Discard Studies Solidarity Strike
The field of discard studies is united by a critical framework that questions premises of what seems normal or given, what is valued and not valued, and the…
The field of discard studies is united by a critical framework that questions premises of what seems normal or given, what is valued and not valued, and the…
Forest analysis of scorched earth. Courtesy of Daniele Profeta. Princeton University, 2015. On an early January morning in 2015 a group of lawyers from the Guatemalan NGO Mujeres…
Over the past few days, we have been closely following the potential impact of the global COVID-19 outbreak on Borders/Bridges, the AES/APLA joint spring conference in Austin, Texas.…
For Portuguese, click here. In April 2018 the cover of one of Brazil’s most popular magazines, Veja, featured a reprint of a 1944 painting, A criança morta (a…
Mitgezeichnet vom Rat für Migration Gemeinsame Stellungnahme und Forderungskatalog kritischer Wissenschaft und Politischer Bildung in Zeiten von rassistischer und antisemitischer Gewalt und extrem rec…
WRITTEN BY JOP KOOPMAN The city of Wuhan, ground zero of the coronavirus, is 6 six days under lockdown when residents take to WeChat and start to suggest…
https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3737-thanks-for-watching Interview by Jan English-Lueck Jan English-Lueck: You have been writing about YouTubers, on and off screen, for over…
Right now, a lot of momentum is building up in academia around virtual meetings, broadcasted conferences and online teaching. As I mentioned in last week’s Links I Liked,…
Agbogbloshie is a part of an emergent globalised scrap economy that links peripheral markets to global metal flows. In this post, Dagna Rams argues for the need to…
I februar var jeg en uke i Ghana for å være med på Urban Enclaving-prosjektets årlige samling. Å være del av et større forskningsprosjekt har sine fordeler. En…
What can online social spaces like Reddit’s r/gaming reveal about gender attitudes, masculinized spaces, and turning points in gamer communities? In their new book Gender, Masculinity and Vid……
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019) is an ethnography of Palestinian life under occupation that takes waste infrastructures as a starting po……
“It was a really difficult dilemma for me, because I felt that I needed to stand by my work, but at the same time what was more important…
Im 8. Mai 1945 haben die Deutschen in den vergangenen 75 Jahren vieles gesehen: den Tag der „Niederlage“, der „Befreiung“, des „Zusammenbruchs“, der „Besatzung“, des „Neubeginns“. Sein Deutung…
Experts claim that the losing weight process requires patience and time in the first place. It is not possible to lose a large amount of excess weight in…
Back in 2016 the very talented Charlotte Hollands was commissioned by EPIC to do a profile of me. Instead of writing an account of my career she decided…
Since its emergence in December 2019, COVID-19 has led to a global pandemic, in everything but name. To date, over 100,000 people have been infected across the globe,…
Hi all, This week’s #globaldev readings take you on a global tour from Canada to the US, El Salvador, Nepal, India, Kiribati, Kenya & the UK! Plus, a special…
“Todos y cada uno de nosotros somos libres de decidir qué personas son primitivas y cuáles aún necesitan evolucionar”. – Bruno Manser, activista ambiental. “(…) para elaborar…
Here are some of the articles published in February. Enjoy! Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Gestures of Care and Recognition: An Introduction Lauren Cubellis This collection of essays …
Das Jahr 2020 hat düster begonnen. In Indien kommt es zu staatlich tolerierten und wohl beförderten Pogromen gegen Muslim_innen (siehe ein Artikel des Guardians) während eines Staatsb…
Das Jahr 2020 hat düster begonnen. In Indien kommt es zu staatlich tolerierten und wohl beförderten Pogromen gegen Muslim_innen (siehe ein Artikel des Guardians) während eines Staatsb…
From New Books Network: No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting…
Jerome Whitington‘s Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower (Cornell University Press, 2019) examines the dynamics and discourses centered around the development… Visit New Books in…