In the Journals, January 2018 by Anna Zogas
Here are some articles of interest published in January 2018. Enjoy! Social Science & Medicine The consequence of “doing nothing”: Family caregiving for Alzheimer’s disease as non-action in…
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The Awakening of the Waters: Clean water, health and village sanitation in the Peruvian Amazon
So it was, long ago, people had no clean water to drink. Instead, they drank from muddy swamps and stagnant puddles of algae and slime. One day, Shigentiri,…
The Awakening of the Waters: Clean water, health and village sanitation in the Peruvian Amazon
So it was, long ago, people had no clean water to drink. Instead, they drank from muddy swamps and stagnant puddles of algae and slime. One day, Shigentiri,…
Carving a Niche between Software and Social Science: Anthropology in Industry w/ Natalie Hanson – This Anthro Life
Design and anthropology have been seen together with increasing frequency over the last few years, but how do design and anthropology fit together in relation to industry? And,…
Can the Hunt for Skeletons Help Heal a Nation’s Wounds?
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS The abandoned Nicosia airport in Cyprus is a strange place for an anthropology lab. But there I was—at the end of a humid spring day…
Living and F*cking with Acronyms: A response to Dennis Altman’s call to rethink LGBTI
Last week Australian academic Dennis Altman published a provocative piece in The Conversation, suggesting that it was time to re think the label LGBTI. In the place of…
Washing Out Trump’s Mouth with Haitian History
A Haitian artist responds to the “shithole” remark. The day after President Trump referred to Haiti and the continent of Africa as “shithole countries,” Jerry Rosembert Moïse, a…
Defining “Social Justice” at the Academic Medical Center by Marco A. Ramos
I am delighted to contribute to this series on the Critical Histories and Activist Futures: Science, Medicine, and Racial Violence Conference. As captured by the submissions published here…
9. bis 11.2. / Ausstellung „R UND LÄUFE UND KREIS GÄNGE“
Für den jährlich stattfindenden Rundgang öffnet das Institut für Kunstpädagogik am Donnerstag, den 8. Februar 2018, wieder seine Tore. Auf dem gesamten Gelände der alten Fabrik des Unicampus…
Why we can’t abolish “best”
In my email right now, there are 10,364 messages signed with American academia’s standard valediction: Best, I have always found best an incredibly alienating sign-off. So alienating that…
Pre-Brexit: There is such a thing as a free lunch
Credit: Sean Carey I have just been to my local bank in St Albans, a commuter town not far from the suburbs of north London, and am walking…
anthro in the news 1/29/18
São Paulo’s 18th annual LGBT Pride Parade 2014. Credit: Ben Taverner/Wikimedia Commons LGBT murder rate in Brazil The Guardian reported on the rising rate of murder of LGBT…
Somewhere Between Here and There: Goldilocking Between Fieldwork and Academia
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Crystal Abidin, contributing the second post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta. Somewhere Between Here a…
Ethnography & Case Study Research: Saying yes to the project
Over the past few Mondays, we have been posting on the recent case-study research project I worked on with OCWI. Working with OCWI on this short-term project was…
Beach by Meg Samuelson
Beaches are good places to think with about waste and ruination. They were once generically places of waste (in the etymological sense of “unoccupied, uncultivated”) while recognized as…
Ethnography & Case Study Research: Saying yes to the project
Over the past few Mondays, we have been posting on the recent case-study research project I worked on with OCWI. Working with OCWI on this short-term project was…
Zoe Wool, “After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed” (Duke UP, 2015)
Zoe Wool‘s ethnography of rehabilitation After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed (Duke UP, 2015) describes how soldiers injured in the war on terror are pulled…
Web Roundup: Grand Not-So-Unified Theory of Birth Control Side-Effects by Anika Jugovic-Spajic
Recently, a number of news outlets reported the results of a new research study on the correlation between hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer. The study analyzed data from…
Snömaskar
Något jag ofta fick höra i lågstadiet av många föräldrar och lärare var att inte äta snö. Starkast rörde förbudet snö som lagt sig. Om man råkade fånga…
Union revitalisation and women workers at the intersection of gender and class
by Hannah Loosley **A version of this post was published at ecnmy.org.** Women working in care, catering, cleaning, cashier and clerical jobs (the 5 Cs) have long been…
An export industry in ‘defence’ is a croc of shit – Turnbull comes the raw prawn.
Just in, the BBC misses the opportunity to call bullshit on Australia, which they can’t do of course because they also export ‘defence’ weaponry. Both as daft as…
Europäische Soziologie als „Public Good“. Interview mit Prof. Dr. Frank Welz, Präsident der European Sociological Association (2015-2017)
Frank Welz lehrt Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt soziale und politische Theorie an der Fakultät für Soziale und Politische Wissenschaften der Universität Innsbruck. Von 2015 bis September 2017…
Miniaturization is trinketization.
This looks great and would have been a good thing to attend, but my diary window – and budget – is far too small: *Small Interventions: Studies in…
New year, new research
I’ve much to update on the site in the next few weeks, but first I thought I’d share something I’m super excited about: a new research project, funded…