Red Mud, a Divided Settlement and the Toxic Waste Poisoning Hungary
Environmentalists, and the EU, have long voiced concern over a toxic waste site on the banks of the Danube in northern Hungary. So why do most locals living…
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Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities
Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities Cities can play a crucial role in creating just and sustainable futures. Urban Arena is a series of…
Budapest Soundwalks
Budapest Soundwalks: field recordings and sound art from the community of the Central European University. The featured work was produced as part of an MA course in Sound…
The Life and Times of Red Mud Reservoir № VII
‘The Life and Times of Red Mud Reservoir № VII’ is a collaboration between an anthropologist (me, Ian M. Cook) and a graphic artist/illustrator (Gyula Németh) about a…
Hanno Jentzsch, “Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture” (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and change. Inefficient land use and a rapidly…
Stop Calling the Aleutians Pristine
Most of the Aleutian Islands are today unpopulated. Ariel Taivalkoski The Aleutian Islands, which stretch 1,100 miles across the Bering Sea from the Alaska Peninsula, are commonly describ…
My Most Recent Publication on Faculty and Student Mental Health
You can read the article here: “Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing” Johnson and Lester 2021
New Book: Visual Methodology in Migration Studies
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies: New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions is a new open access book (edited by Karolina Nikielska-Sekula and Amandine Desille, Spring…
Gowri Vijayakumar, “At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response” (Stanford UP, 2021)
In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world’s biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health…
Anna Ruddock, “Special Treatment: Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences” (Stanford UP, 2021)
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian healthcare. Established in the early years of independence, this enormous public teaching hospital…
The North is innovative!
our university r&d department just shared an EU report, where Finland and Sweden lead their EU-internal rating for innovativeness. Nice to see that the North leads the way…
al-Qazwini Manuscript
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Memoirs of Women and Harvard
Victoria R. Bricker. Transformational Journeys: An Ethnologist’s Memoir. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 106, part 5. 344 pp., illus. Philadelphia: American Philosophical So…
Amanda Weidman on her book, Brought to Life by the Voice
Interview by Constantine Nakassis https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520377066/brought-to-life-by-the-voice Constantine V. Nakassis: Your brilliant first book, Singing the Classical, Voic…
Book Review: Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment by Aliya Hamid Rao
In Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, Aliya Hamid Rao offers a new addition to sociological research on unemployment, delving into the ways that gender beliefs unequally shape men…
Special Episode: Caroline Schuster, Sarah Abel & Catherine Frieman on The Archaeology of F*****g
The Familiar Strange · Special Episode: Caroline Schuster, Sarah Abel & Catherine Frieman on The Archaeology of F*****g Before we dive into today’s episode we’d just like to…
If only Abraham had known …
The Sacrifice of Abraham, by Andrea del Sarto, ca. 1527-1528 A fable, dedicated to Mark Twain and all who really understand what it means to suffer Abraham was…
Archaeologists for Trans Liberation
By The Black Trowel Collective To be an archaeologist is to revel in the diversity of human expression through time. Trans perspectives and voices add necessary further dimensions…
Special Issue: “Public Health Activism in changing times: relocating collective agency. Part 2” by Shoshana Deutsh
This special issue of Critical Public Health is part two of a series on “Public Health Activism in changing times: relocating collective agency.” As editors Catherine Campbell and…
In the Journals, July 2021, Part 2 by Shoshana Deutsh
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine Exploring engagement with digital screens for collecting patient feedback in clinical waiting rooms:…
Going Back to the Nature
Dr. Sunita Reddy Asso. Prof. JNU and Founder Chair, Anthropos India Foundation sunitareddyjnu@gmail.com Whenever my son watched zombie films, I used to ask him, “why do you watch…
On Quebec and its “Vaccine Passport”
Since the Government of Quebec under Premier François Legault decided to jump the gun today and announced the coming of “vaccine” certification on September 1st, possibly in response…
Kenyan Mothers Take on Police Violence
Lucy Wambui is a convenor of the Mothers of Victims and Survivors Network in Nairobi. Ed Ram I first met Sarah Wangari three weeks after her son Alex…
Vijaya Nagarajan, “Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India–an Exploration of the Kolam” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds…