KLAUS HOEYER, AMY CLOTWORTHY, AND NAJA HULVEJ ROD Anthropology has long been preoccupied with comparisons between societies and between social actors. And, seemingly out of nowhere, the Covid-19…
CORALINE CUI YA PING On 9th February 2020, Coralline, a nurse from Nanjing, volunteered to go to Wuhan to help attend patients in the Coronavirus pandemic. She will…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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, 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, 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…