Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (Princeton UP, 2022) explores how tech companies…
The last time I heard anyone utter the name, Przemysl, I must have been ten or eleven years old. In his thickly Yiddishized English, my maternal grandfather must…
Here are the slides from the keynote speech November 4, 2015 held in Jyväskyä, Finland as part of an international seminar “Racialization in the Nordic Countries”. My talk…
Here are the slides from the keynote speech November 4, 2015 held in Jyväskyä, Finland as part of an international seminar “Racialization in the Nordic Countries”. My talk…
History is taught in all kinds of ways—through textbooks, movies, and … museums. In this episode, museum curators challenge the status quo and connect their ancestry to advance…
Preventing Dementia? Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age Edited by Annette Leibing and Silke Schicktanz Berghahn Books, 2020. 268 pages In their recently…
by Ellie Plumb In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Seth M. Holmes seeks to uncover the synergistic effects that citizenship, race, ethnicity, and…
A word of congratulations to the freshly baked Doctor Ayonghe Akonwi Nebasifu! He just now defended successfully his PhD dissertation with the title Knowledge Integration in Co-management: A…
How might we improve citational politics in “tight places” where not only the norms of citation but also the structure of knowledge or research overdetermines what might be…
We are looking to hire several Research Assistants to help us conduct a systematic literature review to look at the role of Nunavut Arctic College in research, and…
In Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (University of Washington Press, 2022), the first book-length study of Mumbai’s taxi industry and of the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi…
UniReport: Frau Professorin Grimm, im Sommer hat das Hessische Kultusministerium bekannt gegeben, dass die Methode »Lesen durch Schreiben« nicht mehr unterrichtet werden darf. Für viele Eltern dürfte …
اشغال گیلان توسط پترکبیر و دیدگاه مارکس در مورد پترکبیر و اسلاوها (۱) اشاره: متنی که در مورد اشغال گیلان در دوره ی پتر اول ( پتر…
فصل چهارم: اصالت وجود ۲. ماکس وبر، متفکر وجودی مدرنیته در بین اندیشمندانِ عصر مدرن گروهی هستند که جداً دانستن نظرها و تفکراتشان جهت شناسایی «مدرنیته» از اهمیت…
With posts like this postdoc below (at the admirable Claremont network, Pamona Liberal Arts), knowing of course that such jobs are too few and far between, I wonder…
Die ukrainische Gegenwartsliteratur hat uns seit 2014, seit der Annexion der Krym und der Besetzung der Ostukraine durch prorussische Separatisten, sehr genau beschrieben, was es bedeutet, „im Krieg…
Shopping is civil war. From No Orient – https://norient.com/video/shopping-is-civil-war Discussion of videos from: James Tuovinen 2013 Olimpia Splendid – Jukka Pekka Eric Wareheim 2014 Ham Vla…
Image 1: Czar Vladimir, by BakeNecko. I like the tone and the global historical perspective of David Harvey’s FocaalBlog article. Harvey’s socialist internationalism versus competitive nation-…
The application period for the new master course starting in autumn 2022 is open! In today’s globalized world, where media representations shape social and political spheres, a critical…
Rachel E. Black, Cheffes de Cuisine: Women and Work in the Professional French Kitchen. University of Illinois Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-252-04400-7 (hbk); ISBN: 978-0-252-08605-2 (pbk); ISBN: 978…
being ill is my excuse for catching up with novels, but I interrupt the stream of hackery to give a progress report on this as its the best…
An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation By Micha Rahder, Independent Scholar 336pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press § Colin Hoag spoke…
Aracely Solano, a youth volunteer and member of the Huaycán Cultural collective, welcomes visitors to the archaeological site outside of Lima, Peru. Daniel Meza Just an hour’s drive…
Many people, at some stage of their life, worry about sleep: are they getting enough of it? Or even, too much? Derk-Jan Dijk is Professor of Sleep and…