Introducing a New TGA Editor: Connor Martini
I’ve yet to meet an academic who is not a geek. What it means to be either an academic or a geek is, by necessity, flexible and inconsistent,…
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Melissa Caldwell on her book, Living Faithfully in an Unjust World
Interview by Natalja Czarnecki https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520285842/living-faithfully-in-an-unjust-world Natalja Czarnecki: You write that inter-faith food aid organizations occupy a …
NEW open access articles on Love in China by Jean-Baptiste Pettier
Go and check out three new articles by our group member Jean-Baptiste Pettier published in Comparative Studies in Society and History and Social Analysis! See post for details.
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Q and A with Professor Diane Enns on Thinking Through Loneliness
13-17 June 2022 is Loneliness Awareness Week in the UK. We speak to Professor Diane Enns about her new book, Thinking Through Loneliness, touching on topics such as…
There and back again
by Shunita Gerritsen With a loud, blunt clonk the ferry arrives. The gate slowly comes down while the flashing lights and loud beeping alert the impatiently waiting passengers.…
We’ll Be Right Back!
The Familiar Strange · Season Break! Hey Everyone, From everyone at the TFS team we just wanted to say a quick thank you before we take our season…
The Gayatri Spivak Aesop Interview
Read it here: https://www.aesop.com/uk/r/the-fabulist/gayatri-spivak/ (Great interview, and the publication venue is no more soapy than any newspaper – fun). Separately, there should …
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Hi all,It’s great to be back after wrapping up teaching for the semester & enjoying more than 20 of our MA students presenting their thesis work (some even…
Sister Parks: North American Coloniality and the Monarch Butterfly
Monarch migration and the making of North America At the end of each summer, the northern prairies and Great Lakes regions of North America host a new generation…
Radical Harm Reduction and the Responsibility of a World by Jarrett Zigon
Addiction is exceedingly moralized. Perhaps no other concept associated with the experience of addiction reveals this more than that of responsibility. Too often, addiction is understood in…
Danya Glabau, “Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care” (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy The success of food allergy activism…
Moises Lino e Silva, “Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (University of Chicago Press, 2022) is a mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics…
Lin Song, “Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China” (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
China has one of the largest queer populations in the world, but what does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties,…
Edward Anthony Avery-Natale, “Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications: Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia” (Lexington, 2016)
Edward Anthony Avery-Natale’s book Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications: Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia (Lexington, 2016) explores the ways in which those who identify as punks and anarchists living in the…
Ethnography, Humility, Identity, and the Academy
In today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Dr. Khytie Brown, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.…
Volodymyr Artiukh: The political logic of Russia’s imperialism
The debate around the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including the previous contributions in FocaalBlog, has shifted from the ‘either NATO or Russia’ dichotomy to a more nuanced exchange…
Volumes: The Technical Politics of Mathematical Abstractions in Contemporary Peruvian Amazonia
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2021 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
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Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts?
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs adorn the Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu near Luxor. Vyacheslav Argenberg/Wikimedia Commons I have long been intrigued by archaeogaming—an academic di…
Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts?
A new program aims to use AI to help academics and the public decipher hieroglyphs. Here’s an inside look at how—and whether—it works. ✽ I have long been…
Open Letters from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany (with a Report on the “Welcome Conference BIPoC Ukraine” organized by Peace-by-Peace in Berlin on May 16, 2022)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Ziga Podgornik Jakil Introduction With the old deadline for applying for a residence permit for war refugees from Ukraine in Germany expiring…
Lily Pearl Balloffet, “Argentina in the Global Middle East” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Argentina lies at the heart of the American hemisphere’s history of global migration booms of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: by 1910, one of every three Argentine…
Trina Nileena Banerjee, “Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal” (Oxford UP, 2021)
Trina Nileena Banerjee’s book Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal (Oxford UP, 2021) addresses the absence of a sustained and critical engagement with the gender politics…