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Stopped Inside Time: Re-ordering Everyday Pandemic Temporalities
No full textDuring the first Danish lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, the usual order of everyday time became destabilized. Everyday rhythms and the quotidian “here-and-now” were transformed, and the near past surfaced as a utopian future many wished to return to, while people tried to re-order everyday time in narratives and sequences by means of new routines and materialities, and within ambiguous and affective moods. Using empirical material of over sixty-five student diaries and essays written during the Danish pandemic situation, the objective is to analytically open the complexity of temporal practices as they are performed in everyday life
Juramentos and Firmas: Narrating Assemblages in Afro-Cuban Religions
No full textThis essay examines narratives produced with entities in Cuban Palo traditions for the purpose of invoking copresences through the assemblage of images, words, and bodies. The dead, nkisi, tell multilayered, coded stories of strife and affliction in ways that weaponize practitioners and objects. We bring together primary sources from the Lydia Cabrera Papers, alongside ethnographic encounters in Cuba with Congo-inspired material, culture, and spiritual elders to trace the afterlives of narrating assemblages. Following Édouard Glissant, we further argue for an understanding of Palo narratives as sites of revelation and opacity whose fugitivity pushes against colonial practices of knowability and appropriation
Surveys: Who\u27s asking? Who\u27s answering? Is anybody listening?
Get PDFThe author examines the historical impact of surveys and opinion polls on the U.S. Congress
Without Knowing What Comes Next: A Review of Jack Halberstam\u27s \u27Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire\u27
Get PDFA review of Jack Halberstam\u27s Wild Things: The Disorder of Desir
Perspectives in Embodiment Theory
Get PDFResearchers apply the concept of embodiment across many disciplines, resulting in a set of expansive definitions that only sometimes overlap. This special issue celebrates the plurality and wide applicability of this useful framework by bringing together multiple perspectives on embodiment within the field of human biology
Ethics and Best Practices of Studying Contemporary Human Populations
No full textAt the 2021 meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the “Ethics and Best Practices of Studying Contemporary Human Populations” symposium brought together a diverse panel of scientists to address the growing concerns related to consent, communication, and ethical practices in biological anthropology research. Drawing from historical parallels and current practices, the panel underscored the responsibilities of researchers to engage transparently and respectfully with the subjects of their studies. This article summarizes some of the topics raised and debated at that meeting, including the specific challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in studies utilizing biological data from diverse populations, and the meaning of informed consent, genetic privacy, and data justice. The authors emphasize the importance of diversity and inclusion within research teams and leadership roles, and the role this can play in reshaping research approaches and fostering innovation in our field. They challenge the traditional notions of informed consent and encourage a more nuanced understanding that acknowledges the historical context and respects refusals as a form of knowledge production. The diverse perspectives shared at the symposium offer a glimpse into the ongoing efforts of biological anthropologists to navigate ethical challenges in contemporary human population studies. The collective aim is to spark sustained conversations and collaborative endeavors within biological anthropology and to promote continuous improvement in ethical standards and best practices
Holocaust Education and Human Rights Advocacy on TikTok
No full textThis article analyzes a recent and controversial form of social media engagement with the Shoah: user-generated digital videos that circulated on TikTok. Drawing on a combination of visual discourse analysis, surveys of content creators, and empirical mapping of digital practices of Holocaust and human rights museums, this article pursues three goals. First, it distinguishes several categories of Holocaust-related content on TikTok. Second, it situates that content in a broader historical context, highlighting earlier examples of visual Holocaust education and advocacy led by young people. Third, it makes an argument for greater institutional engagement with TikTok and identifies two specific ways in which Holocaust and human rights museums can productively use the platform
On Ward’s East German Film and the Holocaust
No full textEast German Film and the Holocaust. By Elizabeth Ward. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. 264 pp., ISBN 978-1789207477 (hc), 34.95
