Keeping social distance and keeping them out
‘The last time I saw my friends, I was invited to their place inside the refugee camp for lunch. It was long before the introduction of coronavirus quarantine.…
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Why Capitalize “Indigenous”?
(no-caption) Alison Wright/Getty Images Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. Some readers may have noticed that SAPIENS uses a capital…
The Paradox of Autonomy and Care for Mothers of Adults with Disabilities in Brazil
Since the early 2000s, Brazil has experienced a significant change concerning the rights of people with disabilities in the country. Based on the struggles of the Brazilian Disability…
Destination Anthropocene: An Interview with Amelia Moore
Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas By Amelia Moore, University of Rhode Island 216pp. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press § Colin Hoag spoke with Prof.…
God’s Daily Briefings: Religious Leadership in a Global Pandemic
TILAK PAREKH The Voice of God Religious leaders possess immense power and influence. Believers may listen to government ministers or public health officials, but, above all, they place…
Memes, Migrants, And The Epidemiological Imagination
JOSH BABCOCK As COVID-19 escalated to officially pandemic proportions early this year, Coronavirus-prevention advice began circulating via Facebook and WhatsApp in Singapore. Mostly in English and…
Turkish Cemeteries for the “Unknown” — #Afterlives
I first heard about the Cemetery for the Unknown from a friend, Ceyda, while returning from the funeral of her friend, Sibel. Sibel was a trans woman sex…
Quaran-Teens 2020: Familial Belonging in Quarantine: Balancing Personal and Family Identities at Home
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams were cancelled, they decided they would…
Regna Darnell’s reflections upon retirement
What is your morning routine? I’m a night owl with frequent insomnia. On a good morning, the CBC radio alarm plays local and global news from 7:30-8:30. I…
‘Humanizing’ Indonesia’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response
While the rich industrial countries are simply readjusting their national budgets amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the fiscal options for the middle-to-low income countries seem to be strictly limited.…
What COVID-19 Reveals about Borders and Citizenship: Europe’s Migrants on Their Way Back Home (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Tunay Altay Travel restrictions became a global response to combat the spread of COVID-19. According to an analysis from April 2020…
Pandemic Predictions- The World Post-Covid-19 for Indian Females
DEVASHREE JUVEKAR As the entire world is grappling with the novel coronavirus pandemic, many experts and researchers have predicted a number of social and economic changes that the…
Lieux chargés: #afterlives of Stolpersteine
Europe’s largest decentralised memorial is artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine—‘stumbling stones’— small brass plaques installed in the pavement in front of the former homes of victims of Nazi pers…
Ep #58: Individuals, Whiteness, Gendered Fandoms and Picking Field Stories to Tell: This Month on TFS
This week we bring you another from home Zoom panel! This week we are joined by Senior lecturer Dr Yasmine Musharbash. Dr Musharbash is currently based in the…
Caring in the time of corona: Technological possibilities and limitations by Matthew Lariviere
“Now is the moment to put the failures of the past behind us, and set our sights on the NHS being the most cutting-edge system in the world…
Mental Health Avenues Amidst A Global Pandemic: Conceptualising The Biosocial Medical Framework Within Urban ‘Green Spaces’
TIFFANY LOERA Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. This is my morning mantra. As I lay in my bed in the early hours of the morning, I am aware of…
Are Pandemics Good for the Environment?
Mountain goats roam the streets of Llandudno, in north Wales, in the absence of tourists. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have noted…
Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19 – Issue 2 by Eugene Raikhel
May 5 -12, 2020 “Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19” is a weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats focused on medical anthropology and neighboring …
The Chaos of Asynchronous Grief
Spoiler: I hate to say it, but Americans have only begun the five stages of grief, and we aren’t all going through it in the same way…
Links & Contents I Liked 365
Hi all, Wow…this has turned into one of the longest #globaldev reviews in a while-so I hope you have some extra time to explore great food for thought…
Gavin Smith: Rereading Marx on machines in the time of COVID-19
Gavin Smith, University of Toronto “One of the many perils lies in normalizing the ‘batshit crazy’ presently underway.”—Wallace, Liebman, Chavez & Wallace 2020: 5 The COVID-19 pandemic has…
No Longer a Field
by Rachel Howard (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) An intersection at the author’s fieldsite. Image by the author. Suspending my fieldwork due to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Wenn aus Tätern Opfer werden: Freilassung von Gefangenen wegen des Coronavirus in Argentinien (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Kim Radestock Strikte Quarantäne in Buenos Aires. Copyright: Kim Radestock. SARS-CoV-2 hat die gesamte Welt in einen Ausnahmezustand versetzt. Jed…
Sociological Reflections In Times Of Change And Uncertainty: Managing Risk, Trying To Adapt And Being Creative
CATARINA DELAUNAY Covid-19 crisis is not democratic in the sense that it affects everyone equally regardless of age, gender, class, ethnicity or geographic area where one lives, as…