Limn issue no. 5: Ebola’s Ecologies by Todd Meyers
We’d like to help spread the word about the recent issue of Limn, edited by Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J. Collier and Christopher Kelty, now in print. From the…
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Malinowski’s Legacy: One Hundred Years of Anthropology in the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
(Last week a major international conference was held in Alotau, the capital of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, where Bronislaw Malinowski did the research on kula that…
#Crisis in focus
This week we are featuring a series of posts curated by Dimitra Kofta on a very current theme: CRISES. Etymologically deriving from the Greek infinitive κρίνειν (krinin), crisis…
What is More Important in a University, an Assessment Plan for Nebulous Learning Outcomes, or a Climbing Wall?
Does assessment cause actual harm? Probably not in the way unnecessary medical treatment does, but there are opportunity costs associated with it. And most troubling of all is…
Organic and the Inorganic in Ayahuasca Visions (conference video)
Talk delivered at EGA (Entheogenesis Australis) 2014, RMIT, Melbourne. Abstract: Images saturate our consciousness today. With the advent of photography, television, the personal computer and the Inte…
Summer issue of the journal Daedalus is focused on water
Table of contents with abstracts, etc. is here. Introduction Anna M. Michalak, Christopher B. Field Daedalus Summer 2015, Vol. 144, No. 3: 5–6. Abstract | PDF (63 KB)…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the task of writing a literature review? Frustrated by your students…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
Special Issue on Discards, Diverse Economies, and Degrowth
Why do new economic imaginaries need to take up waste as a central issue? What do novel, non-capitalist economies mean for concepts and materialities of waste?
Reflections on the Speaking Our Minds book club
I can say without reservation or qualification that the Speaking Our Minds (SOM) book club was the single most challenging and rewarding intellectual experience of my career to…
Why You Should Consider Applying for the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
Are you about to complete your PhD and want to do something other than become an adjunct? Or are you perhaps safely tenured but want to make a…
“He didn’t blow us up”—routine violence and non-event as case by Ken MacLeish
This case is a story that a soldier told me. I call her Kelly, and she said it was “the craziest story I was gonna get” from her.…
Does the ADB have a problem with women?
When I tweeted this picture from the ADB’s 7th International Policy Advisory Group meeting yesterday, I did not anticipate that it quickly became one of my most re-tweeted…
Around the Web Digest: Week of August 9
Apparently it’s National Tell a Joke Day… earlier this week I got to check out a satirical play about electoral politics here in Guatemala called Mi Candidato…
Chasing their tails
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Chasing their tails
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Chasing their tails
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
LA’s Shade Balls: The ecological costs of plastics in water
Putting 20,000 black plastic balls in water after people have been warned against throwing plastic into waterways has sparked a number of questions. Our plastic expert talks about…