El ser como posición y el espacio como posibilidad
La foto procede de yesbuts.wordpress.com Fragmento de una conferencia en la Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, junio de 2006 EL SER COMO POSICIÓN Y EL ESPACIO COMO POSIB…
Angie Lederach, “Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia” (Stanford UP, 2023)
What can collaborative research with Colombian campesino leaders teach us about building peace? In this episode, I talk with Angie Lederach, author of Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of…
گفتگو با دکترعبدالحسین نیکگهر: طبقه متوسط فروپاشیده
هوشنگ اعلم اشاره: با دکتر عبدالحسین نیکگهر قرار ملاقات دارم. جامعهشناس و مترجم و استاد جامعهشناسی که سالهاست امکان تدریس در دانشگاه از او گرفته شده اما او…
ردپای الهیات فمنیستی در فیلم Carrie
فیلم کَری به انگلیسی Carrie، فیلمی در ژانر ترسناک فراطبیعی، به کارگردانی برایاندیپالما بر پایه رمانی به همین نام از استیون کینگ[۱] فرآورده سال ۱۹۷۶م است. بازی تحسینبرانگیز سیس اسپیک در نقش کری، با…
پابلو پیکاسو: چرا به حزب کمونیست پیوستم؟
[در برابر این پرسش که چرا به حزب کمونیست پیوستم؟][۱] ترجیح میدادم با یک تابلو به شما پاسخ بدهم، اما چون من نویسنده نیستم، ازآنجاکه نمیتوانم رنگهایم را…
مدرسه
به زبان ساده و در ذهن و مفهوم عموم مردم، «مدرسه» مکانی و جایگاهی است که در خلال دوازده سال فرزندان جامعه ساعاتی از روز را در آن…
گردشگری کودک: گشایندۀ بابی نوین در آموزش
در جریان بسط گفتمان گردشگری برای همه[۱]، امروزه گردشگری کودک[۲] بهمثابۀ قسمی مهم از گردشگری شناخته و پذیرفته شده است. در این قسم از گردشگری تلاش میشود با…
Orderly Britain: How Britain Has Resolved Everyday Problems, from Dog Fouling to Double Parking – review
In Orderly Britain: How Britain Has Resolved Everyday Problems, from Dog Fouling to Double Parking, Tim Newburn and Andrew Ward explore how ordinary social behaviours – including queuing, drinking and…
「門真市地域伝統文化まつり」 Kadoma City Neighborhood Traditional Culture Festival
It is autumn so it is time to dust off the danjiri and celebrate fall festivals in many neighborhoods in Kadoma City, including my own, Shirogaki-cho. These local…
Das Recht auf Schwangerschaftsabbruch im Wahlkampf: Der Fall Polen
Am 15. Oktober finden in Polen Parlamentswahlen statt. Laut Wahlumfragen liegt erneut die rechtskonservative PiS-Partei (dt. Recht und Gerechtigkeit) vorn, die Polen bereits seit 2015 regiert und beka…
Zeynep K. Korkman, “Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (Duke UP, 2023), Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities…
SAR Receives Major Grant from National Park Service to Achieve Compliance with North American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Blog by Melinda Sue Robbins, Grants Manager, School for Advanced Research SAR Rece…
Robinson Crusoe special issue by Claire Reddleman nearly out.
In the meantime, Nicole and my articles are free to read – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.20…
Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context
Happy to share that the article collection from the GHI special issue of Social Identities is now live at the following URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csid20/collections/Migration-Logis…
Raising My Children in an Ableist World
In a new book, an anthropologist and father of three, including a daughter with Down syndrome, reflects on the pressures of parenting. Excerpted from An Ordinary Future: Margaret…
Anne Allison, “Being Dead Otherwise” (Duke UP, 2023)
In contemporary Japan, death isn’t what it used to be. Anne Allison’s Being Dead Otherwise (Duke UP, 2023) examines the changing realities of death as a personal and social phenomenon and…
DUE TO FALLING ENROLLMENTS, WE WILL NO LONGER OFFER COURSES IN ROMULAN AT STARFLEET ACADEMY
Inspired by things linked in these recent posts, I wrote something for McSweeney’s.
Rodanthi Tzanelli – New Spirit of Hospitality: Designing Tourism Futures in Post-Truth Worlds
Tzanelli disturbs the normative premises on which much tourism and hospitality research are predicated to make space for imaginations whereby the represented can manage their representations, a…
What Ancient Egyptians Knew About Meteorites—Long Before Modern Astronomers
An Egyptologist’s study of hieroglyphic texts has revealed that ancient Egyptians likely understood the celestial origins of iron-rich meteorites. ✽ “(The king) Unis seizes the sky and splits…
The Wild Pantry
Plants and Their Stories Finally, it’s time. As a team we have arrived in Cambodia—a geographer and an anthropologist embarking on a journey that we have joyfully planned…
Naisargi N. Davé, “Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (Duke UP, 2023), Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal…
Introduction: Metabolic thinking and the predicaments of growth in Africa
Metabolic thinking deals in bounded organisms, regulated systems, and the calculated (self)-optimisation of responsible, profitable, and healthful nutritive and energetic transactions. But critical s…
The toxic imperial metabolism of Senegalese peanuts
The identification of aflatoxin in the 1960s troubled plans for Senegalese peanuts. Blamed for the acute poisoning of English poultry fed with Brazilian peanut meal, this fungal metabolite…
Estudiar a distancia; pantalla fría y conexión individual.
En este post te voy a contar porque estudiar a distancia puede se frío y un recorrido individual en el que cada alumna se enfrenta a ella misma…