Antropologi då och nu
Ulf Hannerz: På sin tid diskuterades ”tredje uppgiften”, samverkan med det omgivande samhället – de som finner sina yrkessysslor vid högskolor och universitet ska först och främst forska,…
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Maritime borders in a rising sea
In this blogpost, Ernst Nordtveit draws upon legal perspectives to discuss projections of sea level rise and reflect upon regional strategies in the Pacific that view maritime boundaries…
Master’s positions (MA & MSc) in plastics and justice-based research methods
CLEAR has four Master’s positions (MA or MSc) for September 2023
Now I am 22
As of 1 January, my blog will be 22 years old. I have achieved this significant landmark by continuing to pay my hosting fees and then not blogging.…
MOVING THINGS // HELPERS CHANGING HOMES
What roles do things play in the context of forced migration? How do things become a vital source in the constitution of a sense of (new) home? Which…
CITES CoP19: Combatting species extinction through wildlife trade regulation
BySonia DhandaPhD Anthropology On 14–25 November 2022, government representatives from over 160 countries convened in Panama City for solutions to the biodiversity crisis and negotiations on w…
DEI Network Meeting: Special Issue Launch
This year, DEI went into the holiday season by introducing the recently published Special Issue “Across Mobile Online and Offline Spaces: Reflections on Methods, Practices, and Ethics” (ed. by…
Growing Up Woodbrook
These are my comments from the recent book launch for Growing Up Woodbrook Professionally, sometimes there is something you really want to happen but it doesn’t and that…
Bernard Cohn TOC
Bernard Cohn was an important anthropologist and historian of India. His 1987 volume An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays can be hard to find in digital.…
Atoll Ways of Being with the Ocean
A perspective from low laying atolls brings climate discourses and practical realities together. Tokelau experiences with political intervensions employed by overseas agents range historically from in…
Object Project: A Conversation Between Us and Our Future Grandchildren
ByJihai LiBSc Anthropology, 2021-24 This is an assignment of the undergraduate module ‘Introduction to Material and Visual Culture’. The assignment requires each student to choose one of the…
Ep #99 The Conference Extravaganza: AAS &AAA: This month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #99 The Conference Extravaganza: AAS &AAA: This month on TFS This week we’re back with a conference extravaganza! With the AAS and AAA’s…
THEY KNEW
Hey everyone — long time, no see! Not much has happened in the two years since I’ve updated this website — just a global plague, an attempted coup,…
OFI short term visiting fellowship
There’s a paid opportunity for a visiting fellow to work with CLEAR at Memorial University for 2 weeks-4 months on ocean-related research. Details of the competition are here:…
Research Assistant positions for MFN, NG, and NCC students (MUNL St. John’s campus)
CLEAR lab has openings for undergraduate and graduate student research assistants to work on environmental samples from Miawpukek First Nation, the Nunatsiavut Government, and NunatuKavut Community Co…
CAUTION! Planetary Boundary Ahead!
BySara MahdiAnthropology, Environment, and Development MSc, 2022-23 I am certain that I am not alone when I think to myself, “Have we really, truly, permanently changed the planet?…
PhD position in Indigenous Quantitative Methods
New position for a PhD student on a project about Indigenous Quantitative Methods based in the Geography Department at Memorial University
2022 ARHE Policy Brief Award Winners
The ARHE Awards Committee is thrilled to announce the 2022 Policy Brief winners. Please join us in congratulating: Student winner: Alyssa Basmajian for her policy brief entitled Doulas…
Discovering wellbeing traditions in the Czech Republic
ByJosephine PlattMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2021–2023 A limp, plastic sack is waiting for me on a therapy bed, and I’m being gestured to strip off and climb…
Changing socio-political landscapes surrounding Russia’s war on Ukraine
On 6 June 2022, activists and researchers working in and from the former Soviet sphere met at UCL Anthropology to discuss ways in which Russia’s war on Ukraine…
Domestication and the new mythology of human “perfectibility”
In 2007, a psychiatrist, Martin Brüne, wrote an essay “On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics” published in the journal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, in which he…
Life Last Week
via Wikimedia Commons Happy new year everyone! Here are Things That Happened in the last week or so: Celia Tichi is writing the history of the US through…
Life Last Fortnight
PNG Independence Day in 1975, via the National Archive of Australia. Time got away from me last week… here’s what I’ve been up to. It is necessary to…
Ocean Talanoa
How are stories about the ocean best told? In July 2022 the OceanStates project had the privilege of bringing 28 students from the University of the South Pacific…