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Bringing Traditional Medicine into the Health Humanities Classroom with Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s “Remedies”
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San Francisco Art Fair [group exhibition]
No full textGroup exhibition held April 25-28, 2024, at the 2024 Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
Review of the book \u3cem\u3eAfropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin\u3c/em\u3e, by A. von Rath
No full textMeaningless Citizenship: Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State, by Sally Wesley Bonet (2022) [book review]
No full textBeyond Longevity: A life-cycle approach to time banks
No full textOver the past couple of decades, scholars and activists have devoted considerable energy to envisioning and enacting alternatives to capitalism through various micro-initiatives. In addition to being small, many of these initiatives are relatively short-lived, leading critics to consider them failures. This article challenges the association of success with scale and longevity. We focus on time banks, a form of community currency organized around labor-time as the unit of exchange. While time banks have been shown to have myriad benefits for communities, very little attention has been paid to how benefits and challenges vary as time banks evolve. Rather than treating time banks as static institutions, we approach them dynamically, as entities that undergo different stages of development with evolving impacts throughout their lifespans. Drawing on over six years of qualitative research on US time banks, we model what we call a Time-Bank Life Cycle. Examining time banks through a life-cycle lens enables us to disassociate success from longevity while garnering a fuller understanding of the variety of challenges time banks face and the range of material, social, and ideological impacts they may have over the course of their lives
From Istanbul to Dakar and Dar es Salaam: \u3cem\u3eEfendi\u3c/em\u3e masculinity, islamic civility, and the pedagogy of \u3cem\u3eadab\u3c/em\u3e
No full textThis article studies the formation of (borrowing Wilson Chacko Jacob\u27s terminology) efendi masculinity, through the conceptual lens of adab (proper conduct). It combines interviews with members of Süleyman Efendi Cemaati in Dakar, Senegal, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and digital ethnography of Islamic forums in order to develop a historically informed cultural analysis of gendered and raced sartorial practices within the Cemaat. It argues that the Cemaat\u27s culturally specific dress code—an ironed shirt tucked into trousers—is produced by tensions and convergences between civilizational discourses emanating from European metropoles, the modernizing reforms of the Kemalist state, and Islamic pedagogies of civility. At the intersection of these competing and concurring civilizing projects and processes is situated the figure of “Istanbul efendisi” (the gentleman from Istanbul) as the embodiment of civilized Muslim masculinity championed by Süleyman Efendi Cemaati. The article explores efendi masculinity within the Cemaat\u27s pedagogy of adab, as a legacy of the Kemalist modernization project and the Turkish state\u27s civilizing mission, by analyzing the discourses of order and hygiene in dormitories and the adoption of European-style male clothing. It examines how in Muslim Africa these legacies intersect with those of European colonialism and its civilizing mission