“Highly-skilled migration” in the Netherlands is a largely male affair. This is especially true for Indians who make up the largest group of “highly-skilled” migrants to the country.…
I början av året fick jag en förfrågan från en redaktör på Vasabladet om hur bröllopstraditioner har förändrats; om det finns element som varit oföränderliga och vad som…
Max Roser and Joe Hasell have written a post defending the methodology behind their long-term poverty graph. It is not addressed to me, but it was written…
An anthropology colleague of mine, Robert Connolly, created a brief survey to explore how former students perceive the advising they received … More
In the pop culture imagination, perceptions of robots and AI occupy a space of mystery and intrigue that gravitates between harbingers of impending societal collapse and bringers of…
In the pop culture imagination, perceptions of robots and AI occupy a space of mystery and intrigue that gravitates between harbingers of impending societal collapse and bringers of…
As part of the Enduring Voices project, Abamu Degio (left) listens to a recording of herself singing a traditional Koro song, with linguist David Harrison (right). Jeremy Fahringer,…
As discussed in the previous article, the membership of the Organization of American States is in fact not at all united around support for foreign intervention and recognition…
Erin Beck’s ethnography of two Guatemalan micro-finance non-governmental organisations in the context of local development dynamics and global discourses of aid is a valuable contribution to the aidno…
„Soziale Rechte – Hürden zwischen Anspruch und Umsetzung“ Vom 14. bis 15. März findet in der Katholischen Akademie in Berlin die XV. Jahrestagung Illegalität „Soziale Rechte – Hürden…
Our colleague Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi will give a lecture this Friday at 13.15 at the University of Lapland main building, with a title that would sound in english something…
I am a cultural anthropologist who conducts research with deaf children and their families in Mexico City. Echarle ganas is a Mexican colloquial expression that roughly translates to…
This is the second in a series of posts by scholars who attended the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne, an event hosted in September by Deakin University as part of…
Das alte Gebäude des Instituts für Kunstpädagogik in der Sophienstraße erlebt einen seiner letzten Rundgänge. Seit dem Spatenstich für den Neubau des FB 09 Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften auf…
Page 278 of Loic (Louie) Wacquant’s 2008 Book “Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality”. (Polity).
by Melissa Geere Lewes, a small town just ten minutes from the University of Sussex, makes headlines every November for its famous Bonfire celebrations. In 2018, the headlines were not…
Generally, when we change the year on the calendar, people tend to look back and see how they have evolved, what they have done and reflect on it.…
I want to take a minute to make a quick point about the underlying implications of several stories that have circulated in the media over the last couple…
I want to take a minute to make a quick point about the underlying implications of several stories that have circulated in the media over the last couple…
In the opening chapter of his edited volume, Social Systems and Design, out from Springer in 2014, Gary Metcalf asks if it is possible to establish ethical “first…
In the opening chapter of his edited volume, Social Systems and Design, out from Springer in 2014, Gary Metcalf asks if it is possible to establish ethical “first…
Dear Steven, I’m writing to respond to a letter you posted regarding claims I made in the Guardian about the global poverty narrative. I’m addressing you directly…
Was bedeutet es heute, als junge Forscherin oder junger Forscher ethnologisch „ins Feld“ zu gehen? Wie wichtig ist eine postkolonial-kritische Reflektion der eigenen Rolle? Und wie ändert sich…
Canguilhem’s historical epistemology continues to inspire historians and anthropologists to attend to how current and former human practices of science shape our conceptualizations and engagement wi…