#Podcast Round Up: Best of March to August
Summer comes to an end, and some of us will start commuting again. Others will desperately wonder how to fill up the ‘spare’ time from their considerably shorter…
درگذشت اسماعیل سعادت
اسماعیل سعادت درگذشت … خبری بازهم کوتاه و حاکی از پایان زیستن مادی مردی که در حوزه زبان زیست و سعی کرد اخلاقمدارانه شیوهای از زیست انسانی را…
Wednesday Round Up #13
Octavia Butler on How (Not) to Choose Our Leaders Again and again, Butler cautions against the blindness of choosing from a state of heightened emotion — the very…
The Vector, the Viruses, and the “Healthy World”: Placing Aedes aegypti in Brazil
Mosquito: the “most dangerous animal in the world,” human’s “deadliest predator.” This insect is often described as the most probable target for gene-editing technologies that have the potential…
(COVID) Time Marches Grinds On
(COVID) Time Marches Grinds On Robert Myers When did it become July? Last month, I guess. A lot of flag waving and firewor…
A Japanese Sea Spirit Battles COVID-19
Some public health messages in Japan use the image of Amabie, a three-legged folklore mermaid, to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare…
The Specter of Gender Discrimination in the Removal of Kashmir’s Autonomy
On August 5, 2019, the quasi-autonomy of Indian administered Kashmir was removed militarily without consulting the Kashmiri legislature or the people. This move was as illegal (Parthasathy 2019)…
Kashmiri Goats, Imaginaries of Freedom, and the Planetary Pandemic
Weeks after governments around the world imposed travel restrictions and quarantine orders that removed humans from typically busy markets, roads, and…
Values Revealed: COVID-19 in Cuba
CARLOS JESÚS DELGADO DÍAZ The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Cuba on March 11, 2020. Since then, 2291 patients have been confirmed to have had the…
Marco Puleri, “Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics” (Peter Lang, 2020)
Marco Puleri’s Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics (Peter Lang, 2020) examines a complex process of identity formation… Visit New Books…
Harriet Evans, “Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital’s Center” (Duke UP, 2020)
Between the early 1950s and the accelerated demolition and construction of Beijing’s “old city” in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, the residents of Dashalar—one of the capital city’s…
Brad Walters, “The Greening of Saint Lucia: Economic Development and Environmental Change in the West Indies” (UWI Press, 2019)
Saint Lucia’s rural landscape is more forested today than at any time in at least seventy-five years (probably much longer). This change is profoundly significant given widespread efforts…
Die Süddeutsche und der Linksradikalismus
Till Briegleb schreibt in der Süddeutschen (26.8.20) über Architektur nach Corona. Er schreibt in Teilen das übliche: Nichts werde nach Corona sein wie zuvor, alles werde sich ändern,…
درگذشت فرهاد احمدی
فرهاد احمدی معمار و شهرساز در سان ۶۹ سالگی بر اثر سرطان درگذشت. او فارغالتحصیل دانشکده هنرهای زیبای، دانشگاه تهران در سال ۱۳۵۶ و عضو هیئت علمی دانشکده…
خانه و اوقات فراغت
لغت Leisure از واژه ی لاتین Licere مشتق می شود، که به معنی “رخصت یافتن” یا در فرانسه Leisure به معنی “آزاد بودن” است، واژه ای که ابتدا…
یک گفتگوی تاریخی با میشل فوکو در ۱۹۷۹
گفتگوی میشل فوکو با یک روزنامه ژاپنی درباره پناهندگان ویتنامی در ۱۹۷۹ به نقل از / روزنامه لیبراسیون / ۱۷ سپتامبر ۲۰۱۵ مسئله پناهندگان درآمدی است بر…
همزبانی و بیزبانی
زبان، ابزاری است برای برقراری ارتباط، و زبان گفتاری، مهمترین این ابزراها است. زبان مشترک یکی از مهمترین ویژگیهای یک فرهنگ است و حتی اگر یک فرهنگ…
Wem gehört der Müll?
Heute das Containern, früher das Holzsammeln: Straftaten aufgrund des westlichen Konzepts von Eigentum. Andreas Gehrlach blickt auf historische und aktuelle Parallelen in der Auseinandersetzung rund u…
Native Details of the Battle of Hungry Hill
As noted by Dr. Mark Tveskov in his 2017 article “A “Most Disastrous” Affair: The Battle of Hungry Hill, Historical Memory, and the Rogue River War” (OHQ Vol.…
Standards and urgency in times of pandemics: hydroxychloroquine as a pharmaceutical and political artefact by Manuel Campinas
Separated by two meters of water from the crowd, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, infected by COVID-19 and wearing his mask, rallied up his supporters, “If by chance your…
Portraits
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE It was usual to find portraits of ancestors hanging in the living rooms of each of the family compounds. Acting like a family tree, they represented people’s…
The Public Problem With Counterterrorism
A British army helicopter flies over Estonian forests during a massive annual military training exercise. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Flickr The terrorist attacks on Septem…
How the informal economy took over the world by Keith Hart
A la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time) The idea of an informal economy was born at the moment when the post-war era of developmental…
Denominación de origen: inmigrante
La fotografía es de Molly Adams Fragmento de ¿Quién puede ser inmigrante en la ciudad?, Mugak. 18 (2002), pp. 7 – 14. Denominación de origen: inmigrante Manuel Delgado…