In the Journals, October 2024, Part 1
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopolitical tools and spatial…
Der französischen Regisseurin Coralie Fargeat ist mit “The Substance” (2024) ein zutiefst verstörender und durchgedrehter Film gelungen. Mit ihrer drastischen und grotesken Bildsprache macht sie die S…
“In ‘The Working Day’, Marx reports that the appointment of Mr. H. S. Tremenheere as Commissioner of Inquiry coincides with the occurrence of “several public meetings and ……
A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doing. In this episode, Ingrid Piller speaks with Marco Santello about his…
مارگارت آتوود، برگردان: آذر جوادزاده یادداشت مترجم: «پروژه کتابخانه آینده (به نروژی: (Framtidsbiblioteket) یک اثر هنری عمومی به مدیریت کیتی پترسون هنرمند انگلیسی است که هدف آن جمعآوری…
12 years in the making and my guide to Shaligram interpretive traditions has finally been published! It’s available from TLS Press on all platforms where books are sold!…
All, or almost all of the ACLS Scholarly Societies are in mutual aid relationships with university-based scholarly publishers (=university presses). In the case of folklore studies and the…
Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi’s Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books…
Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, and hierarchies. Walled-In: Arctic Housing…
Hey Adam! “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear brothers and sisters, today I would […] The post The Imam Chatbot: A Digital…
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
Yagil Levy is a full professor of political sociology and public policy at the Department of Sociology, Political Science & Communication at the Open University of Israel in…
Anlässlich des ersten Jahrestages des Überfalls der Hamas auf Israel veröffentlichen wir auf diesem Blog in den kommenden Wochen in loser Folge Texte, die sich aus soziologischen Perspektiven…
The following are speaking notes to an informal talk I gave in the UBC Anth Dept., October 9, 2024. Given time constraints the spoken version was condensed. Not…
We can strive to fix our healthcare system, but the influence of the food science industry in the U.S. is disastrous. If it remains unaddressed, will Americans ever…
This evening’s moth world visitor seems to be (fact check please) Lygniodes vampyrus. Is it an omen for the working day… https://wp.me/pcKI3-3sO . Previous visitors here, also in…
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
After two decades of research, scholars find that Stonehenge’s giant Altar Stone came from northeast Scotland. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished…
In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thousands of frozen human embryos…
Amnesty International ist heute eine der wichtigsten Anwältinnen für die weltweite Achtung der Menschenrechte queerer Personen. Lange war die Organisation aber zutiefst gespalten darüber, ob sie sich …
A satellite image of hurricane Milton via PBS https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/live-map-track-the-path-of-hurricane-milton My parents raised me to worry about hurricanes and hurricane season. …