John Richens, “Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other” (Melbourne UP, 2022)
A medical doctor with an inquisitive mind and a traveling spirit, John Richens thought he had hit upon an exemplary public health case study – the story of…
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Andrew Grant, “The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine” (Cornell UP, 2022)
In The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine (Cornell UP, 2022), Grant examines how China’s urban development policies of frontier cities like Xining (Tib. zi ling) accompanied civilizational…
Making medicines trustworthy: pharmaceutical technologies of trust and regulation
How do globalised health regimes create and shape landscapes of medical regulation and patient safety? This essay asks about the many ways in which patients, consumers, health advocates,…
Life Last Fortnight
PNG Independence Day in 1975, via the National Archive of Australia. Time got away from me last week… here’s what I’ve been up to. It is necessary to…
Generations: A Review of AusSTS2022 in Melbourne
In July 2022, early career and PhD Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars met across four locations in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand) for the fourth Australasian STS…
“Saigon’s Penalscape: Interpreting Colonial Prisons in Vietnam” – first 50 Pdfs free
Your article, Saigon’s penalscape: interpreting colonial prisons in Vietnam, with Sophie Fuggle, is now published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 23 Issue 3 Have you used your free eprints yet?…
Kenneth H. Kolb, “Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate” (U California Press, 2021)
Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate (U California Press, 2021) examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans’ diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on…
Are Insomniacs Overthinking Sleep?
From WiFi-enabled sleep trackers to wearable brain-altering apps, sleep technology is becoming increasingly sophisticated. But is the antidote to insomnia far more ancient? ✽ You will likely spend…
Teasel Adventure
The European Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) was brought to Oregon in the 19th century. It is a hugely invasive plant that has a habit of taking over large areas…
Demonstrating Trust in Jordan
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Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism: Two Open Rank Positions (Postdoc/PhD)
The research group “Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism,” based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, is inviting applications for the position of…
Bifocal Glasses: Too old for an academic career?
By Marco Lazzarotti We have a tendency to perceive the passage of time as traced by the path of an idealized academic career. In this vision, an academic…
Andrea Leone-Pizzighella on her book Discourses of Student Success
Interview by Clara Miller-Broomfield https://www.routledge.com/Discourses-of-Student-Success-Language-Class-and-Social-Personae-in-Italian/Leone-Pizzighella/p/book/9780367681111 Clara Mille…
Raúl Pérez, “The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy” (Stanford UP, 2022)
Having a “good” sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended—laughing even at a taboo thought or at another’s expense. The insinuation…
Ep #96 Earthquake Temporalities & Energy Sovereignty: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #96 Earthquake Temporalities & Energy Sovereignty: This Month on TFS This month we’re joined by the latest member of The Familiar Strange, Lachlan…
Ocean Talanoa
How are stories about the ocean best told? In July 2022 the OceanStates project had the privilege of bringing 28 students from the University of the South Pacific…
“The Netherlands Meat Land” Campaign: Towards an Ethnography of Meat
By Irene Stengs On 1 September 2022, the Dutch Central Organisation for the Meat Industry (COV, Centrale Organisatie voor de Vleessector), a partnership consisting of organizations involved in…
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Hi all,A solid #globaldev round-up this week tackling Pakistan, climate change & lack of accountability, the forthcoming UNGA, bitcoin failure in El Salvador, Bill Gates bashing, the humanitarian…
Manuela Ciotti, “Retro-modern India: Forging the Low Caste Self” (Routledge, 2020)
Manuela Ciotti’s Retro-modern India: Forging the Low Caste Self (Routledge, 2020) is interesting engagement with Chamar identity and understanding it through the lens of modernity. Through a rich ethnographic engagement…
Michael O. Johnston, “Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest” (Lexington Books, 2022)
Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest (Lexington Books, 2022) explores an annual interstate tug-of-war between two small towns along the Mississippi River. In this book, Johnston…
“Is it really organic?”
Ethnographic moments spark curiosity and puzzlement, spur the search for new understanding, and are almost always seen to be some of the most generative parts of anthropological fieldwork.…
6 Recommended Reads on Epidemics and Religious Change
Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash Epidemics can turn the world upside down. They kill millions, isolate us and wreak havoc on international trade. But what is their impact on religion?…
Trust the organic?!
According to the latest report released by Switzerland’s main organic certification agency (BioSuisse), the country currently holds the world’s largest numbers in organic consumption per resident. In …