
Traditionelles medizinisches Wissen der Matsés in Krisenzeiten
von Daniel Manquiol Jiménez Huanán und Elke Falley-Rothkopf Gesundheit und Wohlergehen stehen für alle Menschen besonders in der aktuellen SARS-CoV-2-Pandemie an oberster …
The WEconomy (book review)
As you may have heard if you are interested in Canadian #globaldev discussions, the Toronto-based WE charity has been involved in a …
What Scars Say About Sex and Stereotypes
[no-caption] Dean Krakel/Getty Images I recently noticed a curious phenomenon playing out on various television series. In Outlander, Scottish heartthrob Jamie Fraser’s …
Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm
Banner from a rally at the California State Capitol building in the fall of 2019. Photo by Deborah Boehm. …
Dekoloniales Flanieren. Mit Anton Wilhelm Arno durch…
Freitag, 21.8.2020, 17:00-19:00 Uhr Treffpunkt: U-Bahnstation Möhrenstrasse (Berlin) Wir stellen uns vor: Was würde der afrodeutsche Aufklärungsphilosoph Anton Wilhelm Arno wahrnehmen,…
Dekoloniales Flanieren. Mit Anton Wilhelm Arno durch…
Freitag, 21.8.2020, 17:00-19:00 Uhr Treffpunkt: U-Bahnstation Möhrenstrasse (Berlin) Wir stellen uns vor: Was würde der afrodeutsche Aufklärungsphilosoph Anton Wilhelm Arno wahrnehmen,…
Maile Arvin, “Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania” (Duke UP, 2020)
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and speculated that they …
Ed Bruner: In Memoriam
August 8, 2020 Ed Bruner at his home in Illinois (2005) Ed Bruner passed away yesterday, at 95–peacefully, at home. I wish …
The Corporate Menagerie – Thesis Eleven
An article on the malaise that afflicts the UK university system, applicable to the US and Australia too possibly, not wholly tongue-in-cheek …
Book Review: Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell
In Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, Justin Farrell examines the lives of the ultra-wealthy who make …
Jill A. Fisher, “Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals” (NYU Press, 2020)
Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will …
Nadia Eghbal, “Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software” (Stripe Press, 2020)
Open source is the once-radical idea that code should be freely available to everyone. Open-source software was once an optimistic model for …
خودنمایی روشنفکرانه
آسیب اصلی خودنمایی روشنفکرانه به وجود آمدن هویتهای کاذب است که باعث توهم خود بزرگ بینی و در جا زدن شده و …