Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran Orkideh Behrouzan Stanford University Press, 2016, 328 pages Orkideh Behrouzan’s first ethnographic endeavor, Prozak Diaries (2016), e…
Sunset on Guam. Yuki Yagimura/Wikpedia Commons peril in paradise KCET TV (California) broadcast a program about growing resistance in Guam to the U.S. military presence there. It includes…
1. Packing my library Twelve or fifteen standardized brown boxes of books, covered in dollar store tarps and dust from lizard corpses and asbestos toxins — I’m lining…
Social factors contribute to a person’s risk for developing diabetes and shape choices surrounding the management of the disease. Nivaldo Júnior/ALES/Flickr Mary (a pseudonym) was 18 year…
REMID engagiert sich schon länger für eine Kritik der Begriffe, mit denen Religionen in der Öffentlichkeit verhandelt werden, wie zum Beispiel dem der “Sekte”. Unser satzungsgemäßes Ziel, „ein…
My latest articles and interviews: The Trump ship may finally be sinking (8/21/17) — Globe and Mail Steve Bannon may be a bigger asset to the White House outside…
In eine Stadt zu kommen, die groß, laut und unübersichtlich ist, das ist ja sowieso schon eine mittelgroße Herausforderung. Doch in eine neue Stadt kommen und nicht zu…
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At the beginning of the summer, Krystal D’Costa wrote an intriguing piece about The American Obsession with Lawns. Don’t think you’re interested in green, gardening? This post has…
How do we proceed to live in a world in which data overwhelms us? At every point we seem to be participating in capture schemes that reduce us…
When in 1963 some farm animals in the parish of Smarden in Kent became sick and died, suspicions fell on a nearby pesticide factory run by a division…
Public memory can be problematic. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Courtney Cecale. In the 1980s the Pastoruri glacier was one of the greatest adventure tourism destinations in South America. Over 100,000 people visited…
Letztes Wochenende habe ich meine erste Reise innerhalb Chiles unternommen. Oder sollte ich besser sagen: Meine erste Flucht aus dem Großstadtchaos Santiagos? Wie auch immer, es war eine schöne…
Following the unexpected popularity of my May article Tinder as a Methodological Tool I was asked by Allegra to write a follow up expanding on the subject and…
view of the Rideau River from Carleton University campus, Ottawa, Canada It’s that time of year again when professors like myself are editing, updating, or drafting syllabi…
Extreme eclipse chasers travel the world roughly every 18 months to witness a total solar eclipse from inside the path of totality. Murray Anderson-Clemence/Getty Images Glenn Schneider r…
Hi all, August still seems to be a bit quieter as we are slowly getting into gear for a new semester and new academic adventures! Nonetheless, there’s always…
The Fear of Missing Out; kurz: FOMO; deutsch: die Angst, etwas zu verpassen – ein Gefühl, das ich schon seit meiner Kindheit gut kenne, das ich aber immer…
Some of you who — unlike me — have not had family members murdered by nazis or had every synagogue in their home town firebombed in the same…