Article Alert! New articles in discard studies from October
Since discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the…
Colombia’s referendum to end a 50 years Cold War
by Lucía Arcoiris © Felipe Chica Jimenez Colombia has lived an internal conflict for more than 50 years. Since 2012, peace dialogues with FARC, the largest ongoing guerrilla…
From self-identified ‘Turkish migrants’ to ‘Kurdish Diaspora’ in London #newtonloss
Loss and its relationship to translation and incommensurability have been central features of my work. My interdisciplinary PhD (Social and Political Thought, Sussex) and Post-doc (HPS, Cambridge) exa…
Special Issue! Resisting Power, Retooling Justice: Promises of Feminist Postcolonial Technosciences by Anna Zogas
In advance of our regular In the Journals post, I want to highlight a Special Issue. Anne Pollock and Banu Subramaniam have guest edited “Resisting Power, Retooling Justice:…
Casual Racism and the Problem of White Identity
A Family Portrait My family is super white. We love brunch at IKEA, we have varying relationships with rhythm, and we feel slightly guilty about everything. Aside from…
Casual Racism and the Problem of White Identity
A Family Portrait My family is super white. We love brunch at IKEA, we have varying relationships with rhythm, and we feel slightly guilty about everything. Aside from…
Ayahuasca Visions in the Peruvian Amazon
As a psychological anthropologist interested in alternative healing options, I recently traveled to Peru to experience ayahuasca with a shaman I had been corresponding with for some time.…
Engaging Activism in Anthropology of Disability
Mirjam Holleman (author, left) presenting on the topic of (dis)ability and social inclusion to a small audience at a festival (Slot Art Festival) in Poland, summer 2016. Photo…
Rereading Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Ethnographer”
Jorge Luis Borges 1951, by Grete Stern By Matthias Teeuwen I have read “The Ethnographer” and “Dr. Brodie’s Report” without thinking much of it. Sure, I had…
„Fliegendes Schwein“: Diskriminiert Alibaba Muslime?
Warum konnte der chinesische Großkonzern Alibaba bei der Umbenennung seines Reiseanbieters von Alitrip zu „Fliegendem Schwein“ nicht an seine religiösen Kunden denken?, fragen sich Chinas Muslime im …
Film on Cairo’s Zabbalin
There is a recent documentary on the Zabbalin garbage collectors of Cairo, produced by RT.
Über Menschen. Eine Marginalie zur Sprachentwicklung
Der Kommentar erschien am 29. 11. 2016 in der Wiener Zeitung. Wie das Betroffenheitsgetue bei Kriegen und Katastrophen den Bedeutungsinhalt eines unschuldigen Wortes strapaziert. Niemandem mit halbweg…
Loss in times of revolution and exile #newtonloss
What does loss mean for Syrians living in Southern Turkey in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and in the midst of an ongoing war? How is this…
We’re in Crisis! Time to Slow Down: Discernment in a Trumpian Age
(This occasional post comes from Edgar Rivera Colón, Ph.D. Dr. Rivera Colón is a medical anthropologist and teaches at Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program. Dr. Rivera Colón is also Assist…
Artaud’s Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs to Bodies without Organs
A great new book from Pavement Books: by Jay Murphy £18.99 (inc. postage) ISBN: 978-0-9571470-9-6 Despite being one of the most influential artists and writers of the mid-20th…
4th Symposium of Greek Gastronomy
Received from Mariana Kavroulaki, who you may contact at mkavroulakis@gmail.com if you have questions. 4th Symposium of Greek Gastronomy Known, Forgotten and Lost Grains Karanou, Chania/Crete. 29-30…