The guy who turned his failure of electrifying Chad into a social entrepreneurship "success story"
Welcome to 2023 and one of the first “proper” blog posts in a while-I hope more will follow this year!A few years ago there was a little bit of a…
Towards a technical pedagogy
A coalition of educators believes that ChatGPT will kill the essay. But should we really fear the algorithms used in large language models? Anthropology has the generative potential…
NEGOTIATING TECHNOSPHERIC HERITAGE: (NON-)HUMAN APPROPRIATIONS OF THE „TEMPELHOFER FELD“
By Christoph Antweiler, Felix Lussem, Arno Pascht, Carsten Wergin Quote as: Antweiler, Christoph, Lussem, Felix, Pascht, Arno and Carsten Wergin (2023). Negotiating Technospheric Heritage: (Non-)H…
Constantine Nakassis on his book, Onscreen/Offscreen
Interview by Chris Ball https://utorontopress.com/9781487541804 Christopher Ball: Onscreen/Offscreen tracks Tamil film of the first decade and a half of the 2000s through analysis of di…
Ausschreitungen an Silvester 2022: Zur Diagnose einer gescheiterten Integrationspolitik
In zahlreichen Städten gab es zum Jahreswechsel Angriffe mit Feuerwerkskörpern auf Rettungs- und Sicherheitskräfte. Alleine in Berlin wurden mehr als hundert Menschen deswegen kurzzeitig inhaftiert, d…
Lactosa: historia de una coevolución
Read Time:7 Minute, 56 Second Si hay algo que caracteriza al ser humano, es posiblemente el consumo de leche. Somos los únicos mamí…
In Lebanon, Solar Power Is Booming. Why?
An anthropologist explores whether Lebanese turning to solar power is a story of resilience, environmental triumph, or something else. ✽ I recently returned to Lebanon, where I have…
CFP ASFS/AFHVS 2023: Knowing Food
Knowing oysters? Photo by David Beriss A quick reminder that the final deadline to submit proposals for the ASFS/AFHVS 2023 Conference is January 15! Click here for the…
Alana Brekelmans takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my thesis opens with an evocative image: ‘Sleepy Cloncurry, the scene of more unfulfilled promises than any other town in Australia, clung to its horses…
Olympiade
Wer unserem Instagram-Account folgt, wundert sich vielleicht, was Brotgelehrte nun mit Sport zu tun hat. Es gibt mehrere Bezüge: Der erste Anlass war literarischer Natur. Ich fand auf…
Christopher Loperena, “The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras” (Stanford UP, 2022)
The future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country’s northeastern coast where Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people, have resided…
El cine y el miedo II
Read Time:15 Minute, 10 Second Lee la primera parte aquí Hemos hablado de criaturas pseudohumanas como vampiros, Frankenstein, la …
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW2
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Praktikum im Bereich Marekting bei Men’s Health und Women’s Health (Stuttgart), eine Volo-Stelle beim Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V. (Köln) und ei…
Time for another UBC apology.
Its’ time UBC’s senior administration apologize for claiming Indigenous ‘identity’ had no role in Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s appointment. Even if they might ‘technically’ be correct that it wasn’t…
Nada es irracional
La foto es de JONATHAN ALPEYRIE (EUROPA PRESS) Consideraciones para Cecilia Vergnano, antigua doctoranda, colega y amiga, enviadas en noviembre de 2022. Nada es irracional Manuel Delgado Esto de…
Philippe-Richard Marius, “The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society” (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the…
Carne y ceremonias
A principios de los 2000 inicié un breve periodo de colaboración con El Mundo. Publiqué dos o tres artículos. Este fue el último que les envié, escrito en…
Pawn or War Crime? – you choose who gets voted off the island (two votes allowed per person)
Secret weapons sales (not so secret) and fancy dress panto season – really beyond the pale (white supremacy evil tricksters all). Justification here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/1…
Bordering the Bedouin
Contemporary issues like the refugee crisis, climate refugees, and global restrictions on movement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have brought into stark relief the extent to which our…
Buch von Julia Wadhawan
In ihrem Buch “Sag mir nicht, wer ich bin” setzt sich die Journalistin Julia Wadhawan mit (ihrer Beziehung zu) Indien auseinander. Ich hatte mir nicht viel von dem…
Buch von Julia Wadhawan
In ihrem Buch “Sag mir nicht, wer ich bin” setzt sich die Journalistin Julia Wadhawan mit (ihrer Beziehung zu) Indien auseinander. Ich hatte mir nicht viel von dem…
On the mortality crises in India under British rule: A response to Tirthankar Roy
In a recent article published in World Development, we drew on newly available data to calculate that India suffered 50-165 million excess deaths during the mortality crisis…
Daniel White, “Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety” (Stanford UP, 2022)
In Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety (Stanford UP, 2022), Daniel White draws on extensive fieldwork in government ministries and government-adjacent organizations to explore Japan’s current “politics…
Bin Xu, “The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society” (Polity Press, 2022)
Against the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today’s world, civil societies remain vibrant, animated by people’s belief that they should and can solve such issues and build…