Terminal Condition: Neoliberal Globalization
After decades of protests and riots against neoliberal structural adjustment; after anti-globalization mass movements flourished across North America and Europe; after a large portion of Latin America…
Thinking about Our Shared Common Ancestry–Pausing to Reflect Back on My Career as an Africanist
Honored to have an interview I recently did with Dallas Tatman (an MA student in African Studies at the U of Illinois) unexpectedly show up, to my surprise,…
Waiting for the Future
Call it what you will: an anecdotal and impressionist narrative, or a set of strung-together fieldnotes, collected over years of living and working with people across class lines…
TMB als “Lebendes Buch” im C3 in Wien
Das C3 – Centrum für Internationale Entwicklung veranstaltet am Mittwoch, den 16. März 2016, eine Living-Books-Veranstaltung zum Thema “Hilfe!? (Gem)Einsam für eine bessere Welt”. Da…
Tibetan Formulas in Interdisciplinary and Multilingual Perspectives – Translating ‘Wind’ Disorders and Stress in Tibetan Medicine (Workshop Report)
Mona Schrempf A physician of Tibetan medicine compounding a formula for his patient | Nagchu, Tibet (TAR), 2003. Photo by Mona Schrempf This three-day workshop (May 8-10, 2015)…
Vale Bernard Bate
I was saddened to learn yesterday that my friend and colleague Bernard Bate passed away. A scholar in his prime in his mid-fifties, Barney (as he was known) was a…
Revisiting the Human in These Multispecies Landscapes
By Jared Margulies, University of Maryland Baltimore County, photographs by Indra Kumar, reproduced with permission § Indra shows me some photographs he’s taken recently of a variety of animals. I’m…
Academic hands
Jeffrey Williams wrote in his excellent essay Smart that academics’ hands are remarkable for their contrast with working-class hands: My father has a disconcerting habit, especially for people…
2016 Election: Referendum on Racism
I’ve been a bit slow about updating this website, apologies readers. Here is an article I wrote for the Globe and Mail a week ago about racism in the…
Een beetje zonsverduistering
SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA door Freek Colombijn Ik ben op veldwerk in Indonesië en op het moment dat ik dit schrijf praten veel mensen nog na over de totale…
The Deportation Conundrum – REDUX #BORDERS
Today we re-visit a post on the deportation conundrum by Barak Kalir. The post was first published in the spring of 2014 as a part of our thread…
Die Ressource „Mensch“
Für die Rubrik „Ein schönes Paar“ im Wiesbadener Stadtmagazin SENSOR durfte ich Lina Siri und Christian Mappala interviewen. Die beiden finden, die wertvollste, Ressource, die Unternehmen …
Morgendagens lokalsamfund?!
Jeg er så heldig, at jeg til daglig arbejder med det jeg også blogger om, nemlig landdistriktspolitik, lokale udviklingsplaner og jeg holder af at møde passionerede lokale ildsjæle,…
LSE Fried Rice is not for everyone
Source: Ryan Carey By Sean Carey London’s Chinatown, which lies between Shaftesbury Avenue and Leicester Square, is changing fast. Why? Mainly because the area’s biggest landlord, Shaftesbury, i…
Political Arrangements
The thing about work that stands out most, reading through enthusiastic future forecasts on the one hand and stories of worker distress after the Sriperumbudur Nokia manufacturing plant…
Racial Realities
When I tell my students that there is no such thing as “race” (meaning biological race), I wait for the blowback. I know it is coming. “Well if…
Referendum over extra herverkiezing president in Bolivia
(AP Photo/Juan Karita) door Ton Salman Op 21 februari spraken de Bolivianen zich uit over een grondwetswijziging die een extra herverkiezing van de populaire (en eerste inheemse) president…
Strukturelle Regellosigkeit in einer überregelten WeltWas steht einer Partizipation geflüchteter Menschen in Deutschland entgegen?
Von Cordula Dittmer und Daniel F. Lorenz In den letzten Monaten mehren sich die öffentlichen Stimmen, die für die Geflüchteten eine aktive politische Rolle in der deutschen…
Performing sustainable agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon
Agathe Faure MRes Social Anthropology University College London I conducted ethnographic fieldwork from May to July 2015 in villages of cacao farmers along the river of Alto Huayabamba,…
Sex/Gender: Part I: Why Now? by Constance Cummings
A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior FPR-UCLA 2016 Conference Summary Emerging theories in neuroscience – fueled by new technologies in brain im…
Afghan Wedding Fun: Men and women’s sides!
My fieldwork in Afghanistan in 2007 involved a substantial amount of time spent at wedding parties. It was rare to spend a week without being invited to one.…
La ligne d’écume: Encountering the French beach
new book from pavement with chapters by Ffrench, Collier, Launchbury, Gledhill, Fuggle etc.,… \ Edited by Sophie Fuggle and Nicholas Gledhill As a trope, theme, myth and very…