The Andijon Massacre: Ten years later
May 13, 2015 will mark the ten-year anniversary of the Andijon massacre: the day military troops in Uzbekistan shot and killed over 700 Uzbek citizens gathered at a…
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Webinar Wednesday with Larissa Sandy: Sex Work in Cambodia
Hello anthropology enthusiasts! Our next webinar, with Larissa Sandy, will be the last scheduled before we take a break for the summer. In it we’ll be exploring the…
Beyond perception conference
The previous blog topic by Anna on humans and animals is very prominent in the programme of the upcoming super-interesting “Beyond Perception” conference at the University of Aberdeen,…
New research on International Development TED Talks & their role for communication for social change
Daniel Esser and I are very happy to share our latest research publication with you! TED Talks on International Development: Trans-Hegemonic Promise and Ritualistic Constraints is probably the…
Social media as hyper-visibility
Image courtesy of Kris A, Creative Commons After an intensive few months of hiding away finishing our books (and neglecting this blog), we have come back together…
Landmarks: a review
Christopher Tilley, Department of Anthropology, University College London (c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk) Robert Macfarlane Landmarks (2015) London: Hamish Hamilton, 387pp. £20.00 rrp This is the fifth bo…
All of one place: A Muslim saint, a converted Hindu princess, and a Hindu deity
A joint place of worship Just outside the Indian border town of Mahendraganj, at the top of a low hill, is a shrine (dargah) containing the graves of a…
Arguing for Alliances: Why Business and Religious Leaders Should Promote Migrant Health Care – Ryan I. Logan
Ryan I. Logan In June 2013, from a top-floor meeting room at the Indianapolis headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company, I witnessed an unusual alliance of…
Living it up in Lisbon: A “best of” by two residents
After nearly three years living in Lisbon, Gawain and I have racked up a pretty good knowledge of its sights, museums, eating places, and drinking dwellings. In fact,…
Arguing for Alliances: Why Business and Religious Leaders Should Promote Migrant Health Care – Ryan I. Logan
Ryan I. Logan In June 2013, from a top-floor meeting room at the Indianapolis headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company, I witnessed an unusual alliance of…
Aliens among us
Quite apart from the world building aspects of the genre, the presence of aliens provides readers and audience members with figures, indeed, whole populations, with which to …
Boredom as a practice
I was reading through my field notebooks lately and I came across a little ethnographic snippet of description. It is a description of a male French student sitting in a…
In Search of Soul and Soulful Social Science
Soul is about human connection. Soul is about deep feeling, about self-knowledge and empathy. As my Songhay friends in West Africa like to say, a soulful quality makes…
In Search of Soul and Soulful Social Science
Soul is about human connection. Soul is about deep feeling, about self-knowledge and empathy. As my Songhay friends in West Africa like to say, a soulful quality makes…
What´s wrong with the Global North and the Global South?
Originally published by the Global South Study Centre in Cologne, along with a handful of other reflections on the concept of the Global South As a young schoolboy…
What´s wrong with the Global North and the Global South?
Originally published by the Global South Study Centre in Cologne, along with a handful of other reflections on the concept of the Global South As a young schoolboy…
In Search of Soul and Soulful Social Science
Soul is about human connection. Soul is about deep feeling, about self-knowledge and empathy. As my Songhay friends in West Africa like to say, a soulful quality makes…
In Search of Soul and Soulful Social Science
It’s graduation season again, and after more than 35 years as a university professor, I am particularly concerned about the kind of world this year’s college graduates are…
In Search of Soul and Soulful Social Science
Soul is about human connection. Soul is about deep feeling, about self-knowledge and empathy. As my Songhay friends in West Africa like to say, a soulful quality makes…
Degrowth: Japan models design for steady state economies
Growth as cancel cells. National Cancer Institute, modified by Elizabeth Tunstall" What if the design economy was based on the value of stasis (i.e. stability) not perpetual growth?…
Degrowth: Japan models design for steady state economies
Growth as cancel cells. National Cancer Institute, modified by Elizabeth Tunstall" What if the design economy was based on the value of stasis (i.e. stability) not perpetual growth?…
In Search of Soul and Soulful Social Science
Soul is about human connection. Soul is about deep feeling, about self-knowledge and empathy. As my Songhay friends in West Africa like to say, a soulful quality makes…
In Search of Soul and Soulful Social Science
Soul is about human connection. Soul is about deep feeling, about self-knowledge and empathy. As my Songhay friends in West Africa like to say, a soulful quality makes…