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Hi all, Lots of new reports surfaced after UN GA week-but there have also been other interesting #globaldev readings popping up throughout the week from small island states…
Utterances of Distress
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Headache Worries Sadness Blood pressure Nervousness Pain Sleeping problems Stress Back pain Impaired eyesight Heart problems Stomach pain Paralysis Neck pain Breathing problems Chest…
Do not waste waste
By Freek Colombijn. It is a truism to state that the amount of solid waste produced daily is enormous. Mount Everest has become a symbol of just how…
A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Durante about How Manuscripts Become Books
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer. Of course, the writer is the essential component. But what about all the other…
Erika Milam, “Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II.…
Italia moderna – otto
Teil acht unserer massenkompatiblen Serie über moderne italienische Architektur. Wir beginnen mit diesem fünstöckigen Kasten in Parma, der an gemäßigten norddeutschen Expressionismus erinnert. Die Fen…
Hangö och dess lager av liv
Tre dagar av fältarbete med intervjuer, observationer av stadsrummet, gator, byggnader och rörelse, kopplat samman med diskussioner och egna analyser av allt och lite till, gör en lätt…
Review of Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction,
My review of the tremendously exciting collection of translated South Korean science fiction: Readymade Bodhisattva. It’s the first of its kind in English, and serves as a tremendous…
Det manglende engasjementet for den ‘smarte byen’, og hvorfor det bør bekymre deg
Innsamling av store datamengder blir stadig enklere, og mulighetene som åpnes opp av dette begynner å gjøre seg gjeldende i byutvikling. I såkalte ‘smarte byer’ ønsker man å…
Witnessing Puerto Rico, Recognition, and Feeling in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
As the plane descended to land in San Juan’s Airport in August 2018, almost a year after Hurricane Maria jolted Puerto Ricans on the island and elsewhere, I…
Futures at AAACASCA 2019
The American Anthropological Association/ Canadian Anthropological Society meeting in Vancouver is in November, but the browsable schedule is already out. As in previous years, I have identified…
På bærtur i Skandinavia – del tre
Dei fleste bæra me bruker, veks på lyng eller små plantar som døyr i laupet av eitt eller to år, men der finst òg ein del bær som…
Grégoire Mallard, “Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay “The Gift” in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions…
Gamla mynt i byggnader
Nu och då får man höra att någon har hittat ett eller flera mynt gömda i en gammal byggnad. Mynten kommer ofta fram under renovering eller när byggnaden…
Optics and Fluidity: Evading Surveillance in Hong Kong
請點此閱讀中文版 Eyes in/on/for Hong Kong At the Hong Kong airport, thousands of protesters line the arrivals hall. Creating a corridor for passengers to walk through, they stand silently,…
Climate Propaganda for Corporate Profit: Bell Canada
Strategically timed to appear immediately after a heady week of international climate emergency marches, including large ones in Canada, and after the same week in which Greta Thunberg…
CFP for the Best Annual Food Studies Conference in North America
Note: This is the call for papers for the best annual interdisciplinary food studies conference in North America. You can meet leading food scholars, have great discussions, probably…
Go read my new encyclopedia article on mining!
I’m very happy to announce that my new entry on ‘mining’ is now available on the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. I worked pretty hard on this piece so……
Lecture/Seminar: Ethnography and Digital Media 2019
In this lecture/seminar at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, we discuss how ethnography contributes to the exploration, description and understanding of digitally mediated processes…
ISSH2019
The day approaches, (click on the page to see the text properly):
Neuer Vorstand der DGSKA gewählt
Am 1. Oktober 2019 wurde auf der Mitgliederversammlung der DGSKA in Konstanz ein neuer Vorstand gewählt. Neue Vorsitzende ist Dorle Dracklé. Stellvertretende Vorsitzende ist Michi Knecht. Frank Müller…
Notes on a Postcard
The exhibition The World Exists To Be Put on A Postcard has been running at the British Museum throughout the summer. It is an apt location for any…
Forschen für den Plastikwürfel. In illiberalen Staaten entsteht gegenwärtig eine wissenschaftliche Scheinwelt
In einigen Ländern bildet sich zurzeit eine vom Staat geförderte Pseudowissenschaft, in der nicht mehr die Kriterien akademischer Qualitätskontrolle gelten, sondern politische Loyalität. Das wirft ern…
Science for a Plastic Cube. Polypore Academia redefining the Rules of Science
Hungary is currently witnessing the emergence of a state-sponsored scientific pseudo-world in which the criteria of academic quality control no longer apply, but rather political loyalty. This raises…