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Hi all, Happy holidays! This is the final link review for 2019, packed with great content worthy to wrap up another crazy year in #globaldev. Because of a…
Annual ANZORA conference in Lublin, Poland
Dr. Joanna Siekiera sums up this year’s annual Australia, New Zealand, Oceania Research Association (ANZORA) conference in Lublin, Poland. On 13 December 2019, I organized the…
Når metaforar døyr – og vaknar til liv att
Språket vårt er fullt av døde metaforar som ein gong var levande: kreative, assosiasjonsrike ord og uttrykk som tilførte språket noko nytt – heilt til dei blei brukt…
Stellungnahme zu FAZ-Artikel
Autor*innen: Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakasoglu und Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril Die Vorsitzende und der stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Rats für Migration nehmen Stellung zum Artikel “Der Kurswechsel wird z…
Braderie op de Dam
In het kader van de actie ‘Boer Burger Brunch’ stonden er afgelopen 13 december 28 trekkers op de Dam. Doel van dit boerenprotest: het gesprek aangaan met de…
Why Winter Solstice Celebrations Persist
The El Castillo step pyramid (center) is part of the Chichén Itzá archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Steve Elmore/Getty Images At the ancient Maya-Toltec ceremonial comple…
Wenn Grenzen neu gezogen werden – wo steht die Ethnologie?
Noch vor etwas mehr als einer Dekade klangen die scheinbar selbstverständlichen Vorannahmen ethnologischer Forschungen ganz anders als heute. Das Fach schien damals übereingekommen, dass eindeutige Un…
Sidharthan Maunaguru, “Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War” (U Washington Press 2019)
Sidharthan Maunaguru’s Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (University of Washington Press 2019) is an unusual ethnography of the ‘in-betweenn……
They / Them
In this post, I celebrate @merriam-webster’s Word of the Year, and reflect on some important trends for the LGBTQ+ community and our allies as awareness of They /…
Petition to Survey the Reservation and to Live in Peace, September 20, 1869
Previous essays have addressed the poor treatment of the tribes on the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation into the late 1860s. In 1869 during his inauguration speech, newly elected…
How to Resurrect Dying Languages
Hawaiian language teacher Nako’olani Warrington instructs 9-year-old Maleka Benjamin at an immersion school in Honolulu. Lucy Pemoni/AP Photo In the 1970s, the Hawaiian language seemed po…
Nationalism as a Necessary Evil
Signe Askersjö: In a modest room within the Govanhill recreational centre, on the other side of the wall from a children’s karate lesson, advocates for Scottish independence had…
Project on emerging digitalisation in Cuba was awarded funding by the Kone Foundation
Heidi Härkönen, currently working as an Academy of Finland post-doctoral researcher in Gender studies at the University of Helsinki, was awarded funding (163 200 euros) from the Kone…
Ayo Wahlberg, “Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China” (U California Press, 2018)
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm…
William Westermeyer, “Back to America: Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement” (U Nebraska 2019)
With his new book Back to America: Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement (University of Nebraska, 2019), Professor William Westermeyer explores the once-powerful Tea Party M……
1979 – 1999 – 2019: Kritische Erinnerungskultur in Deutschland vierzig Jahre nach ihrer Entstehung
Die Empörung war zurecht groß, als das Zentrum für politische Schönheit (ZPS) in Sichtweite des Bundestages eine schwarze Stele enthüllte, die Asche von Holocaust-Opfern enthielt. Eine respektlose Stö…
El performance puede cambiar el mundo!
Uno de los grandes acontecimientos de 2019 ha sido la puesta en escena del performance “Un violador en tu camino” del grupo de teatro “Las Tesis” de Valparaíso,…
Singular They is Old, Singular They is New
(The Linguistic One stretches, blows the dust off this blog that has been sitting idle while we all deal with Life Things, and dives in to writing). In…
Singular They is Old, Singular They is New
(The Linguistic One stretches, blows the dust off this blog that has been sitting idle while we all deal with Life Things, and dives in to writing). In…
Blogging and curating content as strategies to diversify discussions and communicate development differently
In my longer essay, a forthcoming paper, I am arguing that engaging with online social media in the form of curating a regular development blog column is a…
Narges Bajoghli, “Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic” (Stanford UP, 2019)
In her book Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (Stanford University Press, 2019), Narges Bajoghli takes an inside look at what it means to be…
CFP der under.docs
Call for Papers: under.docs – Fachtagung zu Kommunikation Future in Progress – Kritische Perspektiven auf Wandel und Fortschritt Ein Team von Studierenden der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften an d…
What Frames? What Geopolitics? Photographing Afghan Kyrgyz Migration Routes
Following a photo exhibition on Afghan Kyrgyz migration routes staged at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, this virtual exhibition ponders on problems of…