#Afterlives: Ghosts of Infrastructures Past
Some miles outside a small Welsh town, off the main road, a long, flat structure rises from the undergrowth. Ivy and weed smother brick. The shape is familiar,…
Coronatid och mönster
Min mormor tyckte om mönstrade väggar och golv. Jag sitter i köket, på vinden i mitt barndomshem, där hon en gång bodde. Här distansjobbar jag. Gula rosor på…
“La gente tiene que comer”: Food and COVID-19
Lisa Grabinsky Oregon State University “La gente tiene que comer.” (“People have to eat”), my mother replied when I decided to study Nutrition and Food Science, believing that…
Privilege and Certainty: Middle Classes and Confinement
The house and the body are the protagonists of isolation. In Argentina, staying at home is experienced as an unequal privilege. The coronavirus put on the table such…
COVID-19 in a war zone
“Marina, how are you? I am worried about you, how is the situation with Corona?” a Yemeni friend asked me last week via Whatsapp. It was not the…
“We are weeping with our knowledge of the forest”
I have been living with the Baka, one of Central Africa’s hunter-gatherer groups, for the last 5 months. As an anthropologist, this form of immersion is common because…
Book Review: Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging by Constance Smith
In Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging, Constance Smith explores how the residents of Nairobi’s Kaloleni estate interact with materials and structures from the…
Book Review: The City by Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess
Andrew Karvonen revisits the classic urban studies book The City by Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess, originally published in 1925, and argues that contemporary scholars can…
Searching for the Sources of Water Scarcity
Residents in Mumbai collect water at a community tank. Kuni Takahashi/Getty Images Nikhil Anand, an environmental and urban anthropologist, grew up in Mumbai, India. In 2007, after studyi…
Waiting for COVID-19 in Makeni, Sierra Leone, by Susan Shepler (2020)
This is the third time I’ve fled Sierra Leone because of a crisis. The first was in May of 2000 during the tail end of the war, when…
Corona-Krise und Moralisierungen
von Manuel Dieterich „Hey, Corona!“, schreit die Fahrradfahrerin der Gruppe von 8 Kindern und einer Erwachsenen entgegen. Sie ist sichtlich empört über diese augenscheinliche illegale Zusammenrottung,…
Teaching in the Times of Corona: Structural Inequalities and the Limitations of Online Pedagogy in North East India (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Achuth Ajit The COVID-19 pandemic has gravitated a shift in teaching practices across the world. The fear of contagion and the…
Waiting for COVID-19 in Makeni, Sierra Leone, by Susan Shepler (2020)
This is the third time I’ve fled Sierra Leone because of a crisis. The first was in May of 2000 during the tail end of the war, when…
Forrest Stuart, “Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy” (Princeton UP, 2020)
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power? In his new book, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of…
The ‘Invisible Enemy’: A Critical Look at the Use of Military Metaphors and Anthropomorphisation During The COVID-19 Pandemic
JAMES FOTHERBY In mid-March, before becoming infected with Coronavirus, Boris Johnson declared that his government must act like “any wartime government” while facing a deadly “enemy”. During John…
Nancy Mattina, “Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys Reichard and Western Native American Culture” (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
Protégé of Elsie Clews Parsons and Franz Boas, founder and head of Barnard College’s anthropology department, and a trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichar… Visit…
Avslöjande kroppar
Ett av mina favoritskämt i dessa tider går ungefär så här: Förr så hostade jag för att dölja en prutt – nu pruttar jag för att dölja en…
Haunted: Spirits and the Agency of the No Longer in Niger #Afterlives
In Niger one frequently hears that schools, specifically secondary schools, are haunted. Briefly put, this means that some schools are teeming with spirits, most of whom pose a…
مقایسه تسلیم شدن دکتر حشمت با حاج احمد کسمایی
به مناسبت ۲۱ اردیبهشت سالگرد اعدام دکتر حشمت اشاره: این مقاله بخشی از کتاب در دست انتشار نویسنده تحت عنوان« جنبش و انقلاب جنگل( از مبارزه علیه اشغالگری…
Waschbeton 9
(Foto: genova 2018)
Corona-Krise und Moralisierungen
von Manuel Dieterich Beobachtung I: „Hey, Corona!“, schreit die Fahrradfahrerin der Gruppe von 8 Kindern und einer Erwachsenen entgegen. Sie ist sichtlich empört über diese augenscheinliche illegale Z…
Postkolonialismus und jüdisches Denken. Anmerkungen zur Debatte um Achille Mbembe
Um den Philosophen Achille Mbembe tobt eine Debatte. Zur Diskussion stehen seine Äusserungen zur Politik Israels. Ein Blick auf das Verhältnis der postkolonialen Studien zum Judentum zeigt, dass…
A ‘grand projet’: Universal Health Coverage and social protection in Senegal by Anna Wood
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
نگاهی بر دو مفهوم زنبودگی و مردبودگی
بحث امروز من، به طور خاص بر مفهوم «زن بودن» و «مرد بودن» متمرکز است. این دو مفهوم در اکثر جوامع انسانی مدرن، به مثابه مفاهیم بدیهی در…