Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in Australia
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology This sixth episode of Hiring Rituals focuses on hiring practices in … More
Rysliga ovanor är andras vanor
(H)aha-upplevelse 6 av 8 från Kunskapskabarén på Åbo Svenska Teater. Föreställningen Rysligt! – en skräckfylld föreställning om (o)vanor, den 30 oktober på Pub Grönan, Hangö Kunskapskabarén firade Ha…
Teengirl Culture – Folge 1: Teenagegirls zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Hypersexualisierung
Teenage Girls sind Subjekt des alltäglichen Diskurses, was sich in der Online-Meme-Kultur widerspiegelt. Diese Podcast-Episode nimmt daher das Meme „How I dressed, when I was fourteen vs. how…
Akiko Takeyama, “Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry” (Stanford UP, 2023)
In a world dominated by the notion of autonomy, free choice, and consent, Akiko Takeyama takes us on a thought-provoking journey into the heart of Japan’s adult video…
Christopher Jain Miller, “Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation” (Routledge, 2023)
Christopher Jain Miller’s book Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation (Routledge, 2023) is a refreshingly original, multi-sited ethnography of transnational yoga that obliges us to look beyond…
Feeling Fieldwork: Affectivity, Co-creativity, and Multimodality in Ethnographic Music Production
Listen to ‘TUNDRA’ here [1] Feelings on/in Ethnographic Work Ethnographic work is an affective experience. While anthropological research methods have often focused on cataloging ethnograp…
CFP: ASFS/AFHVS 2024 Right to Food—Food as Commons
The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference Right to Food—Food as Commons 2024 Call for Proposals…
GSA 2023 Keynote Speech: STRIVING FOR MENTAL WELL-BEING IN ACADEMIA
I was invited to speak in a Pardee Keynote Symposium on “Encouraging Positive Mental Health in the Geosciences” at the 2023 Geological Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh,…
Special Issue: Robinson Crusoe
Free to download in 2023. Click the TOC below and download each as a PDF or EPUB from T&R. #robinson #crusoe #Journal of Postcolonial Writing
مثلث غم، سهگانهای از کلیشههای برعکس
مثلث اندوه محصول ۲۰۲۲ اثر اخیر روبن اوستلوند، که برنده نخل طلای کن شده، داستان زوج جوانی است که هر دو در شغل مدلینگ فعالیت دارند و ماجرای…
Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times With Paul Stoller
Are you curious about the untapped wisdom that exists outside of traditional academic knowledge? Do you want to learn how stories, dialogue, and sensory experiences can enhance our…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (قسمت ۴۸)
فصل پنجم: روانکاوی فروید مبانی فراروانشناسی فروید در تابلوهای زنجیرهای مونه (ادامه از قبل): اما برای آنکه شیء محسوس از توانایی ثبت موجودیت نامحسوستر محیط برخوردار باشد، حتماً…
Birzeit University Union: Palestinian Resistance is a Way of Being
2023 will be recorded historically as the year that Palestinians stood boldly in the face of colonial fascism and screamed in defense of their homes, humanity, and lives.…
The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization
In her recent book, The Women of the Far Right, Eviane Leidig looks at how far-right women on social media mainstream far-right ideas and radicalise a large audienc…
Spend a Day Tracking Chimpanzees
A series of short videos captures a rare view into the lives of wild chimps through the eyes of a researcher. ✽ Some see chimpanzees as invariably belligerent…
Francisco Martinez: Keeping Things in the Dark. An Ethnography of Basements in Eastern Estonia.
Francisco gave a talk about basements in Eastern Estonia. During the last three years, has has visited thirty-seven storing spaces in different towns of Eastern Estonia to investigate…
Gerard McCarthy, “Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar” (Cornell UP, 2023)
In late 2015 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar’s National League for Democracy to a smashing general election victory. In one of her first public appearances since…
Sharony Green, “The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, led a complicated life often marked by tragedy and contradictions. When…
The Courage of Historical Truths
With the destruction of Gaza by Israel under way and the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories worsening day by day, a recurrent question is raised in…
Wissenschaft, Gender und erzwungene Migration: Ein auto-ethnografischer Blick zweier ukrainischer Wissenschaftlerinnen
Erzwungene Migration betrifft weltweit eine ganze Reihe von Akademiker:innen und ihre Forschung. Die Soziologin Olena Strelnyk und die Kulturwissenschaftlerin Mariya Shcherbyna richten ihren Blick au…
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, “Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality” (Hurst, 2023)
How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperative and egalitarian, develop societies of enforced inequality? Why did our ancestors create patriarchal power and warfare? Did it…
Gaza is not a humanitarian crisis: on self-defence, depoliticising language, and contextualisation
On Thursday evening October 26, EU member states finally agreed to a formal declaration calling for ‘humanitarian corridors and pauses’ of the shelling in Gaza. The declaration also…
Barbara H. Tedlock, 1942-2023
Barbara Tedlock at Maya-themed holiday party, SAR Dobkin Boardroom, 2016 The School for Advanced Research is sad to report news of the death on September 11, 2023, of…
Weltbeziehungen
Vor knapp zwei Wochen wurde in Erfurt der Forschungsbau “Weltbeziehungen” offiziell eröffnet. Es war eine der ersten Veranstaltungen, an der ich im Rahmen meines Fellowships teilgenommen habe. W…