Le plus beau métier du monde
Giulia Mensitieri’s book “Le plus beau métier du monde” Dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode examines labor in […]
Situating #hautalk. A polyphonic intervention
As an established blog with personal and institutional contacts to many of those involved in the recent upheaval at HAU
Personalizing Access, Personalizing Praxis
Anthropology trained us to identify systems of oppression, those “invisibilized” dimensions of culture that reek of prejudice, privilege, and disproportionate
Shocked, not Surprised
The surest signal that we are having something akin to a #metoo moment in academia is when my social media
#PrecAnthro. Let’s talk about unionisation.
The HAU controversy is both a disappointment and an opportunity. It is a disappointment because it reflects the troubled condition
Pyramid Scheme. #hautalk
For people immersed in bureaucratic institutions, like universities, the current ruckus over HAU raises at least one longstanding anthropological question:
My Brother is an Only Child. Precarity and Solidarity in Post-Neoliberal Societies
This text, written by our guest editor Salvatore Poier, is a plea for solidarity and a request to engage in
#PrecAnthro in support of #USSstrike: once the pension dispute is won UCU should prioritise the fight against casualisation
On the 22nd of February 2018 University and College Union (UCU), the largest academic union in the world with over
Precarity everywhere?
“On politics and precarities in academia”- this was the title of the EASA seminar held at the Institute of Social
Overlapped Precarities
The EASA AGM Seminar in Bern simply came in a bad time. It confronted me with a dilemma: while I