Bolsonaro’s politics of death, Covid-19 and racial inequality in Brazil
Covid-19 infections and deaths in Brazil continue to grow at an alarming pace: at the time of publication (8 July 2020), the Latin American country has recorded over…
Architektur und Alltag 11
Gebäude, die auf den zweiten Blick verwirren, können so schlecht nicht sein. Dieses Parkhaus in der Berliner Peripherie ist ein Beispiel dafür. Es ist ein Zwitter (ist der…
Unlearning Border Fixity — Towards a relational pedagogy after the nationalist crisis
by Adrian Schlegel The year 2020 might fill our descendants’ history books with the rampant phenomena that emerged around the COVID-19 pandemic. The global health crisis, aggravating social…
Das Vorsorgeparadox. Beobachtungen zu einem modernen Phänomen in Coronazeiten
Vorsorge ist wichtig und gut. Das zeigt sich vor allem in Zeiten der Pandemie. Doch was ist mit den Gefahren, die Vorsorge erst hervorbringt? Nicht nur Franz Kafka…
La veritat com allò que és millor no saber
La foto és de Nate Robert Consideracions per a Marta López, estudiant del Màster en Antropologia i Etnografia de la Universitat de Barcelona La veritat com allò que…
Accessibility in the Switch to Online
As we experience the uncomfortable but necessary changes in response to COVID-19, many of us have continued our work by switching to virtual spaces, whether for meetings, classes,…
How Rats Are Overturning Decades of Military Norms
In some parts of the world, giant rats are being enlisted to detect postwar land mines. APOPO At the third stop at the APOPO Visitor Center in Siem…
Why the Whiteness of Archaeology Is a Problem
Most archaeological projects in the U.K. and U.S. are largely conducted by people of European descent. Wessex Archaeology/Flickr One hot, sunny day in the Sonoran Desert, I (William)…
COVID 19, Ciencia y Política
Covid en el mundo, en Mayo 2020, según el observatorio de la U Johns Hopkins La epidemia de COVID 19 En Diciembre de 2019 se detectó en la…
Pandemic Time by Barclay Bram
I was sitting at my computer when we got the call. My father in his chair, my mother on the sofa. Two days earlier we had found out…
Wednesday Round Up #5
An Interview with the Editor of American Anthropologist about the March 2020 Cover Controversy We know the role that anthropology has played in the erasure of Indigenous peoples…
J-B. Tchouta Mougoué, “Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon” (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019) illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first…
Race-Blind: Rethinking a French-American Conversation
You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever; you must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism. It is greed and the struggle for power.…
Women, gender and viruses: coronas and microscopes in the time of a pandemic by María Jesús Santesmases
Among the multitude of narratives prompted by the current pandemic, the biography of June Dalziel Hart Almeida has been circulated by the BBC and other periodicals in numerous…
Contra la immediatesa. Sobre el concepte marxista de mediació
La foto es de Jenxi Seow Consideracions per al col·lega i amic Miquel Fernández, de la UAB CONTRA LA IMMEDIATESA. SOBRE EL CONCEPTE MARXISTA DE MEDIACIÓ Manuel Delgado…
Intersticios. Lógica del intervalo
La foto es de Jordi Secall Mensaje personal enviado el 8 de agosto de 2009 a mi amigo y entonces doctorando Omar Borrás, que entonces estaba acabando su…
Science and Justice: “Impartial” Water Monitoring and Resistance to the Escobal Mine in Guatemala
Editor’s note: This is the third post in an ongoing series called “The Spectrum of Research and Practice in Guatemalan Science Studies.” The surface installation of the Escobal…
The plight of domestic workers during India’s lockdown
Bhaagya (not her real name) is in her early thirties. She is married, and has two teenage children. She cooks and cleans for several households in Bengaluru, a…
Thinking Sex in Times of Corona: A Conversation by Max Schnepf
Over 30 years ago, Gayle Rubin argued in her seminal piece – “Thinking Sex” – that “sexuality should be treated with special respect in times of great social…
Christopher Kelty’s The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories by Talia Dan-Cohen
The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories Christopher M. Kelty University of Chicago Press, 2020. 344 pages. A book about participation? Chris Kelty’s delightful new bo…
Rituales cotidianos y retos de la población migrante con discapacidad/Daily rituals and challenges of the migrant population with disabilities
Claudia Morales, a graduate student from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has written about the added effects to quality of life for disabled migrants in the United States…
Rituales cotidianos y retos de la población migrante con discapacidad/Daily rituals and challenges of the migrant population with disabilities
Claudia Morales, a graduate student from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has written about the added effects to quality of life for disabled migrants in the United States…
Jane Setter on her book, Your Voice Speaks Volumes
Interview by Paola Medina González https://global.oup.com/academic/product/your-voice-speaks-volumes-9780198813842 Paola Medina González: In your book, you address a variety of topics including speec…
Mixed Messages: COVID-19, a Cartoon Heroine, and Violence Against Women in Mexico (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Catherine J. Letcher Lazo One of the gendered impacts of COVID-19 is the surge of violence against women and girls (VAWG)…