Alliances and Institutional Partnerships for an Engaged Anthropology of Science and Technology
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to this post read by the authors here. Conceptual transformations and emerging thematic agendas in the a…
“God, I miss fruit”: Student food insecurity on Australian campuses
Produce, photo by David Beriss Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey, Gyorgy Scrinis and Sara Guest (The University of Melbourne) University and college food insecurity is a flourishing area of…
Reflecting Three Years After the UNCC Mass Shooting
Every year at this time, I reflect on the shooting that occurred in my classroom on April 30, 2019, that took the lives of two students, injured four…
På hotell i post-pandemiska tider (i skuggan Wittgenstein)
Vid ankomsten verkade allt vara som vanligt. I hotellets lobby fanns en snarlik reception som återfinns på andra hotell. Vid receptionen möttes jag av uniforma, men också professionellt…
Book Review: Joanne Limburg’s Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Cinzia Greco
Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism Joanne Limburg Atlantic Books, 2021. 262 pages. Although feminist and gender perspectives have been employed to analyse a number…
Narges Bajoghli on her book, Iran Reframed
Interviewed by Zehra Hashmi https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29666 Zehra Hashmi: The storytelling and narrative flow of this ethnography works beautifully, and seemingly effortlessly, a…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash…
Scott Stonington, “The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand” (U California Press, 2020)
The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand (University of California Press, 2020) is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt…
Michael L. Walker, “Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail” (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences…
Jennifer K. Seman, “Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo” (U Texas Press, 2021)
Recent global events have unmasked inequitable healthcare systems that disproportionately affect poor Latinx populations along the U.S-Mexico border. Professor Jennifer K. Seman’s recent publication offers a brief insight into…
بدن و نظریۀ اجتماعی
بدن و نظریۀ اجتماعی، کریس شلینگ، ترجمۀ حسن شهرکی، انتشارات انسان‌شناسی، ۱۴۰۰ معرفی کتاب: هدف نویسنده در این کتاب، بازگرداندنِ بدن به مرکز ثقل توجه جامعه‌شناختی از طریق…
Marginalized Ecologies and Education: An Ethnographic snapshot from the Chars of Assam
By Bhargabi Das The strikes in UK by teachers made me think of the precarious life-world of teachers in a different context, somewhere more closer to home. In…
میخکوب بر صلیبِ گذشته ویران روان‌شناسیِ تحقیرشدگی (۲)
در ذهن تحقیرکننده و تحقیرشده چه می‌گذرد و پیامدهای رفتار تحقیرآمیز چه می‌تواند باشد؟ این پرسش‌ها زمینه‌ی بحث در بخش دوم این مقاله است. پیش‌تر خواندیم که تحقیرشده…
عکس فوری (۲۳۱)انتخابات ۲۰۲۲ فرانسه
کمتراز۴۸ ساعت دیگر، احتمال دارد فاجعه‌ای واقعی در فرانسه و سپس در جهان اتفاق بیافتد: پیروزی مارین لوپن، نماینده نوفاشیست‌های پوپولیست و اسلام‌هراس فرانسه. در این یادداشت کوتاه…
مفاهیم شهری: سکونت انسان
دایره‌المعارف اینکارتا، ترجمۀ زهره دودانگه در یک مکان جغرافیایی، مفهوم سنتی سرپناه در طول نسل‌ها از رهگذر آزمون‌وخطا و نبوغ انسان دچار دگرگونی شده است. خانه‌ها به تناسب…
Stellenbörse für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW17
Lukas31https://pixabay.com/photos/clouds-sky-cumulus-weather-nature-7060045/ Diese Woche gibt es leider vergleichsweise wenige Stellen in der Kategorie “Mit Abschluss”, dafür aber umso…
شرحی بر کتاب دزد
اندوه من بیاد فرزندم چرا باید از بره های ابر و رقص پروانه ها بنویسم شب های مهتابی را تعریف کنم به تماشای هواپیماها بنشینم که از آسمان…
The State of Agriculture in Late 13th Century Rasulid Yemen: Part 1
By Daniel Martin Varisco [In 2003 I attended a conference in Rome and gave a paper which was eventually published in Convegno Storia e Cultura dello Yemen in…
Living with Long Covid: A Reflection
As a COVID long-hauler, I inhabit a liminal space of intractable uncertainty with regards to diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and prognosis. COVID infections have blurred the boundary between the two…
Jenseits der Legende vom guten Deutschen: Carl Schurz in den USA
Der 1848er-Revolutionär und spätere US-Politiker Carl Schurz gilt in Deutschland als Held und demokratisches Vorbild. Unter den Tisch fällt dabei sein Anteil in der Etablierung der Rassentrennung in…
Els mercaders ens han expulsat del temple
Paraules per les persones desallotjades aquesta nit del Rectorat de la Universitat de Barcelona, que protestaven contra les retallades pressupostàries a la nostra universitat. Escrites el 25 de…
Imogen, still.
From one of my shelves, the forever young left guardian of books, and more, forever. Miss you heaps, still. Imogen Bunting
SAR Board Member Awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
Brenda Child, the Northrop Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has been awarded a 2022 Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.…
Who needs shopping malls?
By Ton Salman There are markets. There are big markets. And there is the superlative degree of market. Arguably, that is the Feria de 16 de julio, in…