How does a platypus taste? About the flavours of STS at 4S Sydney, 2018
The 2018 meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), was held from August 29th to September 1st, (mostly) in the International Conference Center (ICC)…
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Hi all, The week started relatively calm, but after a last-minute invitation to a great conference on development volunteering in Cologne, a new book review and plenty of…
Algiers, Third World Capital (book review)
Not just for a development-related autobiography enthusiast like me is Elaine Mokhtefi’s Algiers, Third World Capital-Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers a literary treat! Mokhtefi’s mem…
extractivism conference, November 2018
Our colleagues from the peace studies institute in Tromso share the announcement to this conference, which sounds interesting. https://uit.no/tavla/artikkel/564387/resisting_extractivism_in_border_zon…
Tala Jarjour, “Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Religious music can be a source of comfort and release, but also a remembrance of sadness and loss. In Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo (Oxford University Press,…
Book Review: Afghanistan Post–2014—Misreading Afghanistan’s Crypto-coloniality
Review of: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Tragectories. Edited by Rajen Harshe’ and Dhananjay Tripathi. (New Delhi: Routledge), 2016, pp. xix+248. The colonial and postcoloni…
Participatory approaches to design digital cultural futures. An interview with R. C. Smith
Rachel Charlotte Smith is assistant professor of design anthropology at Aarhus University. Her research focuses on relations between design, culture and technology, specifically on social chang…
Bracing for the Vanilla Boom
Vanilla beans are dried in the sun as part of the curing process. George Zhu As the vanilla market opens in northeastern Madagascar this season, some local farmers…
Book Review: Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste by Diane Coffey and Dean Spears
In Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste, authors Diane Coffey and Dean Spears propose that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious goal to introduce toilets…
S. Hayes and D. S. Wilson, “Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior” (Context Press, 2018)
Evolution science and behavioral science both have strong theories that can help us understand humans in context, and yet, until now, the two fields have been mostly separate.…
Post-Bureaucratic Stress: Reflections on getting a police check in Vietnam
Bureaucracy is so deadly dull because it’s so mundane. But, as Steve Woolgar points out in his book Mundane Governance, the Latin etymology of ‘mundane’ is ‘of the…
Food and Cooking on Early European Television
We received the following call for abstracts from Dr. Ana Tominc, of Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, and thought it would be of interest to SAFN members. Food and Cooking…
Symposium: Urbane Transformation und Migration
15. Oktober 2018 in Erkner Wie verändern sich Städte durch Migration? Wie gehen Städte mit den Herausforderungen um, die sich durch Migration stellen und wie wird Migration lokal…
Sun of the Sleepless by Jason Pine
The sleep experiment, back in Chicago in 1992… was that really more than 25 years ago? In that experiment he could locate the seed of what would become…
What’s wrong with the ‘power of writing’? A reflection on language in academic research
Numerous are by now the accounts that label international academia as ‘neoliberal’, that is, a system which, these days, almost functions like a firm aimed at increasing productivity…
Pasar Seni Lukis Indonesia (PSLI) 2017
Syumidjo Est Pasar Seni Lukis Indonesia (PSLI) 2017 still held in JX International Surabaya is certained followed 193 painter. Gusar Suryanto Ganda Dagar Triyoso Yusuf 150 booth that…
What Drives Our Quest for the Perfect Instagram Picture?
Instagram is a social mirror for more than just selfies — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
‘The School of Oriental and African Studies’ by Ian Brown: A “Director’s Office View” of History
Ian Brown. The School of Oriental and African Studies: Imperial Training and the Expansion of Learning. 346 pp., 27 b/w illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.…
50 Shades of Diskursanalyse
Einer dieser regnerischen Sonntage. Nur dass gar nicht Sonntag ist. Man kann den ganzen Tag in der Bude rumhängen. Die Sonne provoziert einen nicht, irgendetwas total Tolles und…
McCain, Memorialization, and Empire
[Footnotes is proud to present the work of Matthew Chrisler. Matthew Chrisler is a PhD Candidate at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is currently conducting…
The Mastodon in the Room
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS Humans may have been in North America much earlier than previously thought. Here’s the evidence: chipped rocks, crushed mastodon bones, and reliable da…
How to Be a Sustainable Anthropologist?
Anthropologists often see themselves as committed and active global citizens. But how much of what we teach and learn about sustainability is expressed in anthropologists' daily actions? And…
How to be a sustainable anthropologist?
Anthropologists often see themselves as committed and active global citizens. But how much of what we teach and learn about sustainability is expressed in anthropologists’ daily actions? And…
Africa and the Epidemiological Imagination by Marissa Mika
In early September we hosted a workshop on Africa and the Epidemiological Imagination at University College London’s Institute of Advanced Studies’ Common Ground. The workshop was sponsored by…