Cuban Food Security in a Time of COVID-19
The pandemic has created new opportunities and barriers to food access in Cuba’s two largest cities. Even before Cuba’s first case of COVID-19 was detected on March 11,…
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Interview: On COVID-19 & digital technologies in everyday life
In May 2020, I was asked by the European Science-Media Hub of the European Parliament to participate in a short written interview about COVID-19 and digital technologies in…
Loretta Ieng Tak Lou: Freedom as ethical practices
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1270/audio_only-%5bAudioTrimmer.com%5d.m4a Loretta Ieng Tak Lou (University of Macau and LSE) gave a virtual tal…
When Colorblind Parenting Meets Anti-racism
Author Zeray Alemseged and his daughter attend a Black Lives Matter protest in Chicago. Peter Stamos I watched the uniformed White policeman kneel on the Black man’s neck…
Links & Contents I Liked 377
Hi all, Did you have enough Zoom meetings this week? Yeah, me too… Before I’m logging off for the weekend I’m happy to share some great #globaldev readings,…
Urban Anthropology job, research in Nuuk
This comes pretty late, but who knows, maybe they extend the deadline? Colleagues want us to spread the news of PhD jobs funded at Tromso and Oslo and…
Opposing Views for a Shared Mission
On the website of Zuiderlicht (one of the organizations I researched): the angle and scenery of this picture implies that the wind turbine rises up from nature itself.…
Narratives of dysfunction and success stories in e-waste recycling in India
There is a growing consensus that India is going through a waste crisis, and this awareness unfolds parallel to an increasing awareness of the beyond-human time it takes…
Nicholas H. A. Evans, “Far from the Caliph’s Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian” (Cornell UP, 2020)
A sustained and compelling critique of the doubt/belief binary in the anthropology of religion and Islam, Nicholas H. A. Evans’ Far from the Caliph’s Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim…
On Gutters and Ethnography
In a departure from more conventional communication methods in academia, I’m exploring how comics–a medium I love to read and am learning to make (thank you to my…
In the Vault: A Beautifully Made Basket
Story by IARC collections assistant Molly Winslow. For our In the Vaults series, we are sharing some of our staff favorites from the…
Imagining the Neanderthal’s World
[no-caption] Denis Pobytov Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. Bloomsbury Sigma, August (U.K.) & October (U.S.) 2020. Archaeology and genomics k…
Economies are Trophic Flows
In 1972, as I was just about to get married for the first time, I read the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth. I decided not to have…
Stephanie Newell, “Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos” (Duke UP, 2019)
Stephanie Newell, Professor of English at Yale University, came to this project, which explores the concept of “dirt” and how this idea is used and applied to people…
Joshua Esler, “Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society” (Lexington Books, 2020)
While Tibetan Buddhism continues to face restrictions and challenges imposed by the state in contemporary China, it has in fact entered mainstream Chinese society with a growing middle-class…
Clouds of Failure
Anticipating the failure of digital devices has become part of the fabric of everyday life in the digital world. With their fragile components and ever-shortening lifespans, digital technologies…
Recent stuffs:
The Corporate Imaginary, In Thesis Eleven August 13, 2020 Co research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom with Do Thi Xuan Huong, in Education Philosophy and Theory, 2020, with…
Wednesday Round Up #16
My Octopus Teacher Gordon W. Hewes — a four-field anthropologist with an encyclopedic, visual sensibility. He was interdisciplinary before it was cool. There’s No Homunculus In Our Brain…
The Everyday Resistance of Anarchist Punks in Bandung, Indonesia
Bandung is a city of punks and prayer… —Lonely Planet The cat is out of the bag now that Lonely Planet knows that Bandung, Indonesia, is a hot…
Adam James Moore: The human cost of city upgrading in ‘pro-poor’ Medellín
On 1st March 2018, a group of protestors blocked a dual-carriageway in front of Acevedo Metro (and Metro cable line) Station in the North of Medellín, Colombia. Those…
Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is getting a lot of attention these days, thanks in large part to the excellent work of Stephanie Kelton and Nathan Tankus, two…
#Failures: Failure is a Feeling
We were sat upstairs in a favourite hot-pot restaurant in old Taipei, nestled in between a deep red temple and a scooter repair shop, behind a metro station.…
The Two Singapores: From the Worker’s View by Wahid Al Mamun
“The Two Singapores” is an ongoing interview miniseries run by Somatosphere to interrogate Singapore’s COVID-19 response, in particular in its handling of the explosion of cases among migrant…
‘A world that counts’: The rise of infographics in global maternal health campaigns by Margaret E. MacDonald
Infographics have become a ubiquitous feature of the contemporary global health landscape, crowding the presentations and exhibition halls of conferences, the pages of annual reports, and the website…