In Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that speculative fiction offers a rich vein to theorise catastrophe and crisis in ways t…
Starting already in the early 1980s, Prof. Em. Alan Macfarlane of Cambridge University has produced a great number of interviews with thinkers and theorists in anthropology, history, philosophy…
Do the efforts to avoid meaningful action among young Nihilists in an undisclosed location make sense in a time where everything seems to be saturated with purpose? Does…
NAME: Johanna Konstanze Schneider-Ludorff BERUF: Gruppenleiterin eines Teams von Sozialarbeiter_innen in der Betreuung und sozialen Beratung von Geflüchteten für eine hessische Kreisverwaltung. STUDIE…
Wise, Tim (2019) Eating Tomorrow. Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food. New York: The New Press. ISBN 9781620974223 Ellen Messer, Ph.D. (Tufts University…
This Somatosphere forum features essays written in the wake of a debate held at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom…
It’s the end of another academic year and time for a break. We would like to thank all the writers of this last year: we appreciate your contributions!…
What is the role of students in universities? There are ongoing contentious debates and campus protests about whether graduate students should be considered employees with the right to…
Whereas the 1990s were still marked by a certain globalisation euphoria in which there removal of barriers in social processes of negotiation appeared to be achievable on a…
My latest paper published in Dialectical Anthropology. Abstract below: Human trafficking has become a key site for intervention in global politics. Although anti-trafficking claims to mobilize resourc…
For several years now, data has been a master key unlocking many doors in marketing. The days are long past when large data volumes were the…
I’m proud to announce that I’ve become one of the hosts for the New Book Network’s New Books in Anthropology podcast! In my inaugural episode, I talk with…
Interview by Winifred Tate https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo29202793.html Winifred Tate: The title, Guerrilla Marketing, evokes advertising, and in fact Amazon lists a number…
von Victoria Fischer Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin, Autorin und Journalistin Kirsten Achtelik veröffentlichte 2015 das Buch „Selbstbestimmte Norm. Feminismus, Pränataldiagnostik, Abtreibung“ als Teil ei…
A Twitter essay by Matto Mildenberger (@mmildenberger) Something I’ve been meaning to say about The Tragedy of the Commons. Bear with me for a small thread on…
As my first guest, I’d would like to introduce Susan Brownell, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri – St Louis, one of the authors of The…
Chika Watanabe’s Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar (University of Hawaii Press, 2019) is a rich ethnographic study of the work of…
Gjesteinnlegg av Mari Løken. Hun leverte nylig sin masteroppgave i samfunnsgeografi «‘De har jo krevd sin plass og tatt den’ – En studie av byøkologisk bolig- og byutvikling…
Charlie Cutter, a student of Chemawa Indian school from about 1898 to 1902 was a noted baritone singer. Cutter was born in Shaken Alaska in1880 and had a…
Reflections on Race, Poverty and Violence in Orange, New Jersey It’s a muggy mid-June Saturday afternoon. A large inflatable moonwalk occupies the asphalt, and kids line up for…
As an ethnographer of porn, I entered the field with some hard limits and never crossed them. I never ended up doing anything I regretted, but the pressure…
Seit der wirtschaftlichen Öffnung des Landes war es chic, Produkten und Orten ausländisch klingende Namen zu geben. Damit soll jetzt Schluss sein, denn Präsident Xi Jinping fordert eine…
Der “Fall Relotius” wird gerade zu den Akten gelegt. Die Diskussion um das Storytelling im Journalismus ist aber noch nicht abgeschlossen. Und wo findet man den besten Kommentar…