A future history of water: Maura Finkelstein’s comments
Andrea Ballestero,(2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. I have an exercise I like to assign to my students, one that I…
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Andrea Ballestero,(2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. I have an exercise I like to assign to my students, one that I…
Read MoreAs I finished reading Ballestero’s A Future History of Water, the world observed World Water Day 2021. Organized by the United Nations, it has…
Read MoreIn the search to close the digital divide, which has been even more exposed since the COVID-19 pandemic, the insights about technological use within…
Read MoreIn the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the optimism of the early days of the world wide web appears to have completely abated. The…
Read MoreEthnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that turns the anthropologist into…
Read MoreDying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife (2018), edited by Candi K. Cann, is an interdisciplinary study that cuts across…
Read MoreIn Me, Not You, Alison Phipps uses the #MeToo Movement as a backdrop to her work to illustrate how privileged white women using mainstream…
Read MoreIn 2017, my colleague Philipp Zehmisch and I had to cancel a panel on love and family relationships in ethnographic fieldwork, due to a…
Read MoreTerraformed by Joy White aims at making sense and contextualising the vulnerability and inequality experienced by the Afrodiasporic population of the UK. The author…
Read MoreDuring the Second World War, the British government, with the invaluable assistance of Alan Turing, deciphered Enigma (the Nazi code war machine) and thus…
Read MoreAs the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage many places in the world, it is hard to imagine a book that is more timely or…
Read MoreIn “Suicidal – why we kill ourselves” Jesse Bering asks what drives some of us to die by a self-directed fatal act. According to…
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