Unmasked: Illustrating COVID-19 in Okoboji
[no-caption] Aaron Gronstal These illustrations tell the story of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small tourist town in the Iowa Great Lakes region: my…
Conversaciones en zapatillas de andar por casa: Javier Maurín de “El jacobino”
Read Time:16 Minute, 36 Second Hoy tenemos en “Conversaciones en zapatillas de andar por casa” a Javier Maurín, codirector de El Ja…
Aditya Pratap Deo, “Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State” (Routledge, 2021)
Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author, a scion of…
Moshe Shokeid, “Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist’s Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus” (Berghahn, 2020)
AD KAN (NO MORE) was founded in 1988 by a group of academics at Tel Aviv University. The initiative, a public pressure group, was prompted by public indifference…
Revisiting Human-Machine Relationships and Efforts of Feminist STS
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Alexa, Bixby, the GPS voice, Siri.… AI (Artificial Intelligence) assistants, which operate through algorithms …
‘Saving the Nation through Culture’ by Jie Gao
Jie Gao. Saving the Nation through Culture: The Folklore Movement in Republican China. Contemporary Chinese Studies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019. 364 pp., 20 b/w photos,…
Entering the World of Fieldwork: first experiences at the NDSM Wharf in Amsterdam
By Zoë Oosterveld Entering the field The first day in the field was nerve-wracking for me. Firstly, because this was my first time ever doing official fieldwork. Secondly,…
Filming fieldwork: Megha Wadhwa in conversation with Andy Lawrence
Hybrid Event in Berlin on June 24, 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 (CEST) In recent years and also in migration studies, filming is being used as an important tool…
Sarah Hillewaert on her book, Morality on the Margins
Interview by Kamala Russell Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya Interview by Kamala Russell Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in…
Tales of ‘Mala-Bori’: Marginalized Muslim char women and population control policies in Assam, India.
By Bhargabi Das The summer months in the chars of western Assam, India where my ethnographic fieldwork was based, are only of respite because of the calm breeze…
Unidad psíquica relativa. Neurodivergencia ¿Un etnocidio invisible?
Read Time:14 Minute, 49 Second El ya no tan nuevo paradigma de la neurodiversidad parece estancado en el discurso sin llegar nunca …
Paul Geary, “Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants” (Intellect Books, 2022)
Dr. Paul Geary’s Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants (Intellect, 2022) examines the work of four of the world’s leading creative restaurants: Noma, elBulli, The Fat…
Markus Bell, “Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea” (Berghahn, 2021)
In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the…
Jobs in Archiv, Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur – KW 18
Alles so instabil und unberechenbar gerade – neulich seufzte eine Workshopteilnehmerin: “Gibt es überhaupt noch klassische Stellen für uns Geisteswissenschaftlerinnen?” Ja. …
Do Not Adjust Your Dial (Ep. #18 Re-release)
Apologies strange familiars. We had some technical difficulties this morning and you might have noticed an podcast briefly go out this morning that wasn’t supposed to. Just a…
Camas Journal, May 1, 2022
Today, I visited three camas areas in Salem. They present different characters and interesting contexts this spring. As I left the fields I noticed splotches of yellow on…
Das Credo der Gewaltlosigkeit. Eine Kritik
Die Friedensbewegung erfährt in Deutschland gerade scharfe Kritik an ihrem Widerstand gegen Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine. Doch wer das Credo der Gewaltlosigkeit und dessen Effekte verstehen will, …
Interview with Keith Hart on Nationalism
by Nika Dubrovsky Keith Hart was then International Director of the Human Economy Programme, University of Pretoria and Professor of … More
دربارهٔ احمدرضا احمدی؛ شب بخیر آقای شاعر
و این احمدرضا احمدی است که مثل تمام نوشتههایش صمیمی است. کودکی که در سیامین روز اردیبهشتماه ۱۳۱۹ در کرمان متولد شد. در سرزمینی که آن را خانۀ…
تجربههای شهری: مونتروی فرانسه
در عرصه نظریه، فضای عمومی کوچک بیشتر با نام ویلیام وایت[۱] و کتاب او با عنوان «زندگی اجتماعی فضاهای شهری کوچک»[۲] شناخته میشود. او در مقدمه کتاب، ایدۀ…
عکس فوری (۲۳۳) ایران بزرگ سهم کیست؟
گفتمانها و روایتهای بزرگ و مبهم و کمابیش همیشه در سایهروشنهایی از حقیقت و خیال، از واقعیت و اسطوره پدیدههایی ذهنی و به دور از دقت تاریخی و…
درباره «روشنگری چیست» ایمانوئل کانت
در مورد آوف کلورنگ[۱] تعاریف متعددی از سوی فیلسوفان و جامعهشناسان (مکتب فرانکفورتیها، فوکو و پست مدرن ها) ارائه شده است ولی در این میان پاسخ ایمانوئل کانت[۲]…
هزار خورشید تابان: زندگی در پس برقع
معرفی داستان سینما چه از بُعد صنعت و چه از بُعد هنر اعجوبهای است از ترکیب تصویر و صدا و بازیگری و موسیقی و با همۀ قدرتی که…