Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and wide range of emotions and strategies people…
Der Begriff der Generation hat gegenwärtig (wieder) Konjunktur. Ein Blick in die wechselvolle Begriffsgeschichte zeigt: Emanzipatorische Kraft und anti-liberaler Subtext liegen in Generationendiskurse…
By Anja Hofer – Bojan sits opposite me, playing nervously with his water bottle when he tells me: “Our son, Krastio, was in a bilingual daycare but he…
مهمترین مناقشهای که از قرن نوزدهم تا امروز بر محور واژه « فرهنگ» وجود داشته است به این اصل اساسی بر میگردد که آیا میتوان و باید فرهنگ…
زیگمونت باومن در کتاب «مدرنیته سیال»، در پی کشف سیّالیت فزاینده زندگی اجتماعی معاصر است. مسئله مورد بحث او نه تنها بازاندیشی مدرنیته ـ تعریف آن، مفروضات معین…
Christof Lammer’s fine-grained ethnography describes the complexity of political processes in an eco-village in Sichuan. The usual pigeonholing of the Chinese state does not work here. An exciti…
ادوارد تی هال در کتاب «بُعد پنهان»، بخش –انسانشناسی فضا- ذیل فصل «زبانِ مکان» به گفتۀ وینستون چرچیل دربارۀ مجلس اعیان اشاره میکند. او گفته بود:«ما ساختمانهایمان را…
https://johnhutnyk.substack.com/p/the-essence-of-science-fiction-for Perhaps the lesson of Ludwig Feuerbach’s Essence of Christianity for Science Fiction might be that humans project their problem…
I siste del av 1800-talet auka det kulturelle mangfaldet i Noreg gjennom innvandring frå fleire kantar. På denne tida vart det for første gong etablert eit jødisk miljø…
Was ist biologisches Geschlecht – was ist „sex“? Wo brechen binäre Geschlechtergrenzen auf? Wie können wir Sex/Gender transdisziplinär zusammendenken, diskutieren und erforschen? Wie können wir die An…
This is Gaza – a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless…
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Richard Rorty once remarked that in times of uncertainties and profound transformations, there is a tendency to turn to philosophy […] The post On the Grievability of Palestinian…
As I learn more about the opportunities and challenges in the field of women’s health, I find myself reflecting on things I would not have noticed in the…
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 7 Minuten In ihrem Beitrag „Von High Heels und Yogaleggings: Postfeministische Diskurse über Körperlichkeit am Beispiel von Stripperinnen und Yoga-Praktizierenden“ im Ins…
As toxic polarization deepens in the U.S., some global conflict prevention experts are now addressing political violence at home. An anthropologist shares three key insights from a community…
Podcast with Nickolas Surawy Stepney, Research Associate, King’s College London, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. This episode t…
With recent emphasis on “cancer epidemics” in Asia and Africa (Banerjee 2020; Travis 2007; Lingwood et al. 2008) it has become increasingly clear that cancer is not only…
Literatur im Zeitalter des Paragrafen 175 – vom Inkrafttreten des Paragrafen im Jahr 1872 bis zu seiner endgültigen Abschaffung 1994 – entstand unter heteronormativen Bedingungen. Jene Literatur, die…
Today’s book is: Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration (Russell Sage Foundation, 2024), by Dr. Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel Jenks, which explains the reasons for Central American youth migration,…
For some time now, my colleagues and I at Labirinto (Labyrinth, Laboratory of Socio-anthropological Studies on Technologies of Life, State University of Campinas, Brazil) have been discussing and…
frayed at the edges (me – not her) but the weft and weave was the start, misdirected, of what turned out to be an absolutely revealing and fantastic…
Das RELWISSKOMM-Team, bestehend aus einer Handvoll REMID Mitgliedern, veranstaltet im Frühjahr 2025 eine standortübergreifende Spring School zum Thema Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Religionswisse…
Page 99 of my dissertation offers only a half-page of writing. The top half contains a screenshot from YouTube of the original soundtrack (OST) for the Hum TV…