Der „forensische“ Blick
Kurz nach Beginn des Krieges ist im russischen Fernsehen ein neues Genre entstanden: die Anti-Fake-Show. Allerdings wird hier Desinformation nicht entlarvt, sondern hergestellt.
Du Bois on Communism
I typed this out a week ago on Facebook and it was shared nearly 200 times on the first day. This, I think, indicates that the time is…
Review: To Boldly Grow
Haspel, Tamar (2022) To Boldly Grow. Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 231 pp. Ellen Messer (Tufts University) How many…
Wie Du ins Bildungsmanagement einsteigen kannst
Wir bereiten gerade eine Neuauflage von Brotgelehrte 1&2 als Bundle vor. In diesem Zuge aktualisierten wir auch das Kapitel zu Bildungsmanagement – heute für Euch vorab schon im…
please use your discretion to adjust your hope
any day or part day that the individual sees their child in person in the UK counts as a day on which they see their child in the…
Michael Lucey on his book, What Proust Heard
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo130500168.html Ilana Gershon: In what sense are Proust and the other authors you discuss – Balzac, Eliot, Wo…
Andrew Bickford, “Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military” (Duke UP, 2021)
In Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military (Duke UP, 2021), Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military’s attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological “supersoldiers” capable of withstanding…
Pride Month 2022
I personally have mixed feelings about Pride Month this year. We do have a lot to celebrate, but there are lots of reasons for concern, too. Here are…
Pride Month 2022
I personally have mixed feelings about Pride Month this year. We do have a lot to celebrate, but there are lots of reasons for concern, too. Here are…
ESPERANZA SPEAKS: The Power of Ethnographic Storytelling
In this contribution, Gloria Rudolf describes the beginnings of her long-term friendship with Esperanza Ruiz and the people of Loma Bonita in Panama. Nineteen visits and half a…
The collapse of national capitalism — a Sophoclean tragedy – Part 1 – by Keith Hart
Abstract The global economic crisis is not merely financial, a moment in the historical cycle of credit and debt. The … More
Tree Rings Are Evidence of the Megadrought—and Our Doom
I love trees. I also love dendrochronology—literally, “the study of tree time.” This science, which uses data derived from tree growth rings, provides scientists with a wealth of…
Folkeetymologier – små folkeeventyr om ord
Hva har forhåndsregel og muskedunder til felles? Jo, begge er eksempler på folkeetymologier, altså det at et sjeldent eller fremmed ord endrer seg påvirket av andre og mer…
James S. Bielo, “Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
What happens when the written words of biblical scripture are transformed into experiential, choreographed environments? To answer this question, anthropologist James Bielo explores a diverse range of practices…
Crystal Worl’s Countermural Tells a Different History of Alaska
Her dark gray eyes scan the horizon. An iridescent golden sun and stars encircle her head, flanked on one side by a cobalt sockeye salmon and the other…
Stay home to stay safe? South Durban‘s fence line communities in pandemic times (Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer)
In the so-called fence line communities adjacent to the notorious Engen refinery on Tara Road in Wentworth (South Durban), diverse aerosols jointly flooded the air – among those,…
¿Tienen los dioses derechos humanos?
Prólogo no publicado para el libro de Ana Olva y Gloria Fernández, Antonio Banderas, Toda su vida (Ediciones B, 1995). ¿TIENEN LOS DIOSES DERECHOS HUMANOS? Manuel Delgado La…
Andrew Leon Hanna, “25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Andrew Leon Hanna’s book 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs (Cambridge UP, 2022) takes readers inside the Za’atari refugee camp to follow the stories of three courageous…
Moisés Lino e Silva, “Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children,…
Erinnerungskultur in der „Zeitenwende“. Die deutsche Weltkriegserinnerung und der Ukrainekrieg
Neben Kanzler Olaf Scholz und den Verfasser:innen Offenen Briefe scheinen auch breite Teil der Gesellschaft in Deutschland bei Waffenlieferungen in die Ukraine zu zögern. Ein Grund für dieses…
The Dirt
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…
Review: Vino
Campanale, Joe, and Joshua David Stein. Vino: The Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine. Clarkson Potter, 2022. 320 pp. ISBN 9780593136140. Jesse Dart, Arizona State University, Swette Center…
Five Turning Points in the Evolution of Wine
Archaeologists have investigated Greek wine containers shipwrecked in the Mediterranean. Cristian Umili/Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images Contrary to popular belief, the evolution of wine …