Exploring Pedagogy and Teaching for a Post-Racist Imagination
In this episode, Janine de Novais discusses her new publication on Brave Community and teaching for a post-racist imagination. The episode is about the role of pedagogy in…
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NEW article on Urban Reconstruction in Xinjiang by Madlen Kobi
This article investigates the relatively little explored urban development in China’s Northwestern Uyghur homeland of XUAR (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). Based on 12 months of ethnographic field…
NEW article on thermal practices to cope with summer heat in Chongqing by Madlen Kobi
Until the 1990s and the spread of air-conditioning, cooling down during the hot, humid, and windless summers in the city of Chongqing (Southwest China) was mainly practiced outdoors:…
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Hi all,I hope many of you are still on or about to leave for Global Northern summer holidays and I hope even more so that you are in…
Paying more attention to long-term caregivers in contemporary China
CHENGYUE PENG (to No. 57 An Ding Men Wai Da Jie, Dong Cheng District, Beijing) Dear Ms Sun: I am writing to advocate more concern for long-term caregivers,…
Sarah Muir, “Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Argentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a long history of economic volatility. In 2001–2002, a financial crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating…
Colonizing Mars or Colonizing the Earth? A Reflection on Landscape and SpaceX in Texas
By Robert Kopack, University of South Carolina § I was startled awake by a faint voice announcing something across the humid, coastal air. Maybe it was a shift…
What Pots Say—and Don’t Say—About People
Archaeologists long abandoned the simple notion that “pots are people”—that people’s identities directly correspond with the pottery they made and used. What, then, can ceramics reveal about past…
Esra Özyürek, “Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany” (Stanford UP, 2023)
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country’s Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets…
Xenia A. Cherkaev, “Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice (Cornell UP, 2023) is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a…
In the House that Jack Built
The heat promised to be oppressive in the courtyard of the house that Jack built. Yet there was hope as guests…
Writing Indigenous Oral Tradition to Fight a Dam
In the northern Philippines, the Isnag are documenting their Traditional Stories to sustain their culture and fight a legal battle against dams that would inundate their homelands. ✽…
Taken Rapanui Heritage project
In 2020, amidst the COVID pandemic, the tourism industry came to a complete halt, leaving Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) almost entirely isolated from the rest…
Letter of concern regarding the UK’s Criminal Justice System and its handling of Rape and Serious Sexual Assault cases, with regards to Operation Soteria’s one year review.
MACKENZIE DEARSLEY Letter Directed To: The Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP, Home Security & MP for Fareham Government representative of Home Office’s Operation Soteria initiative. T…
Michael Roper, “Afterlives of War: A Descendants’ History” (Manchester UP, 2023)
Afterlives of War: A Descendants’ History (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Michael Roper documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain…
SAR Awarded Over $225,000 by Institute for Museum and Library Services
Blog by Melinda Sue Robbins, Grants Manager, School for Advanced Research SAR’s In…
Citational politics training module
An introductory assignment on the politics of citation, with a guided quiz for students to think about how they might change their citation practices to best align with…
Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)
Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with two guests, Ounkham Souksavanh and Elizabeth Elliott, to talk about community engagement and community health in Laos. They discuss how Elizabeth as…
Fake, Real, Real, Fake: Salvarsan on the US Medical Market
A Swindle Exposed 1913, Chicago: A reporter, assuming the name Edward Donlin, enters a downtown medical establishment that has advertised widely in Midwestern newspapers offering Dr. Paul Ehrlich’s…
Plastics Identification Workshop (Makkovik) / Palâtikkisajannut Nalunaittauningit katingaKatigennik (Makkovik)
We are in Makkovik as part of a long-term plastic monitoring program in Nunatsiavut to identify plastics from shorelines, and we need your help! Makkovimmevugut ilangagijaulluni akuni palâtikkisajanni…
Scott MacLochlainn on his book The Copy Generic: How the Nonspecific Makes Our Social Worlds
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo182881918.html Interview by Lynda Chubak Lynda Chubak: Scott, thank you for writing this wonderful book! Central to The Copy Generic is…
Who wants to go to Essex? A walk in Rochford town and by the River Roach
My title is a paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher’s dissing of Hackney, but prejudice against Essex is knee-jerk amongst loads of middle class folks who didn’t like her. Much…
A Letter to the Secretary of Health and Social Care
ELLA ADENIKE ODUTOYE House of CommonsLondonSW1A 0AA Dear Steve Barclay, Gender bias is an issue that has burdened health care services for decades, as you said when announcing…
Remembering my Friend, Véronique Amenan Akpoueh (d., Aug. 3, 2023)
Ours was not an ordinary friendship. Race, class, religion, citizenship, educational background, and (for fourteen years) parental status divided us. Language brought us together. Curiosity and inte…