Centro, periferia y margen en territorios urbanos
La foto es de Oriol Duran para El punt avui. Prólogo a Martin Lundsteen, La mezquita contestada. Islamofobia, racismo y capitalismo. Bellaterra, 2022. Centro, periferia y margen en territorio…
Jeanne K. Firth, “Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice” (UNC Press, 2023)
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many high-profile chefs in New Orleans pledged to help their city rebound from the flooding. Several formed their own charitable organizations, including the…
Zdenka Sokolickova, “The Paradox of Svalbard: Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic” (Pluto Press, 2023)
The town of Longyearbyen in the high Arctic is the world’s northernmost settlement. Here, climate change is happening fast. It is clearly seen and sensed by the locals;…
Kenney sensei…
Kenney sensei and two of her students 1998 Elizabeth Kenney was my teacher, colleague and dear friend. She supported me in so many ways since I met her…
Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities
Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclin…
Links & Contents I Liked 491
Hi all,Last week I received a very nice message on LinkedIn from a reader whose Masters thesis research was inspired by something she read in my weekly #globaldev review-a…
Menus without calorie information should be available in all restaurants in the UK
NINA DYNE Neil O’Brien MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Primary Care and Public Health), House of Commons,LondonSW1A 0AA Menus without calorie information should b…
Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler, “Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science” (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Where does morality fit into contemporary social science? In Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science (U Chicago Press, 2023), Shai Dromi, an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and Samuel Stabler Associate…
Andrea Muehlebach, “A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe” (Duke UP, 2023)
In A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe (Duke University Press, 2023)) Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as they organize to preserve water as a commons and…
Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
The third in a series of Robinsonades… Email me to get the pdf – and those for the two earlier iterations of my work on Defoe: here and…
The Intersection of AI, UX, and Human Experience
In this episode, Joe Schaeppi explores the concept of designing human-centric experiences and the intersection of AI, design, and technology. He shares his journey toward designing experiences that…
The Hidden Ancestry Extracted From an Ancient Pendant
An anthropologist explains how new forensics tools offer unprecedented answers to questions about who likely held or wore Stone Age objects. This article was originally published at The Conversation …
Freiberufliches Lektorat mit wissenschaftlicher Arbeit kombiniert: Matthias Warkus
Ich heiße Matthias Warkus und arbeite als freier Publizist und Textdienstleister. Studiert habe ich Philosophie, noch auf Magister mit den Nebenfächern Soziologie und Französisch, anschließend ha…
Forschung mit oder über LSBTIQ+ Geflüchtete? Reflexionen eigener Positionalitäten
Forschung zu LSBTIQ+ Geflüchteten in Europa hat sich bisher zu großen Teilen auf die Partikularitäten innerhalb des Asylsystems fokussiert, und herausgearbeitet, welche Herausforderungen den Geflüchte…
Kerry P. C. San Chirico. “Between Hindu and Christian: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics, and the Negotiation of Devotion in Banaras” (Oxford UP, 2022)
On the second Saturday of each month, on the outskirts of the ancient city of Varanasi, Shiva’s own city, thousands of shudra and Dalit devotees worship Yesu (Jesus)…
Attraction and repulsion are two points on a triangle. Distraction is the third.
David Schurman Wallace at the Paris Review: Despite all the hand-wringing about distraction, it’s asked less often what it is that we want to attend to in the…
Position Available!
The Department of Anthropology at SMU invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Economic Anthropology. The position is at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are looking…
Khanty fishing in the Ob’ River system, West Siberia, 6 Sep 2023 Rovaniemi talk by Yuka Oishi
In the current situation we do not get any more new research evidence from our Siberian field sites, unfortunately. Nonetheless Siberia remains THE place in the Arctic where…
Archaeological Tropes That Perpetuate Colonialism
Two Indigenous archaeologists from the U.S. Southwest shed light on how “abandonment” and other common archaeological terms continue to cause harm. They offer insights into how to rewrite…
An open letter on virtual wards
HELEN ROBERTSON Deliver To: Amanda Pritchard,NHS Chief Executive Officer10 South Colonnade Canary Wharf, London, E14 4PU Dear Amanda Pritchard, In 2022, your team announced the expansion …
Feministische Außenpolitik – Signum einer neoliberal-disziplinierenden Zeitenwende?
Die Neuausrichtung der Außenpolitik an feministischen Wertmaßstäben führte zu Irritationen im Feuilleton, aber auch zu Begeisterung. Beginnt nun eine Ära friedlicherer internationaler Beziehungen, ein…
What does the “participation” of Indigenous peoples in plastics pollution governance mean?
CLEAR’s new review paper looks at the ways different author groups understand Indigenous “participation” in divergent ways, and what this does to how plastic pollution itself is understood.
What does the “participation” of Indigenous peoples in plastics pollution governance mean?
CLEAR’s new review paper looks at the ways different author groups understand Indigenous “participation” in divergent ways, and what this does to how plastic pollution itself is understood.
New SNSF Ambizione project on the digitalisation of agriculture in China and Europe
Congratulations: Lena Kaufmann has been awarded a highly competitive Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her project “Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspon…