The Nerds’ Turn: Battling for a Democratic Academia in Poland
As students and academics in Poland are fighting to defend democracy and autonomy of the universities, this post is a battle cry. It outlines…
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As students and academics in Poland are fighting to defend democracy and autonomy of the universities, this post is a battle cry. It outlines…
Read MoreBe free. Eat sweets. Do not go to university (but use the university to print for free). Resist academic hierarchy. Do not believe what…
Read MoreTill Mostowlansky is a Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute in Geneva who was awarded an Ambizione…
Read MoreThe criminal proceedings against several hundreds of academics in Turkey who signed a petition for peace (Academics for Peace) continue in Istanbul. They are…
Read MoreThis month’s round up of the best anthropology podcasts brought to you in collaboration with the ever amazing New Books in Anthropology features motorcycles, Catalonians, sex…
Read MoreThe study of bureaucracy has become a standard prerogative of English-language anthropology in recent years. Long gone are the days when bureaucracy was considered…
Read MoreLiving Art is a sensory oriented film that uses audiovisual methodologies to study the aesthetics and embodiment of contemporary art. I became interested, as…
Read MoreWhile media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and…
Read MoreWhile media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and…
Read MoreThe Society for Cultural Anthropology is experimenting with a new exciting initiative this year. Next week (19-21 April 2018) the Biennial Meeting will take…
Read MoreThe “publish or perish” imperative in academia is periodically debated in the newspapers. I think some distance should be taken from the arguments developed…
Read MoreThe Space of Boredom takes us to spaces on the edge of new global orders, focusing on the lives and practices of homeless men…
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