The term “commod bod” is used with humor and affection. It also offers a critical way to describe bodies shaped by long-term reliance on U.S. federal commodity food…
Am 26. April jährt sich die Reaktorkatastrophe im Kernkraftwerk Tschornobyl zum 40. Mal. Das anschliessende Schweigen der sowjetischen Regierung zeigt einen besonders gefährlichen Aspekt von Propagand…
Setningsledd som subjekt og objekt forteller oss hvem som utfører eller er gjenstand for handlinger. De viser rollefordelinga mellom deltakerne i en situasjon. Men hvordan får språk fram kontraster s…
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Children’s Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya by Elizabeth Ngutuku is a theoretically and historically grounded ethnography of childhood deprivation in Siaya, Kenya. The book…
Geschlecht, intersektionale Verflechtungen, soziale Ungleichheit, Wissen und Macht sind zentrale Themen der Gender Studies. Da diese Fragen viele gesellschaftliche Ebenen durchziehen, erfordern sie un…
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Laura Kihlström discusses the objectives of the healthcare reform in Finland in relation to the lived experiences of healthcare service users. The post Antropodi: Shifting healthcare landscapes and…
Spicy crawfish (Chinese style), 2022. Photo by Amanda Kaminsky. Amanda Kaminsky (UC Merced) How do you like to eat crawfish? If you live in the United States (particularly…
Spicy crawfish (Chinese style), 2022. Photo by Amanda Kaminsky. Amanda Kaminsky (UC Merced) How do you like to eat crawfish? If you live in the United States (particularly…
Dossier von Christoph Schroeder für den Rat für Migration Ausgangslage Im Haushaltsjahr 2026 sollen bis auf Weiteres keine neuen Zulassungen auf Antrag für Freiwillige ohne Teilnahmeberechtigung (§ 44…
Cuando alguien pregunta a qué se dedica la antropología, muchas personas imaginan arqueólogos excavando tumbas, huesos antiguos o ruinas misteriosas. Pero la realidad es mucho más amplia y…
“What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?” asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholarship The Unruly Dead: Spirits,…
In Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education (Columbia UP, 2020), sociologist Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of a new wave of…
Over the past decade, Pakistan has been steadily expanding its digital security, policing, and surveillance architecture, which is sensorially and materially altering how security is experienced and e…
Es gibt ja so Tage, da fühlt man sich bereit für mal was ganz anderes. Ausbrechen, den Laden hinschmeißen, neu anfangen. Irgendwo in Portugal oder der Provence, in…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
What should we do today? How would you write Data Borders differently today? But what can I do? People often ask me these questions when I present my…
Records of the Mountain Molalla are very limited. Besides a few records of the tribe living around Pleasant Hill, at Lost Valley, there is nearly nothing known of…
In this episode, YAIM members describe how they kept their sanity inside Tariq al Sikka through music, shared prayers, and […] The post Return appeared first on Allegra…
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9781800413023/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOor53v9eMQDN9re1MILUy8hPJyJvYq9n7U15EyYlBPpCm-HAunkK Khoi Nguyen: As you state in your introduction, you…
Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible. The post Rooms That Refuse to…
This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence. The post “There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the…