Haunted: Spirits and the Agency of the No Longer in Niger #Afterlives
In Niger one frequently hears that schools, specifically secondary schools, are haunted. Briefly put, this means that some schools are teeming with spirits, most of whom pose a…
مقایسه تسلیم شدن دکتر حشمت با حاج احمد کسمایی
به مناسبت ۲۱ اردیبهشت سالگرد اعدام دکتر حشمت اشاره: این مقاله بخشی از کتاب در دست انتشار نویسنده تحت عنوان« جنبش و انقلاب جنگل( از مبارزه علیه اشغالگری…
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Corona-Krise und Moralisierungen
von Manuel Dieterich Beobachtung I: „Hey, Corona!“, schreit die Fahrradfahrerin der Gruppe von 8 Kindern und einer Erwachsenen entgegen. Sie ist sichtlich empört über diese augenscheinliche illegale Z…
Postkolonialismus und jüdisches Denken. Anmerkungen zur Debatte um Achille Mbembe
Um den Philosophen Achille Mbembe tobt eine Debatte. Zur Diskussion stehen seine Äusserungen zur Politik Israels. Ein Blick auf das Verhältnis der postkolonialen Studien zum Judentum zeigt, dass…
A ‘grand projet’: Universal Health Coverage and social protection in Senegal by Anna Wood
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…
نگاهی بر دو مفهوم زن‌بودگی و مرد‌بودگی
بحث امروز من، به طور خاص بر مفهوم «زن بودن» و «مرد بودن» متمرکز است. این دو مفهوم در اکثر جوامع انسانی مدرن، به مثابه مفاهیم بدیهی در…
نقش هنر در توسعه شهری (۵)
مالکوم میلز برگردان ملیحه درگاهی برودگیت: اگر بخش تامسدون یک مدل از اجرای طرح پراکنده و بیرمنگام نمونه ی راه اندازی مرکزی باشد، مقایسه با بیزینس پارک برودگیت…
دانش بومی مدیریت و مهار سیلاب در باغستان سنتی قزوین
دانش بومی مدیریت و مهار سیلاب در باغستان سنتی قزوین:سزاوار نگاهی نو در زمینه حفاظت و احیا نویسندگان: مریم شهبازی*[۱]، شکوه کرمانشاهانی۲، حامد احمدی۳، محبوبه جمشیدی۴، پوریا کاکوند۵ و…
معماری، زنان و آپاراتوس ساختار
معماری، زنان و آپاراتوس ساختار[۱] نلی اُدشورن کتاب خود آنسوی پیکر طبیعی[۲] (۱۹۹۴) را با نقل قولی از زیگموند فروید به سال ۱۹۳۳ آغاز می کند:” به محض…
What Anthropology Teaches Us about COVID-19, Part 4: A Conversation with Physician-Anthropologist, Dr. Bjørn Westgard
Recently, I checked in with Dr. Bjørn Westgard, to see how he was doing. Back in the ‘90s, Bjørn was enrolled in a wildly demanding, combined M.D./Ph.D. program…
What Anthropology Teaches Us about COVID-19, Part 4: A Conversation with Physician-Anthropologist, Dr. Bjørn Westgard
Recently, I checked in with Dr. Bjørn Westgard, to see how he was doing. Back in the ‘90s, Bjørn was enrolled in a wildly demanding, combined M.D./Ph.D. program…
Creation and Community: Making Mississippi Choctaw Arts
Creation and Community: Making Mississippi Choctaw Arts A Material Culture Studies Lecture by Emily Buhrow Rogers Thursday May 21, 2020 2–3 p.m. (EST) Email Jason Jackson at mchsl@indiana.edu…
COVID-19 and the Turn to Magical Thinking
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a time of unprecedented shock and trauma for many Africans. European invaders appeared, armed with guns for which African spears…
Neue archäologische Funde und Forschungen: Vortrag „Die griechische Kolonisation im nördlichen Schwarzmeerraum“
Vortrag von Dr. Udo Schlotzhauer zum Thema „Die griechische Kolonisation im nördlichen Schwarzmeerraum. Neue Forschungen zur antiken Topographie und Besiedlungsgeschichte am Kimmerischen Bosporos“ Das…
Awakening to being the “other” A schizophrenic streak
In discussions on COVID-19, it has become a common trope that disciplines like anthropology are particularly relevant and fitting for writing about the pandemic. Indeed, the pandemic unearths…
COVID-19, the Freedom to Die, and the Necropolitics of the Market by Vito Laterza
Field hospital constructed in Gothenburg, Sweden in March 2020. Photo: Helén Sjöland. While reading Giorgio Agamben’s (2020) anthropological note on the “danger” of habituation of Italians to…
HIV: God’s punishment for sexual deviants or a holy gift against Corona? by Tankut Atuk
In Turkey, HIV has never been considered a “Turkish” issue, but an issue of Eastern European sex workers and Western queers, both perceived as sexual deviants. However, according…
The Vanishing Land: In Search of a Myth for Samothraki
By Eleni Kotsira, University of St Andrews § It is an evening in the early days of August 2019. I am sitting at a café in an alleyway…
“There are worse places to spend a lockdown”: Privileged and at risk British retirees in Spain by Emma Fàbrega
It was a sunny Tuesday morning, at the beginning of March 2020. The dirt pétanque field in a Catalan coastal town was filled with English chatter about golf,…
Would you consider writing your reports backwards?
In the scope of the contemporary planetary crisis this post probably qualifies as less urgent and a little bit rant-y, but today I’d like to talk about reports,…
Zwei Seiten einer Medaille. Warum interkulturelle Kompetenz in Geschäftsbeziehungen so wichtig ist
„Meinst du es gibt wirklich einen Markt für dein Angebot, Julia?“ Diesen Satz höre ich tatsächlich ziemlich oft. Und schüttele nur den Kopf. Klar gibt es einen Markt…
Trench Warfare of Mindsets in Switzerland’s Approach to The COVID-19 Pandemic
HÜSLER SAMIRA-SALOMÉ & PYTHON ANNICK MARIA ILDIKO On 26 March 2020, the Federal Council declared an extraordinary situation in accordance with the Epidemic Act and issued a set…
#Afterlives: Shaheen Bagh and the Force of Foundation
February 2020. The pedestrian overpass is covered in banners. Crossing its elevated walkway, only flashes of the sky can be glimpsed through the hanging tarp, cloth and card,…