SciCom: The Slippery Business of STEM Promotion
“One thing is certain: When something is scientifically complex, it’s harder to understand and to communicate” (sciencebranding.com). Regardless of its accuracy, this is a commonly repeated sentiment …
The Surprising Connections between Climate Finance, Sacrifice and the Spirit of Capitalism
In this episode, Adam and Aneil reflect on Aneil’s fieldwork in climate finance. Climate finance is an area of finance focused on mobilizing investment for climate change solutions,…
The Surprising Connections between Climate Finance, Sacrifice and the Spirit of Capitalism
In this episode, Adam and Aneil reflect on Aneil’s fieldwork in climate finance. Climate finance is an area of finance focused on mobilizing investment for climate change solutions,…
A Postcolonial Civic? Shi‘i Philanthropy and the Making and Marking of Urban Space in Mumbai #MUHUM
Scholarly discussions of charity, philanthropy and humanitarianism in varied contexts tend to uphold the moral ideal of giving for the sake of humanity at large or the common…
Jessica Chandras takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation, titled Multilingual Practices, Education, and Identity in Pune, India, is a first attempt at bringing readers into an ethnographically informed composite sketch…
Gastronomica: 19.2 and the Launch of a New Editorial Collective
University of California Press is proud to announce that Gastronomica, a leading food studies journal, has just published the first issue under new leadership – an editorial collective…
“Waarom dan?” Energieprofessional Elbert Huijzer analyseert antropologen
Door Elbert Huijzer Toen mijn kinderen nog klein waren, werden geregeld de wat- en waarom-vragen gesteld. Papa, wat is dat? Papa, waarom is dat zo? Als ik het…
Diana Pasulka, “American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology” (Oxford UP, 2019)
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in…
Diana Pasulka, “American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology” (Oxford UP, 2019)
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in…
The Egyptian Red Crescent in the Twentieth Century #MUHUM
The Egyptian Red Crescent was founded in 1912 by Sheikh Ali Yussuf with a clear Panislamic and anticolonial agenda. In the following decades, however, the organization turned more…
Is anti-trafficking dead?
I will attempt to answer this question at ANU’s Migration and Social-Cultural Change Workshop. For further details about the event can be found here. Abstract of my talk…
Summer Cycling at Minto-Brown Island Park
This summer, I have been returning to mountain biking in the local park, Minto-Brown Island park. I used to mountain bike a lot, when I lived in California.…
Accumulation by media saturation
Palapa-lined beach on the East Cape of BCS, Mexico. Photo: Ryan Anderson, 2012. Recently, I was at the doctor’s office (I’m fine, thanks) and I started sifting through…
Ep. #41: Mediocrity, Confusing Cake, Public Accountability & Gift Reciprocity: This month on TFS
Simon (0:48) kicks off this panel by asking us about mediocrity. He reflects on his fieldwork in Iran, where he observed – particularly in the education sphere –…
Om att klä ned sig när man ska köpa dyra kläder
Det hela började som något av ett dåligt omdöme från min sida. Först hade jag ont om rena tröjor så det fick bli en av de som jag…
Exorzismus per E-Mail. Ungarns Angriff auf die Geschlechterforschung ist ein Angriff auf die freie Gesellschaft.
Eine renommierte Historikerin erhält eine Todesdrohung per E-Mail, die Behörden schauen weg. Es ist kein Einzelfall – und wirft ein grelles Licht auf den Illiberalismus, der die ungarische…
Warum Unpolitischsein nicht “neutral” ist
“Ich beschäftige mich nicht mehr mit Politik”, sagte sie. “Das hat mir nicht gut getan. Immer diese negativen Nachrichten. Da wurde ich richtig depressiv”. Wenn müsse man sich…
Vom Wirsing in der Frankfurter Küche
Der altmodische Wirsing und die moderne Frankfurter Küche in einer Karrikatur von Martha Bertina aus dem Jahr 1930. Titel: „Modernes Gemüse“ Das naturbelassene Gemüse ist zu unkontrollier…
Review/Interview: Food and Animal Welfare
Food and Animal Welfare Henry Buller and Emma Roe. Contemporary Food Series, Bloomsbury Academic, London. 2018. ISBN 9780857855787 Sharyn Jones (Northern Kentucky University) Most people in Western…
Summer Break 2019 + Links & Contents I Liked 332
Hi all, Following my first blogging summer break last year, Aidnography will take a break until about mid-August again. My final post consists of two part, first some…
Summer Break 2019 + Links & Contents I Liked 332
Hi all, Following my first blogging summer break last year, Aidnography will take a break until about mid-August again. My final post consists of two part, first some…
Saudi Arabia, Humanitarian Aid and Knowledge Production: What do we really know? #MUHUM
Saudi Arabia has one of the largest humanitarian aid budgets in the world. It counts as an ‘emerging’ donor of substantial influence in one of the world’s most…
Religious extremism: vulnerability and resistance among Indonesian migrant workers in Asia
By Yudha Dewanto After turning 16, never having stepped a foot outside of her province, Katri pushed herself to go to Malaysia. Seeking a solution to family problems,…
George Washington’s Letter to the Jews
I recently returned from a trip to New England to visit the affines. While there, my children received a gift from one of the aunts — a printed…