The Cult of Oprah
The depoliticisation of the individual and how Oprah’s symbolises a dumbing down of what social change really requires… Now the point isn’t that it’s all Oprah’s fault …
DragNet: April 20 – May 3, 2015
“I think you have to have a shared collective memory of the past to recognize another human being,” writes Lawrence Jackson. His post, On Becoming More Human, examines…
Eine differenzierte Sicht auf den IS
Eine Replik auf die Glosse Totschlag und Wissenschaft; sie erschien als Leserkommentar am 2./3. 5. 2015, S. 12 in der Wiener Zeitung. Selbst den dümmsten Kulturwissenschaftlern ist klar, dass die…
20. Hacking politics: civic struggles to politicize technologies
This is the 20th of 42 posts in the ongoing Freedom technologists series. By Sebastian Kubitschko via Civic Media Project Despite the longstanding equating of hacking as infused…
50 major public research organisations in Europe adopt four new common principles on Open Access Publisher Services
Originally posted on News Service: In a press release published yesterday, 50 Science Europe members agreed on 4 new common principles expected for publisher members when providing payments/subsidies…
Wellbeing and Health
From “No Shame, No Blame: Secrets of Living Well” produced by Vanderbilt Health and Wellness
From a. to A.
Introduction I would love telling tales from the city where the city served as a powerful stage for the different characters like in James Joyce’s ”Dubliners”. The city…
Universality of Truth
Now this is an article that is going to upset a lot of people but at the same time it will cause a lot of people to reflect…
Can Hunter-Gatherer Societies Teach Us About Cooperation?
We’re big on teaching cooperative practices, even while we encourage competition. Humans are the only species to cooperate to the degree that we do, and this cooperation may…
Links & Contents I Liked 145
Hi all, I am very glad that all of my friends, colleagues and acquaintances in Kathmandu and beyond are physically well after the earth quake. However, with one…
Unanthrapologetically Working Together: Mixed Methods Collaboration and Health Services Research at the Department of Veterans Affairs
Hope you all enjoyed your webinar hiatus (and Call for Papers period) because we’ve got two more amazing webinars coming your way before we break for the summer!…
The Frontier in Sierra Leone: past experiences, present status, and future trajectories by David O’Kane, Anaïs Ménard (2015)
Igor Kopytoff revolutionised our thinking on the origins of African ethnic identities by arguing that such identities were formed by and through frontier processes. These were the political…
Towards ‘Audit Culture’ in Sierra Leone? Understanding ‘quality assurance’ at the University of Makeni by David O’Kane (2014)
Audits and audit-like mechanisms have been as important in the colonial and postcolonial past of Sierra Leone as they are today, and yet their social consequences in this…
Suffering for the Nation: bottom-up and top-down conceptualisations of the nation in Guinea and Guinea-Bissau by Christoph Kohl and Anita Schroven (2014)
Taking the two West African countries of Guinea and Guinea-Bissau as examples, the paper analyses how discourses of suffering can contribute to the emergence and development of a…
The No-Person
Over the past few weeks I have been working closely with London’s homeless community for my PhD fieldwork. As part of my role at the day centre where…
My new book – The View From Flyover Country
Big news! I’ve collected the best of my essays from my time at Al Jazeera into an ebook, available as a Kindle download for $5.00. If you would…
Social Control in the Streets and the Suburbs: Understanding the “Code of the Suburb”
By Scott Jacques Code of the Suburb, which I co-authored with Richard Wright, is based on interviews with 30 adolescents who grew up and sold drugs in middle-class…
4/30: “Europe’s migrant crisis: What can be done?” (livestreamed event)
On Thursday, April 30, from 12:30-2:00pm EST, the Overseas Development Institute in London will hold a public event on “Europe’s migrant crisis: What can be done?” The event will als…
Call for papers: Moving memories
22-23 OCTOBER 2015 The Arcticanthropology members are proud to host a session at the 12th Annual ETMU Days Conference, which takes place this year at the University of…