Accumulation by media saturation
Palapa-lined beach on the East Cape of BCS, Mexico. Photo: Ryan Anderson, 2012. Recently, I was at the doctor’s office (I’m fine, thanks) and I started sifting through…
Ep. #41: Mediocrity, Confusing Cake, Public Accountability & Gift Reciprocity: This month on TFS
Simon (0:48) kicks off this panel by asking us about mediocrity. He reflects on his fieldwork in Iran, where he observed – particularly in the education sphere –…
Om att klä ned sig när man ska köpa dyra kläder
Det hela började som något av ett dåligt omdöme från min sida. Först hade jag ont om rena tröjor så det fick bli en av de som jag…
Exorzismus per E-Mail. Ungarns Angriff auf die Geschlechterforschung ist ein Angriff auf die freie Gesellschaft.
Eine renommierte Historikerin erhält eine Todesdrohung per E-Mail, die Behörden schauen weg. Es ist kein Einzelfall – und wirft ein grelles Licht auf den Illiberalismus, der die ungarische…
Warum Unpolitischsein nicht “neutral” ist
“Ich beschäftige mich nicht mehr mit Politik”, sagte sie. “Das hat mir nicht gut getan. Immer diese negativen Nachrichten. Da wurde ich richtig depressiv”. Wenn müsse man sich…
Vom Wirsing in der Frankfurter Küche
Der altmodische Wirsing und die moderne Frankfurter Küche in einer Karrikatur von Martha Bertina aus dem Jahr 1930. Titel: „Modernes Gemüse“ Das naturbelassene Gemüse ist zu unkontrollier…
Review/Interview: Food and Animal Welfare
Food and Animal Welfare Henry Buller and Emma Roe. Contemporary Food Series, Bloomsbury Academic, London. 2018. ISBN 9780857855787 Sharyn Jones (Northern Kentucky University) Most people in Western…
Summer Break 2019 + Links & Contents I Liked 332
Hi all, Following my first blogging summer break last year, Aidnography will take a break until about mid-August again. My final post consists of two part, first some…
Summer Break 2019 + Links & Contents I Liked 332
Hi all, Following my first blogging summer break last year, Aidnography will take a break until about mid-August again. My final post consists of two part, first some…
Saudi Arabia, Humanitarian Aid and Knowledge Production: What do we really know? #MUHUM
Saudi Arabia has one of the largest humanitarian aid budgets in the world. It counts as an ‘emerging’ donor of substantial influence in one of the world’s most…
Religious extremism: vulnerability and resistance among Indonesian migrant workers in Asia
By Yudha Dewanto After turning 16, never having stepped a foot outside of her province, Katri pushed herself to go to Malaysia. Seeking a solution to family problems,…
George Washington’s Letter to the Jews
I recently returned from a trip to New England to visit the affines. While there, my children received a gift from one of the aunts — a printed…
Tribal Boys Thrown Off Census for Years
At the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation the Indian Agent in 1907, Andrew Kershaw (Kershaw was a long-term agent at the reservation, began omitting Tribal members from the annual…
The Game of Truth OR how to convince village women to seek mental health care
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE “Women who come from rural areas don’t know how to explain their health problems to psychiatrists like me. When I tell them that their problems have a…
Workers’ fictive kinship relations in Mumbai app-based food delivery
*A note from Program Manager Noopur Raval: The arrival and rise of gig-work globally has ushered in a new wave of conversations around the casualization of labor and…
Inequality metrics and the question of power
How should we measure inequality? There are two metrics that economists use: relative and absolute. In the past I have argued that the relative metric – which…
Asylverfahren im Vergleich
Was Deutschland vom Schweizer Asylverfahren lernen kann Autor: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt In seinem Strategiepapier „Ein funktionierendes Asylverfahrenssystem schafft Vertrauen: Was Deutschland von…
The Language of Ocean Governance: An Anthropological View of a Global Village
In this post, anthropologist Jennifer Telesca takes a deep-dive into the intricacies of the United Nations as a field research site, and how high-level global negotiations over the…
Development for somebody else, by Alexander Öbom
Motorcycle-taxi driving: one of few new jobs in Kisoro district. Drivers often rent their vehicle from someone else, who can afford to buy it. Alexander Öbom graduated from…
Reflections on a Theory of Zakat #MUHUM
This inquiry into the role of “obligatory almsgiving” (zakat) within Muslim humanitarianism presents a theorization of two modes of Islamic charity: the purity ethos and the developmentalist ethos.…
Michael E. Kerr, “Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families” (Norton, 2019)
A pivotal development in the history of psychology was the invention of family systems theory by psychiatrist Murray Bowen. He was among the first to observe families in…
Michael E. Kerr, “Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families” (Norton, 2019)
A pivotal development in the history of psychology was the invention of family systems theory by psychiatrist Murray Bowen. He was among the first to observe families in…
The Seventh Forum on China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies
The following is a report on The Seventh Forum on China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies (第七届中美民俗学与非物质文化遗产论坛: 博物馆民俗与遗产研究的协作工作). …
How Some Tried—and Failed—to Kill “Race” in Latin America
DNA sequencing is now used extensively in medicine, forensic science, and explorations of ancestry. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images When the structure of DNA was first revealed in 1953, it…