The Conversion of Julio Tiwiram
What is shamanic power? And how does it affect modern politics in Indigenous Amazonia? In this episode, we follow the life of a young Indigenous activist fighting for…
Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema, “Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence: Things of Conflict” (Brill, 2022)
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations,…
New! the Berreman-Yamanaka Global Equity Award
Source: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu/new-the-berreman-yamanaka-global-equity-award?e=237d513adb Thanks to JH for forwarding this to me.
What could a European Abolitionism look like?
With the global surge of the Black Lives Matter movements, a renewed interest in the history, theory, and politics of abolitionism has emerged. I understand the intellectual aspect…
Meta-Reflection as a Teaching Tool
This semester I taught a new course called “Wicked Science,” which examines the challenges posed by wicked problems — those problems that defy solution because of fundamental di…
Review: Have You Eaten Yet?
Cheuk Kwan. Have You Eaten Yet?: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World. Pegasus Books. New York and London. 2023. ISBN: 978-1-63936-334-6. pp. 260. …
Ewald Engelen: Another ‘populist’ shake-up in the Netherlands: the BBB revolt
The shock among the Dutch chattering classes on 16 March was palpable. The right-populist Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) – established in 2019 by a small communications firm, bankrolled by…
Melanie Haberl: Über (Un-)Sinn, Magie und paradoxe Ontologien im virtuellen Raum
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 4 Minuten Foto von Melanie Haberl Interview mit Melanie Haberl über ihre Masterarbeit „Mit Vergnügen: Das ‚gute‘ Gespräch als Spiel. Unterhaltung durch und m…
Deborah Puccio-Den on her book, Mafiacraft
Interview by Elliott Wiseman https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo46770602.html Elliott Wiseman: In the introduction, you establish Mafiacraft as an inversion of wi…
De la comunicación y su incomunicación
Read Time:2 Minute, 40 Second Acabo de escuchar en la radio a un grupo de tertulianos debatiendo sobre el cambio de ubicación de la tum…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston, “The Transgender Studies Reader Remix” (Routledge, 2022)
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston about The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (Routledge, 2023). This…
Apparition in Sugarland
A poet-anthropologist evokes a popular myth that speaks to the repercussions of—and possibilities of repair from—U.S. violence in the Philippines during colonialism. “Apparition in SugarlandR…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW17
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Volontariat beim Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V. (Frankfurt am Main), eine Stelle für Quereinsteiger*innen bei Eat The World (Dresden) und eine Stelle…
How global fashion brands failed Rana Plaza’s survivors
by Rebecca Prentice The survivors of the deadly supply chain disaster were paid ‘rights-based’ compensation from global brands; it wasn’t sufficient to help rebuild their lives The Rana…
Notes on Beuret.
An annotation of someone’s article abstract is probably a bit unfair. I’ve managed some awful ones myself. Sigh. Here I was, stuck in a long meeting, listening to…
Lost in Quantification: The Microtechniques of Evaluation
“Look at the numbers!” Who hasn’t heard or even said that phrase during a debate? Does your company evaluate your work with performance indicators? We tend to take…
Is the Oedipus Complex Universal?
Anthropology versus Psychoanalysis? Text by Lea Hensch (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Pablo Dohms The following essay addresses the question of why the century-old debate on the universality…
Ausgabe 2/2022: “Auseinanderdriften” ist erschienen
Die polarisierende Wirkung von Social Media ist 2022 keine Neuigkeit mehr. Zahlreiche Studien haben sich in der vergangenen Dekade mit dem Thema der Polarisierung im Digitalen auseinandergesetzt. Etwa…
Nicole Constable, “Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations” (U California Press, 2022)
Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in…
Enthüllt: Dieses Geld steht (nicht) hinter Geschichte der Gegenwart!
Seit inzwischen sieben Jahren veröffentlicht das angeblich „unabhängige“ Onlinemagazin Geschichte der Gegenwart wöchentlich zwei Beiträge zu aktuellen Debatten. Es erhält dafür viel Zuspruch. Einige …
پاتوقهای شهری در گفتگو با ناصر فکوهی
اهمیتشکلگیری پاتوقها در حوزۀ عمومی شهرها از منظر علوم اجتماعی چیست و کارکرد اجتماعی و اهمیت نظری آنها را در جوامعی همچون ایران در چه میبینید؟ ابتدا بگویم…
Mitul Baruah, “Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam” (Routledge, 2022)
Mitul Baruah’s Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam (Routledge, 2022) presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living…