پیامبران جدید سرمایه؛ در تلاش برای آشتی با انسانیت
نیکول اشاف مدرس جامعه‌شناسی و از فعالان مطبوعات سوسیالیستی جهان، کتابی دارد با عنوان «پیامبران جدید سرمایه». این کتاب در ایران توسط رسول قنبری ترجمه و نشر ترجمان…
Thanks, Dad.
Below find the fifth in a series of guest posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University…
Violence against land defenders
There is important new work on the violence against land defenders worth reading over the summer. Here is a recent article in Global Environmental Change and a write…
Hybridity in music – for Cello.
This was a surprise, at the least: Solo Cello String Ensemble (4-4-4-3-2) c. 25 minutes https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5c04v6g3 “Clifford uses the word to describe ‘a discourse that is…
Trust and the Test: Producing Narrative Certainty in an Evolving Pandemic by Jennifer J. Carroll
“COVID is the thing that works differently. It’s not our experience of the illness that works differently.” A recent observation by Hannah Alcock We both spend a lot…
Ysyakh 2020 – solstice festival online
Midsummer, solstice on the 21 June is for many northern peoples and cultures an important holiday. In Finland it’s called Juhannus and a state holiday. In Yakutia, where…
#Denkmalsturz
Die Diskussion zu den Denkmalstürzen der letzten Tage wird oft auf eine einfache Opposition reduziert: Alles muss weg – oder nichts darf angetastet werden. Als Königsweg erscheint dann…
Reigniting student activism at UWI
This co-authored op-ed from University of the West Indies, Sociology PhD candidate Nathan Chapman and myself, is meant as a conversation starter about the importance of student activism…
Reigniting student activism at UWI
This co-authored op-ed from University of the West Indies, Sociology PhD candidate Nathan Chapman and myself, is meant as a conversation starter about the importance of student activism…
Celebrating the Bustling All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
Tulsa and eastern Oklahoma are the center of my personal universe. That place is where my heart resides. Normally, I would be there right now contributing to the…
Reproduksjon i Norge belyst av den antropologiske treenighet: kjønn, slektskap og religion
Photo by @sharonmccutcheon Debatten om bioteknologiloven og eggdonasjon Introduksjon I denne teksten vil jeg se på hvordan reproduksjon blir påvirket av faktorer som kjønn, slektskap og religion og…
How to Globalize Clean Energy
This blog was co-authored with Cecilia Han Springer, who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Abstract Renewable…
مناسک مذهبی درمان بیماران در میانرودان
فلسفه خلقت انسان در الهیات میانرودانی خدمت به خدایان بود و هر گونه تساهل در انجام این کار عقوبت شدیدی را به دنبال داشت. بیماری، مرگ، شکست در…
تاریخ فرهنگیِ بدن و بدن‌مندی در ایرانِ عصر جدید: (۲۱)
فعالیتهای معطوف به «بدن زیبا» در قلمرو روزمره امروز ما با برچیده شدن سنگربندی ها در جامعه مدنی، عرصه های جدیدی به ظهور میرسند که محور عملیاتی خود…
متخصصان حرفه‌ای اعتقادات: غیب‌گو، مکاشفه‌گر، مرتاض و…
دیوید جک الر برگردان جبار رحمانی ساحر: ساحران عموماً کسانی‌اند که اعتقاد بر اینست می‌توانند نیروهای معنوی را از طریق ابزارهای «تکنیکی» خاصی و نوعاً برای ا مور بد…
Sharing responsibilities, coping with the coronavirus: why Swedish and French response strategies are not that different by Morgan Meyer
Citizens, governments and academics spend much time these days with one activity: making comparisons.[1] National response strategies to cope with the coronavirus are compared, as well as whether…
Population Ageing and COVID-19 Infections in Sri Lanka by Kalinga Tudor Silva
This essays builds on my previous research on history of malaria epidemics in Sri Lanka, intergenerational support mechanisms for elderly and ongoing research work on identity, infection and…
A window of opportunity
Our slowed-down, cooled-down, scaled-down lives during the pandemic are evidence that quality of life does not depend on high productivity and frantic consumption. Suddenly, it has become respectable…
On Juneteenth, our fight for full freedom requires that we persist
What we are witnessing today is encouraging for many reasons, among them the fact that we’re seeing a new generation of Americans from all races and backgrounds standing…
Ten Film Scenes Every Stay-At-Home Cinephile Should Know
Ted Gideonse is a medical anthropologist who studies the effects of public health discourses about HIV and drugs. As people with more than a passing understanding of biology…
Imagining Rural Immunity
Political myth-making about America’s rural “heartland” is doubly pernicious, increasing rural vulnerability to COVID-19 and ignoring the disintegration of rural health services. In March 2020, Fair…
How to Start a Meditation Practice
I came to meditation because my brain is always running. The part of an academic’s job that requires me to think and theorize sometimes grows much larger than the…
Saving Anthropology from COVID-19
Higher education is at a crossroads. Can we adapt to the ongoing challenges and create transformative educational courses for an uncertain future? As colleges and universities started shutting…
Sign Languages as Disaster Entertainment
Sign language interpreters have become social media celebrities of our coronavirus moment. But signing is not a form of light entertainment; it should be lifesaving information. Dutch health…