ByLuna Kvarnstrøm MelgaardMSc Anthropology, Environment, and Development Why is the aviation industry worth talking about? We have all heard how harmful the aviation industry is to the clim…
What is shamanic power? And how does it affect modern politics in Indigenous Amazonia? In this episode, we follow the life of a young Indigenous activist fighting for…
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations,…
Source: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu/new-the-berreman-yamanaka-global-equity-award?e=237d513adb Thanks to JH for forwarding this to me.
With the global surge of the Black Lives Matter movements, a renewed interest in the history, theory, and politics of abolitionism has emerged. I understand the intellectual aspect…
This semester I taught a new course called “Wicked Science,” which examines the challenges posed by wicked problems — those problems that defy solution because of fundamental di…
Cheuk Kwan. Have You Eaten Yet?: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World. Pegasus Books. New York and London. 2023. ISBN: 978-1-63936-334-6. pp. 260. …
The shock among the Dutch chattering classes on 16 March was palpable. The right-populist Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) – established in 2019 by a small communications firm, bankrolled by…
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 4 Minuten Foto von Melanie Haberl Interview mit Melanie Haberl über ihre Masterarbeit „Mit Vergnügen: Das ‚gute‘ Gespräch als Spiel. Unterhaltung durch und m…
Interview by Elliott Wiseman https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo46770602.html Elliott Wiseman: In the introduction, you establish Mafiacraft as an inversion of wi…
Read Time:2 Minute, 40 Second Acabo de escuchar en la radio a un grupo de tertulianos debatiendo sobre el cambio de ubicación de la tum…
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston about The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (Routledge, 2023). This…
A poet-anthropologist evokes a popular myth that speaks to the repercussions of—and possibilities of repair from—U.S. violence in the Philippines during colonialism. “Apparition in SugarlandR…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Volontariat beim Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V. (Frankfurt am Main), eine Stelle für Quereinsteiger*innen bei Eat The World (Dresden) und eine Stelle…
by Rebecca Prentice The survivors of the deadly supply chain disaster were paid ‘rights-based’ compensation from global brands; it wasn’t sufficient to help rebuild their lives The Rana…
An annotation of someone’s article abstract is probably a bit unfair. I’ve managed some awful ones myself. Sigh. Here I was, stuck in a long meeting, listening to…
“Look at the numbers!” Who hasn’t heard or even said that phrase during a debate? Does your company evaluate your work with performance indicators? We tend to take…
Anthropology versus Psychoanalysis? Text by Lea Hensch (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Pablo Dohms The following essay addresses the question of why the century-old debate on the universality…
Die polarisierende Wirkung von Social Media ist 2022 keine Neuigkeit mehr. Zahlreiche Studien haben sich in der vergangenen Dekade mit dem Thema der Polarisierung im Digitalen auseinandergesetzt. Etwa…
Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in…
Seit inzwischen sieben Jahren veröffentlicht das angeblich „unabhängige“ Onlinemagazin Geschichte der Gegenwart wöchentlich zwei Beiträge zu aktuellen Debatten. Es erhält dafür viel Zuspruch. Einige …
اهمیتشکلگیری پاتوقها در حوزۀ عمومی شهرها از منظر علوم اجتماعی چیست و کارکرد اجتماعی و اهمیت نظری آنها را در جوامعی همچون ایران در چه میبینید؟ ابتدا بگویم…
