Can there be a political science of the Holocaust? Evgeny Finkel, in his new book Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust(Princeton University Press, 2017), answers Charles…
Prior to the UNFCCC COP23 climate change conference held in Bonn, Germany in November 2017 (and hosted by Fiji as COP23 Presidency), new research from Australian ocean and…
Some books reviewed by Pablo Bose (and for me, good company in which to be): From The Journal of Asian Studies, 78(03), 691–696. doi:10.1017/s0021911819000937 ….
[no-caption] Complot/Shutterstock This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. In a manifesto posted online shortly before he…
A view of Indigenous Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau land in the Brazilian state of Rondônia being burned on Sept. 24, 2016. Photo: Gabriel Uchida. https://theintercept.com/2019/07/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-indigen…
As the presenter encouraged the academics in the room to consider what it means for nanotechnology to sell itself as ‘magic’, boots appeared outside the window behind him.…
Figuring a Grotesque Norm 1954 Homunculus: Penfield Archives, Osler Library of the History of Medicine This hand drawn illustration rendered in black ink shows two mirror image outlines…
Shortly after the conclusion of the Women’s World Cup earlier this summer, a friend suggested to me that it signaled the long-awaited arrival of soccer as a mainstream…
William Elison‘s The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai(University of Chicago Press, 2018) explores how slum residents, tribal people, and members…
The sixth most popular post on this website is a small item called “Coconut Rattles in Florida and Oklahoma.” I have no idea why this should be true…
Brazil is the second-largest producer of soybeans globally. Diego Giudice/Getty Images On the outskirts of the town of Luís Eduardo Magalhães, Brazil’s capital of agribusiness in the west…
Vodka-tonic. Take my picture. Charge my phone. Vodka-tonic. Take my picture. Charge my phone. This (or a similar sequence) is an irritatingly common refrain heard by many waitstaff…
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo–interviews Dr. Belinda Stillion Southard…
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation By Juno Salazar Parreñas, The Ohio State University 288pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag spoke with…
Interview by Laura Siragusa https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9781496208880/ Laura Siragusa: In your rich ethnography about language practices in the Sakha Republic, Russ…
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers University of Chicago Press, 2018. 416 pages. 1.…
Am 5. und 6. Juli 2019 fand an der Universität Passau die sozialwissenschaftliche Fachtagung „Rituale der Transformation. Zur Kultur der Bestattung in der individualisierten Moderne“ statt. Sie wurde…
This episode is the first in a new series, New Books in Interpretive Social Science, which will feature works on interpretive research design and practice alongside recently published…
På Aura å:s södra sida, nära Dombron, syns en stor grupp människor. Alla svartklädda. De står i dubbel linje längs med ån. I händerna vita rosor. ”Soldiers of…
“Migration issues in Europe are a hot topic right now – it’s not news that they have been used in the last 50 years as a way to…
Reading the future is hard. It takes sharp eyes. It takes lively imaginations. It takes smart models. (There is a “good head on your shoulders” joke to be…
Der kürzlich verstorbene Philosoph Michael Serres verfasste in seinen letzten Lebensjahren eine Reihe von heiteren Streitschriften. Darunter eine, die das Nörgeln an der Gegenwart und die Verklärung d…
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Saira Mehmood. She will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Spelman College in the 2019-2020 academic year.…
Na een afspraak elders in Den Haag (dank voor de koffie en de soep!) loop ik vrijdagmiddag 9 augustus naar de Hofplaats, nabij het Binnenhof in Den Haag.…