Being Heard as Experimental
Hip Hop is a musical genre and cultural movement that has been the birthplace of ingenious creativity and novel methods of music making that incorporate new and old…
Tag: Black Studies
Embracing Black Positionalities, (Re)Centring Slowness: A Challenge to Anthropology’s Anti-Racism Efforts
Anti-racism efforts remain highly problematic. As anthropologists, we are usually aware of the violent, colonial, and genocidal histories of research on ‘race’ and realities of racism which have…
Unsere Toten zählen nicht. Deutschlands koloniales Erbe
Die deutsche Bundesregierung hat mit der namibischen Regierung eine Vereinbarung getroffen, mit der der koloniale Völkermord anerkannt und eine finanzielle Unterstützung – in Höhe der bisherigen Entwi…
Fugitive Science: Beer Brewing & Experiments with Pharmaceuticals in Tanzania
When I originally arrived to start fieldwork in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, I set out to observe the scientific practices through which counterfeit drugs were identified at…
#Podcast Round Up: Best of March to August
Summer comes to an end, and some of us will start commuting again. Others will desperately wonder how to fill up the ‘spare’ time from their considerably shorter…
Zombie Knowledge: Toward a Deeper Conversation between Black Studies and Multispecies Anthropology
Monsters, the nightmarish figures we conjure in the dark, reflect our own culturally and politically specific anxieties. They are a dark mirror: a terrifying rendering of a social…