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New digital ethnography reading group
By Allistair Hill PhD candidate Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne Due to scheduling clashes, this month we are running the first group Thursday 9 July…
Thinking About Liminality in Tahrir Square
I have a chapter on the Egyptian revolution in this new book. As I struggled to make sense of the dramatic changes in Egypt from January 2011 forward,…
From Edgware Road to Brixton on 7/7
This piece was first presented as an academic paper at the 9th EASA Biennial Conference: Bristol, UK. September 18th – 21st, 2006. Introduction This paper focuses on observations…
Antropologie: een kansloze discipline? (2)
Griekse burgers in discussie met elkaar. Door Herbert Ploegman. Meer dan drie jaar geleden schreef ik een blog op Standplaats Wereld met bovenstaande titel. Ik was net afgestudeerd, en…
International Sociology Of The Arab Uprisings
The latest issue of the journal International Sociology features three articles on the Egyptian revolution, as well as a couple of other articles on the Arab uprisings generally.…
“Words of Witness” Captures The Ambiguity of The Egyptian Revolution
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Words of Witness, Mai Iskander’s compelling account of the aftermath of Egypt’s 2011 revolution in Tahrir Square that led to the resignation…
“Torture Is Part Of State Policy” In Egypt
Karim Hamdy was arrested at his home and turned up dead in a police station less than 72 hours later. This photograph circulated widely on Twitter. “Violence and…
AAA Applauds Decision to End Controversial HTS Program
In 2008, the AAA took a leadership position among social science organizations in questioning the ethics and effectiveness of a U.S. Army program known as the Human Terrain…
Dagelijks leven in het vluchtelingenkamp van Kobani in Suruc, Diyarbakir, april 2015
Deel twee van een foto essay door Edien Bartels, Trudie Visser (tekst) en Marije Koudstaal (© foto’s). (Deel één) Zij schreven eerder een blog over de problematiek van de Ezidi…
Charleston: Continuing the Conversation
It has been two weeks since the mass shooting took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Makeshift memorials are still being…
Promotie Daan Beekers: Opvallend veel overeenkomsten tussen jonge christenen en moslims
Overtuigde christenen en moslims in Nederland hebben meer met elkaar gemeen dan vaak wordt gedacht. Dit blijkt uit het proefschrift Kwetsbare vroomheid: het geloofsstreven van jonge moslims en…
New book from Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, coming from Princeton this September, details here. Matsutake is the most valuable…
#Review: Money from Nothing, Part 1 of 2
This post marks the first installment of our special review section on Money from Nothing. Deborah James’ Money From Nothing traces the evolution of credit and debt in post-apartheid South…
Three! (anthro-po-etry)
100 words I stood on the edge of the square… a lot of strangers were there… I heard the echos of their grey talking about the weather… You…
Im Innern von Radio Blau_ 1
Zum 20. Geburtstag von Radio Blau lenken wir den Blick nach Innen. Wie funktioniert eine Freies Radio ohne Festangestellte? Lutz erzählt von der Arbeit im Vorstand des Radiovereins…
Freies Radio – Kindern eine Stimme geben
Tom hat in Berlin das Freie Kinder-Radio Radiojojo gegründet, das Kindern an verschiedenen Orten in der ganzen Welt, Kinder und ihre Ideen zu Wort kommen lässt. Tom erzählt,…
Frauenbilder und Medienwelten – Einblicke in eine Lehrfeldforschung in Bhopal, Indien
Über Frauenrollen in Indiens Medienwelten gibt es viele Klischees, wie die Unterdrückung am Arbeitsplatz. In ihrer ersten Feldforschung hinterfragt die damalige Magister-Studentin Stefanie Mauksch die…
Educating ‘bilingual’ children in Spain and Denmark
Educating ‘bilingual’ children in Spain and Denmark: childhood bilingualism as opportunity or constraint by Kenn Nakata Steffensen University College Cork/University of Tokyo See PDF This article exa…
The moment after anticipation #2
(*This paper is part of a larger place mapping project.) The least preferred places in Riga tended to be mentioned by teens where they had concerns about their…
Keywords for the Age of Austerity 19: Resilience
Originally posted on Keywords for the Age of Austerity: Resilience, n., “Elasticity; the power of resuming an original shape or position after compression, bending, etc.” “The quality or…