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Welfare for Profits' Sake
Get PDFThe return to nearly full employment rates after the Great Recession (2008-2009) has not palliated the need for mass food assistance in the United States. In 2012, over 40 million Americans received food assistance from Emergency Food Providers (EFPs) such as faith-based institutions, senior centers, grassroots community organizations and college campuses; 47 million received (public) Food Stamps. After the “recovery” of the economy those on food stamps were still numbered at over 42 million in 2017 and over 40 million received food from EFPs. Hunger is an everyday reality in the USA
From Mogadishu to Melbourne – rediscovering place in a globalized world
Get PDFReview of: Lems, Annika.Being-here: Placemaking in a World of Movement. Berghahn Books 2018,220 pp. ISBN 978-1-78533-849-
The power of epistemological principles
Get PDFDEBORAH REED-DANAHAY, 2020, Bourdieu and Social Space: Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements, New York: Berghahn Books, 170 pp., ISBN 978-1-78920-353-0
Anthropological knowledge production
Get PDFThe reader of What is Anthropology? could see this book as an introduction to the power of the anthropological craft vividly visualized by the globally recognized educational father of anthropology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, giving his perspective on the constitution of anthropology and the exploration of the diverse ways of lives we could have led. It expands perspectives on social lives and cultural phenomena containing the keys to an anthropological world with potential to changing the lives of the readers setting out to exploring it
Pirates, Insurers, Traders, Diviners: Encountering Economies of Somali Piracy
Get PDFBook Review of Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean
Tantalized Fruits: Assembling the Serendipitous Aftertastes of a Most Delicate Industry
Get PDFJulie Guthman’s recent book Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry is a thought-provoking examination of the entangled natures of specific geographic, historic, economic, social, and material conditions that have led to the Californian strawberry industry becoming as fragile as the berry it produces. The research is empirically founded on primary data based on interviews with growers, workers, industry representatives, and scientists, and on secondary data pulled mainly from relevant historical, geographical, and anthropological research. To unfold the manifold forces and entities by which strawberry agriculture is made up, but not necessarily acknowledged, is key to the analytical and theoretical project of Guthman. Hence, she draws on contemporary scholarly works dealing with human and more-than-human analysis in general, while making good use of the concept of assemblage in particular. The argument that industry practitioners lack assemblage-thinking colors the analysis throughout, and it is significant in addressing everything from land-use to labor conditions alongside other aspects impacting the current-day becoming of the industry. Assemblage-thinking is identified as particularly useful in denoting the instrumental ways in which pathogens, in the name of agricultural science, are conceptualized and conversely harmfully and unproductively managed. The analytical framing is maintained as a productive perspective to understand how particular human and more-than-human actors and agencies relationally have contributed to contemporary challenges of low fruit quality, uncertain production yields, labor-shortage, and uncontrollable and costly pathogen outbreaks. According to Guthman, employing assemblage-thinking in practically approaching pathogens would considerably alter business-as-usual and bring about more aptly founded and lasting solutions
Masking hierarchies in Bangkok
No full textReview of Vorng, Sophorntavy. 2017. A Meeting of Masks: Status, Power and Hierarchy in Bangkok. Copenhagen: NIAS Press
Contagious Narratives: Vaccines, Zombies, and Pandemics
No full textReviewed by Kim Haarstick, North Dakota State UniversityKiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore by Andrea Kitt
