Newsletter · Vol 29.1 · March 2022
Dear readers, Welcome to NAFA Network’s first edition of 2022 – a year that has already been marked by trauma and unrest on the European continent (and beyond).
Gute und schlechte Flüchtlinge
Ukraine und die EU: Über Diskriminierungen, Doppelmoral und Sippenhaftung für Tote Der Kommentar ist in der Wiener Zeitung am 21. 3. 2022, S. 14 erschienen. Es ist erfreulich,…
Andrew Flachs, Ankita Raturi, Juliet Norton, Valerie Miller, and Haley Thomas: Building back bigger or degrowing local food? US alternative food networks and post-corona agrarian economies
There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of…
Scholarly Podcasting Book: Invitation to a Public Mass Peer Review
I (Ian, member of the Allegra Lab editorial collective) ‘wrote’ a book called ‘Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How?’. It’ll come out in autumn. I was motivated to write…
Two Pioneering Female Archaeologists
Precocious. Prolific. Audacious. Magnanimous. Each of these terms describes archaeologist Hannah Marie Wormington and her protégé Cynthia Irwin-Williams.* As pioneering female archaeologists in an are…
On Being Heard and Learning to Listen with Nethra Samarawickrema
When we think about social science and social scientists working out in the world, we tend to jump to the science part, you know jobs that focus on…
Cuentepec: una comunidad nahua de Morelos que lucha contra el capitalismo
Read Time:9 Minute, 30 Second La comunidad de Cuentepec es uno de los pueblos nahuas de estado de Morelos en México, está ubicado e…
N. J. Enfield, “Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists” (MIT Press, 2022)
Nick Enfield’s book, Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists (MIT Press, 2022), argues that language is primarily for social coordination, not precisely transferring…
Rob Percival, “The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat” (Pegasus, 2022)
Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies, by geopolitical tensions, and the evolution of cultural preferences, by shocks to…
Униженные и оскорбленные. Аффективная риторика Владимира Путина
Путин уже много лет пытается представить постсоветскую Россию как глубоко обиженную страну, которую неоднократно оскорблял и обманывал «Запад». Как Путин использовал эту аффективную риторику для подго…
Erniedrigte und Beleidigte. Vladimir Putins Affektrhetorik
Putin versucht das postsowjetische Russland seit Jahren als ein zutiefst gekränktes Land, das vom „Westen“ wiederholt beleidigt und betrogen worden sei, darzustellen. Wie hat Putin mit dieser Affektrh…
Love Scams
My (online) bank sent me the following five-pointed warning message about people online wanting to scam money from me, but there is something suspicious about this because each…
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…