Twitter’s Blue Tick Is a Fake Signal
Evolutionary theory can help us better understand the recent debacle about social media platforms’ popular symbol as a signaling problem. This article was originally published at The Conversati…
Capitalism, Acts of Labor and their Contested Recognition
Questions about capitalism, labor and class are currently receiving new interest, especially as inequalities are on the rise – along with a sense of crisis of the world…
How Disability Teaches Us to Change the World with Brooke Ellison
People with disabilities often face accessibility issues in physical environments, such as a lack of ramps, narrow doorways, and inaccessible transportation. Every barrier is a reminder that designs…
زندگی در بحران، یا زندگی با بحران؟
برای پرسشی که مطرح شده، میتوان از یک سو، پاسخهای ساده و آسانپذیر پیش نهاد که بیشتر حاصل انگیزههایی عاطفی، فایدهگرایانه یا اخلاقی باشند. هیچکدام از این سه…
How to Resist Policing: The Practical Meanings of Towel Masks for Student Protesters in Late 1960s Japan by Shunsuke Tanaka
Masks have long been a symbol of resistance movements around the world, especially in East Asia. As early as the 1960s, protestors in Japan began wearing masks during…
Bracelets in Difficult Times: The Importance of Ordinary People’s Stories
– by Sigrid van Roode – The young man looked at me hesitantly. “Well, I don’t know….” he said. “I’ll have to ask my grandfather, but he’s praying…
Shannon Mattern on her book, A City is not a Computer
Interview by Elliott Montpellier https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208053/a-city-is-not-a-computer Elliot Montpellier: You write that you questioned how to write about “the…
Lecture: Von der Cyber Anthropologie zur Digitalen Anthropologie
On invitation of Christoph Bareither, I gave a lecture on the formations, the differences and similarities of cyber anthropology and digital anthropology for the colloquium “Digital Anthropolog…
De lo común y lo extraordinario. Recordando el 15M
Read Time:7 Minute, 47 Second Susana R. Sousa Susana R. Sousa Sigue sin haber tanto pan para tanto chorizo, sin embargo, los desmane…
Post-
An Indigenous poet-anthropologist writes to her daughter of the limits of her motherly protection. “Post-” is part of the collection Indigenizing What It Means to Be Human. Read…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW20
Diese Woche gibt es besonders viele Stellen im Bereich Volontariat & Trainee, u.a. in Köln, München und Berlin (ca. 20 Stellen!). Wie immer findet Ihr den Zugang zur…
نگاهی به کتاب انقلاب در نقطه صفر: تولید و بازتولید (کار خانگی) دو ستون اصلی بقای سرمایهداری
سیلویا فدریچی نظریهپرداز و فعال فمینیست ایتالیایی در کتاب «انقلاب در نقطه صفر؛ کارخانگی، بازتولید و مبارزه فمینیستی» به ارائه نوعی دیدگاه منحصربفرد در خصوص کار خانگی پرداخته…
Edgar Morin’s Leçons d’un siècle de vie by Robert Dingwall
Leçons d’un siècle de vie. Morin, Edgar. 2022. Paris: Pluriel. Edgar Morin is probably the most influential French sociologist that the English-speaking world has never acknowledge…
Workshop: Textile Arts and Heritage Practices in Southwest China
I am happy to be hosting a group of colleagues in Bloomington this week for a long-delayed (COVID…) writing workshop on “Textile Arts and Heritage Practices in Southwest…
Lots of pink at Koshien for Mother’s Day!
Screen shots from Sky A cable network. Hanshin Tigers vs. DeNA Yokohama Baystars. The umpires were wearing pink shirts and hats, the catchers were wearing pink chest protection,…
Nerina Weiss et al., “The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World” (Routledge, 2022)
Nerina Weiss. Erella Grassiani, and Linda Green’s book The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World (Routledge, 2022) focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within…
Allison Christine Meier, “Grave” (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Allison C. Meier takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour…
Sebanti Chatterjee, “Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality” (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sebanti Chatterjee’s book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (Bloomsbury, 2023) is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality…
Claudia Liebelt, “Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey” (Syracuse UP, 2023)
In the past two decades, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasingly common practice, especially among…
Warum Fantasy?
Fantasy beschwört längst nicht mehr schwarzweisse Weltbilder. Das Genre ist heute zu einem Reflexionsraum von Gegenwart und ihren Geschichten geworden.
Daniel Ruiz-Serna, “When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories” (Duke UP, 2023)
In When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories (Duke University Press, 2023) Daniel Ruiz-Serna follows the afterlives of war, showing how they affect the variety…
Stellenbörse Start-Ups
Geisteswissenschaftliche Gründungen bringen viele Menschen nicht unmittelbar mit Start-Ups in Verbindung, und doch sind technologiebasierte, schnell wachsende Unternehmen in dieser Gruppe …
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When all positives are false: the emergence of an academic whodunnit
Many educators accept the idea that we need to systematically assess the performance of our students. Easily accessible writing tools complicate the practice of assessment: how do we…