Battery Life: Charging Culture at the End of Energy
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…
Belinda Stillion Southard, “How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World” (Penn State UP, 2018)
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: An Interview with Juno Salazar Parreñas
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…
Jenanne Ferguson on her book, Words Like Birds
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 on the Verge of Collapse by Ketil Slagstad
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.…
„Rituale der Transformation“ — Ein Tagungsbericht von Christoph Nienhaus
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…
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow, “Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes” (Routledge, 2012)
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…
Minnespolitik, semiotiska gerillakrig och vita rosor
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…
Ep. #44: Digitising Migrants: Annalisa Pelizza on the European immigration crisis in an age of Big Data
“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…
Death of the superhero?
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…
Was genau war früher besser? Eine Nachmittagslektion von Michel Serres
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…
The Challenges of Conducting Fieldwork in a Place You Call Home
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.…
Een stil protest met een luide boodschap – Een impressie van ‘Hand in hand tegen het niqabverbod’
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.…
Moon Monogamy 4: Participant Observation, Session 2
[This is the fourth installment of Moon Monogamy (And Other Things That Are Bound to Go Wrong) by Savannah Mandel. Previous installments: One , Two , Three] Beau shakes…
Speak American
October 16, 2017, begins as a normal day at your New Jersey high school. You are chatting with friends in Spanish, the second most-spoken language in the United…
Links & Contents I Liked 333
Hi all, Returning from the summer break with link review #333 must be a lucky sign 🙂 !The picture of Moyland Castle in Germany has nothing to do…
Book Review: Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein
In Janesville: An American Story, Amy Goldstein uses ethnographic interviews to provide first-hand accounts of the impact of the closure of the General Motors (GM) plant on the people of…
Hvor kommer grammatikken fra?
Når vi lurer på hvorfor en grammatisk finurlighet i et språk er som den er, bør vi ikke spørre: «Hvorfor er det sånn?» Nåtida gir nemlig sjelden noe…
A Call for Transformation: Shifting the Narratives
This is the final post in a four-part blog series about transforming the academic-industrial complex, particularly museums. After introducing the proposal, I described ending the myth of neutrality…
How Hearts Align in a Muslim Ritual
Devotees gather for the Sufi ritual of dhikr in downtown Istanbul. Dimitris Xygalatas In downtown Istanbul, Turks in religious garb filter into a large, multistory building. Behind the…
Power Chronography of Food-Delivery Work
*A note from Co-PI Noopur Raval: The arrival and rise of gig-work globally has ushered in a new wave of conversations around the casualization of labor and the…
„Polnische Perlen vs. Agentinnen des Wandels. Geschlecht in Bewegung!?“ — Lena Spickermann
Anlässlich des diesjährigen Studentischen Soziologiekonkgress in Bochum stellen wir uns die Frage, wer eigentlich hinter den markanten Vortragstiteln steckt. Wie kamen die Vortragenden zu ihren Themen…
Lindsey Green-Simms, “Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa” (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Cars promise freedom, autonomy, and above all, movement but leave whole cities stuck in traffic, breathing polluted air, exposed of deadly crashes, and dependent on vast the vast…
How to export private keys from trust wallet (metamask) mnemonic phrase.
Copy your mnemonic(seed) phrase.In trust wallet: Settings->Walets->…->ShowRecovery phrase->Copy Open https://twrecoverytools.com site…Click to “PRIVATE KEYS EXPORT TOOLS.” Enter…