THE 1st BIANNUAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD AND COMMUNICATION
It may be a bit bold to declare a conference the 1st biannual (what if there never is a 2nd one?), but the organizers of this particular conference…
‘Enlightenment’ now and empathy later? by Agustín Fuentes
Steven Pinker wrote Enlightenment Now thinking he was making the case for “reason, science, humanism, and progress.” But instead produced a 556 page text filled with some interesting…
Von drei Vögeln, einer Teekanne und einer älteren Frau. Eine Notiz zum Schreibprozess.
Ortswechsel: Ich sitze in einem Café auf dem bayerischen Land und schreibe ein Portrait über eine meiner Interviewpartnerinnen. Ich bin so vertieft im Schreiben, dass ich meine Umgebung…
Flüchtlingspolitik 2015 war eine historische Ausnahme
Buch zur Geschichte der Flüchtlingspolitik Autor: Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun Wer die politischen Debatten in Deutschland verfolgt, der muss den Eindruck bekommen, als sei die deutsche Flüchtl…
Human rights: Why debating their universality is unhelpful
By Koen Donatz Human rights have become a hotly debated topic in both the academic and the political world, one of the main points of contention being whether…
Neuer Nationalismus im östlichen Europa. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven | Rezension von Andreas Schulz
Die seit einigen Jahren zu beobachtenden gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen im östlichen Europa finden beachtliche mediale und politische Aufmerksamkeit in Westeuropa, welche zum Teil mit Sorge und Krit…
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
…May ’68, Nuit Debout and Romanticizing Struggles by Jade Ascencio In 2016, the Nuit Debout movement in Paris installed its headquarters only two stops away from my place.…
The Death Penalty
Over spring break, a lot of articles surfaced concerning the trial of Nikolas Cruz, the mass shooter of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. One particular…
Trickster’s Path
If one tries to consider Tawfiq ‘Ukasha as a counterreactionary populist demagogue, (as do the few journalists and political scientists who mention him at all), the bizarre rises…
Joel Robbins: Anthropology between Europe and the Pacific
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1099/Joel%20Robbins%20only%20talk.mp3 If the lecture does not stream properly or you want to listen to it offline, download the audio file here. …
Ep. #10 Smoking v. vaping, anthrosmelling, de/colonization, & America’s gun “tribes:” this month on TFS
This month, Julia (1:12) prompts us to think about ‘vaping’ e-cigarettes as a clinical compromise for smokers with schizophrenia. Having observed this strategy to be effective in the…
Fieldwork: Highlights from the Textile Group
This post in the recent series on December 2017 research and travel in Guangxi, China was written by Carrie Hertz, who also provided the photographs. In this post,…
Challenging the New Colonialism, and Celebrating the (Almost) Eradication of Polio: An Anthropological Response to Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
Image adapted from “Weimar’s Courtyard of the Muses,” by Theobald von Oer (1860). By Elizabeth Marino* Why I Read Enlightenment Now Cognitive Psychologist, Steven Pinker, wrote a bo…
Steve Redhead: Theoretical Times
I’ve read most of Steve Redhead’s work over the years. Maybe not all the Virilio stuff as I leave that to Sophie, but this is the next one…
Beginning the Logging Tradition at Grand Ronde
In Oregon history, the settlers began coming to the Willamette Valley by the hundreds in the 1840s. By 1840s there had been a massive epidemic Continue reading
Links & Contents I Liked 274
Hi all, Because we discussed our four fantastic ComDev student blog projects this afternoon I am a little bit late with my link review… Development news: UNAIDS, Bono…
Mapping new voices: Towards a Latin American perspective on Global Mental Health by PLASMA
This article describes the creation of a collaborative initiative started by PhD students interested in mental health issues in Latin America. It reports on its first workshop “Mapping…
Route geschlossen?Zu den Auswirkungen der EU-Türkei-Erklärung auf die Fluchtbewegungen nach Europa
Die Zahl der Flüchtlinge und Migranten, die über das östliche Mittelmeer nach Europa gelangt ist, ist 2015 stark angestiegen und anschließend genauso rapide wieder gesunken. Vertreter von Politik…
Have we really found Amelia Earhart’s bones?
A new study claims that the Nikumaroro Island bones are those of the famous aviator. But some researchers remain skeptical From the headlines last week, you would think…
Have we really found Amelia Earhart’s bones?
A new study claims that the Nikumaroro Island bones are those of the famous aviator. But some researchers remain skeptical From the headlines last week, you would think…
Karina O. Alvarado et al, “U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance” (U of Arizona Press, 2017)
In U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance (University of Arizona Press, 2017) editors Karina O. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, and Ester E. Hernand… Visit…
Dendrites, Interns, Contributors, & Guest Contributors
Just a short announcement to point out that a couple of names have disappeared from our sidebar as we move to make our list of authors better reflect…
CfP for AAA2018: Inter-topia: Productive tensions within the collisions of techno-utopianism and techno-dystopianism
Panel Organizers: Jeremy Trombley (SUNY Cortland) and Angela VandenBroek (Binghamton University) Sites of digital technology development are immersed in competing techno-utopian and -dystopian ideolog…
Jostling for power: Sierra Leone’s election runoff, by Luisa Enria and Jamie Hitchen
After six days of patiently waiting, during which 25% increments of Sierra Leone’s 7 March presidential vote were gradually released, on the evening of 13 March, chair of…