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Hi all, Another week with a special COVID-19 section-focusing on globally diverse, interesting, alternative media & communication projects; plus non-COVID reading suggestions & more! P.S….
Are slum tours doing more harm than good?
by Rachel Jackson Last year, I spent several months working in an NGO in Peru. Before travelling home, I decided to take a trip to Brazil and spend…
Hva er egentlig forskjellen mellom «u» og «y»?
Få lydkontraster volder så stor frustrasjon for de som skal lære seg norsk, som den mellom «u» og «y», for eksempel i ordene sur og syr. Det er…
Italia moderna – dodici
Ein merkwürdiges Gebäude aus der Zeit um 1970, bestehend aus einem Längs- und einem aufgesetzten Querriegel. Wobei genau genommen der untere Riegel, also der quer zur Straße liegende,…
Coronaviruset – en frågelista
Coronaviruset och de åtgärder som vidtagits för att bekämpa det, dominerar vardagen just nu. Även min jobba hemifrån-vardag domineras av coronaviruset, då jag som anställd vid kulturvetenskapliga arki…
Populist Pharmakons by Juan Carlos Gabaldon
On March 22, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro delivered a long cadena– an impromptu speech carried live by public and regime-controlled TV stations – dedicated exclusively to COVID-19. Wearin…
Epidemic Times by Helge Jordheim
Epidemics like Covid-19 fundamentally change the order of time. The present moves faster, the past seems further removed, and the future appears completely unpredictable. Everyday homogenous time spl…
Covid-19: scales of pandemics and scales of anthropology by Jean Segata
Outbreak, epidemics, and pandemics are technical terms from epidemiology. They are used for temporal, geographical, and quantitative classification of infectious diseases. These terms are fundamental…
Handreichungen zum Erfolg
Meine Fakultät stellt mir Handreichungen zur digitalen Lehre zur Verfügung. Das ist gut und ich bedanke mich dafür. Digitale Lehre macht sich nicht von alleine und muss gut…
Handreichungen zum Erfolg
Meine Fakultät stellt mir Handreichungen zur digitalen Lehre zur Verfügung. Das ist gut und ich bedanke mich dafür. Digitale Lehre macht sich nicht von alleine und muss gut…
El diseño según R. Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller, un diseñador, arquitecto y futurista americano, tenía una visión muy naturalista y espiritual sobre el diseño. Metafísica, diría él. Tal y como lo escribe en…
Die Fremde: Faszination oder Abscheu als Konstituente von Heimat
Schlaglichter eines Vortrags „Heimat“ ist in aller Munde. Der Begriff scheint ein Revival zu erleben, das nicht nur durch die Gründung des „Heimatministeriums“ in Deutschland deutlich w…
Thesis Review: Tasting in Mundane Practices
Please note: As Associate Reviews Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent thesis or would…
New corona and anthropology
In the meantime, have a look at what some of our colleagues have been working on. Kim Knibbe (RUG) describes how a Nigerian Pentecostal megachurch is handling the…
Sør-Afrika (og verden) snudd på hodet
Plasthansker, munnbind, antibac. Plutselig har nye ord kommet inn i hverdagsvokabularet og hverdagens forventningene. Plutselig tar vi en god omvei rundt mennesker vi går forbi på gaten, vi…
Infrastructure of the Archive / Archiving Infrastructure #Roadsides
Infrastructure is, in common understanding, a very material thing. We think of it as something made of iron and concrete. Even when going unnoticed in our everyday lives,…
Sanjib Baruah, “In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Sanjib Baruah’s latest book In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (Stanford University Press, 2020) completes a trilogy on India’s northeastern borderland region of which…
Marco Z. Garrido, “The Patchwork City: Class, Space and Politics in Metro Manila” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitica… Visit…
How Do You Do “Social”?
We invite you to share your strategies for feeling connected and balancing home and work responsibilities in these social distancing times. Image description: A photo of someone’s desk…
Explaining the Emergence of Coronavirus Rituals
People in Rome, Italy, go out on their balconies at a specific time to give one another a round of applause during the coronavirus lockdown. Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo…
Während der Krise schon Tugend machen: Bundesregierung setzt flächendeckend Kulturanthropolog*innen ein
Mit sofortiger Wirkung beschließen Bundestag und Bundesrat ein Eilgesetz nach Art. 85 GG zur Einsetzung neuer Anthrosozialstellen in allen öffentlichen Behörden und Dienststellen auf kommunaler Ebene …
Coronavirus and Carcerality by Ian Whitmarsh
A friend of mine works as a psychotherapist in a northern California prison. Three weeks ago, he and I were talking about coronavirus in prisons as we stood watching…
Pandemics: agents of global change
It was the early 1990s, while working at the American College of Physicians in Philadelphia, I became interested in epidemiology. With all the doctors around (there were twelve…
Book Review: Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change by Alison Kenner
In Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change, Alison Kenner uses a multi-sited ethnography to examine the myriad infrastructures and material practices of care in the…