Introduction to Grass Trilogy
The sacred mountain Altan Ovoo rises in the Dariganga region of eastern Mongolia. Jessica Madison Pískatá I first arrived in eastern Mongolia in August 2011 by way of…
Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Zambia: state accountability and universality in a new community health worker programme by James Wintrup
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Ten Things about Collaborating for Climate Solutions
Heather Lazrus is an environmental anthropologist who studies perceptions of and responses to extreme weather in the context of a changing climate. Image description: An illustrated portrait of…
The Social Lives of Climate Reports
IPCC reports are hailed as objective, empirical evidence. But the social life of their production and circulation has much to do with conflicting politics, values, and choices. In…
Unsustainable City
In New York, the sustainable city is being built on its own undoing. In 2014, residents of Staten Island’s Elm Park neighborhood found their cars covered in dust.…
Scientists Predict the Future for Antarctic Ice
The Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating rate. How do scientists explain and engage with this increasingly urgent climate crisis? Antarctic ice looms. Literally. Much…
Forensic Anthropology in a Changing Climate
In 2018, a wildfire swept through Northern California. Forensic anthropologists were called in to identify skeletal remains in a devastated recovery scene. In a smoke-filled parking lot, our…
My Petrochemical Love
For women of color on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, everyday environmental and climate activism is entangled with intimate lives. It is April, and it is hot and humid in…
The Long View of Climate Change and Human Health
The deterministic view that climate change invariably causes migration, competition, violence, and collapse is overly simplistic. Bioarchaeology shows us that human responses are far more complex and …
After Oil
To navigate the growing storms of climate change, St. Croix is doubling down on the fiscal promise of oil. Residents demand otherwise. St. Croix stands at a climate…
Death of a Glacier
In 2014, the first of Iceland’s named glaciers suffered death by human-made climate change. Two anthropologists decided to mark its passing. Sometime around the year 2000, no one…
Next-level Deepfake Avatars for Zoom
My attempts with Facerig have been fun, but I’ve learned of a tool that lets you use the technology behind deepfake videos to turn faces of famous people…
Book Review: Resisting Neoliberal Capitalism in Chile: The Possibility of Social Critique by Juan Pablo Rodríguez
In Resisting Neoliberal Capitalism in Chile, Juan Pablo Rodríguez examines two recent social movements leading the social and political contestation against neoliberalism in Chile, not only showing ho…
Virological Witch Hunts: Coronavirus and Social Control under Quarantine in Bergamo, Italy (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Chiara Bresciani , Geoffrey Hughes Compilations of video clips of Italian mayors berating citizens breaking quarantine to walk dogs, jog, or play…
God, health and COVID-19 in remote Papua New Guinea
MONICA MINNEGAL AND PETER DWYER The first COVID-19 case reached Papua New Guinea (PNG) on 13 March 2020, though it was several days before it was unambiguously confirmed. On 17…
De dag die je weet dat gaat komen: ritueel in tijden van corona
DOOR IRENE STENGS Woensdag 15 april was het zover: de Koninklijke Bond van Oranje Verenigingen maakte het alternatieve programma voor Koningsdag bekend. Koningsdag 2020 zal de geschiedenis ingaan…
Niemand am Apparat: Zur Selbsterhaltung autopoietischer Systeme im Ausnahmezustand
Seit Jahrzehnten prägen Zombiefilme wie der Klassiker „28 days later“ oder „Resident Evil“ unsere Vorstellung vom Ende der Welt. Anlässlich des Endes des Maya-Kalenders 2012 kamen dann noch…
Die „Völkerwanderung“ kennt keine Völker
Die Bilder aus der Nibelungensage, mit Dietrich von Bern, dem grimmigen Hagen und dem tückischen Hunnenkönig Etzel prägten über Jahrhunderte das Bild der „Völkerwanderung“. Heute scheinen sie sich…
Yucatán en la crisis del coronavirus en abril 2020
Desde el 17 de marzo el Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán decretó que cesaran las actividades no esenciales de todo tipo, que las escuelas dejaran de tener clases…
Sharryn Kasmir: Prospects for Left Politics in the United States amid Coronavirus and Capitalist Crisis
Sharryn Kasmir, Hofstra University & University of Bergen Several weeks into the global pandemic, the gravity of the COVID-19-triggered economic crisis in the United States is coming into…
تاملات کرونایی(۳)
نگاه اجمالی به ژئوپلیتیک کرونا روزهای آغازین بهار ۱۳۹۹، با دستکم دومیلیون بیمار و نزدیک ۱۵۰ هزار نفر کشته، گویای همهگیر شدن بیماری کرونا ویروس در جهان هستند:…
هنر گفت و گو ـ آرک دیلی با ساسکیا ساسِـن
برگردان آرش بصیرت ساسکیا ساسـِـن را در ایران غالبا به واسطه کتاب جامعه شناسی جهانی شدن می شناسند، اگر چه مهمترین کتابش شهر جهانی است، از او مقاله…
نقش هنر در توسعه شهری (۳)
مالکوم میلز برگردان ملیحه درگاهی توسعه و نوسازی: “توسعه ی شهری” و “نوسازی شهری” دو مقوله ی متفاوت هستند که پرونده ی درصدی برای هنر آن را نادیده…
How to Make Climate Change Feel Real
The year is 2018. The world’s leaders are gathered, yet again, to try to solve the crisis of climate change. But this time, the United Nations secretary-general is…