Seeing Is Not Believing
“We bet on mining,” peasant leaders (dirigentes) say of the decision to permit one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mining projects on lands occupied by Quechua-speaking communities…
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Olúfemi Táíwò, “Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously” (Hurst, 2022)
Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or…
Dario Miccoli, “A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean” (Indiana UP, 2022)
A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean (Indiana UP, 2022) tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s…
Andrea Ballestero, “A Future History of Water” (Duke UP, 2019)
Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water (Duke UP, 2019) traces the unspectacular work necessary to make…
In Spain, Scapegoating Spikes During the Pandemic
An anthropologist and a Rroma activist investigate the rise in prejudice and abuse toward Rroma people during the COVID-19 crisis. ✽ During the first wave of the pandemic,…
THE HATTIS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
Finally, a scheduled Tribe status!! Dr. Vijay Kumar Bodh Assistant Archaeologist Archaeological Survey of India vijay.bodh@yahoo.in On 14th September 2022, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Mr. Arjun M…
Does “Monkeypox” Give Monkeys a Bad Name?
The debate over naming the virus known as monkeypox says a lot about the close—but fraught—relationships between humans and our fellow primates. ✽ The name of the latest…
See You Later, Thick Data – Part 2
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”.…
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…
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…