Jasmine Folz on her dissertation
Page 99 of my dissertation about free and open source software in India begins with a description of children dancing at a community centre in a Bengaluru slum.…
De Handelaar
Afgelopen vrijdag tweette de leider van Forum voor Democratie, Thierry Baudet, het volgende: Kritische media als we hebben, die gingen gelijk op speurtocht. En wat is de conclusie?…
19th Century Evolutionism: TYLOR AND MORGAN
Definition: 1 L.H. Morgan:
Terni, Lissabon und die Totengräber
Marcus X. Schmid schreibt in seinem Reiseführer „Umbrien“ (Michael-Müller-Verlag) über die 150.000-Einwohnerstadt Terni: Die zerbombten Palazzi im Zentrum hingegen wurden größtenteils durc…
Heisst humanitäre Hilfe auch Solidarität? Ein kritischer Blick auf die deutsche „Willkommenskultur“
Die „Willkommenskultur“ in der „Flüchtlingskrise“ 2015 rief vielfach und durchaus berechtigt Bewunderung hervor. Doch der humanitäre Einsatz bedeutet nicht Solidarität: Im Blick, im Sprechen und im Ha…
Writing about Coffee
Despite being a lifelong non-coffee-drinker, I somehow found myself reading two fantastic books about coffee recently. The first, Miriam Sagan’s A Hundred Cups of Coffee, hijacked me from…
The Subjugation of Liberal Democracy
Are we witnessing in our lifetime the slow destruction of liberal democracy? Have we exhausted the limits of a political system that has served nations for more than…
Links & Contents I Liked 351
Hi all, To be fair, it felt it bit more exciting to share link review 350 last week, but time flies and great new content wants to be…
“We will always put economic growth ahead of environmental concerns”
It may sound strange, but wouldn’t it be nice if Trump’s disconnect between endless economic growth and environmental crisis stemmed from pure ignorance. At least if this was…
Los atajos del cerebro: todos somos erroristas (y está bien).
“La tiranía de los objetos… Ella no sabe que yo existo. Como los androides, carece de la capacidad de apreciar la existencia de otro ser.” Del libro “¿Sueñan…
Anthropology for Liberation readings 2.0
In 2017 I taught a new course for the first time: Anthropology for Liberation. Here’s the short course description: How can Anthropology advance human emancipation from racism, gender…
Allison Ochs, “Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?” (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
In her new books, Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?: A Modern Guide to Parenting Digital Teens, Derived from Lessons of the Past (Amsterdam University Press,…
SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam” (First Edition Design, 2017)
America has the largest incarcerated population in the world. This staggering and troubling fact has driven a great deal of scholarship. Much of this research has shown that…
“Porous Borders”: José Reyes on the Fluid Mosaic
Introduction José Reyes is a researcher and an activist. In his contribution here, he offers us an exercise of autoethnography (Adams et al.)[1], a research method in which…
AFHVS/ASFS Conference Deadline Extended!
Note the new deadline for this great conference. Also: SAFN members can register for the conference at member rates! ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 7th The University of…
In the Journals, January 2020 by Anna Zogas
Here’s our monthly digest of new journal articles! A special issue of Medical Anthropology on “Aging, Chronicity, and Negotiations of Care” is among the highlights. Happy reading! …
The Double Life of Coca
In Andean countries such as Peru and Bolivia, locals and tourists drink mate de coca, a tea made from coca leaves, to stave off altitude sickness. Calsidyrose/Flickr In…
Review: Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Nico Slate. Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind. University of Washington Press. Seattle: 2019. 237 pp. ISBN 9780295744957 (hardcover: alk. paper.) Richard…
The Limits of Negotiation
Horkheimer: Theory is theory in the authentic sense only where it serves practice. Theory that wishes to be sufficient unto itself is bad theory. On the other hand,…
Friday Seminar Series 7.2 : Sasha Newell “The Crowding of Clutter: Possession, Heterochrony, and Congestion in U.S. Domestic Life”
The Crowding of Clutter: Possession, Heterochrony, and Congestion in U.S. Domestic Life Sasha Newell, Université Libre de Bruxelles February 7th 2020, 2-4 PM, Unioninkatu 35, Room 113/4 Building…
New publications on borders and topology by Sarah Green
”Lines, traces, and tidemarks: further reflections on forms of border” in 2018, The political materialities of borders: new theoretical directions. Demetriou, O. & Dimova, R. (eds.). 1 ed.…
K. Linder et al., “Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers” (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. However, if you’ve…
Alexis Elder, “Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves” (Routledge, 2017)
Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks and costs of face-to-face human interaction……
Andrea Boyles, “You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America” (U California Press, 2019)
“Black lives matter before death.” (p.132) In her powerful new book, You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America (University of California Press……