Review/Interview: Food and Animal Welfare
Food and Animal Welfare Henry Buller and Emma Roe. Contemporary Food Series, Bloomsbury Academic, London. 2018. ISBN 9780857855787 Sharyn Jones (Northern Kentucky University) Most people in Western…
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“Zero infections. Zero deaths. Zero stigma.” by Ryan Whitacre
The UNAIDS mission of “Getting to Zero” is supported by three key goals: “Zero infections. Zero deaths. Zero stigma.” By taking up this mission, the San Francisco Department…
How Medicare For All Challenges our Ideas of Black Deservingness by Ampson Hagan
The contemporary debate over healthcare in the United States revolves around an unstated but somewhat widely understood notion of what people deserve. The question of “deservingness” is particularly…
Review: Us
**Republished with permission from Tossed Observations Inc.** by Jonathan Craig Suspenseful, cinematically impressive, and majestically scored, Jordan Peele’s latest feature-length effort is, on balan…
Goodwin and Cekaite on their book, Embodied Family Choreography
https://www.routledge.com/Embodied-Family-Choreography-Practices-of-Control-Care-and-Mundane-Creativity/Goodwin-Cekaite/p/book/9781138633261 Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae YJB: In arguing that the family a…
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Today, the 25th of March, marks the anniversary of New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers lost their lives. The fire occurred in 1911,…
Interrogating Queer Identity: The Use of Art as Resistance and Stories from the Margins
by Colin Gill In this moment in history we are witnessing several ultra-right movements across the globe. The most recent example of this is the election of president…
A Plantation inside the Cow: Capitalist Indigestions and the Rumen Microbial Universe
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
Jasbir Puar’s The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Dina Omar
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability Jasbir Puar Duke University Press, 2017. 296 pages. Jasbir Puar’s second book, The Right to Maim, examines the relationship between life,…
Pollution Made by Nature: The Circulation of Nitrate Knowledge in Iowa Agriculture and Conservation
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to…
Creating Bodies, Creating a Nation: How the Idea of the Straight, White, Muscular Male Body Shaped America by Ketil Slagstad
Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique Rachel Louise Moran University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 224 pages. 1. When Michelle Obama launched the “Let’…
From The Field: Superbowl Sunday, The Dude Abides?
by Jonny Craig Last week the New England Patriots faced off against the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl 53. At this, the culmination of the NFL season,…
Web Roundup: Marketing, Masculinity, and Commodity Activism by Katherine Warren
On January 13th, Gillette, a razor blade brand, released a new ad campaign called, “We Believe.” The video ad opens with a collage of news clips that—unlike the…
The Meanings and Limits of “Local Water” in Los Angeles
By Sayd Randle, University of Southern California § In the fall of 2014, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti held a press conference in front of the L.A. Department of…
Melinda Cooper’s Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Ilana Gershon
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism Melinda Cooper MIT Press, 2017, 416 pages. Neoliberal policy in the United States sometimes seems internally contradictory….
Cemile Gizem Dinçer and Eda Sevinin: Migration, activist research, and the politics of location: An interview with Nicholas De Genova (part 2)
The second part of this interview with Nicholas De Genova moves into an analysis of the so-called refugee crisis since 2015 and possibilities for militant academic research that…
Cemile Gizem Dinçer and Eda Sevinin: Migration, activist research, and the politics of location: An interview with Nicholas De Genova (part 1)
In Turkey, especially after the Syrians’ arrival following 2011, the field of migration studies has more or less confined itself to mainstream discussions such as integration, social cohesion,…
Review: Making Modern Meals
Making Modern Meals: How Americans Cook Today. Amy B. Trubek. University of California Press. 2017. 320pp. ISBN: 9780520289239. Katharina Graf SOAS-University of London Making Modern Meals is a…
Freedom, Probation, and The American Dream: Some Thoughts from a New Mexican Factory Floor
by Jonny Craig In his 2016 release, Interstate: Hitchhiking through the State of a Nation, travel-writer Julian Sarayer chronicles his unorthodox and remarkable journey from New York to…
Patient Zero and the Making of a Myth: History as an Archaeology of the Present by Ketil Slagstad
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic Richard A. McKay University of Chicago Press, 2017, 400 pages “An innocent he was not. He eventually told…
Sun of the Sleepless by Jason Pine
The sleep experiment, back in Chicago in 1992… was that really more than 25 years ago? In that experiment he could locate the seed of what would become…
George, the dog by Emily Yates-Doerr
Babe, my grandpa, was born on the kitchen tiles of a small Seattle home. His dad, whose own grandpa had run a seedy downtown brothel, would disappear and…
The Milk of Human Kindness by Penny Van Esterik
Sour Milk At the World Health Assembly (WHA) meetings in late May, 2018, the US delegation tried to water-down or dump a very mild resolution to confirm and…
Web Roundup: Pharmaceuticals, ‘Pharmascolds,’ and Conflicts of Interest by Katherine Warren
Over the past month, a number of researchers, institutions, and pharmaceutical companies have come under pressure for relationships between medical research, clinical treatment, and corporate profits….