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Thinking with Disaster
Get PDFThe Foreigner’s Home is a compelling and poetic film that explores two central concepts in Toni Morrison’s work; the foreigner and the home. The film starts with footage from 2006 when Ms. Morrison was invited by the Louvre in Paris to curate an exhibition. With the same title, The Foreigner's Home, Ms. Morrison decided to put the focus of the exhibition on the pain of exile and displacement. Engaging footage of the exhibition, intertwining with Ms. Morrison’s words, and animations, the film eloquently poses fundamental questions of our time: Who is the foreigner? How long does a foreigner remain a foreigner? Who decides what the foreignness is in a person? What, rather than where, is a home? What is the relationship between houselessness (lacking lodging) and homelessness (existential or politically imposed unbelonging)? Throughout the film Toni Morrison’s words and visions engage us into a conversation which is vital to understanding: ‘what does it mean to be human?
The unpaid family leave in the US: the benefits of offering more (?).
No full textKy Dickens is the director and the producer of the documentary Zero Weekswhich aims to inform and raise awareness about paid family leave in the United States. Zero Weeks presents speeches by activists, economists, policymakers, researchers, a doctor, small and large business owners, in addition to personal stories of people who have been personally affected by the topi
Moving to Serve
Get PDFThis review article discusses Olivia Killias' ethnography Follow the Maid, which deals with the transnational labor migration of female migrant workers from rural Indonesia to Malaysia and focuses on the ways in which these women are turned into domestic workers. The review engages with the main arguments of the book, its structure, Killias' ethnographic descriptions and the way she relates them to theoretical concepts
State, Republic and the Minority: The (un)making of Muslims in France
Get PDFLocating her study on French Muslims and formation of Muslim identity in an era of anti-immigrant and refugee crisis, Fredette looks into the multi-layered oppression of French Muslims. Fredette engages in a critique of modern nation state and its ideals of democracy, citizenship and equality. Upon analysing the exclusionary nature of state apparatus, Fredette looks into education, employment and housing of French Muslims and the subsequent identity formation on being an immigrant. Fredette regards the racial and Islamophobic biases towards Muslims and immigrants as ideological fissures inherent in the making of modern nation state. What demarcate Fredette's study is her multiple positionality and analysis of diverse experienciality of being a Muslim in France - where identity is largely governed by class, ethnicity, race and gendered locations
Success is not all: When ‘failure’ becomes meaningful in late life
Get PDFSuccessful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession, edited by Sarah Lamb, is a timely, thought-provoking collection of sociological and anthropological studies that critically tackle the neoliberal Global North paradigm of healthy/active/successful aging. The authors are reputable scholars in the field of aging studies and/or medical anthropology, whose perspectives cover a variety of cultural understandings and practices of what is involved in aging meaningfully
Why the world needs (medical) anthropologists: Lessons from a (more than just a) handbook on medical anthropology
Get PDFReview: The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology. 2016. Edited by Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon. New York: Routledge. XXIX + 393p. ISBN 9781138015630
Can the Digital Revolutionize Academic Scholarship?
Get PDFThis is a book review of "Going Public: A Guide for Social Scientists" by Arlene Stein and Jessie Daniels (2017)
