Alisse Waterston: Making Knowledge Accessible
http://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1274/alisse_waterston%209.4.2022.m4a This afternoon Alisse Waterston visited Helsinki to present her paper, Maki…
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Hi all,A nice potpourri of #globaldev-related readings is served once again (before a short Easter break next week) & it takes from the Mount Kenya Safari Club in…
“A cup of coffee and a needle”: How a harm reduction café in Copenhagen quietly demonstrates an alternative to the war on drugs by Johanna Kinnock
Behind the long counter of Café Dugnad, smells of spices and meat float out of industrial ovens. Light streams in through the glass doors of the smallish café,…
Grade Distribution
What is the appropriate distribution of grades in a university class? Is there a standard that is readily accepted? These kinds of questions often motivate grade discussions amongst…
Transgender Day of Visibility 2022
Here are some of my reflections and reading recommendations on Transgender Day of Visibility, and a bit about how we’re talking about it at ZS.
Transgender Day of Visibility 2022
Here are some of my reflections and reading recommendations on Transgender Day of Visibility, and a bit about how we’re talking about it at ZS.
The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis’ Double Standard
Watching the war unfold in Ukraine due to the recent Russian invasion, I, like many others, have been gripped by heartbreaking images of refugees arriving to the borders…
Hanna Hilbrandt, “Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin’s Allotment Gardens” (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin’s Allotment Gardens (John Wiley & Sons, 2021) offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their…
In The Journals, March 2022, Part 2 by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott
Science as Culture The Role of US Policymaking in the Emergence of a Digital Health Assemblage Elisa Lievevrouw, L. Marelli, and I. Van Hoyweghen Promising to improve the…
Dear Allies, meet Jas.
As a rule, here at Allegra, we as editors emphasise our collectiveness. Rightly so: There is very soft division of labour, there is no hierarchy, and we strive…
Why the world needs anthropology of religion
by Thijl Sunier According to Dutch media, the Netherlands has reached a milestone these days. For the first time in history, the country has a majority of inhabitants…
What Kenya’s Killer Cops Reveal About Police Culture
On July 7, 2021, Nairobi residents marched to protest police brutality and harassment, particularly against poor people. The date also commemorates demonstrations against authoritarian rule that …
Socio-Cultural Anthropology under Hitler: An Introduction to Four Case Studies from Vienna
Note to readers: This introduction seeks to draw attention to the three-volume collection examining Socio-Cultural Anthropology in Vienna during the Nazi period (1938-1945), recently published in Ge…
Book Review: The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death
Durand, P. (2020). The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death. University of Chicago Press. All bolded terms are defined at the bottom of this post. Durand is an…
Hugo Ceron-Anaya, “Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2019) is a book about inequalities, social hierarchies, and privilege in contemporary Mexico. Based on ethnographic…
Immensely facilitated
VLUU L210 / Samsung L210 A scrap from a 1996 notebook, it was sent to the aut-op-sy listserve: In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels formulated a paragraph…
In the Journals March 2022, Part 1 by Livia Garofalo
Here’s the first part of the In the Journals for March. There’s a special issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry called “Special Issue on Being Human in the…
CFF: RAI Film Festival 2023 (deadline: 31 August)
The RAI Film Festival is the UK’s longest running festival for new voices in ethnographic and anthropological documentary cinema. Film submissions to RAI-FF 2023 are open until 31…
Another Kind of Concrete
Another Kind of Concrete by Koushik Banerjea Started reading: I’ve been editing other people’s writing for a living for years, but the best writer with whom I’ve had…
Was the Acropolis a Harem? A Myth of Orientalism
The Acropolis of Athens has birthed countless tales, some of which appear to be more based on fiction than fact. Oleksandr Troitskyi/Wikimedia Commons This article was originally publishe…
Hilda Lloréns, “Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice” (U of Washington Press, 2021)
When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pommeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and…
The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti
The accusation “you’re deluded” is often used as something of a cheap shot intended to silence an opponent in debate. But what is the nature of a delusion…
Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, “American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York” (Princeton UP, 2021)
In American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton University Press, 2022), Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers tell the story of how a…
“We don’t have to whisper”: Fieldnotes from Odesa
I met Engineer Yakiv[1] on board a merchant ship I had joined just south of Sri Lanka in early 2013. I was there to study seafarers’ perceptions of…