CFP: IVSA Conference (deadline: 2 May)
EXPANDING THE VISUAL FIELD: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN VISUAL SCHOLARSHIP, ARTS AND ACTIVISM The 2022 International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference invites abstracts for papers, photo essa…
Karrierewerkstatt #2
Wir laden dich ein zur zweiten offenen Karrierewerkstatt mit dem Schwerpunktthema „Netzwerken“! Du promovierst oder bist als Postdoc tätig und hast Fragen rund um das Thema Karriereplanung –…
L I T H I U M: zwischen Green Mining und Umweltdesaster. Studentische Perspektiven auf den Lithiumabbau in Covas do Barroso, Portugal (Alina Heuser)
Im Innenhof des Cafés Liquidâmbar, nahe des Studierendentreffpunktes Praca da República in Coimbra diskutiert bei meiner Ankunft bereits ein Grüppchen überwiegend junger Leute über den Lithiumabbau i…
2084
PART I Two Years Ago It was a hot day in July, and clocks were striking eight. It had been fifteen years since the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs)…
Requiem for a War Robot
An experimental robotic pack mule, the Legged Squad Support System, walks alongside U.S. Marines on patrol. Sarah Dietz/U.S. Marine Corps Excerpted from War Virtually: The Quest to Autom…
Extractivism en Papier: Chronotopes of Settler-Colonial Capitalism in Australia
What if the greatest legacy of uranium mining is not its localized radioactive toxicity, but the seemingly mundane set of bureaucratic practices it catalysed? In this post, I…
Catching an Authentic Lake Trout: Knowledge Legitimization in Academia
Drawing from my lived experience with Lake Trout as a member of NunatuKavut who grew up in southern Labrador and a student at a colonial university, I discuss…
Cuplé y libertad
Read Time:3 Minute, 29 Second Si esto fuera un artículo humorístico, empezaría hablando de cierta presidenta de cierta comunidad au…
Jason De Leon, “The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail” (U California Press, 2015)
How can you integrate archaeology and photography with ethnographic research to understand the experiences of clandestine migrants? Today we talk with Jason de Leon, professor of Anthropology and…
‘Call to Arms: Silver and Lead’ Campaign Review
‘Call to Arms: Silver and Lead’ campaign review Posted December 10, 2034 by Julie Annie (staff writer at Génial Gaming) Answering the Call to Arms (yet again)…
“What are people claiming when they say that a food is local?” An Interview With David Beriss
Local food or not? Photo by David Beriss David Sutton In this fifth installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food I talk with longtime friend…
CFF: Journal of Anthropological Films (Vol 6 No 1)
Filmmakers! Do you make films based on anthropological fieldwork and research? Submit your film to Journal of Anthropological Films – JAF. Do you have an academic career? Films…
Hard Water
I. That cloud hovering looks like it came all the way from Ukraine, sadness has darkened our skyline. The rain is hail shattering the landscape into pieces of…
Sandy Smith-Nonini: Energy Crises in the Time of Covid: Precarious Fossil Infrastructures
The spectacle of Russia invading Ukraine has elevated tensions over Europe’s access to natural gas and may herald a sea-change in regional geopolitics of energy. But prior to…
Beth Povinelli on her book, The Inheritance
Interview by Randeep Hothi https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-inheritance Randeep Hothi: The Inheritance is about many things — inter alia, your family’s migration to the US, your two parents a…
Gute und schlechte Flüchtlinge
Ukraine und die EU: Über Diskriminierungen, Doppelmoral und Sippenhaftung für Tote Der Kommentar ist in der Wiener Zeitung am 22. 3. 2022 erschienen. Es ist erfreulich, dass die…
Defensa de la ficción
Read Time:6 Minute, 30 Second La ficción es, según la RAE, la acción y efecto de fingir, una invención, una obra narrativa que trat…
Nayma Qayum, “Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh” (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but…
Natasha Iskander, “Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Skill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human? shows instead that skill distinctions are used…
Y dominando la ciudad ideal, un templo
El Centre Abraham, en la Vila Olímpica de Barcelona Nota para María Gabriela Navas, doctoranda, enviada en septiembre de 2015 Y DOMINANDO LA CIUDAD IDEAL, UN TEMPLO Manuel…
Morumbi and Paraisópolis: A Four-Act Play
Dramatis Personae Heitor: a 13-year-old boy Mr. Gomes, his father: a waste handler, working at a garbage dump Ms. Gomes, his mother: a dry cleaner, working from home…
Stellenbörse für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW12
Bild – pixabay: IdaT Für eine vollständige Liste abonniert einfach unseren Newsletter. Diese Woche gibt es eine interessante wissenschaftliche Stelle im Bereich der Armutsforschung in Fra…
Sparduschkopf
Die Konfliktforschung zu Gast in Konstanz, tagt mit Seeblick und endlich wieder in Präsenz. Das Militär kam schon ein paar Tage zuvor in der Ukraine am Schwarzen Meer…
Ep # 88: Creating Queer Space & The Lenses of War: This month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep # 88: Creating Queer Space & The Lenses of War: This month on TFS Welcome back for another Panel! This week we’re joined…