How to be a sustainable anthropologist?
Anthropologists often see themselves as committed and active global citizens. But how much of what we teach and learn about sustainability is expressed in anthropologists’ daily actions? And…
Africa and the Epidemiological Imagination by Marissa Mika
In early September we hosted a workshop on Africa and the Epidemiological Imagination at University College London’s Institute of Advanced Studies’ Common Ground. The workshop was sponsored by…
#Review: Le plus beau métier du monde
Giulia Mensitieri’s book “Le plus beau métier du monde” Dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode examines labor in the cultural and creative industries. Analyzing fashion as…
What Foodanthro is reading, September 25, 2018
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or hunterjo@gmail.c…
The project is (almost) up and running!
During the past 4 months, we (the management team in Bergen, consisting of Edvard and Eilin) have been working on getting the Mare Nullius project on its feet,…
Making #DominicanFoodStudies a thing!
By Vanessa García Polanco, Michigan State University Blog editors’ note: This is the fall edition of the Latinx Foodways in North America series, which looks at different approaches…
Hello world!
This is the beginning of the Mare Nullius blog. This blog will feature stories from Mare Nullius participants, from the field, from meetings and workshops in the project.
Erste Eindrücke vom Leben in einer Metropole
Nachdem ich nun schon etwas über drei Wochen in Shanghai bin, habe ich mir mal die Zeit genommen meine bisherigen Erlebnisse und Gedanken festzuhalten, um euch daran teilhaben…
The New Elite’s Battle Against Affirmative Action
The Harvard University Affirmative Action lawsuit says more about wealth than about race. What little solace we had from Abigail Fisher losing her anti-affirmative action case against the…
The House by Laura Vermeulen
The question of how Willem was coping, alone in the big house, had come to concern many of those surrounding him. Over the past couple of months, Willem…
The final station by Susanne van den Buuse
The sun wakes her up. But Mrs Wijngaard keeps her eyes closed. She is 90 years old and sits quietly in her armchair in her apartment in the…
Burning down the house: When crisis becomes daily life in early-onset dementia by Silke Hoppe
For my doctoral research, I interviewed family members living with a loved one with early-onset dementia, a diagnosis that one receives under the age of 65. Jans, not…
George, the dog by Emily Yates-Doerr
Babe, my grandpa, was born on the kitchen tiles of a small Seattle home. His dad, whose own grandpa had run a seedy downtown brothel, would disappear and…
Strangers in unfamiliar environments: Struggles for subjectivity in a dementia care ward by Ingunn Moser
During fieldwork on dementia care in a nursing home, I was struck by the complex and layered orderings of space, time and subjectivity in daily life on the…
Thinking with spirits by Kristine Krause
During my first visit to Ghana in 1998, I was involved in a research project that looked at possible co-operations between healers and psychiatric clinics. I stayed in…
Elana Buch, “Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care” (NYU Press, 2018)
How are the vulnerabilities of older adults in need of care and their care workers intertwined? In Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care (New…
Refraction of daily life by Jeannette Pols
Attending to what makes up ‘the everyday’ has long been a challenge for scholars in the social sciences. [1] Researchers from different disciplines and perspectives have explored how mundane…
Ghana, Electronic Waste, and the Circular Economy
By Tim Perkin As the demand for ICT increases worldwide, it is surprising how little is known about what happens to our electronic goods that are thrown away.…
Deutschsprachige Flüchtlingsforschung in sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachjournals und wissenschaftlichen Netzwerken: Eine Sammelbesprechung der psychosozial Bände 149 und 150 verfasst von Andreas Schulz
Nicht nur der Diskurs innerhalb der Zivilgesellschaft, Mainstream Medien und Politik hinsichtlich der sogenannten Flüchtlingsthematik hat sich seit den rezenten Fluchtmigrationen 2015 aus West- und Ze…
Truth of History
This title is nearly an oxymoron. There are historic truths, but what we known of history is an invention of mostly people who did not personally experience that…
New book published: Nordic researchers on Racism, Racialization and Anti-racism
New book is out! This book represents a comprehensive effort to understand discrimination, racialization, racism, Islamophobia, anti-racist activism, and the inclusion and exclusion of minorities in N…
The Power of Multidisciplinarity: Hackathon-Valencia Case
This weekend we have participated in the II Edition of Hackathon Innova&Acción Business Challenge, an event organized by the Association of ex-students of the Polytechnic University of Valencia…
Soothing Noah Smith’s fears about a post-growth world
Last week Foreign Policy published an article I wrote titled “Why growth can’t be green.” It stirred a lively online discussion – and of course attracted dissenters. …
How Do We Know Which Historical Accounts Are True?
It all started with a stray goat. On an otherwise nondescript day in the spring of 1947, a young Bedouin boy searched for a goat that had strayed…