Interkulturelle Kompetenz – was ist das überhaupt?
“Folgende Fähigkeiten und Skills sollten Sie mitbringen: Offenheit, Englisch in Wort und Schrift und interkulturelle Kompetenz”. Kommen dir solche Stellenausschreibungen bekannt vor? Inter…
“Folgende Fähigkeiten und Skills sollten Sie mitbringen: Offenheit, Englisch in Wort und Schrift und interkulturelle Kompetenz”. Kommen dir solche Stellenausschreibungen bekannt vor? Inter…
Beiträge zu einem erweiterten Verständnis von Intersektionalität Im Zentrum dieses Bandes stehen nationale und internationale Querschnittsperspektiven von Gender, Flucht und Migration im Zusammenhang …
I woke up at 11:01 this morning. I was too tired and too sad to go on a long walk with my pitbull, Nala. But regardless of my…
Internationale Konferenz in Berlin Der Rat für Migration lädt am 12. und 13. November 2020 zur Jahrestagung „Kritik rassistischer Praktiken. Wissenschaftliche und politische Perspektiven“ ein. Es hat …
Stellungnahme von Yasemin Karakaşoğlu und Paul Mecheril, Vorsitzende des Rats für Migration Wir befinden uns in einer Situation, die menschheitsgeschichtlich, zumindest noch, unvergleichlich ist, wei…
The shelter-in-place/lockdown/quarantine orders that took shape in March 2020 in many states have brought out new social dimensions in how we communicate— from taking our relationships online instead…
The Delmar Loop, a stretch of what was once racialized as the “Delmar Divide” for the way it separates St. Louis’ population, is normally …
I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore When do you think it will all become clear ‘Cause…
Agbogbloshie is a part of an emergent globalised scrap economy that links peripheral markets to global metal flows. In this post, Dagna Rams argues for the need to…
2015 hat die große Chance für die bundesrepublikanische Gesellschaft bedeutet, sich ganz praktisch als offene Gesellschaft zu erleben. Denn statt Panik, hat eine Mehrheit der Gesellschaft die Aufnahme…
Hanau. Es wird höchste Zeit, Rassismus beim Namen zu nennen und angemessen dagegen vorzugehen. Stellungnahme der Vorsitzenden des Rat für Migration Grausamer Höhepunkte der Angriffe gegen Migrant*inne…
Gulls. Pigeons. Rats. Lice. These ‘trash animals’ live alongside waste, filth, ruination and decay. Attitudes, behaviour and infrastructure aimed at dealing with ‘trash animals’ tell us a lot…
Dear Friends of Footnotes, In a few months, Footnotes will celebrate its second anniversary, and we’ve been through a lot in the past couple of years. Of course,…
Discard studies is an emerging field that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To…
In The Use and Abuse of Music: Criminal Records, Eleanor Peters introduces music as a powerful instrument for thinking critically about crime and its contested meanings, while also…
We decided to do something new this year at Discard Studies: we tracked the links our readers followed. With ‘The Dirt” coming out monthly with it’s hundreds of…
It’s time for reminiscing! And what better topic to think back on than a year’s worth of trashy insights? Here are the top ten posts from Discard Studies in…
In Anatomies of Revolution, George Lawson offers a new account of how revolutions begin, unfold and end through a dynamic amalgam of in-depth sociological theory, multiple historical narratives and po…
In Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room, Daniel Beunza analyses how the use of economic models and the moral disengagement this has created…
In Israel, Jewish conversions by first and second generation repatriates from the former Soviet Union are often depicted in public discourse as ‘wink-wink’ conversions, whereby converts an…
In Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, Sarah T. Roberts explores the work conditions and experiences of people employed in ‘commercial content moderation’…
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
Discard studies spoke with three leading waste researchers about the biggest myths of the circular economy.
In The Urban Gardens of Havana: Seeking Revolutionary Plants in Ideologized Spaces, Ola Plonska and Younes Saramifar explore the poetics of gardening and narrate everyday life under the gaze of…