Reading Shaligrams
The book is nearly complete! It’s been a long road but I will be turning in the revised and completed manuscript to my publisher in just a few…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: Week 2
by Amelia Yates **Read about the first week of our ‘fashion fast’ here. If you can, please donate to our efforts to raise money for the labour rights charity Labour Behind the…
Amazonia and the Ontological Turn: A Dialogue
In July 2017, I visited Manaus to work on a new collaboration with researchers in the Sociology Department at the Federal University of Amazonas State (UFAM) and I…
Academic Neocolonialism: Clickbait and the Perils of Commercial Publishing
My colleagues Lisa Ann Richey, David Simon, Ilan Kapoor & Stefano Ponte with a timely guest post as the International Studies Association’s (#ISA2019) annual meeting kicks off in…
Making, Holding, and Guarding as Spatial Politics of Healing
“I wouldn’t want anyone to get attached to a space. But if, for the sake of an example, there is going to be a space, then it needs…
Academic Neocolonialism: Clickbait and the Perils of Commercial Publishing
My colleagues Lisa Ann Richey, David Simon, Ilan Kapoor & Stefano Ponte with a timely guest post as the International Studies Association’s (#ISA2019) annual meeting kicks off in…
How to guides… Poppy cultivation
This amazing detailed description is from a book I had been battling to get hold of for a year or more – Amer Farooqui’s “Smuggling as Subversion” 1998:…
Dumbwaiters and Smartphones: The Responsibility of Intelligence
“I don’t have to drink alone,” she paused for comedic effect, “now that I have Alexa.” Thus was the punchline of a story told by a widowed octogenarian…
Gramps and the Gangster visit the memory clinic by Jason Danely
“Are you free tomorrow?” “Sure, what’s going on?” “It’s a big day for Gramps! I’m taking him to the doctor. I guess someone from the ward office said…
From Jute Harvests to Mall Food Courts: Fostering Discourse through Food Spaces
Sarah Fouts American Studies, UMBC Blog editors’ note: This is the spring edition of the Latinx Foodways in North America series, which looks at different approaches scholars use…
CFP: Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health Editors: Preety Gadhoke, PhD, MPH (St. John’s University), Bar…
Der lange Weg zurück…
Eine journalistische Reportage von Christine Fürst aus Graz Das Betteln auf der Wiener Mariahilferstraße verhilft dem jungen Österreicher Mario S. sein Leben langsam wieder in den Griff bekommen.…
Angie Heo on her new book, The Political Lives of Saints
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520297982/the-political-lives-of-saints Interview by Alice Yeh Alice Yeh: Talk of persecution and extinction often accompanies media coverage of Christians in the …
Lateral Solidarity by Raphaëlle Rabanes
It was the afternoon of December 31st. Dinner had been served in the bedrooms of the rehabilitation clinic, but Ms. Dats decided that hers could wait: She had…
The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Today, the 25th of March, marks the anniversary of New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers lost their lives. The fire occurred in 1911,…
CARICOM Confronts the Big House: Trump Attempts to Split the Caribbean over Venezuela
It’s a simple matter, even if one might lose oneself in the various details, names, places, and dates. The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), mostly made up…
AAA Paper Abstract: The Weight of Absence: Anthropologies of Non-Connection
(A day’s worth of geolocated instagram posts in Baltimore: August 24, 2018) The digital world presupposes a binary logic of connection and disconnection, one that decomposes into haves…
How I kicked chronic migraine (And what that has to do with anthropology)
This post is about the biopsychosocial medical model and how it relates to the treatment of chronic pain. As an anthropologist, I’m particularly interested in the social part…
Tereza Kuldova: Think before you “heart” it: NZ street gangs guarding mosques in the aftermath of terror a PR stunt
Over the past two days, my Facebook feed has been flooded with shares of articles featuring New Zealand patched street gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs—Mongrel Mob, Black Power,…
Editorial Introduction: On Horizontal Alliances, History and the Bonds of Community
By Michal Rose Friedman – Since we published our first installment of “Speaking Justice to Power: Pittsburgh Scholars respond…
Memorializing the Memorial to the Tree of Life Shooting
by Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg – Tree of Life synagogue has been my family’s shul for three generations and I am currently a Board member. I went to Hebrew…
When Scholars are Political, Human, and Shattered
By Rachel Kranson – As both a professor of Jewish history and a local organizer with Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, I had long felt myself well-positioned as…