Nancy Mattina on Gladys Reichard
My interview with Nancy Mattina on Gladys Reichard, ‘America’s least appreciated anthropologist’ is now live over at the New Books Network. Go take a listen! Nancy’s carefully…
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Sociological Reflections In Times Of Change And Uncertainty: Surveillance, Control And Punishment
CATARINA DELAUNAY On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on Covid-19. Several countries, across the world, including Portugal, declared a state of…
The ‘Invisible Enemy’: A Critical Look at the Use of Military Metaphors and Anthropomorphisation During The COVID-19 Pandemic
JAMES FOTHERBY In mid-March, before becoming infected with Coronavirus, Boris Johnson declared that his government must act like “any wartime government” while facing a deadly “enemy”. During John…
Awakening to being the “other” A schizophrenic streak
In discussions on COVID-19, it has become a common trope that disciplines like anthropology are particularly relevant and fitting for writing about the pandemic. Indeed, the pandemic unearths…
Trench Warfare of Mindsets in Switzerland’s Approach to The COVID-19 Pandemic
HÜSLER SAMIRA-SALOMÉ & PYTHON ANNICK MARIA ILDIKO On 26 March 2020, the Federal Council declared an extraordinary situation in accordance with the Epidemic Act and issued a set…
COVID-19 Stories: How PhD Students are Experiencing Disruption And Uncertainty During The Pandemic
VAS PAPAGEORGIOU, WILL KENDALL AND LIDIA LUNA PUERTA We are graduate students at an extraordinary time. At the early stage of our careers, we were still learning how…
#Afterlives: Introduction
Afterlives are proliferating. Whether it is empire or destruction, Ebola or punk, revolution or waste – there seems to exist hardly anything these days that does not have…
UNCC Oral History Interview
Casey Moore (UNCC Oral History Assistant) interviewed me for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Oral History Archives. The interview covers my experiences of the April 30,…
Equine PPID Connectivities and Covid-19: 2020 Journal Reflections
KIM CROWDER March 8th. I book a routine vet visit for my geriatric rescue pony’s annual vaccinations and hormone-monitoring test. March 22nd. In line with pandemic protocols the…
“In Beijing They Eat Snakes And Then Pig Out”: Xenophobia, Geopolitics, and the Role of the Italian Far-Right in Covid-19 Constructions of China
FRANCESCO FLORIS Well before the high rate of infections grew and lay citizens became affected by COVID-19 in Italy, fear, news from China, fake news, and the statements…
Den närvarande antisemitismen – iakttagelser under ett socialantropologiskt fältarbete i Stockholm
Anna Sarri Krantz: I samband med Förintelsens minnesdag råder en febril rapportering av de överlevandes vittnesmål, barnbarnens publika berättelser om deras far- och morföräldrars minnen och intervjue…
Why do we talk about Eurobonds? Or: The Big Division in the Euro Area
INGA AENNE FELDMANN The corona virus health crisis sent many countries of the world in a lock down to protect their elderly and vulnerable from severe illness and…
A Lesson In Composure: Learning From Migrants In Times Of Covid-19
CHRISTIAN UNGRUHE The Covid-19 pandemic teaches a number of painful lessons. Many people, persistently deprived from access to adequate health care, housing, education or jobs, pay a devastating…
“Getting Closer” Through Art: Facebook and Turning to Art in The Time of Covid-19
MANUELA PELLEGRINO How to feel close when physically distant? This is, of course, not a new dilemma in itself; indeed, people who live far from their loved ones…
In The Midst Of COVID 19, The Search For The Missing In Mexico Continues
CAMILA RUIZ SEGOVIA Night had fallen at the coastal state of Veracruz, Mexico, when a group of men kidnapped Luis Guillermo, 29. He was an independent businessman by…
Experiencing Corona Virus in the Andes
LUCIA STAVIG A mix of huaynos, cumbia, and bird song still greet the sun in the Andean community in which I am riding out the month-long quarantine. At…
The New Public Care: Seeking Coronavirus Truth through Networked Publics
MAGDALENA GÓRALSKA Before the pandemic begun the usual turn of events was like that: Beata, an accountant from a mid-size town in Poland has a health problem, or…
The Logic of ‘Advanced Deployment’ to Tackle COVID-19 in Taiwan
YI-CHENG WU I was planning to return to the UK to complete my PhD study before the coronavirus swept Europe. The Taiwanese government’s travel ban on medical personnel…
Towards A Bright Post-Apocalypse
ERIC ORLOWSKI It was Walter Benjamin (1974 [1940]) who observed that we only experience history such as it is, when it stands still. However, he referred more so…
Living in the forest
A new article on the consequences for biological and cultural diversity of sustainable development in the Congo Basin – just out in Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article…
Biosocial Medical Anthropology in the Time of Covid-19. New Challenges and Opportunities.
SAHRA GIBBON, LEWIS DALY, AARON PARKHURST, CARRIE RYAN, GUL DENIZ SALALI AND ALEX TASKER As the events of the past few months concerning the coronavirus have unfolded across…
Post-Pandemic Eating: What Will Food Culture Look Like After COVID-19?
KOMAL BHATIA I have six and a half kilos of dried lentils and beans in my pantry. This excludes the kilo of peppery papad, a half-used packet of gram…
Biosocial Medical Anthropology in the Time of Covid-19. New Challenges and Opportunities.
SAHRA GIBBON, LEWIS DALY, AARON PARKHURST, CARRIE RYAN, GUL DENIZ SALALI AND ALEX TASKER As the events of the past few months concerning the coronavirus have unfolded across…
Better Day. Covid-19 Music Video of Hope and Care from Tanzania
Paula Uimonen: On 10 April 2020, a few weeks into the Corona pandemic, Hussein Masimbi posted a music video on his Facebook page. The song was bilingual, as…