Review: Nomadic Food
Isabelle Bianquis and Jean-Pierre Williot, eds. Nomadic Food: Anthropological and Historical Studies Around the World. Rowman and Littlefield. London. 2019. pp.272. ISBN 978-1-5381-5. Rich…
David Harvey: Remarks on Recent Events in the Ukraine: An Interim Statement
Image 1: Young girl protesting the war in Ukraine, photo by Matti. David Harvey prepared this text for the 2022 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. We publish…
Book Review: Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete by Konstantinos Kalantzis
In Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, Konstantinos Kalantzis explores the experiences of Sfakians in Crete to reflect on how tradition is made meaningful…
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Hi all, This week’s #globaldev review has turned into an outlet for me to avoid more doomscrolling, cope with feelings of helplessness as war unfolds in Europe &…
Fighting for injection in Paris by Johannes Lenhard
Figure 1: Non-safe-injection site behind Paris’ Gare du Nord, February 2016 (all photos by author). The first time I ever saw a person shooting up was right behind…
Für eine koordinierte, solidarische europäische Aufnahmepolitik von Ukraine-Flüchtlingen. EU „Massenzustrom-Richtlinie“ macht dies unkompliziert möglich
Pressemitteilung des Rats für Migration Die vollständige Pressemitteilung mit Anhängen als PDF Der Krieg gegen die Ukraine hat begonnen. Und Menschen fliehen. Wie viele Flüchtende eine längere militär…
Book Review: White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s ‘An American Dilemma’ and the Making of a White World Order by Maribel Morey
In White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order, Maribel Morey explores the story behind the production of the influential study on US…
Writing Life No. 17: An Interview with Stacy Leigh Pigg by Stacy Leigh Pigg
Image 1: The desk where Stacy writes when she is actually at a desk. Have you ever taken a walk inside your article? Can you conceive of a…
El no-lugar es el lugar en que estamos cuando pensamos
La fotografía es de Fran Simó Más consideraciones sobre el concepto de no-lugar para la gente del OACU, con referencia espacial a un comentario de Martin Lundsteen sobre…
Wahhabis in the Dustbin?
This is a fascinating analysis by Hassan Hassan of the Saudi royal family trying to rewrite its past. It is available on the New/Lines website. Here is the…
Paul Farmer (1959-2022) and SAR
Paul Farmer on the SAR campus, 2006. Photo credit: Katrina Lasko Dr. Paul Farmer, humanitarian, physician, and anthropologist, died in his sleep on February 21 in Butaro, Rwanda,…
Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kindeswohl und Kontrolle: Laura McAdam-Otto zum Umgang mit jungen Geflüchteten
Die Kulturanthropologin Laura McAdam-Otto hat in ihrer Doktorarbeit den Umgang europäischer Behörden mit jungen Geflüchteten erforscht. Für ihre Dissertation wurde sie mit dem Augsburger Wissenschafts…
Book Review: Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge edited by Silvia Pasquetti and Romola Sanyal
In Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge, editors Silvia Pasquetti and Romola Sanyal bring together contributors to explore different experiences of forced migration at local, regional and glob…
What Chimpanzees Know About Giving Medicine
Chimps exhibit unique behaviors in different communities, such as these who clasp hands while grooming one another. P. Gagneux/GMERC This article was originally published at The Conversat…
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, “Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora” (Duke UP, 2021)
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández once again engages in the fearless work of challenging structures of domination. In her most recent book, Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2021), Profesora…
Andrea Wright, “Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil” (Stanford UP, 2021)
More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find…
On the use and abuse of networks in academia
Like most anthropologists, we have been watching events unfold at Harvard University’s anthropology department over the past weeks: accusations of abuse; letters in support of the man accused…
اینفلوئنسرهای رسانههای اجتماعی
بروکن ارین دافی[۲] برگردان سمانه کوهستانی اینفلوئنسرهای رسانههای اجتماعی گروه کوچکی از خالقان محتوای دیجیتال هستند که بهواسطهی دنبال کنندگان قابلتوجه آنلاین، پرسونابرند متفاوت و روابط الگومندشان …
چرا کرونا امیکرون پاندمی شد؟
قریب سه ماه از اعلام خبرکشف گونۀ جدید کووید ۱۹ از طرف سازمان جهانی بهداشت میگذرد. این سازمان در اوایل آذر سال ۱۴۰۰ هشدار داده بود که گونۀ…
El efecto skin
La foto es de Paul Ashby Este artículo fue publicado en El Periódico de Catalunya el 20/9/2003 a raíz de unos supuestos ataques skins que se estaban produciendo…
Rassismus gegen Weiße? Für eine Osterweiterung der deutschen Rassismusdebatte
Rassismus ist nicht nur eine Frage der Hautfarbe und erschöpft sich nicht in Dichotomien. Wer den deutschen Rassismus verstehen möchte, darf das östliche Europa nicht vergessen.
Massimiliano Mollona: Why the End of Work Will Not Be the End of Capitalism
One of the lowest moments of my undergraduate studies in Economics back in the 1990s happened whilst reading Tom Peters’ Liberation Management (1992), where the management guru/McKinsey-associate pro…
Should You Feel Bad About Your Pandemic-Era Plastic Waste?
Plastic waste has grown exponentially across the globe during the pandemic. Matthew Williams-Ellis/Universal Images Group/Getty Images “Sometimes I want to avoid producing excessive waste…
Greg de St Maurice and Beth M. Forrest, “Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place and Taste” (Bloomsbury, 2022)
How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place and, Taste (Bloomsbury, 2022) spans time and space to illustrate how, through food, people…