Editorial Introduction: Living in Pittsburgh in the Aftermath of the Tree of Life Shootings
The shooting that took place on October 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh, at the Tree of Life Synagogue, (home to three congregations), leaving…
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The Pussyhat’s Identity Crisis
January 2019 marks the second anniversary of the Women’s March—a protest that arose in response to then U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “locker room talk” and to the…
Archaeology / What happened 4,000 years ago in the Urals?
Archaeologists from Goethe University will be returning to the Urals for further research work. In collaboration with researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Russian colleagues, they …
#WhoseGreen? Chololo Ecovillage and the ‘Secret Formula of Development’
The village of Chololo is situated around 40km South-East of the political capital of Tanzania, Dodoma. Often described as the poorest in the country, the region of Dodoma…
Chasing the Gamers
Towards the end of the 20th century, researchers went to great lengths to understand the Internet user. Now, with access to the world wide web much wider, no…
What is a Public Space Without a Public? #WhoseGreen?
A warm lunchtime in Sheffield, a city of half a million people in the north of England. It is late October and unseasonably sunny. In Weston Park, a…
Review: Food, Masculinities and Home
Michelle Szabo & Shelley Koch eds. Food, Masculinities and Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. ISBN: 9781474262323. Neri Kuinera de Kramer-Lynch (University of Delawa…
Review: Caviar Dreams
Caviar Dreams. Directed by Brian Gersten, Liv Dubendorf, Wei Ying. A Democracy through Documentary Kartemquin Films project in conjunction with KTQ Labs and Wake Forest University’s Documentar…
Infrastructure after disasters
On October 21, 1868, at approximately eight o’clock in the morning, a major earthquake on the Hayward Fault near Oakland, California shook the Bay Area. The earthquake caused…
The Science of Human Nature Has a Serious Problem
[no-caption] Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images This article originally appeared on The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Over the last century, behavioral researchers have reveal…
Derek Hird and Geng Song, “The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age” (Hong Kong UP, 2018)
China’s global rise has been analysed from many perspectives in recent years. But pressing questions over how understandings of gender – and particularly masculinity – have been changing…
Maria Kronfeldner, “What’s Left of Human Nature? A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept” (MIT Press, 2018)
Much of the debate about the roles of nature vs. nurture in the development of individual people has settled into accepting that it’s a bit of both, although…
John Witte, Jr., “The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
John Witte, Jr.‘s The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is an extensively researched book showcasing the author’s deep knowledge and experience in the…
Derek Hird and Geng Song, “The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age” (Hong Kong UP, 2018)
China’s global rise has been analysed from many perspectives in recent years. But pressing questions over how understandings of gender – and particularly masculinity – have been changing…
John Witte, Jr., “The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
John Witte, Jr.‘s The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is an extensively researched book showcasing the author’s deep knowledge and experience in the…
Maria Kronfeldner, “What’s Left of Human Nature? A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept” (MIT Press, 2018)
Much of the debate about the roles of nature vs. nurture in the development of individual people has settled into accepting that it’s a bit of both, although…
Archäologie / Was geschah vor 4000 Jahren am Ural?
Archäologen der Goethe-Universität um Prof. Rüdiger Krause werden wieder im Ural forschen. Gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftlern der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz und russischen Kollegen wollen sie he…
#WhoseGreen? Contested Sustainabilities and Socio-Ecological Change
The accelerating growth of the technosphere, climate crises, shifting species distribution and other phenomena contribute to increasingly dramatic socio-ecological changes across the planet, impacting…
Family by Zhiying Ma
If you spend any time in a psychiatric hospital in China, you will likely be struck by the fact that most of the inpatients there have been hospitalized…
“learned scribes” – Marx to Kugelman 1868
Marx writes to his publisher-friend to explain, clearly, why it is a critique of political economy: And then the vulgar economist thinks a great discovery has been made…
Material Culture Journalism, 7
The Material Culture students do not know about Material Culture Journalism yet. Maybe this week I’ll mention it to them. Day one was surely an overload as it…
New Book – Our history is the future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Nick Estes has been writing about Indigenous resistance at Standing Rock in powerful ways, so his new book coming in just over one month’s time is one I…
Inequality and the ecological transition
Last month Branko Milanovic published a blog post about the Yellow Vest movement against the fuel tax in France. He was worried – like many analysts –…
Book Review: Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
In Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the ‘deep story’ behind the rise of the Tea Party and Donald Trump…