Top 10 Discard Studies articles of 2020
It’s time for reminiscing! And what better topic to think back on than a year’s worth of trashy insights? Here are the top ten posts from Discard Studies…
In the Journals, December 2020, Pt. 2 by Eliza Williamson
Medical Anthropology Quarterly This month’s edition of MAQ examines the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of medical anthropology in making sense of and responding to it. Medical Anthropolog…
Other Psychotherapies: Special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry by Eliza Williamson
This special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry explores the under-examined roots of Western psychotherapy, complicating the idea that it is, in the words of the issue organizers, “exclusively&#…
Sudden loss of a great research facilitator
This is dedicated to a long term and very good friend, Konstantin Ochepkov, who passed away in Siberia way too early yesterday, just a little over 50 years…
SAFN Award Winner Interviews
SAFN recently announced the 2020 winners of our student awards. The undergraduate Christine Wilson paper award went to Adele Woodmansee, for her paper “‘It is Pure Criollo Maize’:…
In the Journals, December 2020, Part 1 by Emmanuelle Roth
American Anthropologist Fitness Fanatics: Exercise as Answer to Pending Zombie Apocalypse in Contemporary AmericaKatie Rose Hejtmanek Physical fitness has a long history in the United Sta…
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, “Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan” (U California Press, 2020)
The name Cancún brings to mind tourism, resorts, beaches, sun, and fun. In her book, Stuck With Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan (University of California … Visit New…
Theodora Wildcroft, “Post-lineage Yoga: From Guru to #metoo” (Equinox Publishing, 2020)
Theodora Wildcroft’s Post-lineage Yoga: From Guru to #metoo (Equinox Publishing, 2020) presents a ground-breaking model for scholars to understand the contemporary teaching and practice of y… Visit New Books in…
John Wei, “Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes” (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
John Wei’s book Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) studies queer cultures and social practices in China an… Visit New Books…
Theodora Wildcroft, “Post-lineage Yoga: From Guru to #metoo” (Equinox Publishing, 2020)
Theodora Wildcroft’s Post-lineage Yoga: From Guru to #metoo (Equinox Publishing, 2020) presents a ground-breaking model for scholars to understand the contemporary teaching and practice of yo… Visit New Books in…
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, “Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan” (U California Press, 2020)
The name Cancún brings to mind tourism, resorts, beaches, sun, and fun. In her book, Stuck With Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan (University of California Press, 2020)… Visit…
John Wei, “Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes” (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
John Wei’s book Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) studies queer cultures and social practices in China and Sinop… Visit New…
Introducing a New TGA Editor: Astrid Willis Countee
I am sure that I don’t have to say that we have all been through a lot this year. For me personally, I have struggled in ways that…
Philip Seargeant on his new book The Emoji Revolution
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/emoji-revolution-how-technology-shaping-future-communication Kevin Laddapo…
The Dirt
The Dirt is a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field of discard studies. Here is The Dirt for December 2020.
Theory as reproduction: Reflections on the history of doing feminist anthropology in Australia Part 1 and 2
The Familiar Strange · Part 1:Theory as reproduction:reflections on the history of doing feminist anthropology in Australia The Familiar Strange · Part 2:Theory as reproduction:reflections on the hist…
Desemmascarament i mort de la gauche divine. La destrucció del carrer Tuset (desembre 1970)
Comentari pel doctorand Jeremy Buck, amb un TFM en marxa sobre la gauche divine. enviat el març de 2015 Desemmascarament i mort de la gauche divine. La destrucció…
FLP: Announcing the upcoming release of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong Vol. IX – Redspark
https://www.redspark.nu/en/theory/flp-announcing-the-upcoming-release-of-the-selected-works-of-mao-zedong-vol-ix/ This is how to do an announcement!. It is well worth reading for both what it says abo…
Sobre l’eventual confluència entre EUiA i la CUP
Foto de Jordi Pizarro Els amics David Fernández i Julià de Jòdar, del seminari la Directa, van demanar-m què penso de la CUP per a un llibre sobre…
Ubyssey interview on UBC security and defunding the police.
In late November, 2020 I was interviewed by the Ubyssey about the external review of UBC’s security force and the place of the RCMP on campus. The article was…
El complejo funcional según Papanek
El complejo funcional del diseño es una propuesta conceptual y metodológica de Víctor Papanek para ayudar al diseño a salir de su distracción. Tal vez nadie como Papanek…
Wednesday Round Up #29
Ira Glass, the Host of This American Life, Breaks Down the Fine Art of Storytelling Doing the Biocultural Work with Dr. Jada Benn Torres and Dr. Gabriel A…
Christmas in the Brothel
Christmas in the Brothel Edvard Munch, 1905 The post Christmas in the Brothel appeared first on The Naked Anthropologist.
Russell T. Warne, “In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
In this episode I talked to Russell T. Warne about his book In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence (Cambridge UP, 2020). Warne takes on the “natu… Visit New Books in…