Links & Contents I Liked 311
Hi all, This week’s review is a bit shorter-but I’m really pleased that it’s packed with great content written by women & featuring women plus a lot of…
Catherine Alexander: Indeterminate classifications
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1174/Catherine.mp3 Catherine Alexander gave a talk in our visiting seminar on 23rd November 2018 titled “I…
CFP: Mediations of Food: Identity, Power, and Contemporary Global Imaginaries
Call for Papers 2019: Volume 11, Issue 1 Mediations of Food: Identity, Power, and Contemporary Global Imaginaries The Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition Guest Editor: Dr. Tina…
What Does Diversity and Inclusion Mean?
We need an emic approach to creating more inclusive departments. In December 2018, I called the founder of a diversity management organization to ask about a meeting where…
Über Verbrecher und ihre Nationalitäten
Der Kommentar erschien am 6. 2. 2019 in der Wiener Zeitung. Die Ursache von Morden liegt nicht in der Herkunft der Täter, sondern in sozialen Faktoren – und…
The R-word and the G-word: On counting and accountability in the case of the Rohingya
Given the sensitivity of this issue, this article was previously published anonymously on the blog operated by the former AAA Committee for Human Rights. The author is currently writing…
The Gringo Policies and Addictions That Drove Jakelin Caal From Raxruha
Liza Grandia, Ph.D. (cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Native American Studies at University of California-Davis) is the author of Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce among t…
The Time Travelers: Ambiguous Returns
By Elaine Gan, New York University § H. G. Wells’ 1895 novel introduced us to a modernist conception of a time machine, a humanmade device that renders time…
Call for Posts: Ecological Times
Søby Brunkulslejer, Danmark. Photo by Colin Hoag for the Brown Coal Research Team (AURA: Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene). Ecological processes unfold in unstable coordination. The phen…
Highly-Skilled but Unemployed: The Absence of Expat Wives from the Labor Market
“Highly-skilled migration” in the Netherlands is a largely male affair. This is especially true for Indians who make up the largest group of “highly-skilled” migrants to the country.…
Highly-Skilled but Unemployed: The Absence of Expat Wives from the Labor Market
“Highly-skilled migration” in the Netherlands is a largely male affair. This is especially true for Indians who make up the largest group of “highly-skilled” migrants to the country.…
Nytt och gammalt i bröllopstraditioner
I början av året fick jag en förfrågan från en redaktör på Vasabladet om hur bröllopstraditioner har förändrats; om det finns element som varit oföränderliga och vad som…
A response to Max Roser: how not to measure global poverty
Max Roser and Joe Hasell have written a post defending the methodology behind their long-term poverty graph. It is not addressed to me, but it was written…
Mentoring and advising in higher education: survey
An anthropology colleague of mine, Robert Connolly, created a brief survey to explore how former students perceive the advising they received … More
The Social Life of Robots, pt 1: Spoiler Alert
In the pop culture imagination, perceptions of robots and AI occupy a space of mystery and intrigue that gravitates between harbingers of impending societal collapse and bringers of…
The Social Life of Robots, pt 1: Spoiler Alert
In the pop culture imagination, perceptions of robots and AI occupy a space of mystery and intrigue that gravitates between harbingers of impending societal collapse and bringers of…
Where Do “New” Languages Come From?
As part of the Enduring Voices project, Abamu Degio (left) listens to a recording of herself singing a traditional Koro song, with linguist David Harrison (right). Jeremy Fahringer,…
Against Intervention in Venezuela: The Case of the Caribbean Community
As discussed in the previous article, the membership of the Organization of American States is in fact not at all united around support for foreign intervention and recognition…
How Development Projects Persist (book review)
Erin Beck’s ethnography of two Guatemalan micro-finance non-governmental organisations in the context of local development dynamics and global discourses of aid is a valuable contribution to the aidno…
XV. Jahrestagung Illegalität
„Soziale Rechte – Hürden zwischen Anspruch und Umsetzung“ Vom 14. bis 15. März findet in der Katholischen Akademie in Berlin die XV. Jahrestagung Illegalität „Soziale Rechte – Hürden…
Saami rights lecture, Rovaniemi
Our colleague Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi will give a lecture this Friday at 13.15 at the University of Lapland main building, with a title that would sound in english something…
On Responsibility (and Laziness) by Anne E. Pfister
I am a cultural anthropologist who conducts research with deaf children and their families in Mexico City. Echarle ganas is a Mexican colloquial expression that roughly translates to…
Forecasting Earth Futures
This is the second in a series of posts by scholars who attended the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne, an event hosted in September by Deakin University as part of…
7. Februar / Rundgang im Institut für Kunstpädagogik
Das alte Gebäude des Instituts für Kunstpädagogik in der Sophienstraße erlebt einen seiner letzten Rundgänge. Seit dem Spatenstich für den Neubau des FB 09 Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften auf…