Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin (Berghahn Books, 2024) by Dr. Meghana Joshi engages with how demographic anxieties and reproductive regimes emerge as forms of…
Publishing is confusing and complicated. There are often barriers to understanding it fully. And the process is very rarely fully transparent. So, I’m sharing my experiences of the…
From Andheri to Goregaon—it’s five kilometers. Half an hour by Ambassador in the north Mumbai traffic. Windows down—through them, the usual fumes: chai, wood smoke, diesel exhaust. Plus,…
https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/millennial-north-korea Haeeun Shin: Could you share about your intellectual trajectory of Millennial North Korea? What triggered you to have an interest…
ByLily HiggittMSc Anthropology, Environment and Development, 2022-23 This reflective piece highlights the ethical and political barriers I encountered whilst researching and co-hosting a UCL A…
As the predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabic-speaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East, the Hui people in China have received relatively…
DORA FREITAS April 2024 James Cleverly House of CommonsLondonSW1A 0AA Dear Home Secretary, James Cleverly, On the 4th of December 2023, you announced during a parliamentary debate…
La foto es de 4net Fragmento del capítulo “Morfología urbana y conflicto social”, en Roberto Bergalli y Iñaki Rivera, eds., Emergencias urbanas, Anthropos, Barcelona, 2006, pp. 133-169 Luchas…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopolitical tools and spatial…
Der französischen Regisseurin Coralie Fargeat ist mit “The Substance” (2024) ein zutiefst verstörender und durchgedrehter Film gelungen. Mit ihrer drastischen und grotesken Bildsprache macht sie die S…
“In ‘The Working Day’, Marx reports that the appointment of Mr. H. S. Tremenheere as Commissioner of Inquiry coincides with the occurrence of “several public meetings and ……
A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doing. In this episode, Ingrid Piller speaks with Marco Santello about his…
مارگارت آتوود، برگردان: آذر جوادزاده یادداشت مترجم: «پروژه کتابخانه آینده (به نروژی: (Framtidsbiblioteket) یک اثر هنری عمومی به مدیریت کیتی پترسون هنرمند انگلیسی است که هدف آن جمعآوری…
12 years in the making and my guide to Shaligram interpretive traditions has finally been published! It’s available from TLS Press on all platforms where books are sold!…
All, or almost all of the ACLS Scholarly Societies are in mutual aid relationships with university-based scholarly publishers (=university presses). In the case of folklore studies and the…
Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi’s Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books…
Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, and hierarchies. Walled-In: Arctic Housing…
Hey Adam! “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear brothers and sisters, today I would […] The post The Imam Chatbot: A Digital…
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
The following are speaking notes to an informal talk I gave in the UBC Anth Dept., October 9, 2024. Given time constraints the spoken version was condensed. Not…
We can strive to fix our healthcare system, but the influence of the food science industry in the U.S. is disastrous. If it remains unaddressed, will Americans ever…
This evening’s moth world visitor seems to be (fact check please) Lygniodes vampyrus. Is it an omen for the working day… https://wp.me/pcKI3-3sO . Previous visitors here, also in…