SAR Moments: Refelcting on “The Invention of Race”
SAR Moments: Refelcting on “The Invention of Race” …
SAR Moments: Refelcting on “The Invention of Race” …
An anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey of return that tells a larger story about human connection, acts of Indigenous solidarity, and the potential for repair within…
Noemi Tousignant, Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health…
Before we get started some small print: This is (ideally) a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera…
30 Minute Methods at #TDTU @XH&NV has started up again – the next one is on Tuesday 14th Jan at 4pm Vietnam time – zoom link available. Its…
This text was originally published in Swedish in Arbetar Historia (No.191-192, 2024). Special thanks to the editors for granting permission to republish. In 2015, during the peak of…
Geologists read different material aspects of stones to understand the Earth’s history and specific environmental conditions…
In Jewish Odesa, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum explores Jewish identity in Odesa over the course of Soviet history, Ukrainian nation-building and global Jewish revivals. Combining oral histories, anthropolo…
In this interview, Anna Gopsill asks Oliver Bakewell and Kiya Gezahegne about their research on Ethiopia.
CITU – 1988 West Bengal
What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves (University of Chicago Press, 2024) is a history of…
In spring 2024, several students in my Wicked Science (or “Transdisciplinary Problem-Solving”) course made zines as a final project to illustrate a wicked problem of their interest. These…
Amsterdam, like other European cities, hosts growing populations of non-native parakeets. An anthropologist unpacks what shifting attitudes toward these birds reveal about humans. ✽ When I came to…
Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos, draining the lifeblood of…
明けましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします。 Happy New Year! VAoJ hopes for a wonderful, peaceful and meaningful 2025 for all! Please forgive the lateness of our New Year’s greetings. These photos span the…
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet Shannon Ward: Your book deals centrally with the biopolitics of language oppression, charti…
In Policing Patients, Elizabeth Chiarello examines the role of prescription drug monitoring programmes (PDMPs) in the opioid crisis in the US, arguing that they transform healthcare into patient…
Door Ton Salman – Oudjaar…. En dan begint zomaar een heel nieuw jaar! Spiksplinternieuw! En we wensen elkaar geluk, en moois en gezondheid, en vrede. Da’s ons ritueel.…
After an amazing match… in which Xuan Son bent his leg way out of shape, and that final rolling goal… I’d watched the second half of the game…
Article numbers and rejections are ‘up’. I tried to explain what I see as the current trend in journal-editor-land and wrote this to reassure a colleague that ‘its…
What are faculty thinking about generative AI? In my role at our faculty center, I speak to faculty often on the problems they face teaching in the…
Cuban resourcefulness is on full display in Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke 2020), as sociologist Sujatha Fernandes presents an array of strategies not just for survival but for the invention…
Nara Milanich’s Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Harvard University Press, 2019) explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological…
Attacks on justice-oriented research (rather that valid criticism of research) is escalating. What is your plan if it happens to you?