Cross-Border (book review)
I was looking for a way to introduce J.’s latest aid worker novel Cross-Border without sounding like a middle-aged academic, but it is hard to avoid some tropes…
Opening Up the University: Teaching and Learning with Refugees
What principles might guide education programmes for refugees? How can a collection of texts inspire individuals, groups or institutions to start programmes (or to do them better)? How…
Open Call UrbanA: Share Projects on Sustainable & Just Cities!
This is an open call to all city-makers to share projects that address issues of (un)sustainability and (in)justice in cities. Are you a policy-maker, activist, entrepreneur, intellectual, citizen…
Why massacres happen and how to stop them
[written as an anthropological response to the New Zealand massacre of March 2019. I was in the field, doing ethnographies.] I’ve spent the last month out of the…
New Book from Ingrid Stefanovic – The Wonder of Water: Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice
This is a great looking new title edited by Ingrid Stefanovic here with the University of Toronto Press. Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly…
Meet nitrous oxide: the fun drug that, because of prohibition, is terrible for the environment
The War on Drugs is an expensive, harmful disaster. It’s the most destructive and racist set of policies that exist in the modern era. But! Did you know that…
Hawthrone effect: first contacts between anthropology and business
Between 1924 and 1932 members of the School of Human Relations conducted research to evaluate the impact of changes in working conditions on the productivity of workers. The…
Grønland som et androsentrisk byrom
Gjesteinnlegg fra Lars Kristian Stramrud, som høsten 2018 hadde studentplass ved NIBR. Stramrud leverte nylig sin masteroppgave om muslimske kvinners bruk av offentlig rom på Grønland ved NMBU,…
James L. A. Webb, “The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million Africans every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa. In The…
Tricia Bruce, “Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church” (Oxford UP, 2017)
What does a typical American Catholic parish look like? Tricia Bruce, an affiliate of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion and Society, argues…
Tricia Bruce, “Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church” (Oxford UP, 2017)
What does a typical American Catholic parish look like? Tricia Bruce, an affiliate of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion and Society, argues…
James L. A. Webb, “The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million Africans every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa. In The…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: 6-week Reflections
**We are thrilled to have completed our 6-week, 6-item ‘fashion fast’ and have raised more than £600 for the labour rights NGO, Labour Behind the Label. If you would like…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: Week 6
**We are thrilled to have completed our 6-week, 6-item ‘fashion fast’ and have raised more than £600 for the labour rights NGO, Labour Behind the Label. If you would like…
Har du sesjonsforslag til OsloMets storbykonferanse?
Hvordan kan byer være arenaer for transformative endringer? Hvordan forstår vi spenninger og populisme i by? Og hvem er det egentlig plass til i den fortettede byen? 30.…
Thinking of leaving academia? Sign up for this webinar from Beth Duckles, PhD
My friend and colleague Beth Duckles, PhD, is hosting a 1-hour webinar on April 30th entitled Why it’s So Hard … More
Jennifer Robertson on her new book, Robo sapiens japanicus
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520283206/robo-sapiens-japanicus Interview by Daniel White Daniel White: In addition to the variety of topics you have explored in Japan over your career, you have be…
Ein Zeugnis für den Lehrer, das mehr über den Schüler aussagt. Eine Rezension zu Franz Schultheis’ “Unternehmen Bourdieu”. Verfasst von Christopher Wimmer
So oder so ist das Ende eines Schuljahres aufregend für die Schüler*innen, denn die Lehrkräfte verteilen die Zeugnisse. Die einen freuen sich darauf, da sie wissen, gute Noten…
“Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today” on Sunday 5 May in Oslo
The publication of the game-changing edited book “Ethnic Groups and Boundaries” took place fifty years ago. A new book edited by…
“Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today” on Sunday 5 May in Oslo
The publication of the game-changing edited book “Ethnic Groups and Boundaries” took place fifty years ago. A new book edited by…
CFP: Quilt and Textile Studies for Uncoverings 2020
Mathers Museum of World Cultures Research Associate Janice Frisch, who is editor of Uncoverings, shares the following call for papers. Call for Papers Quilt and Textile Studies Uncoverings…
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize 2019
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send papers centering on the analysis…
El origen del trabajador precario y las personas tóxicas: la empresa mundo.
“La vida y el trabajo no se concilian, se integran. No trabajas para, sino que colaboras con; no te despiden, te desconectan; no te controlan, te valoran.” “Alguien…
Scholarly Stretching and Meta-Ethnography in the Medico-Legal Borderlands by Laura Bisaillon
We met some years back at a scholarly conference where we were both presenting papers on a common theme: health care in the service of the law. We…