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July 5, 2024 by Public Anthropologist

Call for Papers for the Special Issue “Positioning, Militancy and Public engagement”

Journal: Public Anthropologist, https://brill.com/view/journals/puan/puan-overview.xml Guest editor: Angela Biscaldi (University of Milan) Format: We welcome both research articles (between 6000 and 9000 words) and shorter essays (between 3000 and 5000 words). Abstracts submission: Please send your abstract to angela.biscaldi@unimi.it by September 9, 2024. Full papers submission: If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to …

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January 24, 2024January 24, 2024 by Public Anthropologist

Call for Papers | Special Issue: Speaking out against genocide and repression

In this special issue, we invite anthropologists to reflect on their responsibilities and experiences of speaking and acting out in response to Israel’s assaults on Gaza, and to consider what is at stake and what is possible through intervening inside or outside the academy.

November 26, 2023June 10, 2024 by Public Anthropologist

Episode 9: The humanness of humanity has a history

In the 9th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews anthropologist Mark Goodale on the history of human rights. The humaneness of humanity has a history. And Goodale’s work shows that this history is foregrounded in relation to geopolitical and economic history. He asks if a distinction at all can be drawn between politics and economy …

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November 23, 2023June 10, 2024 by Public Anthropologist

Episode 8: Writing history beyond disciplinary constraints

In the 8th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews anthropologist Jeevan Sharma on how to write a history and ethnography of the speedy transformations in Nepal. Sharma’s work looks beyond disciplinary boundaries to study the political and economic inequities that has historically informed the social life in Nepal. There is no way of …

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October 26, 2023November 21, 2023 by Public Anthropologist

Statement on the situation in Palestine

Signed by scholars of humanitarianism, war, displacement and related fields, this statement calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the urgent passage of humanitarian relief and a peace process that ends the occupation of Palestinian territories.

July 13, 2022February 5, 2024 by Public Anthropologist

Episode 5: Science and economy of selling pesticides

In the 5th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews Historian Elena Conis on how risky pesticides were culturally accepted and what kind of role did science play in its acceptance. Professor Conis explains how scientific research during war and epidemics prioritized some types of scientific questions over others, and how this approach built …

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June 21, 2020January 15, 2023 by Public Anthropologist

In Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and Call for Dismantling Structural Racism in Germany

Public statement issued by the Working Group Public Anthropology, German Anthropological Association. Drafted on 6 June 2020 Follow us on Twitter @AGPublicAnthro and Facebook In the aftermath of the brutal police killing of George Floyd, nation-wide protests have erupted against police violence and structural anti-Black racism in the United States. In most major cities …

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June 5, 2020 by Public Anthropologist

Public Anthropologist Award 2021

Public Anthropologist Award (PUAN-A) is awarded to a social and cultural anthropologist who has published an outstanding contribution that addresses – in innovative, engaging and compelling ways – key societal issues related to one or more of the following topics: violence, war, poverty, social movements, freedom, aid, rights, injustice, inequality, social exclusion, racism, health, and …

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May 29, 2020January 15, 2023 by Public Anthropologist

Suggested by Public Anthropologist: On an Empty Stomach

Public Anthropologist‘s suggested reading today is On an Empty Stomach. Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief. Research, activism and policy debates on the issue of hunger continue to be high on the political agenda at the global level. Moving away from contingent assessments, especially common in this time of coronavirus, Tom Scott-Smith provides an informative …

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August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 by Public Anthropologist

Bergen Anthropology Day 2019

Friday 13. September, 12:00-16:10. Tivoli (1st floor), Det Akademiske Kvarter, Olav Kyrres gate 49 12:00-13:00 Complimentary lunch (Tivoli, 1st floor) 13:00-13:10 Welcome and introduction: Ståle Knudsen (UiB) 13:10-13:30 “Mare Nullius? Sea Level Rise and Maritime Sovereignties in the Pacific – An Expanded Anthropology of Climate Change”, Edvard Hviding (UiB) 13:30-13:50 “Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple Mobilities …

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