Caption: A manners poster on the wall of a Tokyo subway station reminds passengers to cover their mouth when they sneeze or cough. Source: https://japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/cover-y…
Climate change is often described as a slow and uneven process. In recent years, winters in the European North have felt milder, or at least less persistent. Minus…
Since 2008, there has been tremendous public interest in the social and ecological ramifications of the global land rush, a rapid increase of capital investment into land, especially…
Today I have the honour of bringing you a guest post written by my colleague and good friend, Rima Dib. She is one of the most powerful and…
Like many areas in women’s health, cardiovascular disease hit me personally before it was of professional interest. My Wake-up Call A year or two ago, my doctor (a…
Anne Schiller, Professor of Anthropology, George Mason University Fostering classroom community is a goal to which most instructors aspire, although building trust and camaraderie in high enrol…
‘What is it like to work with Roma?’ I asked the police officer. He gestured widely, shaking his head and raising his arms and shoulders, suggesting that words…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
Indigeneities in the 21st century is featured on the CORDIS website for research results.
What might we learn by studying science and technology through the lens of stuckness? Stuckness is a ubiquitous experience in the everyday work of science and technology. Scientists…
Written by James Murray, Staff Writer Neil Turner’s writings explore the intersection of power, biopolitics, and social identity, primarily through the …
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/atmospheric-knowledge/paper Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr on their book, Atmospheric Knowledge https://www.ucpress.edu/books/atmospheric-knowledge/paper …
This episode features Yashica Dutt, journalist and author of Coming Out as Dalit. We began with a discussion of her choice to write a memoir, the significance of the…
Allegra Lab · Education Pathways Ireland at The University of Galway with Andrew Flaus A transcript with links and references […] The post Education Pathways Ireland at The…
The second episode explores the material and symbolic motivations for Gambian youth choosing the backway to Europe, contrasting the modern, […] The post SEMESTERS appeared first on Allegra…
Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine (Bristol UP, 2025) by Dr. Elliot Dolan-Evans examines the impact of World Bank and International…
Japanese police arrested a man in his 90s Thursday for allegedly defacing a sign at a prosecutor’s office in the city of Osaka, a local officer said. A…
Chris Hann and Han F. Vermeulen (Eds.) Jack Goody between Social Anthropology and World History Lit Verlag, 2024 412 pages, index It is hard to do full scholarly…
Jennifer Jo Thompson (University of Georgia) Each summer since 2014, I’ve taught anthropology on the road with the University of Georgia’s Interdisciplinary Field Program (IFP)—a domestic field pr…
When governments declare a climate “emergency,” they rarely name the real emergency at play – colonialism. Crisis-oriented language transforms centuries of dispossession, extraction, and ecological de…
John Tolan’s Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present offers a sweeping account of Islam’s evolution, highlighting influential figures, sectarian divisions, and global expansion. Though it…
With all the difficult geopolitical news related to Greenland, the obvious anthropological gaze on autonomy is from the ground, based on people’s lived experience on land and sea.…
Introduction In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Reddit user shared an unusually intimate post about their relationship with Replika, an AI chatbot[1] designed for companionship: “I…
Political mobilisation against trans people has escalated exponentially since the pandemic. This serves a clear far-right and reactionary agenda, but as demonstrated by the ca…