In the Journals, March 2021, Part 2 by Shoshana Deutsh
Part 2 of “In the Journals” for March 2021 includes a special issue in New Genetics & Society, “Organizing Precision Oncology” and a special forum in Science as…
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Special Issue: “Embodied Belonging” by Shoshana Deutsh
This special issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, edited by Dominik Mattes and Claudia Lang, proposes the notion of “embodied belonging” which engages with the “entanglements of the…
In The Journals, March 2021, Part 1 by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott
BioSocieties Sportswomen as ‘biocultural creatures’: understanding embodied health experiences across sporting culturesHolly Thorpe, Marianne Clark & Julie Brice Over the past decade, a cri…
Lost in the supermarket
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Lisa Björkman, “Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class Histories” (Association for Asian Studies, 2020)
Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class Histories (Association for Asian Studies, 2020) is an…
Celebrating the International Humanitarian Studies Association’s first newsletter anniversary-A few reflections on curating humanitarian content
A few reflections on curating humanitarian content & the limits of virtual knowledge repositoriesMy colleagues of the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) encouraged me to share a…
Tropical cyclones and ocean heat energy in the Southwest Pacific
PhD candidate Ashneel Chandra offers a brief outline of his recently published paper, co-authored with his Master’s degree advisor at The University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor…
Cargo Ships and Comrades: On the Occasion of the Beached Ever Given
In 2018, we took a cargo ship from Barcelona to New York City and made a short film called Slop Chest [1] about the blurry distinction between work…
Running on Borrowed Life by Marie Kofod Svensson
On a cold January afternoon in 2018, 18-year-old Sara locates me in the crowd at the train station. Together we take the bus to her home in a…
The masked and the unmasked
Standard issue mask from Kaiser Permanente. Photo: Ryan Anderson 2021. Before 2020 and COVID-19, I never thought much about masks. Now I think about them all the time.…
Chronic living against all odds in Honduras by Nancy Worthington
Yesenia was born with congenital heart disease in 2000, a time in Honduras when heart defects meant certain, if not sudden, death for most children. Owing to surgical…
Cultural Contexts of COVID-19: Improving Pandemic Responses
Cultural context of health is critical in responding to pandemics, new research shows: While populations’ access to health care is crucial to combating the spread of COVID-19, a…
Sheena Kalayil discusses her book, Second-Generation South Asian Britons
Interview by Kim Fernandes https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498580038/Second-Generation-South-Asian-Britons-Multilingualism-Heritage-Languages-and-Diasporic-Identity Kim Fernandes: In your book,…
Waste and Recycling in Cold War Eastern Europe
This short study analyzes the professional and political discussions of post-industrial and post-consumer waste, discards and recycling in state-socialist Hungary and connects these discourses with th…
Holding Belief in Suspense
Some months ago, I went for an early morning run with a mate at my fieldsite. After a short trot together, she left for work, and I decided…
Announcing the new amysantee.com
April 1st, 2021 was the one year anniversary of my decision to pivot from design research consulting to career coaching. I slowly phased out my remaining projects to…
Handbook of Yemen (1917)
In 1917 the British government issued a handbook on Yemen with details on the geography. local tribes and important individuals. It is especially useful for discussion of travel…
President’s Advisory Committee for hiring a new Dean of Arts, UBC-V: election.
Update, April 20, 2021. The election is over and I was not among the four elected. Thank you to those who did vote me for, I appreciate your…
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Interview during pandemic: Anna Nerkagi
It has been one year since the coronavirus pandemic became a part of our life and changed it in a very radical way. We follow the rules of the government, we develo…
COVID-19 Continued Information Resources
Check out the new slide deck from Dr. Mark Nichter reviewing the COVID-19 variants, public health balancing act, and public health citizenship. Check out the European Centre for…
COVID-19 Continued Information Resources
Check out the new slide deck from Dr. Mark Nichter reviewing the COVID-19 variants, public health balancing act, and public health citizenship. Check out the European Centre for…
Dragan Djunda: Transition to nowhere: Small hydro, little electricity, and large profits in Serbia
When you enter the House of culture in Dojkinci, a small village on Stara Mountain, you are instantly amazed by its floor. The freshly painted red, green, and…