How do migrants become ‘illegal’? How does their ‘illegality’ affect their position in the receiving countries? Ratna Saptari discusses the experiences of Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands and…
[no-caption] Vincent van Gogh/Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Lee Gettler is hard to get on t…
by Keith Hart Why Study Gypsy Economy? Looking at the contributions to this volume, I would pick out four themes: … More
Stigma about mental illness makes life doubly hard for people suffering from mental or emotional distress. In addition to dealing with their conditions, they must also contend with…
Tanya Jakimow’s book Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia (Oxford UP, 2020) offers a novel approach to understanding power in development t… Visit New Books…
درباره «جام حسنلو»ی اصلانی آفرینش: بوم سپید،جام زرین ژیل دلوز در گفتمان خود درباره نقاشی و با تاکید بر کار «ژرار فرومانژه» ، سپیدی ِ بوم ِ سپید…
با ظهور رسانه‌ها و شبکه‌های اجتماعی امکان خلق و بازنمایی سبک زندگی، کنش‌ها و روابط مطلوب و دلخواه به‌آسانی برای همگان مهیا شده است. گویی زندگی به اثری…
بردِ نشانده و مسجد سلیمان ایران جنوب غربی از قرن هشتم قبل از میلاد تا قرن پنجم بعد از میلاد رومن گیرشمن ترجمه اصغر کریمی فصل سیزدهم شعاع…
روز هشتم در قلعه کوچی امروز باید از قلعه کوچی بیرون بروم و موزه منحصر به فرد Kerala Folklore Museum یا موزه فرهنگ عامه کرلا را که در…
Was steckt hinter den Unruhen in Südafrika, die im vergangenen Juni nach der Verhaftung des Ex-Präsidenten Jacob Zuma mit großer Heftigkeit ausgebrochen sind? Welche Rolle spielt dabei die…
My father tells a story about growing up in the hill country of Texas in the forties and fifties. The train station downtown had a drinking…
Archaeologists excavate a bog in Hatfield Moors, England, to uncover Late Stone Age structures. Henry Chapman In the southernmost tip of Sweden, just over an hour from neighboring…
Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States, and is now legally available to one in five…
“The world isn’t made up of good people and death eaters.” -JK Rowling The world isn’t made up of people who choose to vaccinate and those who are…
Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez to star in the new show Only Murders. Variety tells us that the new show called Only Murders and staring Selena…
Editor’s note: The following essay is a response to “Memoirs of Women and Harvard” by Alice B. Kehoe, published on 9 August 2021 in Reviews. You can find…
In the early 19th century there was a florescence of Protestant missionary interest in saving Muslim, Jewish and other kinds of Christian souls in the Middle East. This…
The “quality of the whole” is uncannily revealed by the concluding paragraph on page 99 of my dissertation. It reads: The institution I call The Migrant Center, then,…
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
ویراستار در نشر امروز ایران چهره‌ای چندگانه دارد: از ویراستاری که کاری نمی‌کند و نامش در شناسنامۀ کتاب می‌آید تا ویراستاری که فقط خطاهای تایپی و یکدست‌کردن رسم‌الخط…
Anthropologist Devaka Premawardhana arrived in Africa to study the so-called explosion of Pentecostalism, the spread of which has indeed been massive. It is the continent’s fastest growing fo……
Home to over 730,000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population in the United States. In 2018,…
دوره قاجار به دلیل تحولاتی مهمی که در آن رخ داد ازجمله انقلاب مشروطه و ورود نشانه‌های مدرنیته در تاریخ ایران دارای اهمیت به سزایی است، در این…
ارنست نولته در فاصلۀ سال‌های ۱۹۲۳ تا ۲۰۱۶ می‌زیست. او فیلسوف، تاریخ‌نگار آلمانی، فاشیسم‌پژوه و یکی از شاگردان برجستهٔ مارتین هایدگر بود. نولته در سال‌های پایانی حیاتش، بر…