Connection and Inequality in the Remote Classroom
The switchover to remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19 has prompted a flurry of conversation among academics regarding technology’s (in)capabilities in replicating the…
Read MoreThe switchover to remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19 has prompted a flurry of conversation among academics regarding technology’s (in)capabilities in replicating the…
Read MoreThe house and the body are the protagonists of isolation. In Argentina, staying at home is experienced as an unequal privilege. The coronavirus put…
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Read MoreAs social scientists our work often directly grows out of our personal journeys—journeys that are physical, emotional, intellectual and political. However, this is rarely…
Read MoreNumerous are by now the accounts that label international academia as ‘neoliberal’, that is, a system which, these days, almost functions like a firm…
Read MoreIn this thematic week we aim to think through the notion of displacement. At a time that is marked by unprecedented movements of refugees…
Read MoreBased on the experiences of two young Eritreans who arrived in Switzerland as unaccompanied minors, this article thinks through the feeling of being made…
Read MoreAs an established blog with personal and institutional contacts to many of those involved in the recent upheaval at HAU and the Society of…
Read MoreHautalk is an opportunity to reinvigorate and remake our disciplinary identities. But how can we move this discussion beyond disciplinary boundaries—into spaces where we…
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