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Hi all, Sometimes it happens that my weekly #globaldev review aligns along a certain theme & this week it is borders-border regimes, surveillance, migration control & various aspects…
Sandro Mezzadra: Intersectionality, Identity, and the Riddle of Class
Identity and class While identity is of course a fundamental category in European philosophy at least since Aristotle, its politicization is a much more recent phenomenon. One can…
28. Oktober: Literaturwissenschaftler David Der-wei Wang eröffnet Vortragsreihe am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
In der chinesischsprachigen Welt haben in der jüngsten Zeit künstlerische Positionen an Popularität gewonnen, die klassische chinesische Traditionen aufgreifen. Diesen vielschichtigen und transkulture…
Window
“Window” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. I. Finding myself lost in…
Etnologi 100 år – eller orsaken till att arkivpersonalen hämtar en gammal t-shirt, en silversked och ett urblåst ägg till jobbet
Hur fångar man ett akademiskt ämne i en utställning? Då det var dags att planera 100-årsfirandet för Nordisk etnologi fick vi fundera på det. Som tur är har…
Willi Braun, “Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Toward an Anthropocentric Study of Religion” (Equinox, 2020)
Willi Braun’s Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion (Equinox, 2020) constitutes an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused study of rel… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Nick R. Smith, “The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China” (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Today I spoke to Nick R. Smith to talk about how China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life, which he writes…
In the Journals, September 2021, Part 1 by Anna Zogas
Rounding out September’s In the Journals compilation, here are several more articles of interest. See also these Special Issues on “Island Imaginaries” and “Beyond the Product…
Call for Films: CULTUREELS Ethnographic film festival
CULTUREELS – Ethnographic Film Festival focuses on anthropological and ethnographic documentaries. The aim of the film festival is to promote awareness of anthropological themes to a wider audi…
Anthropological Speculative Fiction: The Ice of Thalassis
By Esther Stoppani 001897 The first thing I feel upon waking is the cold; the freezing-hot sensation of blood rushing in my veins. My head feels gummy, and…
RG China(s) Colloquium: Winter Semester Program
Next up: February 25, 2022: Cheryl Schmitz (MPIWG Berlin) – “Indebtedness, Predation, and Mistrust in Chinese-Angolan Transactions” – More info in the post!
Preserving Black Women’s Stories as a Labor of Love
Irma McClaurin holds up her first book, Women of Belize: Gender and Change in Central America. Ray Carson/University of Florida Photographic Services, 1996. Used with permission of University…
Podcast Episode: Lena Kaufmann on rural migration and agro-technological change
NEW! A new TechnoViews podcast with anthropologist Lena Kaufmann discussing her new book on rural migration and agro-technological change in contemporary China. Available on major streaming platforms …
29. Oktober / Symposium an der Goethe-Uni beschäftigt sich mit Prozess gegen Sokrates
Der Prozess gegen Sokrates hat die Menschheit immer schon fasziniert. Allerdings ist die fast einzige Quelle für das mit der Hinrichtung des Philosophen endende Verfahren die Apologie Platons.…
Emma Dowling, “The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?” (Verso, 2021)
What is the future of care? In The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? (Verso, 2021), Emma Dowling, an associate professor at the Institute for Sociology…
66 On Multi-Species Community: A Critical Conversation with Patricia Alvarez Astacio (Gina T, John P)
Octopus month has morphed seamlessly into Multispecies month here at RtB, bringing with it not only last week’s piece on chimpanzees, but also this sparkling conversation about all sorts…
Cheikh Anta Babou, “The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making” (Ohio UP, 2021)
The construction of collective identity among the Muridiyya abroad is a communal but contested endeavor. Differing conceptions of what should be the mission of Muridiyya institutions in the…
Katherine Young, “Turbulent Transformations: Non-Brahmin Śrīvaiṣṇavas on Religion, Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu” (Orient Blackswan, 2021)
Katherine Young, Turbulent Transformations: Non-Brahmin Śrīvaiṣṇavas on Religion, Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu (Orient Blackswan, 2021) studies the interlinking of religious, social and p… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Alex E. Chávez, “Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño” (Duke UP, 2017)
In Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño (Duke UP, 2017), Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression m… Visit New…
PoLAR Book Reviews Editor
Incoming Co-Editors of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) journal, Sindiso Mnisi Weeks and Georgina Ramsay, are inviting…
Therapeutic looking glass
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Therapeutic practice exposed society in its many facets to health practitioners providing treatment to women survivors of the Kosovo War. Like a mirror, it provided an image…
Co-signature Event Context: Toward a Participatory Electronic Health Record
Stacks of paper records. Photo credit: Wesley Tingey, Unsplash The days of doctors scratching illegible notes in charts fated to hide in obscure files never read by another…
Sobre las políticas urbanísticas de dispersión de pobres
La foto es de Tanvi Misra para CityLab Final de “El miedo al gueto (o por qué se procura evitar la concentración excesiva de pobres en la ciudad)”.…
Egypt in 1876
The British diplomat Sir Valentine Chirol (1852-1929) wrote a memoir entitled Fifty Years in a Changing World (New York: Harcourt and Brace, 1928). Among the areas in the…