Book Review: Marcia C. Inhorn’s ‘Motherhood on Ice’
Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs by Marcia C. Inhorn (NYU Press, 2023) Since 2012, when egg freezing by vitrification (flash-freezing) emerged from…
Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs by Marcia C. Inhorn (NYU Press, 2023) Since 2012, when egg freezing by vitrification (flash-freezing) emerged from…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the second part of December edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social…
Nils Graber, postdoctoral fellow, History of Science Department at Humboldt University, Berlin, in conversation with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Resea…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of December edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social…
Héloïse Pillayre, postdoctoral researcher, Sciences Po, Lyon, in conversation with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In this episode, so…
Podcast with Marissa Mika, writer and editor, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. In this episode we travel to Uganda to hear the…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the seond part of our November edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Podcast with Caro Caduff, Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global…
Podcast with Luiz Alves Araújo Neto, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History of Science and Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz, Brazil, in discussion with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our November edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Podcast with Chen Ying, Lecturer, National University of Singapore, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In her ethnogra…
Having already spent a month in Armenia, I uttered the usual “Barev Dzez ” [“hello” in Armenian] with confidence as I entered the Yandex taxi car. This magic…
Podcast with Cecilia Van Hollen, Professor at Georgetown University, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). This next epis…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the second part of our October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Podcast with Clémence Schantz, sociologist and midwife, Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) – Ceped UMR 196, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral…
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…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Welcome to the second part of our second round of “In the Journals” for September. Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Welcome to the first round of ‘In the Journals’ for September! Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American…
Burnout. The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, by Hannah Proctor (Verso, 2024) Hannah Proctor’s Burnout is not about how tiredness arises from the daily grind. Instead, “burnout” is…
Since 2019, a growing group of “anti-natalist” activists have been used as a foil to demonstrate rising anxieties regarding future prospects of life on earth. Writing for the…
Reflecting on the complexities of conducting research in a region gripped by administrative upheaval and political uncertainty, I write to open up this forum to fellow anthropologists and…
Eugene Raikhel, Founder of Somatosphere Dörte Bemme: Tell me a little bit about Somatosphere’s origin story. How did it all begin? Eugene Raikhel: The website was launched in…