Markus Balkenhol: Apologizing for slavery: notes on a Dutch surprise
On 1 July 2021, 148 years after slavery ended in the Dutch West Indian colonies, Femke Halsema, the Mayor of Amsterdam, said: ‘For the active involvement of the…
Tag: protest
Unter Tunneln. Zur Aktualität und Geschichte des terrestrischen Protests
Die Proteste gegen den Kohleabbau bei Lützerath haben den Tunnel als Protestform ins Licht der Öffentlichkeit gerückt. Tunnel sind mehr als nur Mittel des Widerstands: Sie entwerfen ein…
Omotayo’s book, You Can’t Go to War Without Song
https://iupress.org/9780253063212/you-cant-go-to-war-without-song/ Tayo Jolaosho died on October 21, 2021, months before their book was published in July 2022. We honor their work and memory …
„Wer baut die Stadt der Zukunft und wie?“: Loitering als Protest und performative Praktik
Loitering ist performativer Protest, der auf eine veränderte Selbstwahrnehmung und zugleich auf eine neue Wahrnehmung des öffentlichen Stadtraums abzielt. Nadja-Christina Schneider spricht darüber als…
Review: Power Hungry
Cope, Suzanne (2022) Power Hungry. Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books. ISBN 9781641604536 Ellen Mess…
Ep# 86: The Funging the Non-Fungible & The Changing Face of Protests: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep# 86- The Funging The Non – Fungible & The Changing Face Of Protests- This Month On TFS Welcome back to The Familiar Strange!…
Jahresrückblick – Publikationen am Institut Teil 1
Geschätzte Lesedauer: < 1 Minute Ein Dialog zwischen Cornelia Dlabaja und Christian Elster Zum Jahresausklang stellen Mitarbeiter:innen des Instituts in einer dreiteiligen Videoreihe Publikatio…
Radiobeitrag: Wir protestieren!
Auf den Spuren aktueller und historischer Protestlieder. In dieser Sondersendung beim Freien Radio Salzkammergut berichtet Maren Sacherer, Studierende der Europäischen Ethnologie über die Online-A…
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer: Siberia, Protest and Politics: Shaman Alexander in Danger
In 2021 a modest long-haired Sakha man named Alexander Gabyshev was arrested at his family compound on the outskirts of Yakutsk in an unprecedented for Sakha Republic (Yakutia)…
Ehrensache Klima: Wir protestieren (auch) in der Pandemie.
Ein Beitrag von Jasmin Sina zum Projekt „Bonndemic. Urbane Kulturen in und nach der Pandemie“. Wir gehen langsamer und kommen direkt vor dem Beethoven-Gymnasium zum Stehen. Vor der…
Gesichtsverlust 3.0
Gesichtserkennungstechnologien werden in unserem Alltag immer präsenter, aber nirgendwo werden sie so vielfältig eingesetzt wie in Xi Jinpings China. Bequem in vielen Alltagssituationen, aber bedrohli…
„Wer hat denn hier vor wem eigentlich Angst?“ – „Stimmen aus Belarus“ über Repressionen an den Universitäten
In Belarus wird die Repression auch an den Universitäten immer massiver. „Stimmen aus Belarus“, eine Initiative auf Facebook, haben die Protokolle von Historiker:innen veröffentlicht, die ihre Repress…
Mobilizing Cemeteries, Representing Ancestors: The Infrastructure of Protest and the Anti-Petroleum Complex Movement in Pengerang, Malaysia
Resisting the “Rotterdam Port of the East” In 2011, the prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, and the CEO of the national oil company Petronas, Shamsul Azhar Abbas,…
Atmospheres of change
This month, Chileans will decide whether to set in motion a process to change the country’s dictatorship-era constitution while marking a year since the beginning of a popular…
STS and Electoral Politics
In the context of the upcoming US presidential election and increasing evidence of the importance of voting infrastructure, this week we revisit past posts that highlight the key…
Guest Post: How Can We Learn When We Have No Future?: Schools Strikes, Social Transformations, and the Possibility of Good Relations during Climate Emergency [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Susannah Crockford. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Susannah Cr…
Guest Post: How Can We Learn When We Have No Future?: Schools Strikes, Social Transformations, and the Possibility of Good Relations during Climate Emergency [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Susannah Crockford. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Susannah Crockford is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent…
Mixed Messages: COVID-19, a Cartoon Heroine, and Violence Against Women in Mexico (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Catherine J. Letcher Lazo One of the gendered impacts of COVID-19 is the surge of violence against women and girls (VAWG)…
Guest Series: Embodying Reciprocity: Relationality and Redistribution in the Practice of Anthropology
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest series edited by Schuyler Marquez, who has also authored this introduction. Schuyler Marquez’s work focuses on bringing classical anthropological questions on…
In Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and Call for Dismantling Structural Racism in Germany: Public Statement Issued by the Working Group Public Anthropology, German Anthropological Association
BlackLivesMatter Protest in Berlin Alexanderplatz on 6 June 2020. Copyright: Nasima Selim. Drafted on 6 June 2020 Follow us on Twitter @AGPublicAnthro and Facebook In the…
Scattered Thoughts in a Crisis
The world has taken notice that the United States of America is in crisis. In solidarity with the plight of Black Americans, protests have cropped up in many…
Cowboys and Coronavirus: Protesting Covid-19 in ‘The Land of the Free’
ROSIE MATHERS Over the last couple of weeks protests have broken out across America against lockdown measures imposed to reduce the spread and contraction of Covid-19. Rallies across…
The Chaos of Asynchronous Grief
Spoiler: I hate to say it, but Americans have only begun the five stages of grief, and we aren’t all going through it in the same way…
#Afterlives: Shaheen Bagh and the Force of Foundation
February 2020. The pedestrian overpass is covered in banners. Crossing its elevated walkway, only flashes of the sky can be glimpsed through the hanging tarp, cloth and card,…