Knowledge quilt
CLEAR Artist in Residence Dr. Pam Hall led us in the creation of a knowledge quilt made from parts of a lab coat.
Workbook on colonialism, mapping, and oil
Artist Emily Roehl worked with CLEAR to create a workbook around the question: “How might we think about the tensions in attempting to address colonialism in mapping some…
Collective Consent for research projects
When a researcher asks to use CLEAR as a study site, we use a collective consent process to decide together.
Links & Contents I Liked 451
Hi all,After a little summer flu health break last week, Aidnography is almost back to the usual routines just as the new semester is about to start next…
Kareem Rabie, “Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank” (Duke UP, 2021)
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the…
Brahma Prakash, “Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well…
Review: Translating Food Sovereignty
Canfield, Matthew C. Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance. Stanford University Press. Stanford, Ca. 2022. pp.264. ISBN:978150363104. R…
Die Sache mit dem richtigen Moment
Letztes Wochenendende unternahmen mein Partner und ich eine Rundwanderung hoch über dem Genfersee (https://www.schweizmobil.ch/fr/suisse-a-pied/itineraires/route-0266.html) und als Belohnung für die A…
Milkarri: los cantos en espiral de las mujeres Yolŋu.
“Con nuestros cantos, la tierra se renueva, nuestros cantos son nuestros derechos territoriales”. “Los Songspirals (cantos en espiral) son una universidad para nosotras. Son un mapa de entendimientos”.…
Kjønn og språkleg sjølvtillit i høgare utdanning
«Jeg lærer veldig godt på engelsk, men hadde nok dessverre ikke turt å spørre om noe på engelsk i forelesning foran alle.» Slik uttrykte ein kvinneleg student seg…
An Archaeology of Personhood and Abortion
Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures. ✽ After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade…
Robinson Vols 1 & 2.
Crikey, would you have paid 35 grand (in 2017) for just parts one and two of the original Robinson – this was missing the third part. Bargain at…
Interactive Science Museums: Replicating Science Without a Context
“We want a different museum. One where people are not afraid to interact with the objects” were the words[1] of one of the promoters of the ITINTEC museum,…
Global South Asia on Screen
The full wraparound cover: https://www.aakarbooks.com/details.php?bid=875
An urgent and important initiative to move forward with EU support of Arctic research together with Indigenous communities
I would like to encourage you with this post to fill in a short anonymous survey on your experiences and challenges with the co-creation of knowledge here: https://survey.hifis.dkfz.de/351545…
آییننگاری، حاصل تشرف در آیین است
این یادداشت در ۱۴ شهریور ۱۳۹۱ در این وبگاه منتشر و امروز دوم شهریور ۱۴۰۱ بازنشر میشود. آیینها و مناسک، راهی هستند برای تشرف. با تشرف و مشرف…
Call for Papers: PoLAR First Article Mentoring Workshop
PoLAR invites submissions for its newly launched first article mentoring workshop, in which scholars who have not yet published a peer-reviewed article with PoLAR are invited to submit…
زبان به مثابه ابزار دستکاری ایدئولوژیک
بحث درباره زبان به مثابه ابزار سیاسی و دستکاری سیاسی، دستکم از زمانی که کتاب «۱۹۸۴» جرج اورول منتشر شد، به صورتی جدی به یک موضوع مناقشه عمومی…
انقلاب کوبا و رقص (۲)
نوشته: ایوان پین دانیل برگردان: فردین علیخواه تغییر ارزشها رقص در کوبا، بهطور ویژه بهعنوان دغدغهای ملی در نظر گرفته نشده است. رومبا در میان اظهارات مرتبط با…
هنر و زبان مادری در ایران (۹)
قسمت نهم: یک مصاحبه کامل، مواجهه زبان مادری و هنر برای یک بازیگر سینما/تیاتر لیلا حسین زاده، سپهر خدابخش پیشگفتار: هنر و زبان مادری در ایران، مجموعه مصاحبه…
امپریالیسم متفوّق
انوش صالحی محمود توکلی سیمایی ناشناخته در «نهضت ملّی ایران». مجید رُهبانی. تهران: جهان کتاب، ۱۴۰۰. ۳۶۰ ص. ۶۰۰۰۰۰ ریال. در اوایل دههٔ چهل و در فضایِ نسبتاً…
Alfie Bown, “Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships” (Pluto Press, 2022)
We are in the middle of a ‘desirevolution’ – a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new technologies –…
Brett Scott, “Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets” (Harper Business, 2022)
In Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets (Harper Business, 2022), Brett Scott tells an urgent and revelatory story about how the fusion of Big Finance and…
A Reader’s Question About Surviving the Ice Age
An anthropologist describes the multiple ice ages of the Earth’s past and how our species survived the most recent one. This article was originally published at The Conversation…