Detention for Unaccompanied Children
Exploring Child Migration through a Legal and Anthropological Lens Part I: Overview In 1985, a 15-year old girl named Jenny Lisette Flores fled the El Salvadoran civil…
History Lost to Sea
On a bright and buggy day in July 2014, Max Friesen, whiskered and encased in denim and Gore-Tex, inched across a stretch of tundra overlooking the East Channel…
Making Cases for a Technological Fix: Germany’s Energy Transition and the Green Good Life by Jennifer Carlson
This is a story of women who invoke another woman’s psychosomatic distress to make a case for the green good life and its possibilities. Hailing from a northern…
Seenotrettung, Grenzkontrolle und Zugang zu internationalem Schutz – ein Widerspruch?
Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Bestrebungen zur „Sicherung“ der EU-Außengrenze droht der Schutz von Menschenleben auf See aus dem Blick der europäischen Politik zu geraten. Doch wie hängen…
Links & Contents I Liked 176
Hi all, After the recent link review #175 anniversary, the blog passed another milestone: This is blog post #401! Development news with humanitarian issues in post-quake Japan; 10…
The Self at Stake: Thinking Fieldwork and Sexual Violence
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Alix Johnson] I don’t intend to write about surveillance and suspicion, but then I spend my first five months of fieldwork feeling watched. …
What’s the Real Point of Brand Purpose? A Perspective on Purpose Alignment and Activation
This post was originally published for my business, Culture and can be found here Having spent the last 16 years working with a cornucopia of legacy brand and marketing…
Out! “Curb” or “Truck”?
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Crown Publishers, March 2016. On the cool September day that Arleen Beale and her two boys moved…
Who cares for the refugees?
Platanos refugee self-organised solidarity, Lesvos. by Dimitris Dalakoglou and Alexander Alexandrides Like most scholars who research the current refugee crisis and borders in Europe, we were surp…
Apply for ComDev’s autumn 2016 courses until 15 April!
These are exciting times at our Communication for Development program! As the spring application window for ComDev programs and courses is now open until 15 April 2016 we…
Land Reform Proposals in Norway and Scotland
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Land Reform Proposals in Norway and Scotland
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Land Reform Proposals in Norway and Scotland
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Land Reform Proposals in Norway and Scotland
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging anthropology with violence and animal rights
The horror of human rights abuses Let me start this post with a vignette: On October 3, 2015, at the final plenary session of the German Association of…
Popular Culture Courses for Anthropology
In Part Two of an ongoing series, Leah McCurdy (University of Texas, San Antonio) provides an overview of how popular culture can be integrated into the university classroom. Last…
Airplane Food
Late in January, I boarded a long-haul flight, 27 hours and 5 minutes, 9,405 miles, three connections. I packed emergency Larabars (food for quick energy), ordered gluten-free meals…
Massimiliano Mollona: The end of the Latin American pink tide? An introduction
This post is the introduction to a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). The twenty-first century opened…
Feldforschung, Gefahren und SchadensminimierungVorschlag für eine Do No Harm-Analyse zur Schadensminimierung
Der aktuelle „Feldforschungs-Boom“ in unterschiedlichen sozialwissenschaftlichen Feldern sollte mit forschungsethischen Fragen einhergehen. Während ich in einem früheren Beitrag Flüchtlinge als Forsch…
Public Statement on Zika Virus in Puerto Rico
This call to action was written by Adriana Garriga-López, Ph.D. (Kalamazoo College), and Shir Lerman, M.A., M.P.H., PhD Candidate (University of Connecticut), with Jessica Mulligan, Ph.D. (Providence …
Stolen Art
Hiding in Plain Sight Bell-krater featuring an elderly satyr and a young Dionysus. Attributed to Python (Greek, South Italian, Paestan, active mid-4th century BC). Polaroids of this bell-krater…
Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health in higher education by Hanna Kienzler
An interview with Jill Anderson about the Mental Health in Higher Education project mhhe can be found at www.mhhehub.ning.com and, on twitter, @mhhehub. The UK-based project Mental Health…
Seit Köln
Seit Köln ist alles möglich. Sogar dass, wie Stefan Niggemeier letzte Woche in Über Medien berichtete, der Deutsche Presserat darüber diskutiert, ob die Zugehörigkeiten von Verdächtigen und TäterInnen…