Can Social Scientists Help Control Epidemics?
A poster in an Ebola response center breaks down the evolving response to the epidemic—including efforts to address social and cultural concerns. Annie Wilkinson On May 24, 2014,…
Solidarity, infrastructure and critical pedagogy during COVID-19: Lessons from Brazil by Dominique P. Béhague
Even before the pandemic hit Brazil’s favelas, residents began organizing to protect themselves — against both the novel coronavirus and the government’s active suppression of effective public …
Wednesday Round Up #44
Octomom: Deep-sea octopus guards her eggs for over four yearsAmazing footage of an amazing mother The Empty Brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge, or store…
Animal Displacement from Syria: A Story Yet to be Written
During the Syrian war, which has now raged for a decade, the attention of scholars, media commentators and activists has primarily focused on human displacement. More than 60%…
Lee Ann Fujii, “Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach” (Routledge, 2018)
In this very special episode of New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science we feature Lee Ann Fujii’s Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach (Routledge, 20… Visit New Books…
Duane Jethro, “Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power” (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Duane Jethro’s Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a terrific book. In it, Jethro develops a novel analytical framework… Visit New…
زایش اشاره و گفتار (۲)
آندره لوروا-گوران ترجمه اصغر کریمی زایش اشاره و گفتار وسیرتحول آن، فن و شیوه زبان فصل دوم مغز و دست …چنین بود که در پرتو این سازمان، روح…
سنتهای نظری: رویکردها و منشاهای فرهنگی، اجتماعی بدن مندی
لیلا اردبیلی سال ۲۰۱۹ انتشارات آکسفورد کتابی با عنوان کتاب راهنمای جامعه شناسی شناختی منتشر کرد که در آن کسانی همچون عمر لیزاردو، اویاتار زروباول، کارن سرلو، و…
گونهشناسی نظریههای اجتماعی ریسک و خطرات محیطی
ریسک در چند دهه ی اخیر از انحصار دانش تخصصیِ علوم پایه و مهندسی (علوم فیزیکی) که فقط با ابزارهای فنی تخمین زده می شود، خارج گردیده و…
نگاهی به کتاب «سوزان سانتاگ در جدال با مرگ»
مرگ برای زنی که «خِرَد مذهب او بود» آیا مرگ روشنفکر با مرگ یک فرد عادی متفاوت است؟ وقتی مرگ، سرنوشت انکار ناپذیر هستی انسانی است و…
از بهشت و دوزخ در قلمرو دینی تا اتوپیا و دیستوپیا در هستی اجتماعی (۳۰)
افشاگریِ کاسیرر و آرنت از اسطوره های سیاسی ـ ایدئولوژیکیِ «دیستوپیایی» ؛ و وضع موجود ایران در جهان دیستوپیایی امروز (۲۰۱۹ ـ ۲۰۲۰ میلادی)، منطقه بحران زده ی…
Identitätspolitik: Ohne geht es auch nicht
„Identitätspolitik“ gilt wahlweise als liberal oder illiberal, zu links oder nicht links genug. Ein Blick in die letzten drei Jahrzehnte aber zeigt: Die Forderung, auf Themen von Kultur…
Ted Chiang on Artificial Intelligence
Ted Chiang is a science fiction author who wrote the story that became Arrival (via Metafilter). Recently in The New Yorker: How much can you optimize for generality?…
SAR Announces 2021-2022 Native Artist Fellows
SAR Announces 2021-2022 Native Artist Fellows …
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize 2021
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send papers centering…
بحران کرونا، یک مساله سیاسی است یا یک مساله بهداشتی
شیوع موج جدیدی از کرونا، باز هم منجر به گفتگوهایی بر سر نحوه مدیریت بحران کرونا در ایران شد. پرسش آنست که چرا با وجود هشدارهای متخصصان…
A Sandbox for a Specific Type of Narcissist – Clubhouse, the Allure of Live Audio and Dangerous Rabbit Holes
A nasal voice is rambling on in a long monologue about how to best pitch a startup on Clubhouse when I log on sometime in March. It is…
Entrepreneurship and Technologies
Everyone is an entrepreneur – a new ethos is sweeping through our economic world. While the promises of ‘being your own boss’ and ‘deciding about your working hours’…
Próximo número: 3 de Mayo de 2021
No te lo puedes perder La entrada Próximo número: 3 de Mayo de 2021 aparece primero en anthropologies.
Can the Holy Spirit Be Livestreamed?
A pastor reaches out to his global congregants online to emphasize the importance of pandemic lockdowns. Pastor Samuel K Majok—Online Ministry Every Sunday, during her fieldwork, Cristina…
What a comedian in blackface says about German media, prevailing racism & ignoring colonial histories
It all started with a Tweet… German public broadcaster from Bavaria aired a comedian who impersonated an African dictator (including blackface/white gloves) to “satirically” address recent cases of…
In the Journals – Militarization
Officers wearing a traditional late 1960s uniform (left) and a new demilitarized uniform featuring a blazer (right), Riverside County Sheriff, 1969 by Stuart Schrader via Journal of Urban…
Maurice Rafael Magaña, “Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico” (U California Press, 2020)
In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban a… Visit…
Jason Manning, “Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction” (U Virginia Press, 2020)
The conventional approach to suicide is psychiatric: ask the average person why people kill themselves, and they will likely cite depression. But this approach fails to recognize suicide’s…