Stadtplaner und die dritte Toilette
Die taz interviewt die Dortmunder Soziologin Nina Schuster „über Queere Stadtplanung“. Das Adjektiv „queer“ schreiben die tatsächlich groß. Frau Schuster sagt: Vielen Menschen,…
Brotgelehrte 2 zum Download
Leider hat ein Starkregen vor vier Wochen das Verlagslager, in dem auch Bände der Brotgelehrten lagerten, erwischt. Brotgelehrte 1 ist weiterhin lieferbar, Brotgelehrte 2 leider nicht. Das bringt…
Research in Virtual Lab Worlds during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Heading into Steve’s[1] university laboratory for the first time, I anxiously waited to begin observing the lab members’ work with computational protein structure prediction and design. This lab…
Wednesday Round Up #6
USA’s flag-bearer Simone Biles holds her country’s national flag during the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on…
The Chilean Estallido, Plebiscite 2020, and Legacies of Truth-Telling
On November 25, 2019, Chilean feminist collective, Las Tesis, gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas. Against a backdrop of anti-Piñera graffiti painted on government buildings, museums, and Catholic…
Articulating Anthropology’s Value to Business
Businesses want and need anthropologists. It’s time we claimed our skills and told industry leaders what our training and expertise can do for them. Anthropological concepts, methods, and…
Guest Post: Teaching Self-Representation through Collaborative Visual Ethnography [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Mafazy…
Guest Post: Teaching Self-Representation through Collaborative Visual Ethnography [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Mafazy’s research over the past thirty years…
Ethics are for everyone: Anthropologists talk shop on ethics in design, technology and business – July 23, 2020
Link to Eventbrite Discussions of ethics in technology and design have become more mainstream in recent years with the growth in power of digital tech. While companies have…
A Place Apart by Benjamin Hegarty
On a crisp autumn day in April in Melbourne, my phone has several missed calls from an Indonesian friend. With a heavy heart, I call back to see…
“I’m All I Wanna Be” – Video Self Presentation in the Age of COVID-19
By Steven Dashiell As COVID-19 makes videoconferencing more normative, one sociologist examines who much work goes into what we see, and don’t see, in the webcam image. The…
Being Clear-Eyed About Citizen Science in the Age of COVID-19
In March 2011, one of the strongest earthquakes on record struck the Fukushima Dai’ichi Nuclear Power Plant in northeastern Japan. Combined with a subsequent tsunami, the disasters triggered…
Debatte 2020: Drei Sprachen sind genug fürs Abitur! – Kommentar 3 von Prof. Dr. Galina Putjata
Kommentar 3 zum Beitrag für eine RfM-Debatte 2020 „Drei Sprachen sind genug fürs Abitur! Ein Reformvorschlag für den Abbau der Diskriminierung von mehrsprachig Aufgewachsenen bei Schulabschlüssen“ von…
Sara Smith, “Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
What’s love got to do with it? Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold (Rutgers University Press, 2020) by feminist political geographer Sara Smith…
Colin Ward y los últimos salvajes
Mensaje para la gente del Observatori del Conflicte Urbà, OACU, enviado el 15 de julio de 2020. COLIN WARD Y LOS ÚLTIMOS SALVAJESManuel Delgado Una última cosa sobre…
Los mossos contra el Maligno
Artículo sobre la persecución contra las “sectas destructivas” publicado en El País, el 18 de agosto de 1997LOS MOSSOS CONTRA EL MALIGNO Manuel Delgado Quiénes fuímos invitados a…
Cómo acabar de una vez por todas con las "sectas"
Imagen del episodio “La alegría de la secta”, de “Los Simpson”,en que la familia es “captada” por la secta de los movimientatios Artículo publicado en El Periódico de…
Ethics are for everyone: Anthropologists talk shop on ethics in design, technology and business – July 23, 2020
Discussions of ethics in technology and design have become more mainstream in recent years with the growth in power of digital tech. While companies have the ability to…
Apartheid, Aggression und Arbeitskonflikte. Zur politischen Geschichte von Mobbing
Dass „Mobbing“ ursprünglich im Zusammenhang mit Rassismus thematisiert wurde, weiß heute niemand mehr. Vergessen ist ebenso, dass die Warnung vor „Bullying“ mit einem Plädoyer für Disziplin und Körper…
World élite? Latvia, national identity and the pandemic
An introduction to somewhere less observed Research on Covid-19 is a hot topic worldwide, and, recently, the Latvian government has also launched its own emergency research programme. We,…
Empty Beds and Mounting Deaths: COVID-19 and U.S. Healthcare’s Systemic Failures by Miao Jenny Hua
It was afternoon in early April and I was only two-thirds of the way through my 12-hour shift. Between checking on how one patient was breathing and whether…
A Nepalese Region Reclaims Its Holy Water
The Budhi Gandaki River, shown here downstream from Nubri Valley, rushes with icy turquoise water. Madison Wrobley “I’ve been told this is the longest suspended water system in…