Playing Theory (Part Two)
Innovations in Anthropology Series Welcome to the Innovations in Anthropology Series, a blog series devoted to profiling the teaching, production, and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. Wheth…
When Rare Diseases Aren’t So Rare
[no-caption] Sara López Gilabert When Christy Collins’ daughter was born, the doctors were baffled. The baby’s body was larger on one side than the other, and her skin…
“Welcome to Sodom” – Six myths about electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, Ghana
By Martin Oteng-Ababio & Maja van der Velden Agbogbloshie is an urban area in Ghana’s capital Accra, housing a vegetable market, a scrap metal yard, a large slum,…
Ankündigung zum Buch: Kein Ruhestand. Wie Frauen mit Altersarmut umgehen
Im März erscheint das Porträtband „Kein Ruhestand. Wie Frauen mit Altersarmut umgehen“, herausgegeben von Irene Götz. Es ist ein Werk, das aus der Arbeit der DFG-Forscher*innengruppe ̶…
Noah Coburn, “Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America’s Global War” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Noah Coburn‘s Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America’s Global War (Stanford University Press, 2018) is about the hidden workers of American’s foreign wars: third country nationals who…
Daromir Rudnyckyj, “Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. In Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance (University of Chicago Press,…
Noah Coburn, “Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America’s Global War” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Noah Coburn‘s Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America’s Global War (Stanford University Press, 2018) is about the hidden workers of American’s foreign wars: third country nationals who…
Daromir Rudnyckyj, “Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. In Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance (University of Chicago Press,…
When your research is attacked
Attacks on research have become routinized and institutionalized. Here is our step-by-step guide on what to do if you and your research are attacked.
Anthropology? What ‘Anthropology’?
In September 2018, Jarosław Gowin, Poland’s Minister of Science and Higher Education abolished anthropology as an academic discipline by an executive decree. The much-protested new law on higher…
#CollectiveLetter Against the Eradication of Polish Anthropology
Allegra Lab asks its readers to please consider giving their signatures to a collective letter we have drafted to the Minister of Science and Higher Education in Poland,…
Michaela Schäuble: Ecstasy: A review of two recent exhibitions on consciousness-expanding experience
In his classic Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession, I. M. Lewis (1971) contends that ritual, belief, and spiritual experience are the three cornerstones of…
Book Review: Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain by Mohan Ambikaipaker
In Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain, Mohan Ambikaipaker offers a new ethnographic study using an ‘activist anthropology’ approach that draws on his longstanding association with …
Book Review: Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain by Mohan Ambikaipaker
In Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain, Mohan Ambikaipaker offers a new ethnographic study using an ‘activist anthropology’ approach that draws on his longstanding association with …
THoR’s Take
Ruramisai Charumbira & Michael Toggweiler Welcome to THoR, also known as Taking the Humanities on the Road!THoR is an Ideas-and-Action Lab at the interdisciplinary Walter Benjamin Kolleg (…
THoR’s Take
Ruramisai Charumbira & Michael Toggweiler Welcome to THoR, also known as Taking the Humanities on the Road!THoR is an Ideas-and-Action Lab at the interdisciplinary Walter Benjamin Koll…
Can you imagine a world without Think Tanks?
This post has been sitting in my draft folder for far too long. I actually do not remember what triggered the first draft, but I seem to remember…
Jamal Elias, “Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies” (U California Press, 2018)
In his groundbreaking new book, Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies (University of California Press, 2018), Jamal Elias takes his readers on…
Marcia Morgan, “Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race” (Edwin Mellen Press, 2018)
With prison reform a topic of international conversation and debate, Marica Morgan’s Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race offers an in-depth and unique analysis……
Jamal Elias, “Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies” (U California Press, 2018)
In his groundbreaking new book, Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies (University of California Press, 2018), Jamal Elias takes his readers on…
Marcia Morgan, “Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race” (Edwin Mellen Press, 2018)
With prison reform a topic of international conversation and debate, Marica Morgan’s Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race offers an in-depth and unique analysis……
Green Economy and Promises for the Future in Greece #WhoseGreen?
The green economy is supposed to reduce environmental degradation while supporting sustainable development within the framework of neoliberal markets by incorporating accountability into the appropria…
Bangladesh Garment Workers Strike
Thousands of garment workers who make clothes for global brands have taken strike action over low wages. It is time the Western consumer listened. More than 50,000 Bangladeshi…
Der bemühte Konservatismus des Globalen Flüchtlingspakts: Eine Kritik
Der am 17. Dezember 2018 angenommene Globale Flüchtlingspakt wird weitgehend begrüßt. Was ein diplomatischer Erfolg sein mag ist flüchtlingspolitisch jedoch weder innovativ, noch realistisch und ist a…