Diversität- und Antidiskriminierung
Konzepte im Feld von Schule und Migration Publikation mit Beiträgen von: Prof. Dr. Mechtild Gomolla, Dr. Katrin Huxel, Dr. Galina Putjata, Dr. Thomas Geier, Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu,…
Safdar Hashmi
So, in 1988 I was evading fieldwork or whatever it was – frankly, I had abandoned the very idea – and was hanging around with a writer whose…
Thomas Yarrow, “Architects: Portraits of a Practice” (Cornell UP, 2019)
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These…
Feierliche Eröffnung des Italienzentrums der Goethe-Universität mit Festvortrag
Das Italienzentrum der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt lädt ein zur feierlichen Eröffnung in der Lobby des PA-Gebäudes am 11. Dezember 2019 um 18.30 Uhr. Prof. Dr. Carlo Ginzburg (University of Californi…
Reciprocity in Silicon Valley: The prominent role of gift giving among tech entrepreneurs in the Bay Area
‘Marcel Mauss applied to Silicon Valley’ – by Vivienne Schröder During my three months of fieldwork in the Bay Area on the work/private life situation of early-stage tech…
Why the Earth Must Be Mapped
A lidar scan of a site in Mexico reveals the boundaries of a ceremonial area. Chris Fisher The climate crisis represents humanity’s greatest threat. Our daily news is…
Sharing Polar Cultures and Knowledge: Perspectives from Libraries and Archives
Our colleagues from the library have alerted us to their colloquium, which is this year about the participation of knowledge-holders in the sharing and archiving practices that have…
Ethnography and the Internet – what´s next?
The Internet has been attracting researchers’ attention for long. As a relatively new territory, it presents a methodological challenge. For anthropologists as well. On the one hand, it…
Gemeinsame Stellungnahme zur Wissenschaftskommunikation
Gemeinsam mit 14 weiteren Fachgesellschaften hat die DGSKA eine Stellungnahme zur Wissenschaftskommunikation an Bundesministerin Anja Karliczek unterzeichnet. Karliczek hatte angekündigt, den Dialog z…
#events: Let’s Get Geographical!
They say ‘the early bird catches the worm’. Would you like to catch that worm? Or, perhaps, that worm isn’t so enticing! How about a short course on…
Gegen die Sprachlosigkeit. Als häusliche Gewalt einen Namen bekam: zur Geschichte der Frauenhaus-Bewegung
Häusliche Gewalt gegen Frauen ist seit geraumer Zeit zu einem vieldiskutierten Thema geworden. Dies war nicht immer so. Dazu, dass sich dies änderte, leisteten autonome Feministinnen und die…
Nichaqwali Watlala peoples at Blue Lake
The Nichaqwali people, a Cascades/Watlala Chinookan band, lived at the juncture of several cultural groups that lived in the larger region of the lower Columbia and who interacted…
Neanderthals: Body of Evidence
As every fan of crime drama television knows, the human body holds a wealth of information about its once-living owner. Flesh and bugs may tell of time of…
Infill, onfill eller refill? Tre råd for mer ombruk i byutviklingen
av Gro Sandkjær Hanssen og Joar Skrede Om den fremtidige byveksten skal gi oss en klima- og miljømessig, sosialt, kulturelt og økonomisk bærekraftig by, må byen omformes og…
Stöldbegärligt?
En mobiltelefon har förkommit och förlusten ska polisanmälas. På polisens hemsidor kan man göra elektronisk brottsanmälan (även om det är mycket osannolikt att mobilen blivit stulen) och ett…
The Server Souvenir: Taking Home Remnants of Virtual Worlds
“It’s amazing to think those little circuits that we can carry around were an entire world to us.” –Diana*, interviewee “We might say that this capacity of objects…
Trade
Issues of trade have come to renewed attention, as the global trading system has been rocked by upended agreements and cries for economic populism. Anthropology has long been…
In the search of a school for Nancy: stories of disability, inclusion and care by
Procura-se uma escola para Nancy: histórias de deficiência, inclusão e cuidados. For English, click here. Com pouco mais de três anos, chegou a hora de Nancy – a…
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Hi all, I was in Armenia last week & enjoyed a fantastic final seminar at Yerevan State University with our internationalization project-so that explains the slightly unusual time…
Carrie Clanton takes the page 99 test
My PhD thesis, Uncanny Others: Hauntology, Ethnography, Media, started out as an ethnographic study of people who pursue ghosts as a hobby in the U.K. As a visual…
Archaeologists at Goethe University conclude project in Stockstadt am Main
In an extensive project, archaeologists at Goethe University processed and digitally recorded Roman artefacts from Stockstadt am Main (Bavaria). The work lays the groundwork for future research and…
Rezension zu „Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus“, von Theodor W. Adorno, ver-fasst von Peter Schadt
2019 veröffentlichte Suhrkamp das kleine Bändchen „Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus“. Druckvorlage der Ausgabe war die Tonaufnahme eines Vortrages, den Adorno am 6. April 1967 auf Einladung des Ve…
Book Review: Anatomies of Revolution by George Lawson
In Anatomies of Revolution, George Lawson offers a new account of how revolutions begin, unfold and end through a dynamic amalgam of in-depth sociological theory, multiple historical narratives and po…
Hva kan vil lære av et av verdens mest ulike land?
Ifølge en ny rapport er Sør-Afrika fremdeles et av verdens mest ulike land. I det urbane landskapet, er den fysiske avstanden mellom fattige og rike kort, mens barrierene…