Students, parents, and educators in Milwaukee continue a tradition of bilingual education activism and resist choice schools’ scaling up of linguistic subtraction. At La Escuela Bilingüe Foster’s (Fo…
This post compiles extracts of published reviews of the edited volume Theorising Media & Conflict (eds. P. Budka & B. Bräuchler, Berghahn Books, 2020). Younes Saramifar (Free University…
A campesino checks his cellphone while working in the fields outside of Talea de Castro, Mexico (the mountain village in the distance on the upper left). Agustine Sacha…
Stuck At the height of this pandemic’s third wave, with many of us sitting in what by now feels like an eternal lockdown, images of a gigantic ship…
La foto es de Yanidel Fragmento de De la estructura al acontecimiento. El dentro y el afuera en la sociedad contemporánea, texto en el catálogo de la exposición…
A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral jud……
Feminist Geography Unbound: Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures, edited by Banu Gökarıksel, Michael Hawkins, Christopher Neubert, and Sara Smith (West Virginia University Press, 2021)… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Over the course of the past six months, I have been actively doing fieldwork on HIV care in Turkey on Zoom. Believe it or not, for an anxious…
Editor’s Note: We recently published the winners of our first annual SAFN photo contest. There are, of course, interesting stories and research projects tied to the photos, which…
Introduction “This is a people’s war”, declared President Museveni after the country’s first COVID-19 case, adding, “I have come here to lead the war of the wananchi [against…
Who better to lead User Experience than an anthropologist? Meet Natalie Hanson. She’s a Principal at ZS, where she provides human-centered strategy, research and design for clients. In…
Who better to lead User Experience than an anthropologist? Meet Natalie Hanson. She’s a Principal at ZS, where she provides human-centered strategy, research and design for clients. In…
What moment of fieldwork interaction do you still think about, amazed that you got to witness it and/or record it? While doing fieldwork in 1981 for my doctoral…
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Dieses Wochenende war es wieder soweit: Die Uhren wurden umstellt. In der Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag würde uns eine Stunde Schlaf geraubt und den Rest der Woche…
In America’s Pacific Northwest a group of conservative Protestants have been conducting a new experiment in cultural transformation. Dissatisfied with what they see as the clumsy political en……
How does a specific American religious identity acquire racial meaning? What happens when we move beyond phenotypes and include clothing, names, and behaviors to the characteristics that info… Visit…
Photo by Jonas Denil on Unsplash Eine sensorische Untersuchung von Victoria Langmann Abstract Dieses Essay ist der Versuch, die Einteilung von Sinnen grundsätzlich in Frage zu stellen. Am…
Die zweite Ausgabe der Soziologischen Fragmente ist heute veröffentlicht worden. Unter dem Titel „Eine Verschiebung der Ungleichheiten: Studentische Lebensstile und das Risiko der Coronapandemie…
As a fan of 19th century lithographs and steel engravings of images about the Middle East, I have enjoyed the images in Story of the Bible Animals by…
La imagen corresponde al montaje Encajados, de Joan Tomàs Artículo publicado en El País, el 3 de abril de 2001DIFERENCIA Y DESIGUALDAD EN LA ESCUELA Manuel Delgado En…
A while ago I read something on Twitter that got me thinking. The tweet read something along the lines of: “What kind of sci-fi dystopia are we living…
Over the past few years, this graph has become a sensation. Developed by Our World In Data and promoted widely by Bill Gates and Steven Pinker, the…
Was passiert, wenn Architekt*innen nicht mehr für öffentliche Bauträger, sondern nur noch für den „freien Markt“ arbeiten? Für Patrik Schumacher, Chef von Zaha Hadid Architects, bedeutet es die…