Happy New Year!
The editorial team of Standplaats Wereld wishes you all a Happy New Year! A big thank-you to everyone who has contributed to Standplaats Wereld in 2019! We appreciate…
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Our special series, ‘Postindustrial landscapes, communities, and heritages’ has been published!
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Interview: The Writings of Pamela Price
The Writings of Pamela Price: State, Politics, and Cultures in Modern South India: Honour, Authority, and Morality (Orient BlackSwan, 2013) is a wonderful collection of ten essays by…
H. Appel, S. Whitley, C. Kline, “The Power of Debt: Identity and Collective Action in the Age of Finance” (Institute on Inequality and Democracy, 2019)
As the upcoming 2020 U.S. election finally brings questions of economic justice center stage, this episode discusses the powerful short open-source book The Power of Debt: Identity and…
Art, Algorithms, and the Physicality of the Virtual
Star Wars’ legion of fans were rewarded in rewarded in December 2019 with the long-awaited release of Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker, filled with state-of-the-art computer graphics.…
From Hollywood to Hitler: Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Propaganda
What is propaganda? What does cinema reveal about the Third Reich and its people? What are German films about during the Third Reich? What do they reveal? And…
Interview: Infrastructure Redux by Nausheen H. Anwar
In Infrastructure Redux:Crisis, Progress in Industrial Pakistan and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Nausheen H. Anwar explores double-edged narratives of development. Through detailed case studies …
Interview: Patronage as Politics in South Asia by Anastasia Piliavsky
Does patronage always imply a corruption of democratic political processes? Across sixteen essays by historians, political scientists and anthropologists Patronage as Politics in South Asia (Cambridge…
Against Forgetting: Telling Stories After Zika by Eliza Williamson
For English click here. Contra o Esquecimento: Contando Histórias após o Zika Dois anos atrás, em um aeroporto, enquanto esperava uma conexão, recebi uma mensagem de WhatsApp de uma…
Sujatha Fernandes talks about her new book, Curated Stories
https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190618049.001.0001/acprof-9780190618049 Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim Ben Ale-Ebrahim: What led you to first start thinking about storytel…
«Australia’s on Fire» – an interview with Joanna Siekiera
This is an interview with Dr. Joanna Siekiera from 3 January 2020 on Tok FM Radio in Poland. The Broadcast was entitled “Australia’s on fire” and was held…
“What counts is the imagination of ham, rather than its actual existence,” An Interview with Joelle Bahloul
In this third installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food, David Sutton talks with Joelle Bahloul, whose work on food and memory has inspired many…
The Sobraj Challenge
Well, I know, this is not such an appropriate headline and a bit cheeky to add it, but I find this article predictable and mind-boggling at the same…
Dear professionals: watch as much tv as you want
Remember back in the day when people would brag about not watching or owning a television? We’ve all come across … More
Interview: Dehli, Pages From A Forgotten History by Arthur Dudney
Delhi: Pages From A Forgotten History (Hay House India, 2015) by Arthur Dudney tells the story of India’s capital and beyond through the lens of Persian literary culture.…
The Sociological Imagination without W.E.B. Du Bois?
As noted in Why Is Classical Theory Classical? (1997) by Raewyn Connell, and in chapter six of our book where we discuss the relationship between empire and the…
The Sociological Imagination without W.E.B. Du Bois?
As noted in Why Is Classical Theory Classical? (1997) by Raewyn Connell, and in chapter six of our book where we discuss the relationship between empire and the…
Intercultural Learning Community on Food, Culture and Social Justice, Part II
The Intercultural Learning Community at the vegan restaurant, Quinoa, operated by one of our own members, Luz Zaruma Joan Gross Oregon State University Just as our fall term…
Interview: The Rani of Jhansi by Harleen Singh
The Rani of Jhansi was and is many things to many people. In her beautifully written book The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India (Cambridge…
Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, “Gridiron Gourmet: Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate” (U Arkansas Press, 2019)
Today we are joined by Maria Veri, Associate Professor of Kinesiology at San Francisco State University, and Rita Liberti, Professor of Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay. T……
Clara Han: Echoes of Death and the Life Story. Keynote at Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South
Modeste Demers Ethnographic Descriptions of the Tribes, 1839
Modeste Demers was assigned with the Oregon Territory, in 1837, at the same time as Francois Norbert Blanchet and they traveled together overland to their assignment in canoes…
Interview: Recasting the Region by Neilesh Bose
In his new book Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2014), Neilesh Bose analyses the trajectories of Muslim Bengali politics in…