Via Felix Driver AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship on indigenous maps within the collections of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). …
November 5 & 6, 2015 – Conference Program and Videos The two-day conference ‘Comment penser l’anthropocène?’ (‘How to think the Anthropocene?’) at the Collège de France in Paris…
In this post for ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ edition of EM, Helen Thornham @Thornhambot talks about how her research into data and the everyday has made her think critically…
This is the thirty-first post in the freedom technologists series I am spending three busy weeks in Lima (Peru) as well as a few days in Quito (Ecuador)…
Der Archäologe Prof. Dirk Wicke von der Goethe-Uni sprach in der Radiosendung „RSO Spirit“ im Schweizer Radio über die Zerstörung von Kulturgütern in Syrien und im Irak durch…
This post is part of a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). In mid-October 2015, it appeared…
For The Globe and Mail, I wrote about the decline of the Midwest, and the attempts of politicians to court Midwestern voters: Missouri is a purple state – purple,…
By Aman Luthra, Johns Hopkins University § If you happen to frequent the broad tree-lined avenues of Chanakyapuri—an upscale neighborhood in New Delhi, India dominated by diplomatic missions and…
St. Patrick’s Day is upon us once more. How are you going to celebrate yours? 17th March is a set date in the religious, secular and Diaspora calendars.…
Exploring Child Migration through a Legal and Anthropological Lens Part I: Overview In 1985, a 15-year old girl named Jenny Lisette Flores fled the El Salvadoran civil…
On a bright and buggy day in July 2014, Max Friesen, whiskered and encased in denim and Gore-Tex, inched across a stretch of tundra overlooking the East Channel…
This is a story of women who invoke another woman’s psychosomatic distress to make a case for the green good life and its possibilities. Hailing from a northern…
Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Bestrebungen zur „Sicherung“ der EU-Außengrenze droht der Schutz von Menschenleben auf See aus dem Blick der europäischen Politik zu geraten. Doch wie hängen…
Hi all, After the recent link review #175 anniversary, the blog passed another milestone: This is blog post #401! Development news with humanitarian issues in post-quake Japan; 10…
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Alix Johnson] I don’t intend to write about surveillance and suspicion, but then I spend my first five months of fieldwork feeling watched. …
This post was originally published for my business, Culture and can be found here Having spent the last 16 years working with a cornucopia of legacy brand and marketing…
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Crown Publishers, March 2016. On the cool September day that Arleen Beale and her two boys moved…
Platanos refugee self-organised solidarity, Lesvos. by Dimitris Dalakoglou and Alexander Alexandrides Like most scholars who research the current refugee crisis and borders in Europe, we were surp…
These are exciting times at our Communication for Development program! As the spring application window for ComDev programs and courses is now open until 15 April 2016 we…
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
The horror of human rights abuses Let me start this post with a vignette: On October 3, 2015, at the final plenary session of the German Association of…