Die „Transformer“
Seit einiger Zeit beschäftigt mich die Frage, wie Wissenschaftler_innen ihre Forschungserkenntnisse schnell und unkompliziert in die breite Öffentlichkeit tragen können. Natürlich ist es schön, einen …
In the Journals – March 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, our monthly recap of recent publications regarding security, law, crime, and governance. The upcoming April edition of Security Dialogue features a fantastic…
Skeleton Sex Pots
The Moche, one of the world’s great ancient civilizations, occupied the northern coast of Peru from roughly A.D. 100 to A.D. 800. They produced beautiful ceramic vessels; hundreds…
OTG 5: Un[der]heard Messages from Ferguson
brothers dying in the street and our hoods in crisis we need more messages for the grassroots we need resurrections like Osiris corner stores b-boys wondering what freedoms…
Lernen mit Behinderungen: Nur selten barrierefrei
Offiziell unternimmt die chinesische Regierung viel für Menschen mit Behinderungen. Es gibt Arbeitsbeschaffungsprojekte und nun auch die Möglichkeit zur Teilnahme an Beamtenprüfungen. In allen größere…
Article Alert! New articles and books in Discard Studies
Since discard studies doesn’t have it’s own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books from all over …
Human Smugglers | Workshop Abstracts – Part 1
The workshop “Critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative” is fast approaching! Unique in its genre, the workshop aims to problematise…
How great development discussions look like on facebook – Build Africa’s “Time Machine” video edition
There is always space for more snark, memes, satire or ironic commentary on development-related topics, so it is worth documenting a great teachable moment that happened on facebook…
Philosophers without infrastructure, Part 2
Following up on my last post (and indirectly on a couple of older posts), I came across an interesting interview extract that comments in a bit more detail…
Trump protests and media exploitation
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about anti-Trump protests and the potential danger of cable news exploitation as they become increasingly violent. An excerpt: Mr. Trump’s seeming…
Affect, Attention, and Ethnographic Research: Thoughts on Mental Health in the Field
This year has seen some encouraging openings in a much-needed conversation on academia and mental health (for example: The Guardian, Chronicle Vitae, The Professor is In). Many of…
Flight 1095
Coming home from Phoenix on Friday, I found myself sharing the plane with Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer, and Bret Stephens. Bryant and Bayer are SNL players. Stephens (below) is Foreign…
The latest from Cultural Survival
Reprinted from Cultural Survival Source: Cultural Survival Indigenous community radio stations in Guatemala have found themselves in the midst of a hopeful period regarding their legalizations, as the…
Lifting the Emotional Embargo With Cuba
The June heat was so intense, the air so still, that the open balcony doors offered little relief. Anthropologist Ruth Behar felt her clothes sticking as she looked…
Tanya Cassidy’s and Abdullahi El Tom’s “Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations” by Ben Kasstan
Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom (editors) Bloomsbury, 2015, 255 pages Ethnographies of Breastfeeding offers a timely insi…
Anything but selfies
In every respect we are delighted with the launch of our project. We now engage in daily interaction with thirteen thousand students registered on our FutureLearn course, plus 1,300…
Oekraïne, nationalisme en (anti)democratie: stem niet op 6 april!
Door Thijl Sunier Op 6 april mogen we in een referendum stemmen over een associatieverdrag van de EU met Oekraïne. Ik ben een voorstander van dit associatie-verdrag, maar…
Human Smugglers Roundtable: parsing smuggling from trafficking
In the second of three questions, human smuggling experts share their views on what actually constitutes the difference between human smuggling and trafficking. They all agree that the…
Collaborative PhD Studentship – Workplace Design in the Digital Age
UCL Department Anthropology Project Workplace Design in the Digital Age Duration of studentship 3.5 years (to start 01 Oc…
The Great Chocolate Migration
Last fall, I was sipping Mexican chocolate at a chic little Singapore café. It was a local branch of a New York–based chain, which was started in Israel…
Migration: Chinesen in Afrika
Seit vielen Generationen wandern Chinesen nach Afrika aus. Viele bleiben nur solange dort, bis ihre Arbeit getan ist, einige lassen sich länger nieder. Das Leben auf dem fernen…
Frauen in der Slowakei
Das Promotionsbegleitende Blog „Frauen in der Slowakei” beschäftigt sich mit meinem Dissertationsprojekt, das Arbeit und Lebensführung von Frauen im Rentenalter in der Slowakei aus einer feministische…
OTG 4: A Closer Look at Indianapolis
I cannot count how many times I’ve been out of state and people have been flabbergasted that I’m from Indianapolis, Indiana. Initially, this is because the idea of…