Diwali
Gestern war Diwali. Und ich war zum erstenmal an Diwali in Indien. Diwali hat aber meine Kindheit begleitet. Jedes Jahr im Herbst hat die Deutsch-Indische-Gesellschaft in Karlsruhe eine…
Diwali
Gestern war Diwali. Und ich war zum erstenmal an Diwali in Indien. Diwali hat aber meine Kindheit begleitet. Jedes Jahr im Herbst hat die Deutsch-Indische-Gesellschaft in Karlsruhe eine…
Cat Tebaldi takes the page 99 test for her dissertation
My dissertation looked at how far-right narratives circulate through the ensemble of alternatives to public schools that conservative and far-right groups use to educate— homeschools, far-right onli…
Kwame Edwin Otu, “Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana” (U California Press, 2022)
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (University of California Press, 2022) is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men–known in local…
Larisa Kingston Mann, “Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022)
In this episode, our host Mariela Morales Suárez discusses the book Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022) by Dr. Larisa Kingston Mann.…
I skuggan av hundbanan eller i Sarlins efterglans? Fältstudier i gruvstaden Pargas
Ett skepp lastas i förmiddagssolen i Pargas hamn. Inom geologin använder man sig av tunnslip för att utföra studier av bergarter och mineraler på en mikroskopisk nivå, för…
LaMDA and the Limits of Sentience
In early June, Blake Lemoine, then an engineer at Google, claimed that LaMDA, a Machine Learning-based chatbot, was sentient and needed to be treated with respect. LaMDA stands…
2022 Fall Festival – I’m feeling like monochrome…
For (a lot) more information about the fall festival: 「Neighborhood Autumn Festival in Japan: A Multimodal Visual Ethnography and Performance」 https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2020/05/…
Apprenticing Elsewhere
For the apprentice…who does not have the initial skills necessary to participate as a full member of a specific sporting practice, how are they to obtain the embodied…
British Colonialism and Railways to Nowhere in Northern Burma
In Northern Burma there is a railway bridge, the Gokteik Viaduct. It was completed in 1900 by a Pennsylvania steel company under contract to the British government, which…
Rechte Rechtskämpfe
Rechte Bewegungen und Akteur:innen haben das Recht zum zentralen Kampffeld erkoren: Sie führen jedoch nicht nur (erfolgreiche) Klageverfahren, sondern greifen die relationale Autonomie des Rechts an. …
2022 Fall Festival – Day Two
See yesterday’s post for Day One Photos. Here’s Day Two… I’m already looking forward to next year! For (a lot) more information about the fall festival: 「Neighborhood Autumn…
Verkehr
Eine meiner größten Sorgen, bevor ich nach Delhi gekommen bin, war der Verkehr. Ich mag Autos schon in Berlin nicht. Und Delhi – so meine Erinnerung – gilt…
2022 Fall Festival – Day One
After two long years of COVID-19 restrictions, we were finally able to hold our neighborhood fall festival this year. The program was cut back a bit – no…
2022 ARHE Policy Brief Award Winners
The ARHE Awards Committee is thrilled to announce the 2022 Policy Brief winners. Please join us in congratulating: Student winner: Alyssa Basmajian for her policy brief entitled Doulas…
Maria Gunko: Violent faces of the Russian state
“Our whole state manifested itself in [Verkhniy] Lars, in a concentrated form: violence, mess, corruption, and indifference” – told me Vadim, who left Russia through Georgia shortly after…
Bringing Back Incestuous Abuse into the Social Realm
Text by Marie Paquignon (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Lena Rorschach Introduction “To describe and to voice violence is a step towards peace” (Dussy 2021, 29, translated from…
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Hi all,What a week, eh? But while the UK is descending into a Benny Hill-esque tragic-comedic state, it also means more bad news for #globaldev-in the UK, but…
Vā Kōrero: Philipp Schorch & Paul Janman
Recap of the guest lecture by Philipp Schorch and Paul Janman at Vā Moana Pacific Spaces in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Reflections on Chinese Sexuality: A Conversation with Weiyi Hu
How is sexuality experienced in contemporary China? What are the connections and tensions between China and the West in producing knowledges of sexuality? Dr Weiyi Hu notes that…
Gruppenfotos
Durch meine Reise nach Indien bin ich irgendwie wichtiger geworden. Zumindest erscheine ich nun immer wieder auf Gruppenfotos mit wichtigen Menschen und werde von ICAS:MP getweetet. Zuerst war…
Gruppenfotos
Durch meine Reise nach Indien bin ich irgendwie wichtiger geworden. Zumindest erscheine ich nun immer wieder auf Gruppenfotos mit wichtigen Menschen und werde von ICAS:MP getweetet. Zuerst war…
What Cargo Cult Rituals Reveal About Human Nature
In Melanesia, Indigenous communities developed elaborate rituals to bring themselves material wealth starting in the late 19th century. These practices reveal a profoundly important and universal soci…
Marx and Haiti: Towards a Historical Materialist Theory of Racism – Wulf D. Hund
This is out – much awaited and of importance: https://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-91518-4