Crackles of Science and other Signs of the Unseen in East Africa
After hearing that several villagers stored bags full of radioactive sand inside their family houses, the nuclear scientist explained that he went into a man’s home with a…
Tag: Africa
Vivir en una irrealidad: de la zombificación al síndrome de Cotard
“La cara norte del corazón” de Dolores Redondo, te sumerge en el apasionante y la vez terrorífico mundo de los “muertos vivientes”, el Vudú y del muy desconocido…
Deconstruyendo imaginarios del sur global
El proyecto que presentamos es el primero de una posible serie de trabajos divulgativos destinados a la Universidad Rovira i Virgili y a otros centros educativos de ámbito…
Neocolonialismo: Desarraigo cultural y dependencia en la República del Congo
En días pasados repasaba algunas de las diferencias existentes entre los dos museos más significativos de Brazzaville, así como el trato institucional que reciben cada uno de ellos…
Arte y Neocolonialismo
Estimad@s lector@s, Quisiera haceros partícipes de una experiencia etnográfica que refleja la alargada sombra del colonialismo europeo en África, donde en la actualidad, aún se siguen produciendo sit…
When “Slow Violence” Collides with Visceral Hunger – COVID-19 and the Current and Future Food System of Cape Town, South Africa (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (9 Less Words) Gareth Haysom African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated both the unsustainability and the fragility…
The African Union Covid-19 Response Fund: a new social contract
The African Union recently rolled out the Partnership to Accelerate Covid-19 Testing (PACT) building on the lessons from past outbreaks and epidemics. In early 2014, when Ebola cases…
Blog Post Series: Von der Cyberanthropologie zur Digitalen Anthropologie – Teil 4
Diese Serie von Blogeinträgen beschreibt die Relevanz kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Zugänge in der Untersuchung digitaler Technik und Technologien, dargestellt anhand wissenschaftstheoretischer…
Future-making on Hold: Pandemic Audio Diaries from two Rift Valley Lakes in Kenya (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (5 Less Words) Anna Lisa Ramella, Martin Zillinger In this post, we share the accounts of our research partners from Lake Baringo and Lake…
Government, Church, and the Community of Believers: Managing the Coronavirus in Ethiopia during Easter Time (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Alice Colombo When the coronavirus enters Ethiopia The first time I heard somebody talking about the coronavirus in Ethiopia was in…
How to Make Sense of “Traditional (Chinese) Medicine” In a Time of Covid-19: Cold War Origin Stories and the WHO’s Role in Making Space for Polyglot Therapeutics by Helen Tilley
Note: I wrote this for anyone trying to “teach the virus,” something I will soon be doing myself. The question in the title is meant to signal that…
COVID-19, the Freedom to Die, and the Necropolitics of the Market by Vito Laterza
Field hospital constructed in Gothenburg, Sweden in March 2020. Photo: Helén Sjöland. While reading Giorgio Agamben’s (2020) anthropological note on the “danger” of habituation of Italians to…
Health Insurance for the poor: insights from the Kenyan coast by Jacinta Victoria Muinde
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
The Temporal Politics of Ethnography, Heritability, and Contagion in Tanzania During Covid-19
Editor’s note: This post is the fourth in our five-part series “COVID-19: Views from the Field.” Click here to read an introduction written by series organizer Rebekah Ciribassi.…
Sowei Mask Repairs in Focus: Material Interpretation and Object Itineraries (Lecture)
Sowei Mask Repairs in Focus: Material Interpretation and Object Itineraries A Material Culture Studies Lecture by Kristin Otto Thursday May 14, 2020 2–3 p.m. (EST) Email Jason Jackson…
Africa, Laboratory Equipment and COVID-19 Response by Louise Bezuidenhout
As the world struggles to address the COVID-19 crisis, attention increasingly turns to laboratories and the crucial role that they play in diagnostics and research. A rising number…
Positioniertheit im Gesundheitsnotstand: Wahrnehmungen, Auslassungen und Bewertungen im Kontext von Ebola und Corona (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Anne Menzel „Es ist wohl auch zu spät. Das Virus hat sich so weit verbreitet, dass es kaum noch hülfe, einzelne…
Futures and the past in Ghana’s Universal Health Coverage infrastructure by David Bannister
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Zambia: state accountability and universality in a new community health worker programme by James Wintrup
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
The hype and hope of data for healthcare in Africa by Tom Neumark
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. …
Flipping the Script of the Disaster Flick by Elizabeth Durham
For Cameroonians faced with the realities and stereotypes of their country’s armed conflict, watching COVID-19 hit New York City before Yaoundé is cinematic catharsis. The WhatsApp messages start…
“It can be seen” – COVID-19’s Disasters for Workers by Hannah Borenstein
Ethiopia, where I am currently doing dissertation fieldwork, reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 13, 2020. But for runners who work in transnational sport, COVID-19 had…
Watching Coronavirus in Kenya (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Kennedy Mkutu Agade Here in Kenya the sun is shining and a beautiful breeze is blowing through the house. But the house…
‘Stay on your continent!’ Coronavirus and the alarm of European spread in South Africa
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Brandaan Huigen When the first cases of infection started to appear in southern Germany, Jens Spahn, the Federal Minister of Health, was…