The Transformation of One of New York City’s Most Famous Squats
When the Lower East Side’s 155 Avenue C—known as C-Squat—was legalized, many of its squatters became homeowners of sorts. Konstantin Sergeyev I was surprised when I first met…
Embryos on the Move: Transnational Networks of Surrogacy
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Anika König Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) where sperm is manually injected into the egg cell. This procedure is predominantly used to overcome…
Embryos on the Move: Transnational Networks of Surrogacy #MedTech
Gestational surrogacy is a reproductive technology where embryos are produced ‘in-vitro’ in a laboratory and subsequently implanted into the uterus of a woman – the gestational surrogate or…
Städte der Zuflucht
Mit dem Begriff „Städte der Zuflucht“ können diejenigen Städte beschrieben werden, die eine direkte Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen oder MigrantInnen aus dem Ausland in eine bestimmte Stadt fordern. Momenta…
Year of the Mushroom
In the next week or so, many of us will celebrate the year of the rooster. The year of the monkey, which we are just saying good bye…
Fast Food Labor Secretary?
David Beriss In the weeks following his election, President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Andrew F. Puzder to lead the U.S. Department of Labor. There has been…
Kan du virkelig regne med, at studiet fører til drømmejobbet?
Hej alle, Jeg hedder Troels og er 36 år gammel. Jeg har altid haft en interesse for sociologi, antropologi og menneskehedens udvikling efter vi opstod som art.…
Language politics and the French “Master” degree
I’m planning on writing more about French higher education policy in the next few years, since even after my dissertation there’s a lot to learn. For instance, there’s…
An Anthropologist at the Women’s March on Washington, Part 1: Finding Communitas, Feminist Style
(photo by Alma Gottlieb) The doors of our metro car opened and closed, opened and closed with increasingly alarming dysfunction. On any other day, the many more dozens…
United against Trump
The poor showing at Trump’s inauguration, and the massive turnout at the Women’s Marches, together with Trump’s popular vote defeat by nearly 3 million votes, prove that chasing…
Sexwork and migration fiction, part 1: Melodrama and archetypes
I wrote a novel, The Three-Headed Dog, for more than one reason. Here is the first of a series in which I tell why, not in any greatly structured…
anthro in the news 1/13/17
Graffiti in Lisbon, 2009Source: Dan Benton, Flickr Commons public anthropology in the time of Trump Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology at West Chester University, published a piece in…
Donald Trump vs. Cultural Imperialism
“We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world — but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations…
Opinion on an Op-Ed: Academic Underperformers Must be Called Out by Gerald Walton
A very interesting article came out in University Affairs for their February (2017) issue – An opinion piece which will surely provoke opinions. In it, Walton advocates for…
Opinion on an Op-Ed: Academic Underperformers Must be Called Out by Gerald Walton
A very interesting article came out in University Affairs for their February (2017) issue – An opinion piece which will surely provoke opinions. In it, Walton advocates for…
Special Issue of Techniques & Culture on Réparer le monde/Fixing the world: Excess, Leftover and Innovation
What should we make of the ever more excessive production of remainders? What spaces of creativity and innovation struggle against, emerge from, or make visible this seemingly hidden…
Medical Technologies and Infrastructure: Exploring Im/Mobility and Dis/Connectivity in “Global Health”
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Hansjörg Dilger, Dominik Mattes Source: pixabay CC0 1.0. There are numerous approaches to defining “Global Health” (Brown, Cueto, and Fee 2006; Farmer…
From the Field: Herat
Notes from the Field: Regional Connectivity as a Site for the Ethnography of Diplomacy, Afghanistan 6/10/16 – 6/11/16 was originally published on the University of Copenhagen’s Asian Dynamics Blog.…
Medical Technologies and Infrastructure: Exploring Im/Mobility and Dis/Connectivity in “Global Health” #MedTech
There are numerous approaches to defining “Global Health” (Brown, Cueto, and Fee 2006; Farmer et al. 2013; Fassin 2012; Janes and Corbett 2009), a phenomenon that Arthur Kleinman…
CASS/ЦЕСИС
В Европейском университете в Петербурге появился новый исследовательский центр – Центр социальных исследования Сибири и Севера, aka Center for Arctic Social Studies. Для тех, кто читает по-русск…
Imagining Northern Sea Route: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Supporting Coastal System
This is a new joint project by Tyumen State University and European University at Saint-Petersburg planned for 2017–2019 and funded by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. Background…