Messer’s Postings
Ellen Messer, Ph.D. (Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Boston, MA) What’s new in food and nutrition research and policy in the world, the US,…
Case Closed: You Can’t Make a Knife Out of Frozen Poop
Researchers tested the cutting potential of knife-shaped frozen human feces. Michelle R. Bebber In what might constitute the year’s strangest salvo against the scourge of “fake news,” ant…
Empowering Women: Zwischen entwicklungspolitischer Zusammenarbeit und postkolonialem Feminismus
Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Konzeption von Women’s Empowerment der United Nations (UN) aus postkolonial feminisitischer Perspektive von Stella Köchling. Das Konzept des Women…
Small Data Versus Big Data — Ethnographic Tactics and Algorithms as Culture
Photo by @bechir Small Data Versus Big Data — Ethnographic Tactics and Algorithms as Culture Why does data have to be so big and what would small data look like in relation…
Happy Hispanic
Today, in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15), we bring you a compilation of some of our favorite past posts from the Spanish-speaking world. Happy…
Leo Hopkinson takes the page 99 test
A match is arranged between two boxers as part of the funeral celebrations of a prominent boxing coach in central Accra, Ghana. On arriving at the venue and…
Rezension zu Bewegungskompetenz. Sportklettern – zwischen (geschlechtlichem) Können, Wollen und Dürfen von Babette Kirchner – verfasst von Eva Kehrstephan
Das breit gefächerte Spektrum der Soziologie findet in so gut wie in jedem Bereich im Leben statt, sei es Kunst, Interaktion, Medien, Klassen, selbst im Kochen etc. Auch…
Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom #Interview
The topic of sex trafficking captured the imagination of the public for already a few decades. Despite the definition of trafficking being rather blurry, fighting against trafficking is frequently…
Alex Rosenblat, “Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work” (California UP, 2018)
What does uber tell us about work, labor management, and mobility in the post-financial crisis world? Uber’s success has been tied to its cultural resonance and on its…
‘We’re Not Allowed to be Girls!’ Resisting Gender-Neutral Uniform
by Anne-Meike Fechter For those unfamiliar with the issue, the news that a group of parents and pupils at an East Sussex secondary school staged a protest on…
Erroneous Tropes in Narratives of Removal to the Coast Indian Reservation
Digging through previously collected digitized documents, I found several accounts of removal of the tribes to the Siletz Reservation. These are worthy of commentary for the historical origins…
Ep #46 Reconfigurable: Elanor Huntington talks engineering, anthropology, & how we’re making our world
“Not only do we need engineers working alongside anthropologists to do good quality engineering, I also think that we need to do an anthropology of engineers… Engineers are…
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition.
via Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition. Available from Aakar Books Here. Rest of the world here (bloomsbury paperback in November) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-8949 Just becaus…
Handbuch Integration
Nachschlagewerk mit Beiträgen von RfM-Mitgliedern Autor*innen: u.a. Prof. Dr. Ursula Birsl, Prof. Dr. J. Olaf Kleist und Prof. Dr. Albert Scherr Integration und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt sind …
Die unsichtbare Ruine des Kalten Kriegs: Die „Mauer in den Köpfen“ 30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall
Als mentale Ruine des Kalten Kriegs geistert die „Mauer in den Köpfen“ noch immer durch die politische Kultur Deutschlands. Warum? Weil sie aktiv am Leben gehalten wird. Über…
The War Widow: Marginal – Unruly – Iconic
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Women who lost their husbands during the Kosovo War were perceived to be hovering in a liminal space. They could neither be treated as married women nor…
Graue Haare? Na und?!
Neulich trödelte ich vor dem Zubettgehen wieder einmal im Bad herum, mein Partner tigerte bereits vor der Tür auf und ab, meine Katze miaute vorwurfsvoll und trotzdem putzte…
Are Mixed-Income Neighborhoods the Best Answer for Public Housing?
The Plan for Transformation brought new mixed-income developments to Chicago, such as those shown here, as a novel solution to public housing. Elizabeth Svoboda When Juanita Stevenson mov…
Indigenous Survival Politics in the Promotion of a National Discourse
In January 2018, 10 members from an Ainu traditional performance group, Sapporo Upopo Hozonkai (Sapporo Upopo Preservation Society, hereafter SUH), traveled from Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido…
Links & Contents I Liked 337
Hi all, A busy week with lost of enjoyable teaching on historical aspects of #globaldev is wrapping up & I’m glad to sit down and gather some good…
‘Rescuing’ food: Dumpster Diving as Political Activism
It is already dark, past 10 pm, and Dora, Emil and I are riding our bikes to the backyards of local supermarkets in a little town near Munich;…
Rapping Blackness
As a biracial man, there’s something visceral about being in a room full of black people of all shades, from across the United States—all of whom have dressed…
Neanderthal Bones: Signs of Their Sex Lives
In a cave tucked into the limestone hills of the Asturias region of Spain, there lie the remains of a group of 13 Neanderthals that date to between…