Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 2
Falkof, Nicky (2022): Worrier State. Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press. South Africa 2022 is a troubled nation: a continuing energy crisis…
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When Life Imitates Art in Ukraine
Photographs from Russia’s war on Ukraine dissolve an archaeologist’s fondness for a Soviet-era sculpture. ✽ On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. Counter to Russian President…
Article: Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States
I am very pleased to share news of a new publication. It is an article appearing now in the Journal of American Folklore: Jackson, Jason Baird. “Collaborative Work…
Save the Open Learning Initiative for Refugee University Education in Europe
Allegra Lab expresses its concerns over Central European University’s (CEU) unexpected decision to close the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve), a university refugee education project established in Bud…
Jay Ke-Schutte on his book, Angloscene
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389816/angloscene Interview with Andrew Carruthers Andrew Carruthers: First, please allow me to offer you a hearty congratulations on the publication of …
Come for the war, stay for the swimming pool: the Green Zones of Baghdad and Mogadishu as heterotopic spaces
This blog post is part of the Experience of War conference, March 24, 2023, funded by the WARFUN project. There has been significant scholarly interest in the militarised and…
How Ancient Humans Came to Cope With the Cold
Two anthropologists explain how humans managed to not just survive but dominate northern climates despite evolutionary origins in—and hence, biological predispositions to—warmer environments. This ar…
Review: Nourishing the Nation
Venetia Johannes. Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia. Berghahn Books. New York: 2022. ISBN: 978-1-80073-203-2. Mary Black (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) …
Jonathan Sterne on his book, Diminished Faculties
Interview by Toni Nieminen https://www.dukeupress.edu/diminished-faculties Toni Nieminen: First, congratulations on Diminished Faculties, what a wonderful read it was! I find your form of w…
War things in the bed
This blog post is part of the Experience of War conference, March 24, 2023, funded by the WARFUN project. War and waring are extremely playful events. Warriors playfully lighten…
Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali
Laura Ann Twagira, an associate professor of history, head of African Studies, and an affiliate with science in society program and feminist gender sexuality studies program at Wesleyan…
Mayel Lyang
A poet of the Indigenous Lepcha community of the Eastern Himalayas ponders how to draw maps of the mind, heart, and soul that show her community’s heartland—an “eternal…
How to Keep Brands Human in the 21st Century – with Matt Johnson
Consumers today find brands through many online sources, including search engines and social media. And with the rise of hyper-personalized ads, consumers are constantly being bombarded with brands…
Links & Contents I Liked 470
Hi all,This week’s curation takes from Afghanistan to Ethiopia, Somalia, Myanmar, Dubai & Zimbabwe with a little sprinkling of USA(id) & Davos!And then there are more insights into…
Have I killed someone? Meaning making by German soldiers after combat in Afghanistan
This blog post is part of the Experience of War conference, March 24, 2023, funded by the WARFUN project. The experience of military violence during the German ISAF operation…
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, “Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. Claiming the State: Active…
Pleasures of War
This blog post is part of the Experience of War conference, March 24, 2023, funded by the WARFUN project. Anything is better than to have nothing at all happen…
Roberta Raffaeta: Crossing ecosystems, crossing ontologies. How microbiome science is remaking what does it means to be human
Roberta Raffaeta (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) gave a talk entitled “Crossing ecosystems, crossing ontologies. How microbiome science is remaking what does it means to be human” a…
Anna Sokolova: ‘Red Fewer’: State Timber Production and Commercial Berry Harvesting in Late Soviet Karelia
Anna Sokolova (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) gave a talk on the 1st of February 2023 entitled: ‘Red Fewer’: State Timber Production and Commercial Berry Harvesting in Late…
Recruitment pitfalls in humanitarian aid organizations-An insider’s view
It’s always great when readers contact me about a potential guest post! So when Dipankar Datta, Country Director Somalia, Norwegian Church Aid, asked whether I would like to…
Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, “Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix” (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume titled Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to…
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, “Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow” (Routledge, 2022)
Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their…