People with disabilities often face accessibility issues in physical environments, such as a lack of ramps, narrow doorways, and inaccessible transportation. Every barrier is a reminder that designs…
برای پرسشی که مطرح شده، میتوان از یک سو، پاسخهای ساده و آسانپذیر پیش نهاد که بیشتر حاصل انگیزههایی عاطفی، فایدهگرایانه یا اخلاقی باشند. هیچکدام از این سه…
Masks have long been a symbol of resistance movements around the world, especially in East Asia. As early as the 1960s, protestors in Japan began wearing masks during…
– by Sigrid van Roode – The young man looked at me hesitantly. “Well, I don’t know….” he said. “I’ll have to ask my grandfather, but he’s praying…
Interview by Elliott Montpellier https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208053/a-city-is-not-a-computer Elliot Montpellier: You write that you questioned how to write about “the…
On invitation of Christoph Bareither, I gave a lecture on the formations, the differences and similarities of cyber anthropology and digital anthropology for the colloquium “Digital Anthropolog…
Read Time:7 Minute, 47 Second Susana R. Sousa Susana R. Sousa Sigue sin haber tanto pan para tanto chorizo, sin embargo, los desmane…
An Indigenous poet-anthropologist writes to her daughter of the limits of her motherly protection. “Post-” is part of the collection Indigenizing What It Means to Be Human. Read…
Diese Woche gibt es besonders viele Stellen im Bereich Volontariat & Trainee, u.a. in Köln, München und Berlin (ca. 20 Stellen!). Wie immer findet Ihr den Zugang zur…
سیلویا فدریچی نظریهپرداز و فعال فمینیست ایتالیایی در کتاب «انقلاب در نقطه صفر؛ کارخانگی، بازتولید و مبارزه فمینیستی» به ارائه نوعی دیدگاه منحصربفرد در خصوص کار خانگی پرداخته…
Leçons d’un siècle de vie. Morin, Edgar. 2022. Paris: Pluriel. Edgar Morin is probably the most influential French sociologist that the English-speaking world has never acknowledge…
I am happy to be hosting a group of colleagues in Bloomington this week for a long-delayed (COVID…) writing workshop on “Textile Arts and Heritage Practices in Southwest…
Screen shots from Sky A cable network. Hanshin Tigers vs. DeNA Yokohama Baystars. The umpires were wearing pink shirts and hats, the catchers were wearing pink chest protection,…
Nerina Weiss. Erella Grassiani, and Linda Green’s book The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World (Routledge, 2022) focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within…
Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Allison C. Meier takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour…
Sebanti Chatterjee’s book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (Bloomsbury, 2023) is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality…
In the past two decades, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasingly common practice, especially among…
Fantasy beschwört längst nicht mehr schwarzweisse Weltbilder. Das Genre ist heute zu einem Reflexionsraum von Gegenwart und ihren Geschichten geworden.
In When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories (Duke University Press, 2023) Daniel Ruiz-Serna follows the afterlives of war, showing how they affect the variety…
Geisteswissenschaftliche Gründungen bringen viele Menschen nicht unmittelbar mit Start-Ups in Verbindung, und doch sind technologiebasierte, schnell wachsende Unternehmen in dieser Gruppe …
Hi all,When it comes to failing the Syrian people entities from the Arab League to the IOM & the Australian government feature in this week’s newsletter; the Taliban,…
Many educators accept the idea that we need to systematically assess the performance of our students. Easily accessible writing tools complicate the practice of assessment: how do we…
In the powerful book Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey (Hurst Publishers, 2022), Leyla Jagiella reflects on her story as a trans Muslim living among a third-gender community known as Khwajasira…
Vom 2. bis 30. Mai 2023 ist die vom Lost Cities-Projekt organisierten Posterausstellung im Foyer des IG-Farben-Hauses zu sehen. Die Ausstellung zeigt die Ergebnisse des von der Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung…