Feeling What We Are/A’yel jtaleltik
An anthropologist and writer from the Tseltal community speaks back to a colonialist history of suppression—instead claiming his identity, language, and people. “Feeling What We Are/A’yel jtalel…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW24
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in zur Betreuung der Modernensammlung an der Ruhr Universität Bochum, eine Stelle als Content Creator für Alliance Auto…
BUCHWISSENSCHAFTLER*IN
Dies ist eine Vorschau aus Brotgelehrte Band 3 – erscheint im Sommer 2023. Direkt zu: Arbeitsmarkt Netzwerke Digitalisierung Anforderungen und Weiterbildung Mehr lesen und h…
Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, “Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions” (Orient Blackswan, 2018)
We live in times where theory is often understood as irrelevant in the real world. It appears to have no practical results. This has been further complicated in…
Die russische Kultur muss lernen zu schweigen
Über russische Kultur reden während Russland Krieg gegen die Ukraine führt? Vadim Zakharov über zwei unterschiedliche Arten des Schweigens und über die Aktualität der Erfahrungen aus dem sowjetischen …
Lo urbano como niebla oscura a ras de suelo
La foto es de Tristan Schirling Mensaje para Miren Uharte, a partir de una conversación sobre la niebla como alegoría de las multitudes urbanas, enviado en junio de…
Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, “Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology” (Polity Press, 2023)
Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the archaeologist Christopher Witmore,…
Osman Balkan, “Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in countries…
Toda obra es cosa de obreros
Una de las fotografías del libro , tomada de tomascasademunt.com/ Palabras en la presentación del libro Obra Negra, del fotógrafo Tomàs Casademunt, en el Centro Cultural de España…
The future comes for Vogue…and the rest of us
A power struggle is playing out at Vogue. Several things hang in the balance. The future of a publication that helps construct our sense of taste. The future of…
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Hi all,AI & ChatGPT, fast fashion, weaponization of social media, refugee protection & many challenges for humanitarian aid in Ethiopia, Somalia, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh & Myanmar are so…
Impulsworkshop Schreiben mit KI
Wegen der hohen Nachfrage im April wiederholen wir am kommenden Montag, 12.6., 16 Uhr den Impuls-Workshop „Schreiben mit KI“. Was uns von anderen KI-Workshops anhebt, ist die Perspektive:…
Banderas indígenas: Recubrir, aglutinar, disolver
En marzo de 2023, en Santiago de Chile, como equipo de IndiGen nos reunimos con colegas de Chile y de Bolivia para reflexionar sobre…
Han Yu, “The Curious Human Knee” (Columbia UP, 2023)
Where would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. Yet, as The Curious Human Knee (Columbia…
Andrew Snyder, “Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro” (Wesleyan UP, 2022)
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University Press, 2022) tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement…
Antropologins största gåva är något av en evig gåta
Gustaf Redemo: Åren på resande fot i antropologins land har delvis gjort mig till en främling. Ibland känner jag mig mer befryndad med mina invandrade elever än de…
Tessa Farmer, “Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid conditions and a precarious water…
Marius Wamsiedel, “The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania” (Lexington, 2023)
Marius Wamsiedel’s book The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania (Lexington, 2023) is an ethnography of the social process by which healthcare workers…
Excavating a 19th-Century Detroit Saloon
A filmmaker highlights the work of urban archaeologists digging a woman-owned business opened in the late 1800s. In this short documentary, Wayne State University archaeologist Krysta Ryzewski and…
Besser keine Reform als diese: Warum die Bundesregierung die GEAS-Reform stoppen sollte
Am 8. und 9. Juni werden die Innenminister:innen der EU-Mitgliedstaaten im Rat der Europäischen Union in Luxemburg zusammentreten, um sich auf eine Verhandlungsposition gegenüber der EU-Kommission un…
Arseli Dokumaci, “Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds” (Duke UP, 2023)
For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes…
Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage
Ben Hoffler is the co-founder of several hiking trails in the Middle East, including the Sinai Trail, the Red Sea Mountain Trail, the Wadi Rum Trail, and the Bedouin…
Auftragsbörse für Lektor*innen
Während der Arbeit an Brotgelehrte Band 3, in dem wir vor allem Berufe rund um das Buch in den Blick nehmen, besuchten wir auch die Auftragsbörse https://www.mentorium.de/lektor-jobs, die…
The right to dignity: Housing struggles, city-making, and citizenship in urban Chile
How do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the city? How do they constitute themselves, and demand…