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Hi all,This week’s #globaldev review ends on a paper from 2018 that introduces the concept of ‘oxygen of amplification’ which seems particularly relevant in the last few days.The…
Smaken är som baken – ganska läcker
(H)aha-upplevelse 2 av 8 från Kunskapskabarén på Åbo Svenska Teater. Föreställningen Läckert! – en föreställning om tycke och smak(löshet) på Kåren i Åbo den 11 oktober. Smaken är som…
Climate Change and Retreatist Anthropology
Laura Nader, in a 2013 interview (De Lauri 2013)—the message of which is no less salient today—stated: “For me anthropology is the freest of scientific endeavors because it…
Working Children: The Luxury and Complexity of Childhood in Lombok, Indonesia
The International Labour Organization estimates that in Southeast Asia there are 30 million children engaged in paid work, 17 million in engaged in unpaid work and 50 million…
Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, “If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America” (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Across today’s America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down…
James J. A. Blair, “Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. James J. A. Blair probes the historical roots and current predicaments…
Calm Tech for Quality Air: How I Turned My Living Space Into a Friendly Spacecraft
In the 70’s cult classic Silent Running, the hero captains a starship with massive greenhouses. Fan art by u/No7er of Reddit’s /StarshipPorn When we think about calm technology…
Well-being of Migrants in the Arctic and Asia, online seminar 13 October
As part of our long term partnership with Japanese Arctic anthropologists, we are part of the ARCSII – funded Research Exchange Programme, led by Hiroki Takakura of CNEAS,…
vampires, sturm und drang
Given how well-known the greatest hits are, it is fun to expand the famous quote just a little to see where Marx signals important transitions: here comes, for…
Dringend notwendig und kontrovers diskutiert – zur Veröffentlichungsveranstaltung der DIVERGesTOOL – TOOLBOX zur Erfassung geschlechtlicher Vielfalt in der quantitativen Gesundheitsforschung
Der Kategorie Geschlecht wird in der Gesundheitsforschung eine entscheidende Rolle zugewiesen. Jedoch ist die Annahme der vermeintlich eindeutig binären Ausprägungen „männlich/ weiblich“ erwiesenermaß…
Vorstellung der Studienvertretung (STV)
Geschätzte Lesedauer: < 1 Minute Mit der letzten ÖH Wahl vom 09.05 bis 11.05.2023 wählten die Studierenden der Europäischen Ethnologie uns, Zeina Zeidan, Sophia Maria Bieber und Nicole…
Making Good Luck in North Korea – online guest lecture by Heonik Kwon 12 October
time: 13.30 Finnish, 11.30 UK, 18.30 Beijing time, 12 October 2023. Online at zoom, meeting id: 641 887 4740, password: 2023. For those in Rovaniemi: join us in…
RG China(s) Kolloquium: Winter Semester 2023
Our monthly colloquium resumes this September. These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum to present and discuss…
NEW article on „authoritarian-caring“ parenting styles in China, France and the US by Jean-Baptiste Pettier
This article reflects on the comparable dimensions of scholarly competition in what the author names “late post-revolutionary societies,” in this case China, France and the US. In this…
NEW „The People’s Map of China“ country profile on Switzerland by Lena Kaufmann
Ten years into the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, this new „The People’s Map of Global China“ country profile provides an overview of Sino-Swiss economic relations, Switzerland…
How to Imagine the Unknown: Choosing an Arm Prosthesis
When amputation happens, it is an un-ignorable event. After the surgery, the person learns how to be an amputee, they learn to conceptualize their altered body. This work…
Jag är vuxen
Moget! – en (skam)lös föreställning om vuxenpoäng (H)aha-upplevelse 1 av 8 från Kunskapskabarén på Åbo Svenska Teater, Kåren i Åbo den 10 oktober Vad betyder det att vara…
I Was Penalized for Learning a Language at Home
A researcher explains why the Fulbright-Hays fellowship should change its rules that have kept native and heritage speakers from working where their languages are spoken. ✽ Each year,…
Oil in Suriname: a light at the end of the tunnel?
by Eva Koemar – “Our current president – he must be from the afterlife, he says that he sees the light at the end of the tunnel. Nobody…
The Nunavut Arctic College and mobilization of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in Nunavut research
This Inuit-led project ireviewed over three and a half thousand documents relating to research in Nunavut and involving Nunavummiut between 1996 and 2022.
The Nunavut Arctic College and mobilization of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in Nunavut research
This Inuit-led project ireviewed over three and a half thousand documents relating to research in Nunavut and involving Nunavummiut between 1996 and 2022.
Education as a New Battleground for the Far Right
Far-right parties have become increasingly concerned with education as a policy field – what is their ideological content, where does it fit into party strategy, and what less…
#Universalismus. Über die Schwierigkeit, das Menschliche zu begründen
Ist der Universalismus der Aufklärung angesichts postkolonialer Kritik noch zu retten? Der Philosoph Omri Boehm glaubt an die Möglichkeit eines „radikalen Universalismus“ jenseits aller Geschichte. An…
Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley Book Launch Events and Subscriber Offer
Dear subscribers. The time is nearly at hand for the book launch, the official release is November 14th, 2023. Many people have already said they