Tag: expertise
Shruti Vaidya , November 2nd, 2020
“Why does she like putting the glass bottle near her pee-hole? She couldn’t talk and tell us what was going on…what did she exactly want? What was in…
Ivo Ngade , October 14th, 2020
In mid-2014, six months after the death of patient zero, the two-year-old boy in the village of Meliandou in Guinea, there were frequent reports of Ebola spikes across Guinea…
Morgan Meyer , June 20th, 2020
Citizens, governments and academics spend much time these days with one activity: making comparisons.[1] National response strategies to cope with the coronavirus are compared, as well as whether…
Aya H. Kimura , April 13th, 2020
The Fukushima nuclear disaster took place nine years ago, but the current situation does not allow us to put it behind us completely. The site is producing up…
Raquel Lustosa C. Alves , December 9th, 2019
Procura-se uma escola para Nancy: histórias de deficiência, inclusão e cuidados. For English, click here. Com pouco mais de três anos, chegou a hora de Nancy – a…
Emily York , November 5th, 2019
*This post was co-authored by Emily York and Shannon Conley* In 2017, we established the STS Futures Lab—a space to critically interrogate plausible sociotechnical futures and to develop…
Drew Danielle Belsky , October 23rd, 2019
In 2016, just before I began my dissertation fieldwork, a trio of young medical illustrators presented a panel on “Normativity and Diversity in Healthcare Imagery” at the annual…
Caitlin Wylie , July 16th, 2019
What is the role of students in universities? There are ongoing contentious debates and campus protests about whether graduate students should be considered employees with the right to…
The Familiar Strange , July 7th, 2019
Simon (0:48) kicks off this panel by asking us about mediocrity. He reflects on his fieldwork in Iran, where he observed – particularly in the education sphere –…
Rose Deller , December 11th, 2018
In this feature essay, The Case of Brexit, Expertise and Linguaphobia: Cosmopolitanism, Language and the Politics of Value, Sarah Burton argues that the heightened expression of antipathy towards lang…
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Laura Malagon Valbuena , October 17th, 2018
Este contenido está disponible en español aquí. *Many of the names and places mentioned below have been changed.* While the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia or Revolutionary…
Ilana Gershon , September 13th, 2018
How can an anthropologist who teaches at a university work towards helping indigenous people in their efforts to make their lives better? Many turn to publishing as an…
jwhitington , July 31st, 2018
The collapse last week of a major hydropower dam in southern Laos, the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy, as a tropical storm dumped an unknown, but massive, volume of water into…
Chiara Bortolotto , June 21st, 2017
“Collaborative dilemmas” was the title of a workshop held last April at EHESS in Paris under the framework of “UNESCO frictions: heritage-making across global governance” in collaboration with…
Alexandra Frankel , May 18th, 2017
“Populism” conflates widely disparate political projects under one conceptual category. The term demands closer anthropological analysis. “The new enemy.” In a recent column in El País, the Peruvian…
Anthony Good , November 7th, 2016
How do we decide whether or not to accept the evidence of our senses, or to put our faith in the statements of others? These are questions we…
Judith Beyer , May 30th, 2016
Last month I received an email from an “associate” working at a research institution that caters to the biggest development agencies worldwide: DFID, UN, Worldbank, Australian Aid –…
Kerim , September 8th, 2015
image source It seems a fair amount of academics, especially women, suffer from impostor syndrome, “a constant fear of being discovered to be a fraud and a charlatan.”…