Wednesday Round Up #10
The Big Melt As Serreze makes clear, the Arctic climate system is now entering uncharted territory, with the computer models no longer providing a reliable guide to the…
Insecurity on Both Sides of the Line of Control
Although Prime Minister Modi’s revocation of Article 35A and Kashmir’s Special Status on August 5, 2019 has…
“The Kashmirization of India”: Comparison, Solidarity, and “Paranoid” Reading
What happens when the state of…
El Islam en sus pliegues
Foto de Edward Grazda Reseña de Observando el Islam. de Clifford Geertz (Paidós), publicada en La Esfera, el suplemento de libros de El Mundo, el 10 de septiembre…
What Many Don’t Know About Welfare
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. When Americans talk about people receiving public assistance—food stamps, disability, unemplo…
Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie-Upper Umpqua
There are two areas of Oregon with athapaskan speaking tribes. Southwest Oregon has a large number of athapaskan speaking tribes that extend as far north as the Upper…
Outsides and insides: Covid-19 seen from the first floor of a house in Mirpur, Dhaka by Hasan Ashraf
In this contribution to Somatosphere’s Dispatches from the Pandemic we attend to practices of boundary making, of separating outsides from insides. The new coronavirus appeared on the global…
The WEconomy (book review)
As you may have heard if you are interested in Canadian #globaldev discussions, the Toronto-based WE charity has been involved in a bit of a political controversy. In…
What Scars Say About Sex and Stereotypes
[no-caption] Dean Krakel/Getty Images I recently noticed a curious phenomenon playing out on various television series. In Outlander, Scottish heartthrob Jamie Fraser’s back is seared wit…
Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm
Banner from a rally at the California State Capitol building in the fall of 2019. Photo by Deborah Boehm. …
Dekoloniales Flanieren. Mit Anton Wilhelm Arno durch…
Freitag, 21.8.2020, 17:00-19:00 Uhr Treffpunkt: U-Bahnstation Möhrenstrasse (Berlin) Wir stellen uns vor: Was würde der afrodeutsche Aufklärungsphilosoph Anton Wilhelm Arno wahrnehmen,…
Dekoloniales Flanieren. Mit Anton Wilhelm Arno durch…
Freitag, 21.8.2020, 17:00-19:00 Uhr Treffpunkt: U-Bahnstation Möhrenstrasse (Berlin) Wir stellen uns vor: Was würde der afrodeutsche Aufklärungsphilosoph Anton Wilhelm Arno wahrnehmen,…
Maile Arvin, “Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania” (Duke UP, 2020)
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and speculated that they were of Mediterranean or Ary… Visit…
Ed Bruner: In Memoriam
August 8, 2020 Ed Bruner at his home in Illinois (2005) Ed Bruner passed away yesterday, at 95–peacefully, at home. I wish my daughter and I could have…
The Corporate Menagerie – Thesis Eleven
An article on the malaise that afflicts the UK university system, applicable to the US and Australia too possibly, not wholly tongue-in-cheek and riffing on true stories. Everyone…
Book Review: Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell
In Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, Justin Farrell examines the lives of the ultra-wealthy who make Teton County, Wyoming, the richest county…
Póximo número: 21/09/2020
La entrada Póximo número: 21/09/2020 aparece primero en anthropologies.
Jill A. Fisher, “Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals” (NYU Press, 2020)
Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175. You must…
Nadia Eghbal, “Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software” (Stripe Press, 2020)
Open source is the once-radical idea that code should be freely available to everyone. Open-source software was once an optimistic model for public collaboration, but is now a…
خودنمایی روشنفکرانه
آسیب اصلی خودنمایی روشنفکرانه به وجود آمدن هویتهای کاذب است که باعث توهم خود بزرگ بینی و در جا زدن شده و مانع پیشرفت میشود. آسیب دیگر خودنمایی…
موزه های ما در سال ۲۰۲۰
موزه های ما در سال ۲۰۲۰ چگونه باید به نظر برسند؟ چهار کارشناس صنعت و هنر دیدگاههای خود درباره گذشته، حال و آینده موزه ها را به اشتراک…
چهارشنبهسوری خطرناک چه زمانی متولد شد؟
گفتگوی فرارو با امیر هاشمی مقدم در زمان سامانیان در شبی از شبهای پیش از آغازسال نور، آتش افروخته میشود”؛ نویسنده «تاریخ بخارا» اشاره میکند «چنانکه عادت قدیم…
جنبش متابولیسم و زایش تکنوتوپیا (۱)
جنبش متابولیسم و زایش تکنوتوپیا؛ از اپیستمه تا تعرض یا چگونه تکنولوژی از خود عبور کرد قسمت اول ـ شـرق در مواجه با معاصربودگی، شهر، تکنولوژی و یوتوپیا[i]…
خوشه چینی در یادمان هایِ میراث فرهنگی
خوشه چینی در یادمان هایِ میراث فرهنگی:مطالعه، مشارکت، مساهمت چگونه بازدید های فرهنگی و تاریخی خود را غنا بخشیم امروزه حفظ، توسعه و ایجاد آثار ویادمان های تاریخی…