Hodeidah is being attacked, but the Western media is silent
By Marina de Regt. “Hodeidah is empty, Marina, there is no one there anymore”, says Noura to me this morning, in a short telephone conversation that is repeatedly…
Joanna Radin, “Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Whether through the anxiety of mutually assured destruction or the promise of decolonization throughout Asia and Africa, Cold War politics had a peculiar temporality. In Life on Ice:…
scamming journalographica (trinketization at large)
Was helping a colleague find a place for a journal article. I thought a one day turnaround was rapid – its unlikely the article was read, only the…
Traum vom idealen Staat – Der Utopia erster Post
Wie kann eine bessere Welt aussehen? Visionen geben Hoffnung, Visionen beflügeln! In einer Zeit voller Armut, Ausbeutung und Katastrophen hat es einer gewagt zu skizzieren, dass eine andere…
Chimpanzees Can’t Tell Us Much About Being Human
Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee? Can we learn something useful about gender-based violence among humans by studying other primates? Can observing chimpanzees…
Cheese, Tamales and Beans
Blog editors’ note: This is the summer edition of the Latinx Foodways in North America series, which looks at different approaches scholars use to analyze foods and food…
In the Journals, June 2018 (Part I of II) by Melanie Boeckmann
Lots and lots to read this month, starting with an article by our In the Journals contributor Julia Kowalski in Political and Legal Anthropology Review: Bureaucratizing Sensitivity: Documents and…
Gordon Mathews, “The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
When we think of globalization and global cities, we might be inclined to think of New York or London. Yet in recent years, Guangzhou, the central manufacturing node…
Fair. Solidarisch! Utopisch? – Interview mit Dr. Lars Winterberg
http://alltagswelten-blog.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/lars_winterberg_interview.mp3 Lea Hennrich spricht mit Dr. Lars Winterberg über kulturwissenschaftliche …
The Delicate Regress
This text by the poet Bassem Mohamed Abu Gweily whom I’m happy to call a friend, strikes me as exemplary of some new spiritual developments in Egypt after…
The Delicate Regress
This text by the poet Bassem Mohamed Abu Gweily whom I’m happy to call a friend, strikes me as exemplary of some new spiritual developments in Egypt after…
Respect, care, and labor in collaborative scholarly projects by Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
As members of Somatosphere’s Editorial Collaborative, we have been following the unfolding crisis surrounding Hau with profound concern (Agro 2018, Flaherty 2018). As others have noted, this crisis…
anthro in the news 7/2/18
A collective wedding party organized by Al Afaf, a charitable organization. Credit: Al Afaf/The Jordan Times marriage crisis in Jordan The Jordan Times reported on the several challenges…
Old Beardo
“Marx möchte sich seiner selbst vergewissern – und fasst einen seltsamen Entschluss. Am 28. April 1882, nachmittags um 16 Uhr, betritt er das Geschäft des Fotografen und Barbiers…
The Trade War is Here: Some of the New “Facts of Life”
In Madeleine Albright’s new book, dramatically titled Fascism: A Warning, she slams the anti-globalization crowd, claiming yet again that globalization is here to stay—it’s a “fact of life…
Book Review: Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump by Kathleen M. Millar
In Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump, Kathleen M. Millar offers a new ethnographic study of Jardim Gramacho, the biggest waste dump in Latin America until its…
Geocolonialism and the War in Yemen
In April Secretary-General António Guterres called the situation in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. After more than three years of a lopsided war between a Western-supported Saudi/Emirat…
Llerena Searle on her new book, Landscapes of Accumulation
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo24117771.html Interview by Liza Youngling Liza Youngling: In Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporar…
Book Review: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
In Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks outlines the life-and-death impacts of automated decision-making on public services in the USA throu…
Was wurde auf dem EU-Gipfel erreicht, und was bedeutet es für den Asylstreit?
Keine Verständigung bei den einander widersprechenden Positionen zur internen Verantwortungsübernahme; volle Konzentration auf die „Sicherung“ der Außengrenzen und auf Externalisierungsbemühungen; kei…
#Review: Living by the gun
Outside observers have often interpreted Chad’s long history with rebellion as reflective of internal chaos and questionable moralities. Marielle Debos nuances these superficial understandings with ri…
10 Jahre PASS: „Wir werden von unseren Anrufern immer wieder aufs Neue überrascht“
Interview mit Sabine Fleger (Telefonhotline-Betreuerin) Vor zehn Jahren wurde die Studie „Lebensqualität und soziale Sicherung“, auch bekannt unter der Abkürzung PASS – Panel „Arbeitsmarkt und soziale…
Web Roundup: Abortion Access by Whitney Arey
This month, and especially this past week, has seen immense media coverage of abortion access, both in the United States and abroad. A recent study out of UCSF has…
The Struggle for Power by Keith Hart
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World by Ruchir Sharma, London: Allen Lane, 2016; pp 464, £25. Ruchir…