Summer Research Positions in plastic pollution research (high school/youth), St. John’s or Nunatsiavut
We have four full time and part time positions for high school students and youth (under 30) in the lab this summer (2022)
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SAPIENS magazine is an online portal for readers to better understand the world and what it means to be human. AerialPerspective Images/Getty Images WHAT IS SAPIENS MAGAZINE? SAPIENS…
Assumptions about a skateboarder community leads to harmful sanctioning of freedom
I. JOURNAL Thursday 6th February, 3pm Four skaters on a sunny day outside McEwan Hall. Casually chatting to each other, hanging out. Basic skateboarding back and fourth as…
Alliances and Institutional Partnerships for an Engaged Anthropology of Science and Technology
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to this post read by the authors here. Conceptual transformations and emerging thematic agendas in the a…
“God, I miss fruit”: Student food insecurity on Australian campuses
Produce, photo by David Beriss Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey, Gyorgy Scrinis and Sara Guest (The University of Melbourne) University and college food insecurity is a flourishing area of…
Reflecting Three Years After the UNCC Mass Shooting
Every year at this time, I reflect on the shooting that occurred in my classroom on April 30, 2019, that took the lives of two students, injured four…
Book Review: Joanne Limburg’s Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Cinzia Greco
Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism Joanne Limburg Atlantic Books, 2021. 262 pages. Although feminist and gender perspectives have been employed to analyse a number…
Narges Bajoghli on her book, Iran Reframed
Interviewed by Zehra Hashmi https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29666 Zehra Hashmi: The storytelling and narrative flow of this ethnography works beautifully, and seemingly effortlessly, a…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash…
Jennifer K. Seman, “Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo” (U Texas Press, 2021)
Recent global events have unmasked inequitable healthcare systems that disproportionately affect poor Latinx populations along the U.S-Mexico border. Professor Jennifer K. Seman’s recent publication offers a brief insight into…
Michael L. Walker, “Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail” (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences…
Scott Stonington, “The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand” (U California Press, 2020)
The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand (University of California Press, 2020) is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt…
Marginalized Ecologies and Education: An Ethnographic snapshot from the Chars of Assam
By Bhargabi Das The strikes in UK by teachers made me think of the precarious life-world of teachers in a different context, somewhere more closer to home. In…
The State of Agriculture in Late 13th Century Rasulid Yemen: Part 1
By Daniel Martin Varisco [In 2003 I attended a conference in Rome and gave a paper which was eventually published in Convegno Storia e Cultura dello Yemen in…
Living with Long Covid: A Reflection
As a COVID long-hauler, I inhabit a liminal space of intractable uncertainty with regards to diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and prognosis. COVID infections have blurred the boundary between the two…
Imogen, still.
From one of my shelves, the forever young left guardian of books, and more, forever. Miss you heaps, still. Imogen Bunting
SAR Board Member Awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
Brenda Child, the Northrop Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has been awarded a 2022 Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.…
Who needs shopping malls?
By Ton Salman There are markets. There are big markets. And there is the superlative degree of market. Arguably, that is the Feria de 16 de julio, in…
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Hi all, An ethnography of bread in Jordan, co-designing algorithms, why UN staff accept precarious work conditions, Samir Amin, notes on a UNOPS scandal & expensive pre-Weddings in…
On the Corona crisis and numbers
Dutch policy has placed health metrics at the center of discussions around the Corona Crisis. Numbers visualize the urgency of the societal threat and form the basis for…
Nina M. Yancy, “How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America” (Oxford UP, 2022)
How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America (Oxford UP, 2022) explores the connection between prejudice and place in modern America. Existing scholarship suggests that…
M. Bianet Castellanos, “Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtness in Mexico” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform.…
Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith, “Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
With Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith issue a call for qualitative political scientists to go beyond the controlled comparisons so…
Profit over people? The ‘big business’ of tough immigration laws.
By Renata Carvalho As the new Nationality and Borders Bill sparks yet another wave of debates over the United Kingdom’s immigration tactics, it is important to ask: who…