https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501714498/language-as-hermeneutic/ Maddy Adams: You are both professors of English, and this blog is an anthropology blog. Walter Ong’s work has traveled…
In The Meritocracy Trap, Daniel Markovits argues that rather than aiding social mobility, the concept of meritocracy has become the single greatest obstacle to equal opportunities in the…
By Bicram Rijal We are in the middle of a coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic with its effects reaching far deep and wide. While different measures are being thought about…
Foto: Rasande Tyskar, flickr Demonstration in Hamburg am 29.09.2018 mit 30 000 Teilnehmern Viele Menschen, die aus ihrer Heimat nach Deutschland geflüchtet sind, dürfen nicht bleiben. Was passiert…
Foto: Rasande Tyskar, flickr Demonstration in Hamburg am 29.09.2018 mit 30 000 Teilnehmern Viele Menschen, die aus ihrer Heimat nach Deutschland geflüchtet sind, dürfen nicht bleiben. Was passiert…
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Rebecca Blome Zur Entlastung der Berliner Covid-19-Untersuchungsstellen hat die Charité eine App eingerichtet. CovApp bietet Menschen mit potenzieller Exposition zu C…
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician’s purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox…
Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves? What are the reasons certain people resort to self-injury as a way to manage…
For the third installment in our special series on interpretive political and social scientific research, Frederic C. Schaffer joins us to discuss his Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An…
Von Donald Trump in den USA, über Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilien zu Recep Erdogan in der Türkei – viele aktuelle Präsidenten werden von verschiedener Seite als Populisten bezeichnet.…
The first Rogue River War was a series of skirmishes and battles between mainly gold miners and the tribes. The miners had no regard for the tribes and…
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a next-generation observatory currently under development that has created a watershed moment for the scientific community and Hawaiian society. This is because…
The situation in which we now find ourselves in the privileged postcolonial West is a new one in the postwar period, but one that is more known to…
Since the first cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the UK, the freedoms of movement, socialisation and conviviality that many of us take for granted have been radically…
The Delmar Loop, a stretch of what was once racialized as the “Delmar Divide” for the way it separates St. Louis’ population, is normally …
Langsam entspanne ich mich etwas. Ich verfolge zwar weiter die Nachrichten, versuche mich aber weniger verrückt zu machen. Strukturen für das Interaktionen auf Distanz entwickeln sich. Das…
Langsam entspanne ich mich etwas. Ich verfolge zwar weiter die Nachrichten, versuche mich aber weniger verrückt zu machen. Strukturen für das Interaktionen auf Distanz entwickeln sich. Das…
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Kennedy Mkutu Agade Here in Kenya the sun is shining and a beautiful breeze is blowing through the house. But the house…
What does solidarity look like? There have not been enough in the way of critiques of revolutionary tourism, of the exoticist trap of romanticising rebel movements abroad while…
As the global pandemic escalates, health services are rapidly changing, creating tension between reproductive rights and safeguarding against COVID-19 spread, revealing the question: what is essentia…
Die gegenwärtige Diskussion über ein Fortwirken des Nationalsozialismus in politischen Redeweisen zeigt: Sprache ist politisch. Sie formt Weltbilder. Manchmal stellen Wörter auch dann ein Problem der …
Der Architekturtheoretiker oder -historiker Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani schrieb 1980 in der Zeit (Nr. 29) über die Anfänge der modernen Architektur in den 1920er Jahren: Die Meister des frü…
I teach an undergraduate course called Cultural diversity, structural barriers, and multilingualism in clinical and healing encounters at the University of Chicago. The title is a mouthful, and…
Several years ago, I went back to Chicago to see some old friends: artifacts, really—ancient sandals to be precise. The sandals were at the Field Museum of Natural…