La foto es de Ronya Galka Fragmento de La sociedad y la nada, conferencia inaugural del 30 Congreso de Filósofos Jóvenes, dedicado a “Occidente y el problema del…
ByAlessandro PatelBSc Anthropology Waterloo Station at 6pm on a Friday. The departures board flickers in that slightly impatient way station boards do, the crowd breathes in and out,…
At lunchtime on university campus one thing stands out: the boterham (sandwich). Coming from Japan’s elaborate bento culture, I was puzzled that so many students eat the same…
At lunchtime on university campus one thing stands out: the boterham (sandwich). Coming from Japan’s elaborate bento culture, I was puzzled that so many students eat the same…
La foto es de Ron Anthony Bautista Respuesta a la periodista y arquitecta Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, de El País, a propósito de las smart cities, enviada en marzo de…
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/audit-culture/ Ilana: Reading about audit culture as a professor feels so much like a fish being told “notice this water.” What inspired you to compare…
Anyone who knows Venezuela knows that things happen fast there. It is a function of the hectic pace of urban life in a society that is highly subject…
Ching Kwan Lee’s Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Decolonization Struggle combines history, ethnography and sociological analysis. According to Lucas Tse, the author’s account of political tra…
A best yet marston mat helicopter landing pad from the stranded bunnies section of Apocalypse Now Redux (2001 edition). Not in any of the other editions, for reasons…
Economies of Gender: Masculinity, “Mail Order Brides,” and Women’s Labor (Rutgers University Press, 2025) by Dr. Julia Meszaros offers a provocative exploration of the international dating industry, challenging simplistic…
This is a (hopefully) weekly update about events in Porgera. A few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley…
This year I used StoryGraph to track my reading daily, and then I went back to LibraryThing to track my reading over time. LibraryThing is great: fully featured…
Montag, 26.01.2026, 18.00 Uhr Buchpräsentation mit Kommentaren von Christin Jänicke (WZB) und Anne-Kathrin Will (Zittau/Görlitz) sowie einer Diskussion mit Autor*innen und Herausgebend…
Montag, 26.01.2026, 18.00 Uhr Buchpräsentation mit Kommentaren von Christin Jänicke (WZB) und Anne-Kathrin Will (Zittau/Görlitz) sowie einer Diskussion mit Autor*innen und Herausgebend…
Mit der neuen National Security Strategy kehren die USA zu einer Politik offener Machtdemonstration in Lateinamerika zurück. Doch die Wiederbelebung der Monroe-Doktrin offenbart weniger Stärke als vie…
Joshua Farrell-Molloy elucidates how masculinity helps explain performances of militant republican aesthetics by Irish far-right actors, who bind a revolutionary past to conte…
by Sophie Leegwater – A few minutes before 4:30 pm on a Monday afternoon in early January 2024, I hop into the yellow cab that takes me to…
Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea (University of Michigan Press, 2025) by Dr. Anita Gonzalez provides a rare perspective on performance by staff above and below deck…
Who are expatriates? How do they differ from other migrants? And why should we care about such distinctions? Expatriate: Following a Migration Category (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Sarah…
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 2 Minuten Von Emilia Kraus Im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung „Kulturwissenschaftliche Werkstatt“ haben wir, die Teilnehmenden des Seminars, uns im Sommersemester 2025 mit d…