From Bat Soup to Bean Sprouts: Coronavirus Food Fears in Historical Perspective by Jack Greatrex
On a trip to Shandong, China, at the end of January 2020, a few days after the lockdown of Wuhan, I watched a video of a stewed bat…
Things and the Company They Keep
Alisse Waterston Lochlann Jain. 2019. Things That Art: A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 121 pages. To cite this article: Alisse Waterston (2019…
December 2019
Volume 11 | Number 3 | December 2019 FEATURES On the Road During a Time of War: Migrant Journeys Througha Wary Europe By Mary D’Ambrosio The Syrian War…
Anne-Christine Trémon: Variegated Valuation: Governance and Circuits of Value in Shenzhen
Over the past two decades, the central authorities in the People’s Republic of China have shown an increasing concern about the inequalities between urban dwellers and predominantly rural hukou (resi…
Anchoring our days through the senses during South Africa’s lockdown
IWe had been in lockdown since 18th March 2020 when J.’s daycare closed for a break. A few days later, on 23rd March, South Africa’s President Ramaphosa announced…
Will U.S. University Students Spread COVID-19?
In the 1980s, the Reagan administration made plans for the orderly evacuation of U.S. cities in the event of an imminent nuclear war. Supposedly, city residents with odd-numbered…
In and outside the nursing home: On the (im)possibilities of meaningful contact while being held apart by Natashe Lemos Dekker
Ben (77) wrote this poem when he became unable to visit his wife Lise in the nursing home where she lived, expressing the loss and desperation of suddenly…
Anthropology and Economics in the Public Eye
How can anthropologists approach the influence of economists? The COVID-19 pandemic and how to mitigate its effects is only one recent public and policy issue on which anthropologists…
First in Masks? How Czechs Wore Face Masks When There Weren’t Any Available by Susanna Trnka
On March 18, 2020, the Czech Republic became the first country in Europe to legislate mandatory coverage of the mouth and nose in all public areas in an…
Stuart Dunmore on his book, Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland
Interview by Christian Puma-Ninacuri https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-language-revitalisation-in-gaelic-scotland.html Christian Puma-Ninacuri: Gaelic-medium education (GME) has been develope…
Will Rollason, “Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets” (Lexington Books, 2020)
Will Rollason is senior lecturer of anthropology at Brunel University London. He’s written a fascinating book titled Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets (Lexington Books, 2020).…
Stellenausschreibungen 30. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Über 60 Stellen auf unterschiedlichen Qualifikationsstufen fanden wir für diese Woche (und über sie hinaus). Reine Soziale-Arbeit-Stellen haben wir außenvorgelassen – wir hatten Euch ja dazu be…
Mujeres libres
Desde el nacimiento del feminismo y el anarquismo hubo vínculos cristalizándose después de la Revolución Francesa y durante el inicio del capitalismo industrial en Europa Occidental. Durante el…
Por una educación en pasiones
Reseña del libro de José García Molina Imágenes de la distancia (Laertes, 2010), publicada en Cuadernos de Pedagogía (abril 2010) Por una educación en pasiones Manuel Delgado ¿Qué…
The Search for a Good Online Journal Platform
There’s an old saying, probably from a management textbook somewhere, that I see pop up on the software developer side of the internet from time to time. Everyone…
Creating Value Worlds with Third Wave Coffee
Interview with Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: https://sase.org/uncategorized/quality-and-inequality-creating-value-worlds-with-third-wave-coffee/
پوپولیسم و ترس از “اقلیت” شدن
در واژگان علمی فرهنگ و انسانشناسی دستکم ده سالی هست که تلاش میشود از واژه «اقلیت» در استناد به گروههای اجتماعی، فرهنگی، دینی و اصولا گروههای هویتی استفاده…
فقدان متافیزیک در حرکت های اجتماعی
ما در چه عصری زندگی می کنیم؟ جهان ما چگونه جهانی است؟ آیا در جهان امروز، معنایی برای هستی، قابل تصور است؟ شورش های اجتماعی ما تا چه…
محله و هویت محلهای در محلات اطراف حرم امام رضا(ع)
مصاحبه با دکتر محسن نوغانی، هیئت علمی گروه علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد دغدغه اصلی مصاحبه متمرکز بر هویت محلهای است. آیا هنوز میتوان فضاهای اطراف حرم…
برندی برای خلق رؤیاهای دوست داشتنی
نویسنده: فرزاد مقدم «کانون پرورش فکری کودکان و نوجوانان» با کتابهایش بخشی از خاطرات دوران کودکی من است. همان روزهایی که هنوز همهچیز دنیا را با عینک «برندسازی»…
El odio, la lucha y la virtud
La foto es Mario Sánchez Nevado Impresiones para Adelina García sobre el riesgo virtuosista del 15M y sobre el odio y la lucha, enviadas el 17 de junio…
Contra la bondat
La foto és de Jordi Secall i correspon al desallotjament per la Policía Nacional dels immigrants tancats a la catedral de Barcelona, la matinada del 6 de juny…
#Reviews: Fires of Gold
As of 2019, Ghana is the country with the largest gold-mining industry in Africa, overtaking South Africa, after two South African gold mining companies shifted focus on the…
Sommerprogramm
Geschichte der Gegenwart startet ein spannendes Sommerprogramm mit Lese- und Filmtipps, jeden Sonntag! Und hier gibt’s schon ein paar erste Empfehlungen.