Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States (University of Toronto Press, 2025) is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how graffiti and street art can be used as a…
This episode features a conversation with the founding members of the Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective, also known as the Auntylectuals. We began with each of them reflecting…
Febrero es mes de carnaval y exámenes, va a un ritmo de compás del 3×4. «Cuando tenían faltas de ortografía y no estructuraban los textos, me divertía mucho…
Fastlagstisdagen är en gammal tradition som infaller 47 dagar före påsk. Den är den sista dagen innan den kristna fastan börjar. Förr var fastan en lång period då…
“What happened to the women who fought for the revolution?” This question has frequently come up when I have been […] The post Anti-hero*ines and Oman’s revolutionary afterlives…
This thematic thread considers the figure of the anti-hero/anti-heroine and the lens of anti-heroism, and proposes a heuristic reformulation, the […] The post Anti-hero*ines of international soc…
By Igor Von Rosenberg – At the start of 2025, I came to Fiambalá to study how the local population of this small town of approximately five thousand…
Das gegenwärtige Vorgehen und die Rhetorik der Trump-Administration gegen obdachlose Menschen in der Bundeshauptstadt Washington D. C. scheint auf den ersten Blick beispiellos zu sein. Tatsächlich han…
Vergangene Woche, Workshop mit dem Thema: der verdeckte Arbeitsmarkt. Also die 60–75% aller Stellen, die besetzt werden, bevor oder ohne dass sie je öffentlich ausgeschrieben werden. Ich möch…
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their best intentions, they often perpetuate…
«No basta despertar cuando amanece:Hay que mirar al horizonte»Antonio Machado. “La satisfacción consciente singular y de tu relación con los demás, y la evidencia íntima del cuerpo. Son…
A sobering investigation of the rush for lithium for electric vehicles, the problematic history of lithium mining, and the consequences for sustainability. Consumers today are buying electric vehicles…
Prague entered the First World War as the third city of the Habsburg empire, but emerged in 1918 as the capital of a brand new nation-state, Czechoslovakia. In Streetscapes…
Solidarity as practice, not posture
Ya es viernes 13. Y, aunque no creas en nada, es probable que hoy mismo te cruces con la broma, el meme o el “yo ese día no…
See also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2024.2293553 Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond – preprint Bardot with Marst…
It’s a time when the Winter Olympics captivate so many of us, and we’re glued to our televisions, heartspounding with excitement. I, too, watch the winter sports competitions,…
Tulasi Srinivas‘s The Goddess in the Mirror is an ethnography of Bangalore’s beauty salons, teasing out how beauty intertwines with gender, labour, caste and myth in urban India.…
The set of essays in this series approach the COVID-19 pandemic as an unfinished event, where debates and discussions must continue to explore and illuminate our stakes in…
Was hat Gender mit Biologie, Chemie, Mathematik, Informatik oder Physik zu tun? Antworten darauf gaben wir am 18. Dezember 2025 beim Wissenschaftstag #4Gender Studies mit unseren Lehrunterstützungen a…
داور شیخاوندی، جامعهشناس، استاد دانشگاه و نویسنده و مترجم گرانقدر، روز ۲۱ بهمن ۱۴۰۴، در تهران درگذشت. دکتر شیخاوندی از مهمترین و تاثیرگذارترین چهرههای جامعهشناسی چند دهه گذشته…
اندوه جمعی همچون موجی نامرئی در زندگی ما جریان دارد؛ گذشته، حال و آینده در هم میآمیزند و تجربۀ زمان را متراکم و سنگین میکنند. این تجربه تنها…