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Rassismus in der DDR
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Rassismus in der DDR
“Schwarze Schwester Angela” – Die Solidaritätskampagne für Angela Davis in der DDR-Frauenzeitschrift Für Dich zwischen Identifikation mit antirassistischen Kämpfen und Leugnung von…
CFP: VOTE
Image description: Blue and red hands reach toward a white ballot box. Each hand holds a small square of paper with an x marked on it. iStock To…
Don Kalb: Covid, Crisis, and the Coming Contestations
Don Kalb, University of Bergen At some point in late January I told my family over WhatsApp with the Marxist bluster they usually enjoy from me that if…
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Hi all, It’s getting a bit late this Friday afternoon-so without further delay follow this week’s #globaldev review to Syria, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Chagos, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya,…
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by Hanna Pickwell (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) There were two moments when it became clear that the dissertation project I had developed for four years…
Book Review: Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender and the Sensory Body by Gili Hammer
In Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender and the Sensory Body, Gili Hammer draws on the first-person narratives of 40 blind women in Israel…
Could the Coronavirus Pandemic Be Good for the Environment?
[no-caption] Angus Greig SAPIENS host Chip Colwell interviews Elic Weitzel, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Connecticut, about his recent article for SAPIENS tha…
Rethinking Easter Island’s Historic “Collapse”
A row of massive anthropomorphic statues on Easter Island. Henrykkcheung/Flickr Easter Island’s colossal statues loom large—both literally and figuratively—in the popular imagination. The…
Fortbildungsprogramm Buch- und Medienpraxis: Bewerbungsfrist bis 1. Juli
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Alexander L. Fattal, “Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia (University of Chicago Press, 2019) investigates the Colombian government’s campaign to turn Marxist guerrilla fighters in th… Visit New Books in…
Living in Ruins
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE After a long day of pickling peppers and cooking ajwar in the yard, Arieta[1] joined me on the shilte, a foam mat spread out on the veranda.…
Review: ‘Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work’ by Alex Rosenblat
In Uberland: How algorithms are rewriting the future of work, technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat tackles the political realities of the Silicon Valley mythos through one of its most…
Den stövelbenägne folkloristen
Folklorister brukar vanligen jobba med material som finns i arkiv, i böcker, eller nuförtiden på nätets diskussionsforum och sociala medier. ”Fältarbete” för en folklorist brukar betyda intervjuer, el…
Unsicherheit in der Krise
von Dominik Dauner Die Dimensionen der Unsicherheit und der Solidarität sind die dominanten Kategorien, die den aktuellen medialen Diskurs über das neuartige Coronavirus prägen. Insbesondere nahm sich…
Invitation to Covidentities 2020
Welcome to this year’s visual anthropology screening and an exciting collection of creative, engaged and always personal projects by our visual anthropology students. This year our stude…
Covidentities 2020
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IZO: Vortrag „China’s Poverty Reduction Miracle: The Roles of Growth and Inequality“
Vortrag von Wan Guanghua (Fudan) zum Thema „China’s Poverty Reduction Miracle: The Roles of Growth and Inequality“ Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Deutsche Bank Stiftungsgastprofessur Wis…
La cooperación, la moral, y el señor de las moscas: soñar con los ojos abiertos.
“Somos solidarios por naturalezaPor eso cuando yo bostezo, tú bostezas.Por eso yo te protejo y tú me proteges.Por eso compartimos el aire que respiramos desde el mismo eje.Yo…
In the Journals, May 2020, Part I by Emmanuelle Roth
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By Desperate Measures Relieved?: Public Health, Prisons, and the Politics of Life by Jason Ludwig
As COVID-19 continues to claim lives and devastate economies, experts have been contemplating strategies for accelerating the development of a vaccine. A paper published in March in the…
Why my Humanities Library will never be a Total Library–praise be!
Michael Toggweiler The Unitobler Library of the Faculty of Humanities in Bern, Switzerland / Foto: Gabriel Rosenberg Until the beginning of the 1990s, the Faculty of Humanities at…