My top 5 trends of 2015 – and some predictions for 2016
With best wishes for a healthy and productive 2016! 1 – WHITE PRIVILEGE UNDER ATTACK Debates and struggles around race have taken centre-stage in 2015, with an intensity…
Web Roundup: 2015 by Lily Shapiro
As the year winds up, many publications around the web are doing “highlights of 2015”-type lists, so I thought I’d compile some of these to give a bit…
Top 10 of 2015
In 2015 I wrote on a wide variety of issues for a wide variety of outlets. I switched mostly to features from op-ed, since my op-eds on exploitation,…
Op naar 2016!
Het is de laatste dag van het jaar, een jaar dat voor velen van ons is omgevlogen. Het hectische leven op de universiteit, voor zowel stafleden als studenten, maakt…
2015: Just Another Year for Empire
This year saw so little published on this site, that presenting our “top 10 articles” would nearly exhaust everything we produced. Instead, we decided to produce a list…
Afaneh Najmabadi, “Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran”
Afaneh Najmabadi View on Amazon In her fascinating new book Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Duke University Press, 2015), Afaneh Najmabadi, Professor of Histo… Visit New…
Erik Linstrum , “Ruling Minds: Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire”
Erik Linstrum View on Amazon In Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire (Harvard University Press, 2016), Erik Linstrum examines how the field of psychology was employed in…
Sujey Vega, “Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest”
Sujey Vega View on Amazon In Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest (New York University Press, 2015), Sujey Vega Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies…
Interview with Tijo Salverda
By Madhukar Ramlallah, editor of the Mauritius Times [with permission from the Mauritius Times] ‘Franco-Mauritians have realised that their economic power is best served by staying away from…
State Intervention in Financial Markets: Why Geopolitics Matter
By Tijo Salverda There is not much new in the observation that markets are closely intertwined with political authority. In the past authorities guaranteed markets to operate, while…
State Intervention in Financial Markets: Why Geopolitics Matter
By Tijo Salverda There is not much new in the observation that markets are closely intertwined with political authority. In the past authorities guaranteed markets to operate, while…
State Intervention in Financial Markets: Why Geopolitics Matter
By Tijo Salverda There is not much new in the observation that markets are closely intertwined with political authority. In the past authorities guaranteed markets to operate, while…
State Intervention in Financial Markets: Why Geopolitics Matter
By Tijo Salverda There is not much new in the observation that markets are closely intertwined with political authority. In the past authorities guaranteed markets to operate, while…
Psychodynamik verstehen: Auch “Sekten” sind Religionen
Prof. Sebastian Murken war 1989 eines von sieben Gründungsmitgliedern des Religionswissenschaftlichen Medien- und Informationsdienstes REMID e.V. 1997 wurde er als Gutachter für die Enquete-Kommissio…
Links & Contents I Liked 168
Hi all, Welcome to the final link review of 2015! This one is a bit longer (the Internet apparently does not have holidays…) with plenty of good reads for…
My development blogging & communication review 2015
Dear all, It only feels like yesterday that aidnography went live, but this is actually my fifth end-of-the-year reflection post after 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014! In the…
Peter J. Gloviczki, “Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media”
Peter J. Gloviczki View on Amazon Humans have coped with tragedy using ritual and memorials since the Neolithic era. Doka called a memorial a space invested with meaning,…
The Arts of Recognition
Members of the ARMH return recovered remains to victims’ kin and the community-at-large. Courtesy of Óscar Rodríguez Alonso. Abenójar, like many farming communities in the Spanish Province of…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading: December 29th Edition
Hello FoodAnthro readers, we have just a couple of news items for this week’s round up. The first, and most significant, is the death of anthropologist and food…
The Politics and Ecology of Water: Notes on the Drought in California
Drowned trees in the dry bed of the Salton Sea. Image by Daniel Mayer from Wikipedia under Creative Commons License. California is great in size and diversity, the…
Not for Sale: How WWII Artifacts Mobilized Japanese-Americans Online
Banner of JA History Not for Sale Facebook page. On March 5, 2015, Eve M. Kahn’s “Newsworthy Notes” in the Antiques section of the New York Times included…
December 2015
Volume 7 | Issue 3 | December 2015 This issue includes: Features The Future is Female: Bateson, Benjamin and How Women Learn in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus by Cynthia…