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Die Bedrohung der akademischen Freiheit in Indien
Seit seiner Machtübernahme im Jahr 2014 hat Indiens hindu-nationalistisches Regime die Räume der politischen und akademischen Freiheit immer weiter beschnitten. Seine jüngsten Schritte zeigen die anha…
Academic Freedom under Threat in India
Since coming to power in 2014, India’s Hindu nationalist regime has been steadily shrinking the spaces of political and academic freedom. Its latest moves show a continuing tendency…
Special Issue: “Beyond Biological Citizenship” by Emmanuelle Roth
Critical Public Health’s first issue of the year is a special issue titled “Beyond Biological Citizenship,” edited by Marsha Rosengarten, Todd Sekuler, Beate Binder, Agata Dziuban and Peter-Paul…
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اصفهان از دریچه دوربین
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سرزمین بدون نان و خوانشهای متضاد
این مطلب در تاریخ نهم اسفند ۱۳۹۹ در همین وبگاه منتشر و اکنون بازنشر میشود. توضیح عکس: بونوئل در لابیرنت لاک پشت ها بونوئل که از گروه سوررئالیست…
Transitioning with your advanced degree user experience, design and business [recording]
As part of the 2020-2021 Brandeis University Seminar Series “New Trajectories for the PhD”, I teamed up with Adam Gamwell, PhD to chat about transitioning with a social science…
Chronic Experimentation by Kane Race
The introduction of effective combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV disease in 1996 was commonly narrated as a major event that transformed HIV from an inevitable death sentence into…
Chronic caring in unstable landscapes by Josien de Klerk
The current ‘end of AIDS era,’ referred to as Treat All in policy circles,is characterized by the primary aim of identifying and putting all HIV-positive people on antiretroviral treatment …
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Hi all, This week I virtually attended a doctoral school hosted by Fatima Jinnah Women University in Rawalpindi, Pakistan and the inspiring discussions and great research proposals of…
La barricada como instrumento insurreccional en las ciudades
La foto es de EFE Traducción de un fragmento de “The Revolted City. The Barricade and the Other Radical Transformations of Urban Space”, Aquitectonics. Mind, Land, and Society,…
#Academic Fictions: All in a day – The story of an intersection
It is early, the sun has only just begun to rise. A bird swoops from her nest to rest on an electric wire. She overlooks an intersection, a…
Eswatini, Belarus och Myanmar – att byta namn på en nation
Utrikesdepartementet i Sverige har lanserat en ny upplaga av Utrikes namnbok. Där finns mycket att hämta om man behöver veta namn på svenska myndigheter också på några av…
Preserving the Voices of the Antioch Colony
[no-caption] Maria Franklin The chronicles of ordinary Black Americans who lived and labored in Texas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are largely unheralded. That’s especially…
Vaccinating vaccines: Ethnography and the info-politics of public health
DAN ARTUS What exactly can an ethnography of vaccination hope to achieve? And how could one be undertaken? Although any given individual is likely to have received multiple…
Vaccinating vaccines: Ethnography and the info-politics of public health
DAN ARTUS What exactly can an ethnography of vaccination hope to achieve? And how could one be undertaken? Although any given individual is likely to have received multiple…
A. Gandhi et al., “Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Modern markets and exchange, compared with other social and political spheres, are seen through technical abstractions. This intellectual compartmentalization has political consequences: if c… Visit New Books in…
Deborah A. Thomas, “Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair” (Duke UP, 2019)
How can ethnographers use multimedia presentations of their work to reach new audiences, build different relationships with their participants, and promote new practices of witnessing and rep… Visit…
Chronic living: ethnographic explorations of daily lives swayed by (multiple) medical conditions by Ayo Wahlberg
On the 12th of January 2020, the World Health Organization confirmed that the “mystery virus” which, according to reports from China, had infected some 50 people in the…
The Fire This Time: Black and Indigenous Ecologies
In the past year, the world witnessed devastating fire seasons in Australia and the U.S. West, an Atlantic hurricane season with a record thirty storms, and a global…
Africa, the Cutting Edge for Health Care: Lessons from The Continent for the U.S. during COVID-19 by Emma Bunkley
While the United States is often celebrated as a global leader in health expertise, it currently leads the world in COVID-19 infections and deaths. African countries, often considered…