2009 Mexico Swine Flu – 2020 Italy Covid19: How I Experienced A Double Quarantine
SARA SALVATORI In this article, I will briefly describe my experiences during the two pandemics, swine flu and COVID-19, when I accidentally l…
Wir wünschen Ihnen schöne Feiertage!
Die letzten Wochen unter dem Zeichen von Corona waren anstrengend, auch für uns. GdG macht deshalb über Ostern eine Pause – aber nur kurz. Schon am Mittwoch wird…
Katie Kilroy-Marac’s An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic by Nana Osei Quarshie
An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic Katie Kilroy-Marac University of California Press, 2019. 288 pages. Katie Kilroy-Marac …
Seeking Urban Metabolisms through Archaeology by Sarah Hayes
The metabolism of a city is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in its archaeology. Decades of excavations triggered by cultural heritage management legislation in Melbourne, Australia reveal a…
Review: Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia
Carole Counihan. Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia: Place, Taste, and Community. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. Pp. i-176. ISBN 9781474262286 (hardback) 9781474262309 (epdf) Abigail E. Adams (Centr…
Digital Migration
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Patricia G. Lange, an anthropologist and associate professor of Critical Studies (undergraduate program) and Visual & Critical Studies (graduate program) at Cal…
Networked, Not Virtual: ethnography when you can’t go there
(from our storymap) In my capacity as a fellow in our faculty research center, I’ve been doing a lot of support work for the unexpected shift to learning-at-a-distance. …
Risikogruppen isolieren
In letzter Zeit kommen immer mehr Forderungen auf, dass die Risikogruppen sich isolieren (vom Tübinger Oberbürgermeister, in der taz, etc.), um den anderen zu ermöglichen, wieder in ein…
Risikogruppen isolieren
In letzter Zeit kommen immer mehr Forderungen auf, dass die Risikogruppen sich isolieren (vom Tübinger Oberbürgermeister, in der taz, etc.), um den anderen zu ermöglichen, wieder in ein…
Italy’s Hidden Epidemic: The Shadow of the Mafia over Post-Emergency Europe
FRANCESCO FLORIS On 4th April, more than two months after the declaration of the state of emergency and almost one month after the start of the quarantine throughout…
Of dogs and their humans: Late life in a more-than-human world of the COVID-19 pandemic by Cristina Douglas
Sometimes when we go to the park, Bruce – my canine research assistant – and I meet with another more-than-human pair, who join us for a game of…
Neurological, Structural, and Pandemic Emergencies: Elective Cochlear Implant Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Michele Friedner
While conducting research in India during the summer of 2019 for my book on cochlear implantation, I kept on coming across an interesting object: a small cardboard office…
The Problem of Imagining the Real
As the novel coronavirus sent China into lockdown, my wife and I started to carefully follow the news. China was far away, and it was hard to imagine…
El ecosistema inmunitario: yo albergo multitudes.
“Si los soldados de primera línea no necesitaran máscaras y guantes, sino armas, bombas inteligentes, búnkers, submarinos, aviones de combate y bombas nucleares, ¿habría escasez?” Arundhati Roy,…
“Altering the Mode of Sociality”: Communicating through quarantine
The shelter-in-place/lockdown/quarantine orders that took shape in March 2020 in many states have brought out new social dimensions in how we communicate— from taking our relationships online instead…
Slow. the. fuck. down.
Do you remember what an ordinary day in your life looked like last autumn? Back when Corona was just a below average beer and social distancing described what…
Epidemiological Publics? On the Domestication of Modelling in the era of COVID-19 by Catherine Montgomery
The COVID-19 pandemic has been called “a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco” (Ioannides, 2020), while the editor of the Lancet has declared that “the handling of the COVID-19 crisis in the…
Blog Post Series: Von der Cyberanthropologie zur Digitalen Anthropologie – Teil 2
Diese Serie von Blogeinträgen beschreibt die Relevanz kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Zugänge in der Untersuchung digitaler Technik und Technologien, dargestellt anhand wissenschaftstheoretischer…
“It can be seen” – COVID-19’s Disasters for Workers by Hannah Borenstein
Ethiopia, where I am currently doing dissertation fieldwork, reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 13, 2020. But for runners who work in transnational sport, COVID-19 had…
Anxiety, Scarcity and Precarity in a Time of COVID-19
SHARLI ANNE PAPHITIS On the 16th of March, I took one of my last trips into the office on the London Overground and found myself completely alone on…
At the Border of „Us“ and „Them“ – An Anecdote of a Korean International Student Going Through Corona Pandemic in France (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Juhyun Lee With the spread of the coronavirus, social distancing has become a new imperative. The changes are indeed very fast-paced.…
Virus and the City: Urban Experiences in Self-Isolation
The way we make sense of space has radically changed as a novel Coronavirus spread, with no clear end in sight. While our physical surroundings shrink and our…
How A Pandemic Shapes The City: Ethnographic Voices From South Africa
TAMIA BOTES, LESEDI M.S. CHOCHO, GEORGIA KELLOW, ELINOR BRONNVIK ENGELKING, LUCY KHOFI, EDNA BOSIRE, ERMA COSSA AND DESIREE MALOPE Like others globally, we are observing sudden and severely…
Il faut tuer
1929 hielt Le Corbusier in Buenos Aires einen Vortrag zum Thema Städtebau und sagte: Il faut tuer la rue-corridor. Bedeutet so viel wie, man müsse die Korridor-Straße und…