Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi-Touch Film Guide
With a complete documentary film, ethnography, and multi-media interactive study guide contained in one package, the “Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi Touch Film Guide” is an immersive e…
Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi-Touch Film Guide
With a complete documentary film, ethnography, and multi-media interactive study guide contained in one package, the “Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi Touch Film Guide” is an immersive e…
Why Trump won
Since the fall of 2015, I’ve been predicting that Trump would win not only the GOP nomination but the general election. This claim was dismissed as paranoid and…
CFP: ASLE Graduate Symposium 2016: Toxic Borders and Bondages (May 25)
We invite you to join us for the first Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) graduate student symposium at the University of Michigan, Ann…
Swimming with Sharks
Luyendijk’s neophytic approach makes the book suitable for both novice and advanced readers. Beginners can learn alongside the author, and advanced readers will be fasinated by interviewees’ stories…
Swimming with Sharks
Luyendijk’s neophytic approach makes the book suitable for both novice and advanced readers. Beginners can learn alongside the author, and advanced readers will be fasinated …
Dark Value (repriced!)
I’ve changed the price of Dark Value from $7.77 to $2.99. (It took a long time and my sticker gun is smoking.) I do so on advice of…
Corruption: Formal and Informal
by Paul Gilbert **Originally posted at Sociology Lens.** In a 2014 review article for Sociology Compass, David Jancsics outlined a ‘minimal consensus’ on what constitutes corruption, drawn from his su…
Why can’t cyclists read maps?
I wondered at first about the helmets of my informants, but I later realised that the answer had less to do with bumps on the head and more…
Why can’t cyclists read maps?
I wondered at first about the helmets of my informants, but I later realised that the answer had less to do with bumps on the head and more…
Systemic racism in Hollywood
In this Vulture.com (2016), George Takei talks about Hollywood’s systematic whitewashing of Asian characters. These comments follow on the casting of white actresses Scarlett Johansson as “Major Motok…
Swimming with Sharks
Luyendijk’s neophytic approach makes the book suitable for both novice and advanced readers. Beginners can learn alongside the author, and advanced readers will be fasinated …
Why can’t cyclists read maps?
I wondered at first about the helmets of my informants, but I later realised that the answer had less to do with bumps on the head and more…
How did we get here? A review of Yasmin Gunaratnam’s “Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care” by Branwyn Poleykett
Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care by Yasmin Gunaratnam Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, 208 pages David Tasma, a Polish Jew and survivor of the Warsaw ghetto,…
Apple and the Smartphone market in India
Photo Courtesy: CC: Wikimedia Commons: Kārlis Dambrāns from Latvia Less than a fifth of the Indian population might own a smart phone, but India is now the second…
Links & Contents I Liked 181
Hi all, It’s Friday again-and it has been quite a busy week link-wise! Development news: In addition to the story of the week that MSF pulls out of…
Photography: Between Anthropology and History
Photography: Between Anthropology and History Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 20-21 June 2016 Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @PHRC_DeMontfort Conference …
Call for papers: Foolish things, clever stuff? The material side of nursing and care.
Call for Papers: Foolish things, clever stuff? The material side of nursing and care. 18th– 20th January 2017, Heidelberg Nursing is more than an interpersonal rapport in which…
Fictional #Fictions between China and Arstotzka
One interesting way to (momentarily) close this thematic week about living fictions (one that could also speak to many other thematic weeks here on ALLEGRA, e.g. smugglers; being…