How to: Wie du aus deiner Forschung ein Sachbuch machst – und warum es sich lohnt.
von Dr. Silke Ohlmeier Es ist ein verregneter Frühjahrstag 2023. Ich bin pitschnass geworden, als ich mein Paket von der Post geholt habe. Trotzdem packe ich es aus,…
Tag: expertise
Ein Präzedenzfall auf dem Weg in die elektorale Autokratie – Zur entpolitisierenden Neutralisierung der Zivilgesellschaft durch den Sächsischen Rechnungshof und zur Zerschlagung des Dachverbands Sächsischer Migrant:innenorganisationen
Eine Expertise von Dr. Felix Hoffmann für den Rat für Migration Korruptionsgefährdete Strukturen ohne Korruption Im März diesen Jahres wurde der Dachverband Sächsischer Migrant:innenorganisationen – b…
Food And Expertise: My Research on Oaxacan Food
Andrew MitchelPhD CandidateThe Ohio State University What does it mean to be an expert on food? This piece will argue that my scholarly work and the knowledge and…
Lonely Planet Looking for Connection: Citizen Science SETI Research at NASA
NASA’s homepage is as glitzy as you would expect of the U.S. Government’s sexiest administration. Glossy pictures of nebulas, astronauts, and asteroids float across the top of the…
Gleich, gleicher, Expert*in? Die Verantwortung für Expertise in der Demokratie
Die Klimakrise ebenso wie die Corona-Pandemie zeigen, dass die Politik auf den Rat von Expert*innen angewiesen ist. Aber wie kann verhindert werden, dass damit das demokratische Gleichheitsgebot unter…
AI, Climate Adaptation, and Epistemic Injustice
Amid global climate impacts, vulnerable communities—including indigenous peoples, farmers, fisherfolk, and low-income groups—are frequently expected to adapt, change, and build resilience to uncerta…
The Perfect Fit
In my new book, The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry (University of Chicago Press, 2022) I study the work of repair and maintenance necessary…
Platypod, Episode One: Technologies and Politics of Accessibility
In its opening episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Cassandra Hartblay (University of Toronto) and Zihao Lin (University of Chicago). They discuss their research on accessibility culture…
Interpreting Sexuality: Intellectually Disabled People and “Special” Educators in India by Shruti Vaidya
“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…
Ethnomedicinal Practices and Behavioral Changes During Deadly Disease Outbreaks: A Commentary and Lesson from Cameroon by Ivo Ngade
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…
Sharing responsibilities, coping with the coronavirus: why Swedish and French response strategies are not that different by Morgan Meyer
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…
The potentials and challenges of citizen science: 9 years of experience from post-Fukushima Japan by Aya H. Kimura
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…
In the search of a school for Nancy: stories of disability, inclusion and care by
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…
Critical Imagination at the Intersection of STS Pedagogy and Research
*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…
Representing Diverse Bodies in Medical Illustration
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…
Not knowing as pedagogy: Ride-hailing drivers in Delhi
*A note from Co-PI Noopur Raval: The arrival and rise of gig-work globally has ushered in a new wave of conversations around the casualization of labor and the precarious…
Students as laboratory labor
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…
Ep. #41: Mediocrity, Confusing Cake, Public Accountability & Gift Reciprocity: This month on TFS
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 –…
Feature Essay: The Case of Brexit, Expertise and Linguaphobia: Cosmopolitanism, Language and the Politics of Value by Sarah Burton
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…
Inhabiting Public Space: Guerrilla Music on YouTube
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…
Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text. A Conversation with Stuart Kirsch
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…
Race, Rural Livelihoods, and Contested Conservation Landscapes
A visit to Basu Farms in Pembroke Township, about 60 miles south of Chicago, provides a glimpse into the entanglement of land tenure, black history and self-determination in…
Is Uncertainty a Useful Concept? Tracking Environmental Damage in the Lao Hydropower Industry
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…
Three Lies of Digital Ethnography
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Gabriele de Seta, contributing the final post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta. Three Lies of…