Lucy Cooke, “Bitch: On the Female of the Species” (Basic Books, 2022)
Bitch: On the Female of the Species (Basic Books, 2022) is a fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel…
Ellen Baumler, “The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana’s Cemeteries” (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana’s Cemeteries (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a…
Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, “Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2020), Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites…
5 tips på hur du får din kärleksrelation att hålla länge
(Innehållsvarning: Texten kan innehålla spår av ironi) Vid ämnet folkloristik vid Åbo Akademi skickade vi i samarbete med SLS arkiv ut en frågelista om Kärlek, sex och relationer…
Stellenbörse für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW13
Bild: mcbruin (pixabay) Für eine vollständige Liste abonniert einfach unseren Newsletter. Diese Woche gibt es besonders viele Anzeigen in der Kategorie ‘Während des Studiums’, darun…
Heroes of Our Economy
A social economy approach therefore asks why people are engaged in specific enterprises. Are they simply out to make the most money they can? Many people do. Or…
Berliner Antisemitismusstreit 2.0? Cancel und Context auf Straßen und Plätzen
In Berlin wird die Umbenennung von Straßennamen diskutiert. Dabei geht es um altbekannte Antisemiten wie Martin Luther und Richard Wagner, aber auch um Denker wie Karl Marx. Wie…
Anna Korteweg on the politics of integration, gender and race in relation to people labelled immigrants
Anna Korteweg is a professor of sociology and head of Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Anna Korteweg works on gender, Islam and immigrant integration in…
Taking Action on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine at the UBC-V Senate
Russia invaded the sovereign territory of Ukraine in between the February and March meetings of the UBC-V Senate. Given the urgency of the situation and the lack of…
Sobre la superació escatològica del present
Altar dedicat a Davide Lazzaretti al Monte Labbro, a la Toscana(foto de Susan Fateh) Nota per els estudiants de l’assignatura Antropologia Religiosa del Grau d’Antropologia Social de la…
Marx heroically caring for Jenny.
The doctor gives opium and Karl reports on the shits to Fred. There is nothing but sadness and tragic loss here, and of course he dies soon after…
Wish list – Nihon-go Marx
Authors I would like to read – English or Japanese pdfs please if you have them – (I may have some spellings wrong, I no longer know where…
Review: Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
David E. Sutton, Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples, Berghahn, 2021, ISBN 978-1-80073-223-0 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-80073-224-7 (ebook), 142 pages. Amy Trubek…
Links & Contents I Liked 440
Hi all,This week’s review returns with classic topics-from charity funding in the US, to humanitarian crises in Myanmar & Syria, women’s empowerment in Malawi, uneven development in PNG…
“Nothing About Us Without Us!” Really?: The Unequal Value of Lives in Harm Reduction NGOs by Catherine Larocque
Canada, like most capitalist societies of the global North, faces “an unprecedented and devastating wave of overdoses” and overdose deaths (Wells, 2017), intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic (Governm…
Ieva Snikersproge: Jobs or ecology? Why green growth is a pipe dream and how the pandemic could change this
My interest in the tensions between job preservation and ecological transition comes from my fieldwork among neorurals in Diois, a relatively isolated mountainous area in Southeastern France. The…
Liora Sarfati, “Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital” (Indiana UP, 2021)
Once viewed as an embarrassing superstition, the theatrical religious performances of Korean shamans–who communicate with the dead, divine the future, and become possessed–are going mainstream. Attitudes toward Korean…
K. S. Batmanghelichi, “Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran” (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Gender and sexuality in modern Iran are frequently examined through the prisms of nationalist symbols and religious discourse. In Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary…
Elayne Oliphant, “The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris” (UChicago Press, 2021)
France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades…
Bend like a Willow Tree
‘Watch out, we’ll catch every one of you!’ Hamza’s shrill voice echoed in the stairwell, and through the opening, he saw a swarm of children scattering to hide…
Cielos negros: nos están robando la noche.
“Era una de esas noches claras, estrelladas, cubiertas de rocío, que oprimen el espíritu y aplastan nuestro orgullo con la brillante prueba de la terrible soledad, de la…
Teddybjørner og springbrett i andrespråkslæringen
Bruk av formularisk språk, eller faste språklige sekvenser og flerordsuttrykk, i andrespråkslæring er et velkjent og veldokumentert fenomen. Men hva er egentlig et formular, og hvilken rolle spiller…
At the Limits of Cure for Tuberculosis
As part of a tuberculosis screening, a radiologist in Germany examines a lung X-ray of a refugee from the 2022 Russian war in Ukraine. Matthias Balk/Picture Alliance/Getty Images…
The influence of world politics in the forest of Northern Lapland
We all know that the current situation with Russia and Ukraine is rapidly changing a lot of the ways and values on which we have been relying in…