Notes From a Crime Scene
Drive out in the late afternoon to one of the many hills on the outskirts of the tiny Arizona town of Arivaca and look west. You will see…
Drive out in the late afternoon to one of the many hills on the outskirts of the tiny Arizona town of Arivaca and look west. You will see…
“Unser Feminismus ist antirassistisch – Reclaim feminism” (12 maart 2016, Keulen) © strassenstriche.net, via creative commons Door Marina de Regt en Reinhilde Kōnig De discussie ove…
Museums to prevent insurrection Many countries in the world have State financed national museums, based on the European model of the nineteenth century centralized state. These museums all…
The workshop “Critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative” is fast approaching! Unique in its genre, the workshop aims to problematise…
(Savage Minds is pleased to present this occasional post by Gregory Starrett, professor of anthropology at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This piece is a response to…
Seit einiger Zeit beschäftigt mich die Frage, wie Wissenschaftler_innen ihre Forschungserkenntnisse schnell und unkompliziert in die breite Öffentlichkeit tragen können. Natürlich ist es schön, einen …
Welcome back to In the Journals, our monthly recap of recent publications regarding security, law, crime, and governance. The upcoming April edition of Security Dialogue features a fantastic…
The Moche, one of the world’s great ancient civilizations, occupied the northern coast of Peru from roughly A.D. 100 to A.D. 800. They produced beautiful ceramic vessels; hundreds…
brothers dying in the street and our hoods in crisis we need more messages for the grassroots we need resurrections like Osiris corner stores b-boys wondering what freedoms…
Offiziell unternimmt die chinesische Regierung viel für Menschen mit Behinderungen. Es gibt Arbeitsbeschaffungsprojekte und nun auch die Möglichkeit zur Teilnahme an Beamtenprüfungen. In allen größere…
Since discard studies doesn’t have it’s own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books from all over …
The workshop “Critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative” is fast approaching! Unique in its genre, the workshop aims to problematise…
There is always space for more snark, memes, satire or ironic commentary on development-related topics, so it is worth documenting a great teachable moment that happened on facebook…
Following up on my last post (and indirectly on a couple of older posts), I came across an interesting interview extract that comments in a bit more detail…
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about anti-Trump protests and the potential danger of cable news exploitation as they become increasingly violent. An excerpt: Mr. Trump’s seeming…
This year has seen some encouraging openings in a much-needed conversation on academia and mental health (for example: The Guardian, Chronicle Vitae, The Professor is In). Many of…
Coming home from Phoenix on Friday, I found myself sharing the plane with Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer, and Bret Stephens. Bryant and Bayer are SNL players. Stephens (below) is Foreign…
Reprinted from Cultural Survival Source: Cultural Survival Indigenous community radio stations in Guatemala have found themselves in the midst of a hopeful period regarding their legalizations, as the…
The June heat was so intense, the air so still, that the open balcony doors offered little relief. Anthropologist Ruth Behar felt her clothes sticking as she looked…
Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom (editors) Bloomsbury, 2015, 255 pages Ethnographies of Breastfeeding offers a timely insi…
In every respect we are delighted with the launch of our project. We now engage in daily interaction with thirteen thousand students registered on our FutureLearn course, plus 1,300…
Door Thijl Sunier Op 6 april mogen we in een referendum stemmen over een associatieverdrag van de EU met Oekraïne. Ik ben een voorstander van dit associatie-verdrag, maar…
In the second of three questions, human smuggling experts share their views on what actually constitutes the difference between human smuggling and trafficking. They all agree that the…