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…
Budapest Soundwalks
Budapest Soundwalks: field recordings and sound art from the community of the Central European University. The featured work was produced as part of an MA course in Sound…
The Life and Times of Red Mud Reservoir № VII
‘The Life and Times of Red Mud Reservoir № VII’ is a collaboration between an anthropologist (me, Ian M. Cook) and a graphic artist/illustrator (Gyula Németh) about a…
Hanno Jentzsch, “Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture” (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and change. Inefficient land use and a rapidly…
Sociología del petardo
La foto es de Rober Solsona En agosto de 1989 se produjo un accidente pirotécnico en San Juan, en Alicante, que produjo ocho muertos. Un coche cargado de…
Stop Calling the Aleutians Pristine
Most of the Aleutian Islands are today unpopulated. Ariel Taivalkoski The Aleutian Islands, which stretch 1,100 miles across the Bering Sea from the Alaska Peninsula, are commonly describ…
My Most Recent Publication on Faculty and Student Mental Health
You can read the article here: “Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing” Johnson and Lester 2021
New Book: Visual Methodology in Migration Studies
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies: New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions is a new open access book (edited by Karolina Nikielska-Sekula and Amandine Desille, Spring…
Anna Ruddock, “Special Treatment: Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences” (Stanford UP, 2021)
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian healthcare. Established in the early years of independence, this enormous public teaching hospital…
Gowri Vijayakumar, “At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response” (Stanford UP, 2021)
In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world’s biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health…