Qualifying Exam Essay: Attending to Animals in Anthropology
I have passed my qualifying exams and so am making my essays available on my blog. The other essays can be found: Power and Politics Within and Beyond…
Wicked Science
Wicked problems defy easy resolution and are plaqued by disagreements over their fundamental nature and cause (Credit: image by Via Sannevanderbeek) A recent article I published with colleagues…
Links & Contents I Liked 411
Hi all, The Swedish summer break is coming to its end & we will be preparing for the new semester on Monday; I thought I would kick off…
Public housing as social residualisation or a population’s majority?
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear: public housing? I asked this question to five different people in the UK, and five different people in…
Hannah Wohl, “Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
What is creativity? While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is profoundly influenced by social…
Les sitcoms com il·lustració de les perspectives situades
Comentari per en Dani Malet, col·lega i amic de l’OACU i professor a l’ISCTE de Lisboa, parlant del suport audiovisual per les classes sobre interaccionisme i microsociologia. Li…
Wie wir lesen – Im Dialog. Sprache und Sein von Kübra Gümüsay.
Dieser Beitrag hat als Text in der Rubrik „Was wir lesen“ angefangen, und hat sich aber letztendlich in eine andere Richtung entwickelt: Mareike hat vorgeschlagen, unseren Austausch über…
Maïa Ponsonnet, “Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole: The Expression of Emotions” (Routledge, 2019)
In today’s global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dominant forms. While this phenomenon, known as……
Alice Wiemers, “Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana” (Ohio UP, 2021)
Most development histories focus on large-scale projects and multi-year plans. But how would we understand development differently if we chose a different starting point? In Village Work: Dev… Visit…
Community-Based Research is Hard, and Worth It
The Salt Spring Dollar I began studying the Salt Spring dollar (SSD), a community currency used on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada, for my May-August MA fieldwork…
Five Questions for Anna Goldfield
In this free live event, Yoli Ngandali, SAPIENS Media & Public Outreach Fellow, asks Anna Goldfield five questions about human evolutionary biology and Neanderthals. Anna Goldfield holds a Ph.D.…
When Asked if the World Would End They Answer No
A sign marks the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage site on Woody Island, Alaska. Abigail Chabitnoy If you missed the introduction to “When Asked if the World Would End They…
Matrilines
If you missed the introduction to “Matrilines,” you can find it here. Where are the women in this story, Emaq? Only birds lacking fur. [aside,] Grounded birds lack…
Matryoshka Song
If you missed the introduction to “Matryoshka Song,” you can find it here. I put an awl case on my belt around my waste, just like the placard…
Dressing Fish
[no-caption] Abigail Chabitnoy As an Indigenous poet with background studies in anthropology, the more I have reconnected with my culture through poetics, the more I have questioned acade…
ResonanceCast from Allegra Lab
ResonanceCast is a new multimodal series from Allegra Lab that seeks to tease out timely shared concerns. After their articles have been published on Allegra Lab, we invite…
El "espacio público" como representación y falacia en Henri Lefebvre
La foto es de Danish Coockie Consideraciones para Amélie Vialette, de la Ohio State University, a raíz de una discusión en la Harvard University en marzo de 2013…
The Multiple Displacements of Mangalore Special Economic Zone
This paper analyses three different types of displacement – social, cultural and economic – in the lives of three women and their families which have been affected by…
… And the Street Goes on
Népszínház utca is a street that begs to be the subject of study. Its name, People’s Theatre Street, produces expectations that are fully met. Its surroundings are a…
Slow. the. fuck. down.
Do you remember what an ordinary day in your life looked like last autumn? Back when Corona was just a below average beer and social distancing described what…
Red Sludge on the Blue Danube
In Almásfüzitő, a small factory settlement on the banks of the Danube, hazardous waste is being used to create a topsoil to cover solidified red sludge – residue…
How podcasting can help us rethink higher education
Podcasts can improve access to research and offer an innovative way to assess student learning, who so said I in an article I wrote for Times Higher Education…
Red Mud, a Divided Settlement and the Toxic Waste Poisoning Hungary
Environmentalists, and the EU, have long voiced concern over a toxic waste site on the banks of the Danube in northern Hungary. So why do most locals living…
Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities
Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities Cities can play a crucial role in creating just and sustainable futures. Urban Arena is a series of…