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…
Toward a Messy History of Creative Tensions #humanrights
To the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’ has been thought to come at too high…
Refugees in Germany
There is currently a big problem with the countless Syrian refugees that have nowhere to go. Many countries claim that there is no room or no opportunities for…
Human Economy Book Chapter: Habits of Austerity, by Jürgen Schraten
By Jürgen Schraten I wrote the first chapter of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published this month by Berghahn Books –…
Human Economy Book Chapter: Habits of Austerity, by Jürgen Schraten
By Jürgen Schraten I wrote the first chapter of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published this month by Berghahn Books –…
Human Economy Book Chapter: Habits of Austerity, by Jürgen Schraten
By Jürgen Schraten I wrote the first chapter of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published this month by Berghahn Books –…
Human Economy Book Chapter: Habits of Austerity, by Jürgen Schraten
By Jürgen Schraten I wrote the first chapter of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published this month by Berghahn Books –…
Climate change and the crisis of reciprocal relations among the Q’eros (Cuzco, Peru)
Geremia Cometti Postdoctoral Fellow Swiss National Science Foundation at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale in Paris The Q’eros are an indigenous group living on the oriental slope of the…
Anthropologists in Practice: An Interview with Kevin Newton, User Research Lead at Tennessee Data Commons
Anthropologists in Practice is an ongoing series of interviews featuring practicing anthropologists who work outside the academy. The goal of the series is to provide a source of…
Curation of Migration
Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) reunites artists, academics and performers that share the experience of serial migration. The flexible format of the workshop exhibits work or specific perform…
Lisa Jahn & Sarah Molinari: New developments in Puerto Rican economic readjustment?
This commentary comes from a discussion panel hosted on Tuesday, September 8, by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies (CLACLS) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, featuring…
Expatriates: Dilemmas and Misconceptions
Those who have chosen to become permanent expatriates at some time or another experience a very disturbing and confusing dilemma. What makes this dilemma so disturbing is it…
Kopftuch, wieder einmal
Zum Kommentar Religion ist privat, das Kopftuch ein Symbol von Helmut Brandstätter im Kurier vom 28. 11. 2015 erlauben wir uns – entsprechend kultur- und sozialanthropologischen Erkenntnissen –…