Vaccinating vaccines: Ethnography and the info-politics of public health
DAN ARTUS What exactly can an ethnography of vaccination hope to achieve? And how could one be undertaken? Although any given individual is likely to have received multiple…
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Deborah A. Thomas, “Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair” (Duke UP, 2019)
How can ethnographers use multimedia presentations of their work to reach new audiences, build different relationships with their participants, and promote new practices of witnessing and rep… Visit…
A. Gandhi et al., “Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Modern markets and exchange, compared with other social and political spheres, are seen through technical abstractions. This intellectual compartmentalization has political consequences: if c… Visit New Books in…
Vaccinating vaccines: Ethnography and the info-politics of public health
DAN ARTUS What exactly can an ethnography of vaccination hope to achieve? And how could one be undertaken? Although any given individual is likely to have received multiple…
Chronic living: ethnographic explorations of daily lives swayed by (multiple) medical conditions by Ayo Wahlberg
On the 12th of January 2020, the World Health Organization confirmed that the “mystery virus” which, according to reports from China, had infected some 50 people in the…
The Fire This Time: Black and Indigenous Ecologies
In the past year, the world witnessed devastating fire seasons in Australia and the U.S. West, an Atlantic hurricane season with a record thirty storms, and a global…
Africa, the Cutting Edge for Health Care: Lessons from The Continent for the U.S. during COVID-19 by Emma Bunkley
While the United States is often celebrated as a global leader in health expertise, it currently leads the world in COVID-19 infections and deaths. African countries, often considered…
Bernhard J. Stern, an American Apologist for Stalinism
The June 1944 issue of the American Sociological Review featured an article by Bernhard J. Stern entitled “Soviet Policy on National Minorities” (Stern 1944). In it the author argued that…
Citational politics bibliography
A bibliography on the politics of citation and references
What Does the American Dream Have to do With the COVID-19 Vaccine?
Protestors gather outside Dodger Stadium, a mass vaccination site in Los Angeles, in January. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images On January 30, protesters disrupted a mass…
GameStop, the Platform-Democracy-Complex and the Promise of Crypto
The trading platform Robinhood tried to wiggle itself back into the heart of the masses with a prime-time ad during the Super Bowl break the first weekend of…
What is Business Anthropology?
What is business anthropology? Business anthropology is the discipline that applies the theories and methodologies of social anthropology in the investigation of (or for) organizations and their ecosy…
Joseph Osgood in Aden: 1
Joseph Osgood was a Black American sailor who visited the Yemeni port of Aden about a dozen years before the start of the American Civil War. He offers…
Wednesday Round Up #38
Toward Clinically-Viable Brain-Machine Interfaces – Krishna Shenoy Shenoy’s talk starts around 3:25, and the first part really is about dynamical approaches to understanding neural functions. S…
ENERPO Workshop: Russian Arctic: At the Other End Of the Pipeline
Stephan Dudeck – Arctic Fieldwork Now my lecture at the Enerpo programm of the European University at Saint Petersburg is available online. klick here for the video on…
Lettre à Madame la Maire
Le 4 janvier 2021 English Version Madame la Maire, Si je vous écris aujourd’hui, c’est pour vous faire part de ma tristesse, et de mon indignation.…
Sutton Hoo’s Story Goes Deeper Than The Dig
The Sutton Hoo archaeological site revealed a treasure trove of Anglo-Saxon artifacts, including this iron helmet featuring a flying bird with dragon heads. Gary Todd/Flickr I first saw…
The Arroyo Hondo Pueblo Collection Finds a New Home
An aerial photo of the Arroyo Hondo Pueblo excavation. Guest post by Lisa Hunter, SAR’s Arroyo Hondo collections move assistant. …
Academic Fictions: Lettre à France
English Version Paris, le 22 Décembre 2020 Chère France, Comme tu[i] le sais, j’ai assisté, sur tes recommandations, au Congrès International des Capitales du monde. Je dois admettre…
Localising the Pandemic: Understanding Global Disruption through Online Media
by Maddalena Conte It does not happen every day that a worldwide crisis completely overturns a discipline’s research methods, giving no choice but to experiment with new practices.…
APLA’s Statement on Academic Freedom in Turkey
APLA stands in solidarity with Boğaziçi University students, faculty and staff who have been protesting the anti-democratic and illegitimate…
Legal Consciousness Compared: the Case of Botswana
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WEBINAR TAKES PLACE AT 9.30am CET. PLEASE ALSO NOTE THE NEW ZOOM-LINK FOR THIS EVENT When: 26 February 2021 / 9.30-11 am…
‘A Pearl in Peril’ by Christina Luke
Christina Luke. A Pearl in Peril: Heritage and Diplomacy in Turkey. 288 pp., illus., tables, notes, bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Christina Luke’s A Pearl in Peril&…
#Academic Fictions: Cape Town through Time and Space: An Experimental Poem
Part 1: 1921 “Poison Tea, Colonial Imports”, by an Observer “Them nasty Malays can make it work months after you take it”, quotes Lady Duff G.: This,…