Summerholidays!
The editorial team of Standplaats Wereld would like to wish you all a great summer, with lots of new experiences, a break…
Every sperm is sacred? (Re)productive struggles in the quest for sustainability
After the pre-publication of an article on the oversight and even denial of population growth, Haydn Washington and I received a surprising number of reactions, notably from anthropologists.…
Every sperm is sacred? (Re)productive struggles in the quest for sustainability
After the pre-publication of an article on the oversight and even denial of population growth, Haydn Washington and I received a surprising number of reactions, notably from anthropologists.…
Sarah Richardson’s Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome by Paula Martin
Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome Sarah Richardson University of Chicago Press, 2013, 320 pages In Sex Itself: The Search for…
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Hi all, Even if I may sound a bit repetitive, but this week once again features some most excellent food for weekend thoughts! Development news: More dignified fundraising…
REDUX: #Brexit, Trump, and Public Anthropology
In the days after the Brexit referendum, a friend in California confided that every morning he searched the internet for articles explaining why the Brexit outcome did not…
Back to Basics: Why Podemos Lost Support in the last Spanish Election
Credit: Andrea Comas/ Reuters By Marta LobatoThe results of the Spanish general election on 26 June betrayed the expectations of many on the left. Pre-election polls predicted that…
Back to Basics: Why Podemos Lost Support in the last Spanish Election
Credit: Andrea Comas/ Reuters By Marta LobatoThe results of the Spanish general election on 26 June betrayed the expectations of many on the left. Pre-election polls predicted that…
Back to Basics: Why Podemos Lost Support in the last Spanish Election
Credit: Andrea Comas/ Reuters By Marta LobatoThe results of the Spanish general election on 26 June betrayed the expectations of many on the left. Pre-election polls predicted that…
Archäologie: Presse berichtet über „Trendsetter“ der Antike
Trier war in der Antike zweitweise Hauptstadt der Weströmischen Reiches, kulturell wurden hier Maßstäbe gesetzt. Von Alltag und Kultur der Stadt zeugen die zahlreichen Grabdenkmäler, die aber bislang…
Introducing Europe at a Crossroads: An Investigation of European Politics of Austerity and Inhospitality
The idea of the European Union as a partnership for peace, an experiment in post-national democracy, and an abode for human rights, has been subjected to a sobering…
Back to Basics: Why Podemos Lost Support in the last Spanish Election
Credit: Andrea Comas/ Reuters By Marta LobatoThe results of the Spanish general election on 26 June betrayed the expectations of many on the left. Pre-election polls predicted that…
Call for Posts: Life on the Frontier: The Environmental Anthropology of Settler Colonialism
Een Suikerfabriek. Lithograph of a painting by Abraham Salm, 1865-1872. Tropenmuseum, part of the National Museum of World Cultures [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, vi…
Interplanetary Environmentalism (Part 2)
If you missed my previous post, please see Interplanetary Environmentalism (Part 1). The subsurface oceans of Enceladus, Europa, and other worlds may be home to microbes, similar to…
Why there is an argument to be made for Norway to turn off its FM band
Norway is set to turn off FM broadcasting in a few months. Most Norwegians seem to be against turning it off, based on the argument that the digital…
Ghettos
Ghettos. We commonly associate the term today with places like “effective social or ethnic ghettos, from the favelas of Brazil to the mostly black urban neighbourhoods of the…
Refugees Without Agency
In late May 2016 riot police buses were rolled onto the Greek highways from Athens to the village of Idomeni, where is located the spontaneous self-organized refugee camp…
Arizona’s Inmate Firefighters
In the state of Arizona, all able-bodied incarcerated people are required to work. Most prison jobs are monotonous and consist of low-skill, assembly line–style labor. The hourly wage…
Digital Ontologies
Hannah Knox, Department of Anthropology, UCL Last year, someone made the observation at a workshop I was attending, that no single person knows how a contemporary computer works.…
The academic obsession to write about #Brexit
Yes, I am acutely aware of the irony that a written blog post with this title entails, but the quality and quantity of responses from the academic community…
Good Earth: Exploring the Old Lead Belt
Figure 1. Park Hills, Missouri, 120 Buckley Street. The entire street borders the Desloge Chat Pile, which has been remediated by the Environmental Protection Agency and partially transformed…