Noting the Loss of Two Significant SAR supporters
We are sorry to report the passing of two longtime SAR supporters. Benjamin Crane, 2015. Photo credit: Garret Vreeland Benjamin F. Crane, a distinguished New York attorney who…
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Markus Virgil Hoehne: Perpetuating conflict through democratization: Presidential elections in Somalia
Presidential elections will happen in Somalia on Sunday, 15 May 2022. This will most likely not bring peace and stability to the war-torn Somali society. To the contrary,…
Moments in Places in Time
Growing up in the middle of Alaska, there was a window to another world on the wall of my living room. It was like no place I’d ever…
SAR Announces 2022-2023 Native Artist Fellows
SAR Announces 2022-2023 Native Artist Fellows …
Unveiling the Restored Jack Lambert Corral
Jack Lambert corral in winter, circa 1969. If you’ve walked or driven past the corner of Garcia Street and Camino Corrales lately, you may have noticed something…
“A student and a professor remember the UNC Charlotte mass shooting three years later”: NPR WFAE Charlotte: Sarah Delia
I have not done many interviews on the subject. Here is an NPR article in which I am featured alongside one of my students about the shooting in…
Susan Paulson: Gender-aware care in pandemic and postgrowth worlds
Coronavirus has provoked some of us to think about our worlds in new ways and to consider different horizons of change. Yet in many pandemic-related discourses and policies,…
Summer Research Positions in plastic pollution research (high school/youth), St. John’s or Nunatsiavut
We have four full time and part time positions for high school students and youth (under 30) in the lab this summer (2022)
Reflecting Three Years After the UNCC Mass Shooting
Every year at this time, I reflect on the shooting that occurred in my classroom on April 30, 2019, that took the lives of two students, injured four…
Living with Long Covid: A Reflection
As a COVID long-hauler, I inhabit a liminal space of intractable uncertainty with regards to diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and prognosis. COVID infections have blurred the boundary between the two…
SAR Board Member Awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
Brenda Child, the Northrop Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has been awarded a 2022 Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.…
Don Kalb: War: New Times
It is now becoming overly clear that this cruel and unjustifiable war in and on Ukraine is not going to last ten days – as the strategists in…
Antonio De Lauri: The idea of a clean and efficient war is a dangerous lie
The war in Ukraine resuscitated a certain dangerous fascination for war. Notions such as patriotism, democratic values, the right side of history, or a new fight for freedom…
Martin Fotta: Towards Anti-War Anthropology: On EASA, CEE and NATO
One of the casualties of Putin’s war on Ukraine will be European critical social science. While the war has instigated important discussions about ‘US-plaining’, ‘Westplaining’ and about Russian…
A Trinket, a Trifle, and a Novel New Disciple: Fandoms and Consecrated Commodities
Religious commodification is an arena that has gained increasing interest among social scientists, especially where religious symbols and artefacts are being appropriated by both adherents and non-adh…
Alexander W. Anthony: Covid in the confines of the US
Introduction There is a calendar in my office which still hangs at March 2020; an artifact of the confusion and rush to ‘lockdown’ and to find shelter from…
Hiring: Inuit Research Assistants (remote work)
We are looking to hire several Inuit Research Assistants to help us conduct a systematic literature review to look at the role of Nunavut Arctic College in research,…
Andrew Orta: The MBA won’t die. But it is trying to disappear
Responding to a question about future of the MBA (Master of Business Administration) in the wake of the pandemic, the Dean of a top program recently suggested that…
Don Nonini: Scoring the U.S. Working Class: Expropriation and Digitalization
Introduction Working-class people in the United States are now at a turning point – whether to compliantly return to the pre-Covid conditions capital set for them, or to…
Heroes of Our Economy
A social economy approach therefore asks why people are engaged in specific enterprises. Are they simply out to make the most money they can? Many people do. Or…
Ieva Snikersproge: Jobs or ecology? Why green growth is a pipe dream and how the pandemic could change this
My interest in the tensions between job preservation and ecological transition comes from my fieldwork among neorurals in Diois, a relatively isolated mountainous area in Southeastern France. The…
In Memoriam Nancy Owen Lewis (1945–2022) DUPLICATE
With great sadness, SAR notes the passing of Dr. Nancy Owen Lewis, our longtime Director of Scholar Programs, Scholar-in-Residence, and tir…
In Memoriam Nancy Owen Lewis (1945–2022)
With great sadness, SAR notes the passing of Dr. Nancy Owen Lewis, our longtime Director of Scholar Programs, Scholar-in-Residence, and tir…
Andrew Flachs, Ankita Raturi, Juliet Norton, Valerie Miller, and Haley Thomas: Building back bigger or degrowing local food? US alternative food networks and post-corona agrarian economies
There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of…