From the Field: American Textile Mill
by Caitrin Lynch **Originally published on The Standard-Times and on SouthCoastToday.com.** In response to calls for increased empathy after the divisive national election, many Americans will be maki…
Interview: The Pariah Problem by Rupa Viswanath
The so called “Pariah Problem” emerged in public consciousness in the 1890s in India as state officials, missionaries and “upper”caste landlords, among others, struggled to understood the situation…
Enter to Win a Free Copy of “A World of Babies”–Deadline, Jan. 12, 2017!
Win a free copy of “A World of Babies”! To celebrate the official publication of the book, which is January 2017, our publisher is sponsoring an Amazon Giveaway.…
Schandls Text als Warnsignal
Die Publikation des Textes „Sexualverbrechen: Höchste Zeit zu handeln“ von Gernot Schandl (03.01.17) als Kommentar der anderen im Standard ist nicht nur verwunderlich, sondern ein Signal dafür, dass…
News sites at first blush
Listing is not necessarily endorsement. Please add to this. . http://www.wsws.org/ . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Standard . http://llco.org/study/ . http://strangetimes.lastsuperpo…
Links & Contents I Liked 214
Hi all, Welcome to 2017! The first link review in the new year features reviews of 2016 from a development and communication perspective-as well as fresh links and…
Links & Contents I Liked 214
Hi all, Welcome to 2017! The first link review in the new year features reviews of 2016 from a development and communication perspective-as well as fresh links and…
My development blogging & communication review 2016
Dear all, In some ways, the 6th annual review (yes, this was a regular post in all previous years, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015!) is the second…
My development blogging & communication review 2016
Dear all, In some ways, the 6th annual review (yes, this was a regular post in all previous years, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015!) is the second…
Book Forum –– Nancy Rose Hunt’s A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo by Todd Meyers
When Nancy Rose Hunt suggests that her book “joins the ferment” of colonial aggressions and uncertainties “while taking up harm and pleasure in a shrunken colonial milieu and…
Brand PhD. #gnnnngg
Can’t imagine the mad thinking behind this branding. In several ways a sign of the downward spiral. Or, a niche marketing gambit. What next: administrative razor blades, higher…
Guest Blog: ‘Easy Living’ by Morgan
In the ‘90s, state houses were being sold as part of the market-oriented reforms and the remaining housing stock was rented at market rates. Combined with the cuts…
Simplicity Is Essentially a State of Mind
Simplicity is an elastic term that can mean just about anything. Consider Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate and robber baron who by the early 20th century was the…
The Sexual Allure of Simplicity
You have probably seen them at your local bar: the man with a beard, plaid shirt, and wool hat; the woman with an unbuttoned flannel over a T-shirt,…
Minimalism Versus Simplicity
Last summer, I read Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, which inspired me to clean out my closet and organize my clothes. I admit to feeling…
The Good Old Days
Every summer, festivalgoers gather throughout the American West to relax in the sunshine, smoke a little pot, and dance to the sweet, nostalgic sounds of bluegrass music. Bluegrass…
The Long Path to Enlightenment
A common Indian folk tale tells the story of a forest-dwelling hermit who had neither possessions nor troubles, except that a mouse was nibbling away at his loincloth.…
The institutional conditions of possibility of David Harvey
In a 2015 essay by David Harvey (need I add, “the venerable Marxist geographer”?) that reflects on the relations between different radical currents in the academic field of geography, he g…
The value of comparison (in anthropology)
Peter van der Veer (2013: 11) on the “comparative advantage of anthropology”: 1) anthropology offers a critique of the universalization of Western models 2) holistic approach to social…
Review #2: What’s So Controversial About Genetically Modified Foods?
Editor’s Note: This is the second of two reviews of this book, with a rather different perspective. For the first review by Ellen Messer, link here What’s So Controversial…
Why aren`t you more angry? Fossil Fuels and Community Life on Mexico’s Gulf Coast
By Svenja Schöneich, GIGA When starting fieldwork in the Emiliano Zapata community in the state of Veracruz, Mexico in 2016, I was mainly interested in conflicts about hydraulic…