“When the Cherry Blossoms, we will meet again in Wuhan”:A COVID-19 Photo Essay
CORALINE CUI YA PING Coralline is a nurse from Nanjing, China. On 9th February 2020, she volunteered to go to Wuhan to help attend patients in the Coronavirus…
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Latin America and the outbreak of COVID-19: a chronicle of multiple crises (II)
MARIA JOSE ROMERO, JASMINE GIDEON, PATRICIA MIRANDA, VERONICA SERAFINI This is the second in a series of articles on the outbreak of COVID-19 and the impact on Latin…
Latin America and the outbreak of COVID-19: a chronicle of multiple crises (I)
MARIA JOSE ROMERO, JASMINE GIDEON, PATRICIA MIRANDA, VERONICA SERAFINI The outbreak of COVID-19 is a global health emergency that is likely to trigger a global economic crisis, impacting…
Copious Free Time: UCL, Chicago, NYU, Melville House, Harvard kinda
Where to start? Dulam Bumochir’s book from UCL Press, The State, Popular Mobilisation and Gold Mining in Mongolia looks promising. Not familiar w/the author, but love the press…
In Praise of Empathy
Ruramisai Charumbira Corona Virus graffiti – Seen in the UK on 15th March 2020 before the lockdown procedures came into place. Wikimedia Commons If you had told me…
In Praise of Empathy
Ruramisai Charumbira If you had told me that it would take a novel pathogen, to work like a charm, drilling hard into our collective heart, making us shiver…
Copious Free Time: Rutgers and Melville House
More ebooks for your Copious Free Time! Rutgers is offering free ebooks related to COVID-19 and, unlike some offers, these books are actually tightly related to this topic,…
Zika, abortion, and care: the work that falls to women beyond the epidemic
Este contenido está disponible en español aquí. Feminist studies in geography, anthropology, and public health have indicated that women do more work during epidemics in terms of prevention…
Mario Schmidt: “In Pipeline, Panic is Unnecessary” – How Poor Nairobians Deal with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic
Mario Schmidt, University of Cologne Mototaxi drivers wearing face masks, supermarkets obliging customers to wash their hands before entering, hawkers selling indigenous vegetables as prophylactic…
Mariya Ivancheva: The casualization, digitalization, and outsourcing of academic labour: a wake-up call for trade unions
Mariya Ivancheva, University of Liverpool The UK higher education sector has seen decades of escalating injustices that academic trade unions need to confront head-on. As one of the…
Copious Free Time: The Verso/Haymarket Edition
I like ebook sales because they give me an opportunity to obsessively comb through publisher’s lists — which is obviously an incredibly healthy and normal thing to do,…
Copious Free Time: History of Anthropology Addition
The joke is that we are supposed to have more free time because we are stuck indoors. But in my case — and I’m sure I’m not alone…
Patchy Anthropocene: Special Issue from Current Anthropology
I’m sure my ‘copy-and-paste’ will have some issues below [or not! many of the links seem to be working properly], so the direct link to this interesting set…
Seeing like a state of exception | 例外状态的视角
In a bittersweet combination of personal achievement and global emergency, I moved to Norway and started working on a new research project right when the COVID-19 epidemic started…
I mangoträdets skugga: om antropologi och det oavslutade fältarbetet
Sverker Finnström: Du unga änka i svart, Så vacker du är Med tårarnas pärlor Glittrande på dina kinder. Så värdigt du för Din sorgtunga kropp! Förebrå mig inte…
New Book: Andreas Malm’s, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Latest from Andreas Malm moves from his initial work in history (Fossil Capital), to the polemical conceptual book (Progress of this Storm) to a call for civil disobedience.…
Go read my chapter on ‘Leviathans’
My chapter on ‘Leviathans’ is now available in the new volume Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon from the awesome open access publisher Punctum Books. I’ve long been a fan…
Go read my review of Varel’s “The Lost Black Scholar”
After quite some time — and without a chance for me to review the final edits (!) — History of Anthropology Review has published my review of David…
The discovery that all human hunter-gatherers, throughout the at least the last 80,000 years, did ecological engineering, means that “wilderness” does not really exist.
THIS is what transformed humanity between 300,000 and 100,000 years ago – the development of a cultural system of environmental management that made the ecosystems of the world…
Material Culture Studies among the Baiku Yao of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region at #AFSAM18
I am here using a blog post not to share current news, but to get an older document online and linkable. What follows is the short (public) and…
Tribal Territorial Acknowledgements
Territorial acknowledgments have now become commonplace at most university functions at OSU. I have heard from many that the practice now is in nearly all universities in the…
New Book: Simon Dalby’s Anthropocene Geopolitics
A great looking new title from Simon Dalby from the University of Ottawa Press. Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability We now find ourselves in a new geological age:…
Bad Faith In Our Times
On Friday January 31, 2020 the Republican-controlled US Senate chose to vote on the guilt or innocence of one Donald J Trump without the introduction of vital and…