Rechte Zeiten
Das Jahr 2020 hat düster begonnen. In Indien kommt es zu staatlich tolerierten und wohl beförderten Pogromen gegen Muslim_innen (siehe ein Artikel des Guardians) während eines Staatsb…
NBN Interview with Darryl Li on ‘The Universal Enemy Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity’ (2020)
From New Books Network: No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting…
Jerome Whitington, “Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower” (Cornell UP, 2018)
Jerome Whitington‘s Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower (Cornell University Press, 2019) examines the dynamics and discourses centered around the development… Visit New Books in…
“Sociology is a combat sport”
On February 20th, Allies Julie Billaud, Alessandro Chidichimo, Miriam Odoni, Marie-Claire Peytrignet, together with other members of the Swiss-based non-profit association Programme Indépendant de Rec…
Disability Worlds: Wenner-Gren Symposium by Anna Zogas
The 2018 Wenner-Gren Symposium was “Disability Worlds,” and the papers are now available as a Current Anthropology supplement, open-access to all! Here is a PDF of the entire…
Native American Children’s Historic Forced Assimilation
Children arrived at school at different points in the assimilation process. Many still openly embraced their traditional cultures, including some of these Lakota children on the Rosebud Indian…
Stellungnahme: An den europäischen Außengrenzen entscheidet sich Europa
2015 hat die große Chance für die bundesrepublikanische Gesellschaft bedeutet, sich ganz praktisch als offene Gesellschaft zu erleben. Denn statt Panik, hat eine Mehrheit der Gesellschaft die Aufnahme…
Kate Devlin, “Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots” (Bloomsbury, 2018)
The idea of the seductive sex robot is the stuff of myth, legend and science fiction. From the ancient Greeks to twenty-first century movies, robots in human form…
The end of Representation
Originally posted on Trinketization: answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.: The end of Representation I have taught a lot of great students in my (eight!) years…
Neanderthals Traversed Vast Distances
Chagyrskaya Cave holds clues about Neanderthal dispersals from what is today Eastern Europe to Southern Siberia. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian…
Seminar: Digital Technologies as Material Culture 2020
In this MA seminar at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, we explore digital media technologies from an anthropological/ethnographic perspective in the context o…
Darryl Li, “The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity” (Stanford UP, 2020)
No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting secular norms, so… Visit…
An orientalist orthorexia
‘Alt-health’—a term referring to the loosely related set of Eastern and pseudo-spiritual ideologies about the body, health, and food—became my saving grace. I wanted to treat my body…
“She was killed in a car accident”. Konsten att minnas i det moderna.
“She was killed in a car accident” berättar en pojke i tioårsåldern. Han är på promenad med sin hund och verkar genuint glad över att kunna hjälpa två…
UK Universities, Decolonisation and the Future of Sociology
What is meant by the decolonisation of academic life? Why might it be of importance to contemporary British sociology? How might decolonisation proceed, and what might our sociological…
UK Universities, Decolonisation and the Future of Sociology
What is meant by the decolonisation of academic life? Why might it be of importance to contemporary British sociology? How might decolonisation proceed, and what might our sociological…
The Pecuniary Animus of the University
After some time, and somewhat shorter (tighter) edited to be less of a devotional prayer for Thorstein Bunde Veblen, this piece – The Pecuniary Animus of the University…
Der Stoff, aus dem Gewaltfantasien sind
Nach den Anschlägen von Halle und Hanau steht die AfD in der Kritik, die geistige Munition für solche Taten zu liefern. Doch was genau macht ihre Rhetorik so…
Go read my chapter on ‘Leviathans’
My chapter on ‘Leviathans’ is now available in the new volume Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon from the awesome open access publisher Punctum Books. I’ve long been a fan…
Remembered Visits to Seminole and Miccosukee Country
Some readers of Shreds and Patches know that I just lost my father KBJ (1935-2020). Others know that I am presently returning to my studies of craft from…
Going Viral in Hong Kong
Disease is but the most obvious part of an epidemic. As coronavirus spreads, it fuels many other kinds of contagious forces. AN editor’s note: How can anthropology help…
The Role of Pacific Youth in Ocean and Climate Action
Authored by Miriam Ladstein, this post draws attention to the work and contributions of Pacific youth in local and global arenas where decisions concerning ocean and climate action…
Feeble-mindedness, depression and obesity: a brief history of eugenics and dietary interventions in Australia by Christopher Mayes
In October 2019 the Australian Productivity Commission (APC) released a report stating that mental health cost employers $4.7 billion AUD in absenteeism. The report also highlighted significant gover…
David Morton, “Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique” (Ohio UP, 2019)
Who built Africa’s cities? Going beyond the colonial archive and the planner’s gaze, David Morton’s Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of…