How Do You Do “Social”?
We invite you to share your strategies for feeling connected and balancing home and work responsibilities in these social distancing times. Image description: A photo of someone’s desk…
We invite you to share your strategies for feeling connected and balancing home and work responsibilities in these social distancing times. Image description: A photo of someone’s desk…
People in Rome, Italy, go out on their balconies at a specific time to give one another a round of applause during the coronavirus lockdown. Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo…
Mit sofortiger Wirkung beschließen Bundestag und Bundesrat ein Eilgesetz nach Art. 85 GG zur Einsetzung neuer Anthrosozialstellen in allen öffentlichen Behörden und Dienststellen auf kommunaler Ebene …
A friend of mine works as a psychotherapist in a northern California prison. Three weeks ago, he and I were talking about coronavirus in prisons as we stood watching…
It was the early 1990s, while working at the American College of Physicians in Philadelphia, I became interested in epidemiology. With all the doctors around (there were twelve…
In Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change, Alison Kenner uses a multi-sited ethnography to examine the myriad infrastructures and material practices of care in the…
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Maria Paula Prates The first day I realised I was really afraid of being infected and also of the proximity of the…
Over the past two decades, infrastructure has emerged as a central concept in a larger conversation about architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Providing citizens with reliable infrastructure systems…
Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2019) is a pirate story of a different kind. Based on years of ethnographic…
Der Berliner Architekt Hans Kollhoff hält den aktuellen Wiederaufbau des Berliner Stadtschlosses für „extrem wichtig für das ganze Land.“ So steht das in Berliner Portraits. Erzählungen zu…
Wir sind mitten in der Krise. Die drastischen Anordnungen zur Eindämmung der Covid-19-Pandemie haben wir fast klaglos akzeptiert. Weist das darauf hin, dass wir sie heimlich mögen, die…
As the COVID-19 pandemic gains momentum, various forms and scales of lockdown and self-quarantine are being imposed across the world to halt the spread of the virus. With…
Even though I’m not technically on the hook for tripnotes for #AR2020, I’ve enjoyed having a more relaxed approach to capturing some of the key messages coming out…
Vor einer guten Woche starteten Wissenschaftler_innen einen Offenen Brief Das Sommersemester 2020 muss ein „Nichtsemester“ werden. Seitdem sind die Hochschulrektor_innen eifrig darum bem…
Vor einer guten Woche starteten Wissenschaftler_innen einen Offenen Brief Das Sommersemester 2020 muss ein „Nichtsemester“ werden. Seitdem sind die Hochschulrektor_innen eifrig darum bem…
Ruramisai Charumbira Corona Virus graffiti – Seen in the UK on 15th March 2020 before the lockdown procedures came into place. Wikimedia Commons If you had told me…
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals a vital-lethal entanglement of human and nonhuman bodies at a global scale. This post first draws attention on how different viral strains may…
On March 18, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Howard Bauchner discussed a possible link between common hypertension medications and a heightened risk of dying with a coronavirus…
Eine Erhebung im Auftrag der Akademie für Islam in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft (AIWG) an der Goethe-Universität bietet einen Einblick in das Fach Islamische Theologie und seine Studierenden: 80…
Source Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1896, (Public Domain) In the classic origin tale of “The Box” and its seductions, Pandora is driven by curiosity—a distinctly feminized will…
Modi, Trump, Bolsonaro: three avatars of a moment marked by the rise of a far-right populism, what many commentators have even described as a revitalized fascism. As I…
Robert Launay. Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder. 272 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. $32.50 (paper), $97.50 (cloth),…
As I write, there are more than 660,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 30,000 deaths across almost every country in the world, with infection rates accelerating everywhere…
For English click here. A casa de Sofia: família, deficiência e moradia nos tempos da epidemia do Zika Rumo à realização do sonho Caía uma chuva fina. Acordei…