Sex Sells: Female Athletes’ Use of Instagram
by Lucy Shepherd We have all seen it, female athletes being used as sex objects to sell products, pictured on billboards in bikinis or sports bras, posed in…
Inxeba – Homosexualität, Männlichkeit und Ritual in Südafrika
Homophobie in afrikanischen Gesellschaften wird zumeist als Überrest unaufgeklärter Zeiten verstanden, eine Abwehr von Toleranz und Modernität. Auch der Film Inxeba wurde im Namen der Tradition angegr…
Portending the Posthuman on YouTube
During this most spooky time of year, it is apropos to explore our transmogrification into posthumanity—a concept that instills fear in the hearts of many scholars, including many…
Public lecture of Esra Özyürek ‘Rethinking empathy: Emotions triggered by the Holocaust among the Muslim-minority in Germany’
On Wednesday evening 13 November 2019 prof. dr. Esra Özyurek (London School of Economics and Political Science) will deliver a lecture: ‘Rethinking empathy: Emotions triggered by the Holocaust…
Gary J. Adler, Jr., “Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement (Cambridge University Press,…
Space, Futures, Tech at “Changing Climates” — AAA/CASCA 2019
Space, Futures, Tech at “Changing Climates” — AAA/CASCA 2019 A list of space, futures, and tech related papers, panels, and roundtables, at the joint meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society…
#MDGComics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! #8
In Section 8, Linguistic Interpretation (or lost in MDGs translation), the role of language is explored. Will Omar understand Mzungus better if he improves his fluency in Acronymia? How do…
Archiving for the Anthropocene: Notes from the Field Campus
On a chilly Sunday afternoon in March, our Field Campus group walked through downtown Granite City, Illinois. Located just 6 miles north of St. Louis, the downtown was…
Haiti’s Blackouts Are Both Electrical and Emotional
On September 25, a girl in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, watches as protesters denounce fuel shortages and demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse. Chandan Khanna/Getty Images For the …
Bybildet er i endring, men henger byene med?
av Jan-Tore Berghei, seniorrådgiver, NIBR, OsloMet; Marit Ekne Ruud, forsker, NIBR, OsloMet og Ragnhild Skogheim, forsker, NIBR, OsloMet. Kronikken ble først publisert i Aftenpostens Viten-spalte tirs…
Future Arctic Ecosystems revisited or reindeer herding at the verge of extinction?
30 Oct, 14:00, Rovaniemi, Arktikum, 2nd floor, coffee room. The world’s northernmost herding horses? at work in herding reindeer, Kharaulakh, Laptev Sea In this Wednesday Afternoon Coffee Chat…
Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson on her dissertation
My dissertation, titled “Language Use and Global Media Circulation Among Argentine Fans of English-Language Mass Media”, explores the links between globalization, media/pop culture, and language throu…
Dating im digitalen Zeitalter: Die Netflix-Serie Osmosis verspricht einen dystopischen Fluchtpunkt aus der Unbeständigkeit postmoderner Beziehungsverhältnisse
Von Mathias Beschorner Der ewige Glaube der Verliebten und der Dichter an die Macht der Liebe, die dauerhafter sei als der Tod, jenes ‘finis vitae sed non amoris’,…
The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
#Review: Shooting a Revolution
Shooting a Revolution is a smart polyseme that Donatella Della Ratta uses to describe the grim reality of Syria: one shoots to kill and one shoots to film.…
Ignoring Tribal History in a Contemporary Exhibit
On 10/26, 2019 I visited the Open house at the Oregon State Archives, Salem, OR, and was supremely disappointed at their new exhibit Rust Rot Ruin. which documents…
Ep #49: Intolerable Ads, Introvert Anthros, Irrevocable Ties & Indigenous Symbols: This Month on TFS
This month, Kylie [0:50] kicks off our conversation by reflecting on our blog about racism in sport and asks us about the ethics of ad targeting on social…
Introduction to Darknet Markets and How to Stay Anonymous
How to Stay Anonymous when Using a Darknet Market The darknet markets are a good place to buy and sell products anonymously. However, while they can help you…
Das Schweigen der Passagiere. Wolfgang Schivelbuschs „Geschichte der Eisenbahnreise“ neu gelesen
Die Eisenbahn veränderte die Wahrnehmung von Raum und Zeit im 19. Jahrhundert radikal. Mit dem „industrialisierten“ Reisen verschwand die naturgebundene Vormoderne. Schivelbusch zeigte die Eisenbahn a…
Closing Keynote: Amplify. Not Optimize.
In the closing keynote of @designopssummit, @daveixd shares his perspectives on the evolution of DesignOps, and the role we all need to play in amplifying the right things…
Learning over Outcomes
In this @designopssummit presentation, @heyBFal shares some of the ways that Google uses principles from Montessori to encourage a learning culture.
Leading Through Change
In this @designopssummit presentation, @purvidesign shares some of her learnings from driving centralization of and lasting change for design at Visa.
Design is Not the Frosting on the Scaled Agile Layer Cake
In this @designopssummit presentation, @erinhauber shows us how she made the most of her org’s transition to SAFe, carving out room for design in spite of it’s almost…
Setting the Table for Dynamic Change
In this interactive @designopssummit presentation, we hear from @alisonrand @FreyJacqui about how an understanding of Change Management can help us be more effective as a DesignOps leader.