#OpenAccess as Famine
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…
Inaugural Issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience by Anna Zogas
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. …
Anthropologies #21: ‘Patabea se bariu’–Rethinking environmental change
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…
So You’re an Undergraduate and You Want to Get Published
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…
Seeds of a good Anthropocene website/blog launched
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…
NEW! — Chris Hann: The new Völkerwanderungen: Hungary and Germany, Europe and Eurasia
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, “Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice: A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination”
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…
Orban, Hungary and the walls of Europe
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…
Starting a Grant Proposal from Scratch
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what …
Starting a Grant Proposal from Scratch
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what …
Starting a Grant Proposal from Scratch
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,…
Starting a Grant Proposal from Scratch
Writing a grant proposal is a lot like building a fire. In this post, I explain what …
Bigger, Better, Faster, More? Breaking the taboo of production.
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, “Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria”
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, “Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria” (Duke UP, 2015)
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…
LSE has digitized Fabian society archives from 1884-2000
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.
Workshop-Ankündigung: Wirtschaftsflüchtlinge, Gutmenschen & Powerfrauen
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…
What’s The Hadith On Facebook?
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…
The Riddle of Sean Lien
[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 & …
Preliminary Thoughts on Race, Disability, and Health
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…
Zu viel Zuwanderung? Mit Informationen gegen Mythen
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…