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
Anthropology & Medicine Contested legitimacy for anthropologists involved in medical humanitarian action: experiences from the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic (open access)Shelley Lees, J…
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…
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…
Hybridity again
Great to see old stuff taken up in religious studies – where after all, I had my first job, thanks max Charlesworth and Purushottoma Billimoria, so a sort…
Patterns of Contamination: From Fukushima to COVID-19
MAXIME POLLERI In the spring of 2016, I was invited to witness the work of citizen scientists in Fukushima. These citizen scientists were mostly farmers attempting to revitalize…
Review: ‘The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling and Undercover Police Investigations in Europe’ by Gregory Feldman
Irregular migration has been one of the most popular topics of the political debates in Europe for already a few years. Issues of border policing and border control…
Don Miller’s new book! Time and Time Again
via Don Miller’s new book! Time and Time Again Don Miller was the mystical magical master of metaphor at Melbourne Uni in the politics department when it was…
Why Are Sports Fans So Bereft Without Live Games?
The Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, sat empty in March following the cancellation of the Southeastern Conference’s basketball tournament amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Andy Lyons/Gett…
Rio Tinto: the Highest stage of rampant plunder Capitalism of the very worst kind
by Calla Wahlquist @callapilla Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine Mining company was given permission to blast Juukan Gorge cave, which provided a…
Is the Pandemic a Chance to Challenge Global Inequality?
Migrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan crowd a detention center in Greece in 2016. Milos Bicanski “Gulzar, get up! Gulzar, get up!” Saba Khan remembers shouting. Then she turned…
Human rights/human capital: a hundred years of ‘universal’ health coverage as a global goal by Martin Gorsky
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…
Blocking the Pandemic: Regional Boundary Controls in Indonesia’s Far East (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Jacob Nerenberg Indonesia, whose population of 267 million inhabits a vast archipelago, has not been spared the challenge of the SARS-CoV-2…
Govind Gopakumar, “Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities” (MIT Press, 2020)
Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets, once crowded with ……
Vectors And Viruses: What Coexisting With Mosquitoes Can Teach Us About Living With Coronavirus
ROSIE SIMS My mask is green with zebras on it, a feeble attempt to liven up the veil of cotton protecting me from others, or others from me.…
#Reviews: Dispossessed
Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Dispossessed considers the 2008 subprime crisis through the eyes of Sacramento homeowners and the daily work of bank officers tasked to…
Forschen trotz / mit / über Corona
In Frankfurt wurde der Forschungsverbund sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungsprojekte zu Corona an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M. (SoKu Corona) zum Austausch, zur Vernetzung und Sich…
Unzureichend, aber unentbehrlich. Die WHO und die Geschichte der globalen Gesundheit
Die USA kritisieren die WHO scharf: Präsident Trump wirft ihr eine mangelnde Distanz gegenüber China vor. Doch diese Haltung ist nichts Neues. Die USA standen vielmehr seit Gründung…
Inadequate, yet Indispensable: The WHO and the History of Global Health
The USA sharply criticizes the WHO: President Trump accuses it of lacking distance from China. But this attitude is nothing new. On the contrary, since the founding of…