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 …
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 …
Conferences as Ecologies of Ideas: Epistemic Cultures of the Association for Social Anthropology of Oceania
A considerable portion of scholarly life is bound up with meetings of various kinds. For those located within academic institutions, office hours, …
Cain and Able: A Reflection on Coronavirus
The story of Cain and Able from the Christian Holy Bible is common knowledge but to recap. Cain and Able both offer …
Indigenous Cultures Have Archaeology Too
A resident burns off vegetation to clear his garden plot on lands that previously were part of an ancient village called Popo. …
40: Quarantine & The Origins of Computation
Quarantine is a number. Quarantine was the name given to the strategy of isolating potentially harmful populations for forty days in an …
Shannon Ward takes the page 99 test
My dissertation, Learning Language, Transforming Knowledge: Language Socialization in Amdo, Tibet, examines young children’s social and linguistic development in China’s western borderlands. …
Book Review: The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah Appel
In The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea, economic anthropologist Hannah Appel closely examines the operations of US oil …
The ‘Dark Ages’ – a misused metaphor for a post-antibiotic future by Rachel Irwin
In 2014, then Prime Minister David Cameron told the British public that ‘we are in danger of going back to the Dark …
Special Issue: Sensing Race as a Ghost Variable in Science, Technology, and Medicine by Raha Peyravi
The journal of Science, Technology, and Human Values has released a special issue edited by Katrina Karkazis and Rebecca Jordan-Young that highlights …
In the Journals, July 2020 (Part 2) by Raha Peyravi
Critical Public Health Hostage to Fortune: an Empirical Study of the Tobacco Industry’s Business Strategies since the Advent of e-cigarettes (open access) …
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Problems with Project Roomkey in the COVID-19 Pandemic by Lauren Ensor
“Constrained to exist in public spaces, the homeless are constant targets of regulation, criminalisation, expulsion and erasure.” – Randall Amster On April …
In the Journals – Conflict and Captivity
POW release to UN authorities was the first step in repatriation. Here, communists turn over UN troops at the POW receiving center …
Roberto J. González on his book, Connected
Interview by Patricia G. Lange https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344211/connected Patricia G. Lange: According to your book, the people of the remote community of Talea in …
Mathangi Krishnamurthy, “1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Center Economy” (Oxford UP, 2018)
1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Center Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018) chronicles the labour practices, life-worlds, and media atmospheres of …
Jennifer Atkins, “New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920” (LSU Press, 2017)
In New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920 (LSU Press, 2017), Dr. Jennifer Atkins draws back the curtain …
Charles Piot, “The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles” (Duke UP, 2019)
In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands …
Ep #61 Switching Hats: Sverre Molland on Anti-Trafficking Initiatives in the Mekong Region
The Familiar Strange · #60 Switching Hats: Sverre Molland On Anti-Trafficking Initiatives In The Mekong Region A content warning before we get …
In the Journals, July Part I by Livia Garofalo
Because of a COVID mix-up, this month we are reviewing articles published in April, along with our regular July entry. In April, …
Aging and Social Justice: A slow-motion virtual conference by Celeste Pang
As we have all seen, COVID-19 has been a tip of an iceberg, exposing deep layers of social stratification and inequities. From …
Author Interview: Q and A with Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross, authors of Parenting for a Digital Future
In this author interview, we speak to Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross about their new book, Parenting for a Digital Future, which …
On the tendency to periodise capitalism through the event of the global pandemic
JAKUB CRCHA & SHACHI MOKASHI The coronavirus, by the virtue of its novelty, sudden unexpected appearance, and the scale of consequent disruption, …
Ananya Chakravarti, “The Empire of Apostles” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Ananya Chakravarti’s The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio and the Imagination of Empire in Modern Brazil and India (Oxford University Press), recovers …