Transience and immigration in the Svalbard Archipelago
ArcticAnthropology is proud to present a guest blog from Ben Corwin on life, migration and relation to the environment on one of the Arctic’s northernmost human settlements: Svalbard.…
Tag: migration
Mobile Roots – Rethinking Indigenous and Transnational ties
The University of Lapland invites proposals for workshops for this interesting conference, in October 2015. I think we Arctic Anthropologists have a lot to say about this! Would…
Homing Heidelberg – a Student Project Exploring Refugee’s Ways of Navigating the City
By Marie Sander, lecturer of the seminar Transcultural Place-Making How can we understand the idea of ‘home’ in times of migration? Is ‘home’ a place, social ties, family,…
Rezension „Interkulturalität und Ethik – Der Umgang mit Fremdheit in Medizin und Pflege“ (Hg.: Michael Coors, Tatjana Grützmann & Tim Peters, 2014)
Eva Jansen Welche Rolle sollte das Thema „Migration“ bei der Entwicklung universeller ethischer Prinzipien in Krankenhäusern spielen? Inwiefern ist es sinnvoll, kulturelle Hintergründe der Pati…
12. Ethnosymposium der Studierenden in Halle (Saale): Call for Contribution – 14.-17. Mai 2015
Call for Contribution – 14.-17.05.2015 12. Ethnosymposium der Studierenden in Halle (Saale) Diesen Call for Contribution als PDF herunterladen: deutsch oder englisch LebensWelten KSA – WTF 2.O…
Is Sex at the Margins (going to be) a classic?
I nearly didn’t bother to publish Sex at the Margins. In 1998 Zed Books wanted to publish a thesis I’d written for a Master’s degree in Education, but…
Mobilizing concepts across disciplines: An economic analysis
There are many lenses through which we can think about mobility. There is no one correct lens to use; in fact, adopting different lenses at different moments can…
What the life of a pair of flip-flops can teach us about migration, inequality and studying up
Photo: Cíntia Regina, flickr During the recent (nearly) two years, I’ve been interviewing researchers that are part of the research project Overheating. The three crises of globalisation: An…
What the life of a pair of flip-flops can teach us about migration, inequality and studying up
Photo: Cíntia Regina, flickr During the recent (nearly) two years, I’ve been interviewing researchers that are part of the research project Overheating. The three crises of globalisation: An…
‘Sex Work is Not Sex Trafficking’: An idea whose time has not come
Anti-prostitution advocates routinely use absurd over-simplications to make their crusade crystal-clear easy to understand. Campaigning works better when arguments are black and white and slogans are …
Buchbesprechung: Stefan Rickmeyer: Nach Europa via Tanger. Eine Ethnographie
Mit seiner von Bernd-Jürgen Warneken betreuten Magisterarbeit hat der Absolvent der Tübinger Schule der Empirischen Kulturwissenschaft[1], Stefan Rickmeyer, eine materialgesättigte und schlüssig struk…