Writing Life No. 15: An Interview with Kalindi Vora by Alberto Morales
Kalindi’s laptop sits inside her car, which serves as a writing space sometimes. The last time I spoke to Kalindi in person was at the Society for the…
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Spotlight! “Global STS: Transnational Network Building – Asia, Oceania, and Beyond” hosted by the STS Futures Initiative
This week as part of our “ReAssembling Asias through Science” series, we would like to highlight an event held by the STS Futures Initiative last month. This panel…
Mediated Intimacies: Teletherapy and the Changing Face of American Mental Healthcare by Rebecca J. Lester
“Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?” “I can, but your head is cut off. I just see your neck. Can you hear me?” “Yeah, yeah, I hear you. &nb…
Wednesday Round Up #55
The Black Cemetery Network: Black Cemeteries Are Black History. We created a network to tell these stories. Help us share them. Submit your site today. The African American…
In the Journals, June 2021, Part 1 by Hayley Ip
Medical Humanities Hostile environments? Down’s syndrome and genetic screening in contemporary culture (open access) Lucy Burke This essay explores the complex entanglement of new reproducti…
Six Reasons to Save Archaeology From Funding Cuts
Archaeology offers a detailed look at humanity’s past and important insights into the present and future. Jo Ahmet/Kent County Council This article was originally published at The Convers…
Traditional Seafaring in the Gulf
The online event “Under the Sails – Maritime Conversation on Trade and Seafaring. Perspectives from Iran and Kuwait” held on May 26, 2021 is now available to view…
What’s Behind the U.S. War on Science?
Thousands of demonstrators joined the March for Science in Washington, D.C., in 2017 against then-President Donald Trump’s attacks on science. Astrid Riecken/The Washington Post/Getty Images …
On The Culture of Harassment in Archaeology: An interview with Barbara L. Voss
[Content advisory: This article discusses harassment and discrimination in archaeology, including discussion of sexual assault.] On the morning of March 30, 2021, three articles on the culture of…
Women on the Cutting Edge. Logging and Gender in Solomon Islands
Over the past weeks, The Guardian featured a mind-boggling series called Pacific Plunder, which focuses to a large extent on the effects of logging in Solomon Islands. In…
Women on the Cutting Edge. Logging and Gender in Solomon Islands
Over the past weeks, The Guardian featured a mind-boggling series called Pacific Plunder, which focuses to a large extent on the effects of logging in Solomon Islands. In…
Samuli Schielke, “Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States” (AU in Cairo Press, 2020)
A vivid ethnography of Egyptian migrants to the Arab Gulf states, Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States (AU in Cairo Press, 2020) is about the imagination which migration…
Jane Ward, “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality” (NYU Press, 2020)
Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every…
Raven Bowen, “Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex As a Side-Hustle” (Policy Press, 2021)
Raven Bowen’s Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex As a Side-Hustle (Policy Press, 2021) is a rare and valuable exploration of work duality. It calls on practitioners, policymakers and resear… Visit…
Emily Ng, “A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao” (U California Press, 2020)
If China’s Mao era is seen by many as a time of great upheaval and chaos, there are also people and places for whom things appear quite different.…
Key Insights for Thinking and Doing Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Work: Contributions from Latin America
Ryoji Iwata/ Unsplash In April 2021, the First ESOCITE-LALICS Conference took place, albeit virtually. This was the first virtual Conference organized with the collaboration of the Asociación Latinoam…
A wildcat doesn’t change its spots: Gold mining on Indigenous lands in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
A shootout on May 10 between Yanomami Indigenous people and heavily armed illegal miners in Roraima state, Brazil, left three miners and two Yanomami children dead. Since then,…
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer: Siberia, Protest and Politics: Shaman Alexander in Danger
In 2021 a modest long-haired Sakha man named Alexander Gabyshev was arrested at his family compound on the outskirts of Yakutsk in an unprecedented for Sakha Republic (Yakutia)…
On Exiles and Alternatives: An Afterword
by Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Saad Shehata On 5 July, our new book Shared Margins: An Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria will be published open access. While…
A Few Words from the EASA Book Series Editors
Annika Lems, Jelena Tošić and Sabine Strasser In October 2020, we took over the editorship of the EASA book series from Aleksandar Bošković, who successfully curated the series…
Ken Chih-Yan Sun, “Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life” (Cornell UP, 2021)
Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life (Cornell UP, 2021) interro… Visit New Books…
Natalie West and Tina Horn, “We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival” (Feminist Press, 2021)
This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there’s never been a better time to fight for justice. Responding to the resurgence of the…
Ethnographic Poetry and Academic Writing: A Reflection
“Whatever your eye can see, it’s vecik.” This line resonated with me while I was conducting my fieldwork in Taiwan with the indigenous Paiwan village known as Paridrayan.…
Baghdad Postcards #2
Here are several early 20th century postcards showing life in and around Baghdad.