Smileys in SA: Women’s Work, Social Value, and the complex story of “recycled meat”
Langa Township, Cape Town. Smoke billows as Yonela sears a sheep head with a hot metal rod, cleaning off any remaining wool. This is part of the cleaning…
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Eléonore Rimbault takes the p. 99 test
No matter the size of shows, and the actual count of the public, the Indian circus works hard to appear larger-than-life. The image of the circus, in other…
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality – review
In Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality, Shenila Khoja-Moolji recounts how Ismaili women, displaced from East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s,…
Hongwei Bao, “Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance” (Routledge, 2022)
In Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge, 2022), Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. Boa documents various forms of queer performance – including music, film, theatre, and…
Duties of Care, Servicing Debt
What better place could there be to think about the interconnections between service, duty and care than the Venetian Palazzo Vendramin dei Carmini? The palazzo is a 17th…
Welcome to the Cabaret
Popularised by the American TV show, Glee, a show choir is an ensemble of singers who perform choreographed dance numbers that often revolve around an overarching concept or…
“There is Power in a Union”
Listen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwbzxemJZIc There is Power in a Union (Billy Bragg) “Talking with the Taxman About Poetry” (1986) Lyrics: There is power in a factory, power in the land…
She-Kings – the animated series
1. https://youtu.be/9MGNaplm9Rc 2. https://youtu.be/gFDA6CzSRSc 3. https://youtu.be/LAnywT00GUk 4. https://youtu.be/rPptSyJjFjA 5. https://youtu.be/gFDA6CzSRSc Do watch these…
Venn diagram showing the overlap between supporters of BDSS & BDS
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Stefan Helmreich, “A Book of Waves” (Duke UP, 2023)
In A Book of Waves (Duke UP, 2023), Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic…
Bryan Rennie, “An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior” (Routledge, 2020)
Drawing from sources including the ethology of art and the cognitive science of religion, An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior (Routledge, 2020) proposes an improved understanding of both…
Workers of the World Unite (against the homebreakers)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nmwDTf9k34 Listen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-G83Awrw8k Homebreakers (Mick Talbot, Paul Weller) The Style Council “Our Favorite Shop” (1985) Lyrics Good…
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Hi all,Migration, conflict, drugs, greenwashing, the political economy of humanitarianism, transitional justice, NGOs vs civil society, reparations & a thirst for numbers – big issues featured in news…
Hanshin Tigers 2023 Central League Champs!
Oh so happy… https://hanshintigers.jp/
Summerson Carr on her new book, Working the Difference
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo201564143.html Ilana Gershon In what sense do you see the focus of your book, a therapeutic intervention called motivational interview…
Through Film, Discovering Hope in the Face of Environmental Destruction
In the midst of acute eco-anxiety, can community-based filmmaking help young people imagine a different future? FILMMAKING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE A group of 12-year-olds enters a decrepit building…
Michèle Lamont, “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World” (Atria, 2023)
How can we challenge and change inequalities? In Seeing Others: How Recognition Works— and How It Can Heal a Divided World (Atria, 2023), Michele Lamont, Professor of Sociology and African and African…
Why positive thinking won’t end loneliness
NOEMI CASSIN House of Lords London SW1A 0PW Dear Lady Barran, I am writing to you to discuss your latest Campaign to End Loneliness report, titled “The Psychology…
“That is not a place to sit on the bus…”
I usually do not take photos on the bus or train. But I could not help myself this morning. As the fall semester started this week, the buses…
Nietzsche’s Bataille
‘On 21 January 1936, a prospectus presenting the Cahiers de Contre-Attaque was published; this leaflet announced the forthcoming issue of a Cahier devoted to Nietzsche with the following…
“Every Second Counts”: Thoughts on Richie’s Redemption in Season 2 of The Bear
F/X Studios David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) After this summer’s release of season 2 of The Bear on Hulu, it seems that anyone interested in the world of…
What Ancient Goat Teeth Reveal About Animal Care
Unraveling a mystery around millennia-old goat bones, an archaeologist reflects on the harm people can cause their most cherished animals. ✽ Animals were harmed in the making of…