Minne, minnesluckor och ironiska blinkningar
Påfåglarnas starka, karaktäristiska läte hörs långt utanför inhägnaden. Det ska även finnas struts, emu, björn, rovfåglar och ugglor i den zoologiska delen av parken. Men vi har inte…
Land Violence and the Indigenous Female Body: Mapping the Guarani and Kaiowá experience
By Anaclara Giurfa de Brito, Tarsila Iglecio With contributions Amelia Yates, Anna Magrì and Sara Cano Diaz. Edited by Jaqueline Aranduha Photo by Fabiana Assis Fernandes The Fir…
Jafari S. Allen, “There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life” (Duke UP, 2022)
In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life (Duke UP, 2022), Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what…
Cooking Debris in an Australian Cave Tells a Story of Resilience
Starting around 4,000 years ago, Bininj (Aboriginal people in Australia) adapted their diets to include more freshwater plants from wetlands, such as those in the Kakadu region (shown…
The Same Old Song and Dance: Nothing Has Been Done to Reduce Mass Shootings
We are only a few days removed from the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX where nearly two dozen people were murdered in cold…
Veränderung: Warum Loslassen so wichtig ist
Wie geht echte Veränderung? Gedanken zu Veränderung, Tod und Neubeginn und warum Abschied nehmen und Loslassen so wichtig sind. Ich steh in meinem Wohnzimmer, voller leergeräumter Regale und halb…
Los ik de Uganda: Tomora maráŋ, es bueno compartir.
“La creencia de que, en el fondo, la naturaleza humana es egoísta sólo sirve para justificar el comportamiento humano egoísta. Lo cierto es que la evolución nos ha…
Het doodlopend pad naar de brede avenue: Lithium in Bolivia
Door Ton Salman Je kunt de patstelling op meerdere manieren formuleren: je bent een land met een lange en wrange geschiedenis van plundering van je rijke natuurlijke hulpbronnen,…
SAR Board Member John Arroyo Wins Whiting Fellowship
John Arroyo SAR’s academic board members continue to win major fellowships focused on innovative work in the public policy arena. John Arroyo, a recent SAR-Mellon Foundation Latinx Resident…
Do Children Need Special Foods?
Ultraprocessed breakfast cereals, sometimes touted as “healthy” thanks to vitamin fortification, are one of the most popular foods targeted toward kids. Education Images/Getty Images In c…
Magical Places: Links und Dinge, die ich toll finde
Am Ende musste ich feststellen, dass ich nicht über alles schreiben kann, was mich in den USA so bewegt hat. Z.B. hätte ich gerne etwas über Verpackungen und…
Im Skatepark
Das Leben in der Bay und deren unterschiedlichen Bewohner*innen kann man in einem Semester an der Uni natürlich nur im Ansatz begreifen und erleben. Ein spezieller Ort, der…
Other Political Beliefs
Viele Menschen, die ich in der Bay getroffen habe, sind unzufrieden mit der Politik, auf lokaler Ebene ebenso wie landesweit. Das zeigt sich auch in Umfragen. Z.B. waren…
Book Review: Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography by Sander Hölgens
In Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography, Sander Hölgens immerses body, board and camera lens in Seoul’s skateboarding scene to explore local variants of the ethos of authenticity that s…
Sean J. Drake, “Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb” (U California Press, 2022)
In Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb (U California Press, 2022), sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses long-standing problems of educational inequality from a nuanced…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۳۴)
(چهارشنبه) فصل چهارم: اصالت وجود ماکس وبر، متفکر وجودی مدرنیته (ادامه از قبل ) این متن که به آشکار کردن گرایشات وجودیِ عقلانیت مدرنیته میپردازد، در پاسخ به…
درباره فضای سوم(۱)
درباره فضای سوم- بخش نخستThird space در رمانی به نام “شهر و شهر” نوشتهی چاینا میهویل(۲۰۰۹) ، دو شهر اروپایی توصیف شده است که هم زمان در یک…
زندگی خانم کاتیوشا ب. و همکاران تمام فلزیاش
زندگی خانم کاتیوشا ب. و همکاران تمام فلزی اش اولین رمان منتشر شده توسط لیلا پاپلی یزدی است. تخصص اصلی این نویسنده که دکترای باستان شناسی خود را…
Die territoriale Logik herausfordern. Ein Gespräch über Flucht und Exil
Der russische Angriff auf die Ukraine hat Europa abermals mit einer Fluchtbewegung konfrontiert, die Millionen von Ukrainer:innen inner- wie außerhalb ihres Landes betrifft. Till Breyer spricht mit de…
Đồng Tháp poses the urgent questions for today.
Juxtaposing decayed US v Soviet war crap or a flower that blooms in slime. a Huey and a MIG and sundry other remnants from the pond in the…
When a great ship asks for deeper water
Harlingen’s harbour is usually half-empty on normal days. There are a few tall ships standing alone in water and many private modern yachts. Suddenly, among them you can…
The Deep Human Story of Collecting Fossils
The Greek myth of Odysseus and the one-eyed Cyclops may have been inspired by ancient mammoth and mastodon skulls, on which the opening for the trunk looks like…
Qatar and the World Cup – Questions and Answers
A while ago, a Swedish reporter asked me to answer a few questions about Qatar and the World Cup. The segment eventually got cut, but since I had…
“Emeryville is Weird”
When I would tell people I worked in the small San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Emeryville, they would almost always say, “Emeryville is weird.” And then the…