Seeing like a state of exception | 例外状态的视角
In a bittersweet combination of personal achievement and global emergency, I moved to Norway and started working on a new research project right when the COVID-19 epidemic started…
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Is It Ever OK to Publish Photographs of Human Remains?
[no-caption] Jonas Androx/Pexels Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. Death is an experience that binds all of humanity. Everyone dies.…
I mangoträdets skugga: om antropologi och det oavslutade fältarbetet
Sverker Finnström: Du unga änka i svart, Så vacker du är Med tårarnas pärlor Glittrande på dina kinder. Så värdigt du för Din sorgtunga kropp! Förebrå mig inte…
Publications: E-learning & blended learning in anthropology & the social sciences
Here a collection of publications that discuss the development and utilization of e-learning and blended learning tools and models for sociocultural anthropology and the social sciences. These public…
New Book: Andreas Malm’s, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Latest from Andreas Malm moves from his initial work in history (Fossil Capital), to the polemical conceptual book (Progress of this Storm) to a call for civil disobedience.…
Social Soils and Chimerical Metabolisms by David Boarder Giles
The metabolic rift “All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil,” Marx (1976: 637-38)…
Discard Studies Solidarity Strike
The field of discard studies is united by a critical framework that questions premises of what seems normal or given, what is valued and not valued, and the…
Architecture as a Justice-Accessing Technology in Postwar Guatemala
Forest analysis of scorched earth. Courtesy of Daniele Profeta. Princeton University, 2015. On an early January morning in 2015 a group of lawyers from the Guatemalan NGO Mujeres…
Canceled: APLA/AES Spring Conference
Over the past few days, we have been closely following the potential impact of the global COVID-19 outbreak on Borders/Bridges, the AES/APLA joint spring conference in Austin, Texas.…
A Criança Morta: A Specter of the Past in the História of Zika by Cari Maes
For Portuguese, click here. In April 2018 the cover of one of Brazil’s most popular magazines, Veja, featured a reprint of a 1944 painting, A criança morta (a…
On the Brink of a Pandemic; “World, jiāyóu”
WRITTEN BY JOP KOOPMAN The city of Wuhan, ground zero of the coronavirus, is 6 six days under lockdown when residents take to WeChat and start to suggest…
Patricia G. Lange on her new book, Thanks for Watching
https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3737-thanks-for-watching Interview by Jan English-Lueck Jan English-Lueck: You have been writing about YouTubers, on and off screen, for over…
3 quick starting points & 1 structural reflection on how to make affordable online teaching a reality
Right now, a lot of momentum is building up in academia around virtual meetings, broadcasted conferences and online teaching. As I mentioned in last week’s Links I Liked,…
Agbogbloshie: Dumping no more
Agbogbloshie is a part of an emergent globalised scrap economy that links peripheral markets to global metal flows. In this post, Dagna Rams argues for the need to…
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, “Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019) is an ethnography of Palestinian life under occupation that takes waste infrastructures as a starting po……
M. Maloney, S. Roberts, and T. Graham, “Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming: Analysing Reddit’s r/gaming Community” (Palgrave, 2019)
What can online social spaces like Reddit’s r/gaming reveal about gender attitudes, masculinized spaces, and turning points in gamer communities? In their new book Gender, Masculinity and Vid……
Ep #53 Making Meaningful Anthropology: Amita Baviskar on Maggi Noodles and Anti-Dam Movements
“It was a really difficult dilemma for me, because I felt that I needed to stand by my work, but at the same time what was more important…
Effective and Harmless Weight Loss: Basic Experts Tips
Experts claim that the losing weight process requires patience and time in the first place. It is not possible to lose a large amount of excess weight in…
COVID-19 Forum: Introduction by Christos Lynteris
Since its emergence in December 2019, COVID-19 has led to a global pandemic, in everything but name. To date, over 100,000 people have been infected across the globe,…
Links & Contents I Liked 356
Hi all, This week’s #globaldev readings take you on a global tour from Canada to the US, El Salvador, Nepal, India, Kiribati, Kenya & the UK! Plus, a special…
In the Journals, February 2020 by Anna Zogas
Here are some of the articles published in February. Enjoy! Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Gestures of Care and Recognition: An Introduction Lauren Cubellis This collection of essays …
NBN Interview with Darryl Li on ‘The Universal Enemy Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity’ (2020)
From New Books Network: No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting…
Jerome Whitington, “Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower” (Cornell UP, 2018)
Jerome Whitington‘s Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower (Cornell University Press, 2019) examines the dynamics and discourses centered around the development… Visit New Books in…
“Sociology is a combat sport”
On February 20th, Allies Julie Billaud, Alessandro Chidichimo, Miriam Odoni, Marie-Claire Peytrignet, together with other members of the Swiss-based non-profit association Programme Indépendant de Rec…