International media are celebrating the corporate-led relocation of Kiruna. Anthropologist Elisa Maria Lopez thinks it is important to talk about “forced displacement” and “ch…
The current state of thinking about open access today is a lot like our contemporary understanding of famine. In the early 1980s Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze published the…
There is an exciting new open access journal! The inaugural issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience can be found here, and the Editorial Board’s Introduction can be found here. …
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Our next essay comes from Elena Burgos-Martínez, who is currently completing her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology…
By Rayna Elizabeth If you are thinking of pursing a career in academia or as a writer in general, you might want to attempt to submit your research…
There is a growing rift over what the Anthropocene entails. Will is be a catastrophe or does it present opportunities? One new website looking for the seeds of…
I spent the last weeks of August and the first days of September in Hungary, close to the European Union’s border with Serbia. Never before had a routine…
Lene Auestad View on Amazon Lene Auestad, PhD, is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oslo, and affiliated with the Centre for Studies of the Holocaust…
by Remi Piet, al Jazeera, September 10, 2015 Instead of joining Europe in its quest for liberalism, the new EU members are putting up obstacles. For over a…
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what …
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what …
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what to pay attention to as you gather wood, build a structure,…
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what …
The Taboo of Production The conversation of about electronic waste (e-waste) almost without exception, focuses exclusively on what happens after consumers discard their electronics. Framing the conver…
Kristin Peterson View on Amazon Kristin Peterson‘s new ethnography looks carefully at the Nigerian pharmaceutical market, paying special attention to the ways that the drug trade links West…
Kristin Peterson‘s new ethnography looks carefully at the Nigerian pharmaceutical market, paying special attention to the ways that the drug trade links West Africa within a larger global…
Some really interesting historical tracts from the Fabian society on all sorts of topics–poverty, property, labour and so on–are now available in digital format here.
Vorurteile in den Medien: Wie erkennen – was tun? Dass sich in Medien Vorurteile finden, ist den TMB-Leserinnen natürlich bekannt. Wer jedoch Begriff und Funktionen von Vorurteilen, die…
Just after dawn has broken, the musical voice of the muezzin fills the silence, calling the faithful to prayer: “al-salaatu khayrun min al-nawm.” (prayer is better than sleep) Except (perh…
[Savage Minds welcomes guest bloggers Renée Salmonsen and Chuan-wen Chen.] Originally posted on the Guava Anthropology Blog 28 September 2014 Author: Hsiu-Hsin Lin Translators: Renée Salmonsen & …
Despite increasingly widespread attention to disability rights, disability outcomes in the United States remain shockingly divided by race. Few people realize that having a disability today is literal…
Sehr geehrte Redaktion der Wiener Zeitung, sehr geehrter Herr Wotke! Vielen Dank für Ihren Artikel „Eine magische Zahl“ vom 27. August 2015 in der Wiener Zeitung, der wichtige…