Book Launch: Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
The cozy University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights, edited by Pamela Slotte…
Un-doing Design Anthropology: Uber-versities and not belonging
Title slide of my final lecture at Swinburne Elizabeth Tunstall, CC BY-NC If you have been following the media, American universities are under pressure to make their campuses…
Un-doing Design Anthropology: Uber-versities and not belonging
Title slide of my final lecture at Swinburne Elizabeth Tunstall, CC BY-NC If you have been following the media, American universities are under pressure to make their campuses…
Bianca Brijnath’s “Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India” by Tanja Ahlin
Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India by Bianca Brijnath Berghahn Books, 2014, 240 pages Bianca Brijnath’s book, Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia…
SAFN at the 2015 AAA Meeting in Denver
Rachel Black SAFN President Connecticut College It was a busy and productive AAA Meeting for the Society for the the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Our section sponsored…
The Shock of the Anthropocene: the Earth, history, and us
This is an interesting looking book, from Verso. “Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply an environmental…
On the Margins of Anthropology
Things are usually more creative on the margins, a notion that became evident during the recently concluded meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Denver. The proposed…
On the Margins of Anthropology
Things are usually more creative on the margins, a notion that became evident during the recently concluded meetings of the
On the Margins of Anthropology
Things are usually more creative on the margins, a notion that became evident during the recently concluded meetings of the
In the Journals – November 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a look at recent publications in the world of security, law, crime, and governance. November has brought forth a number of engaging and…
-Ethnographie ist Literatur – Gespräch über die Edition Tethys und die Kraft von Geschichten in der Wissenschaft
http://cba.fro.at/wp-content/uploads/weltempfnger/interviewolafmixdown.mp3 Die Edition Tethys ist ein neu gegründeter Verlag, der sich Begegnungen, Erkundungen und Wi…
Angelique V. Nixon, “Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture”
Angelique V. Nixon View on Amazon It’s easy to conjure images of paradise when thinking of the Caribbean. The region is know for its lovely beaches, temperate weather,…
Don’t bomb Syria
Tonight’s vote in the Commons about Cameron’s plans to bomb Syria has a relevance well beyond the UK borders. Things are heading towards a full military invasion with…
Article Alert! Legitimating the environmental injustices of war: toxic exposures and media silence in Iraq and Afghanistan
Along with Shiloh Krupar’s Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste, Bond’s article adds to a growing literature on the environmental effects of military discard practices.
A Child’s View on Dying
Families are sometimes reluctant to talk about death, and so, children first learn through fantasy: books, movies, games, and television shows. Gareth Matthew’s research showed that…
Transdisciplinary Problematics: A Special Issue of Theory, Culture and Society by Michelle Pentecost
The latest issue of Theory, Culture and Society offers a stellar set of offerings on the problematics of transdisciplinarity, through the lenses of philosophy, STS, feminist theory, and…
An article! An article!
If there’s one thing that helps to ground you when you’ve felt voiceless or powerless in the past, it’s when you see the writing equivalent of your name…