Humanitarianism in the Anthropocene
The anual Australian Anthropology Society conference is fast approaching. I will be co-chariing a panel on Humanitarianism in the Time of the Anthropocenetogether with Darryl Stellmach (University of…
The anual Australian Anthropology Society conference is fast approaching. I will be co-chariing a panel on Humanitarianism in the Time of the Anthropocenetogether with Darryl Stellmach (University of…
I hope the students and professors that are finishing up their terms in the coming weeks are surviving the last wave of work before taking a well-deserved break.…
Figure 1. A widely shared campaign image calling for the release of Prita Mulyasari, one of Indonesia’s best known ‘ITE Law victims’ (korban UU ITE). Source: Hadin (2013).…
Vor bald einem Jahr berichteten wir von dem Projekt “Sonderkontingent” des Landes Baden-Württembergs, welches unter der Leitung von Dr. Michael Blume durchgeführt wurde (Als Religionswissenschaftler …
The purpose of this session is to provide a multidisciplinary forum for current historical research on toxic products during the two last centuries (1800-2000). 11th International Conference on…
Universities are in turmoil. There was a time when they stood out as pinnacles of Enlightenment, where scholarly elites could profess to a superior knowledge, based on reason…
The regular use of cesarean sections could be resulting in the need for even more C-sections, according to new research. Heathere Willoughby/Flickr It’s not easy to be born. In…
Straße bei Marneuli (2009) Das Buch sollte so etwas wie die finale Publikation sein. Das Projekt ist schon viele Jahre zu Ende: fast sechs davon sind bereits verstrichen.…
Fake News and the End of Facts I recently had the pleasure (?) of engaging in a fruitless debate on social media with a friend of a friend.…
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By Keith Hart There is a growing sense among the radical left in Europe and the United States which has crystallized after Brexit and Trump’s election. It is…
By Keith Hart There is a growing sense among the radical left in Europe and the United States which has crystallized after Brexit and Trump’s election. It is…
Limn Number 7: Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics Edited by Stephen J. Collier, James Christopher Mizes, and Antina von Schnitzler Infrastructure has always had a privileged re…
By Keith Hart There is a growing sense among the radical left in Europe and the United States which has crystallized after Brexit and Trump’s election. It is…
By Keith Hart There is a growing sense among the radical left in Europe and the United States which has crystallized after Brexit and Trump’s election. It is…
better voting projections with ethnography Anthropologist and writer for the Financial Times, Gillian Tett argues that U.S. election polling would have benefited from ethnography: “…poll…
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, policing, and the law. The year…
A few weeks ago, a news outlet sent me some interview questions, which I answered too late for the interviewer to use and therefore they didn’t get printed.…
We apologize for the delay in releasing our last November guest blog post on behalf of the AAA AD Executive Board. We had to have a last minute…
If you are thinking about what you’d like to do with your degree in anthropology (or degrees in anthropology), or are just looking for some good answers to…
If you are thinking about what you’d like to do with your degree in anthropology (or degrees in anthropology), or are just looking for some good answers to…
The factors that lead to gender differences in cancer rates all affect us later in life, and should not apply to children. Yet the present data shows that…
Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care by David S. Jones The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, 336 pages. My first encounter with David S. Jones’ Broken…
by Fern Adams ROSIE THOMPSON/SAVE THE CHILDREN – http://tooyoungtowed.org In the UK we recognise that people officially become adults when they turn 18. We tend to view that…