We at Culture & Capitalism are thrilled to report that our colleague and friend, Professor Homa Hoodfar, is safely back home in Canada having been freed from her imprisonment in Iran…
Rory Dickson’s Living Sufism in North America: Between Tradition and Transformation (SUNY Press, 2015) is the first monograph in English to focus on Sufism in North America. On…
In recent weeks we’ve been posting about the use of anthropological tenets and ethnographic practices beyond traditional field sites. This topic was addressed from author Elizabeth Durham’s perspectiv…
China ist weiterhin der weltweit größte Produktions- und Absatzmarkt für chinesische Teesorten. Doch mit wachsendem Wohlstand verändern sich die Trinkgewohnheiten. Anstelle von einheimischem schwarzen…
UN ineffectiveness in Middle East peace Source: Google Images The Tehran Times carried an interview with cultural and linguistic anthropologist, William Beeman, head of the anthropology department at…
People who don’t like public education usually don’t like strong faculty unions like the Association of Pennsylvania State
update 1 October 2016 – banned by the advertising standards agency. Took long enough, and only 4 out of 5 of them were banned, dunno what the other…
People who don’t like public education usually don’t like strong faculty unions like the Association of Pennsylvania State
These are the most recent publications in the subfield of discard studies for September 2016.
This week we have two new reviews for you, tackling the question of #race (see our #callforreviews here): Tomorrow, our frequent and much cherished reviewer Gabriela Radulescu explores…
The University of Melbourne is hosting a symposium on Gender, Mobility Regimes and Social Transformation in Asia, 3-4 November, 2016. Further details can be found here. I will…
Im September wurden in New York zwei Gipfel abgehalten: Der UN-Gipfel zu Flucht und Migration und der von US-Präsident Obama initiierte Gipfel der Staats- und Regierungschefs zur globalen…
Academic Journal Reviews is now live. It describes itself as: “A place for academics to review the publishing process at peer-reviewed journals.” And it is, in a sense,…