Article Alerts for September 2016
These are the most recent publications in the subfield of discard studies for September 2016.
#Reviews Week – and a Student-Led Research Project!
This week we have two new reviews for you, tackling the question of #race (see our #callforreviews here): Tomorrow, our frequent and …
‘What happened to sex trafficking?
The University of Melbourne is hosting a symposium on Gender, Mobility Regimes and Social Transformation in Asia, 3-4 November, 2016. Further details …
Die Zukunft von Refugee ResettlementMachen die September-Gipfel einen Unterschied?
Im September wurden in New York zwei Gipfel abgehalten: Der UN-Gipfel zu Flucht und Migration und der von US-Präsident Obama initiierte Gipfel …
Academics Start Reviewing Journals
Academic Journal Reviews is now live. It describes itself as: “A place for academics to review the publishing process at peer-reviewed journals.” …
Conversations with Unusual Suspects CIE WEST/EAST
Have you heard about the new CIE Seminar Series: Conversations with Unusual Suspects taking place 2016-2017 at both Simon Fraser University and …
Superbugs evolve in waste water, and could end up in our food
While the conversation on antibiotic resistance has started, one part of the story has not been highlighted. The risks to human and …
Trump: A Bolivian’s Perspective
[Savage Minds welcomes guest bloggers Daniel M. Goldstein and Raúl Rodriguez Arancibia] In the Andes last summer, while traveling to visit family …
Mill City Museum
David Beriss Going to Minneapolis for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association? Readers of this blog will probably want to …
The War Against Privacy
In the May-June 1993 issue of Wired Magazine, an article on a group of mathematicians advocating a radical, libertarian, cryptographic philosophy appeared …
UCL Anthropology launches joint cross-section seminar series on “resilience”
UCL Anthropology launches a joint cross-section seminar series titled “Resilience – Merits and Critique of a Concept. Beginning after November reading week, …
UCL Anthropology Launches joint cross-section seminar series on “resilience”
UCL Anthropology launches a joint cross-section seminar series titled “Resilience – Merits and Critique of a Concept.” Beginning after November Reading Week, …
Web Roundup: Photography and Visual Tech by Lily Shapiro
This month’s Web Roundup is focused loosely around the theme of the visual. How do we use photography and other mediums to …
The Free-to-Readers Edition of Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds
As I discussed in a previous post, works in the Material Vernaculars series are being made available in a free-to-readers PDF edition …
Podcast with Patricia Nixon
Vital statistics Age: 34 Lives: Los Angeles (“or on a plane”) Favourite holiday places: St Tropez; any Australian country destination; Whale Beach, …
Ethnography as Education, Alone and Otherwise
Ethnographic fieldwork is a unique and life-altering experience. But it is also a trying and complicated experience. Even as someone who is …
Christopher Woolgar, “The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500” (Yale UP, 2016)
Food was central to the lives of people in England during the Middles Ages in ways different than it is today. As …
Megan C. Thomas, “Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2012 )
In Orientalists, Propagandists and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), Megan Thomas offers a …
Talking Anthropology: Podcasting and Its Potential for the Discipline (Part Two)
We’re back with another post from our friends at Teaching Culture blog! This time we explore podcasting and its potential for Anthropology. Here’s …