Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Her research examines the conditions for justice during internal armed conflict, human rights prosecutions, transitional justice in post-communist Eastern European states, gender equality in post-conflict settings, and justice efforts in democracies. Research interests include social movements, social justice and cultural genocide.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent. These efforts have been built without the warmth of tinto, the stick of hot plastic chairs, or the pulse of broader human presence.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Concluding Thoughts: Towards a Culture of Care Law 30490 the Law of the Elderlyin Peru stipulates that the countrys long-term care facilities should provide their residents with comprehensive care depending on their needs. For them, its safety, sure, but for us, its humiliating.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

During a brief visit to Iraq in the heat of summer 2023, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared , “The era of global boiling has indeed begun.” The post Under the Baghdad Sun appeared first on Anthropology News. Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

Through these poems, we pull an anthropological lens to our eye to look at critical questions of power and agency. In June 2024, our editorial team put out a call for submissions of anthropological poems of resistance, refusal, and wayfinding. Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights where Abalajon served as a translator.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

The pandemic also took a toll on other historically marginalized groups: For example, the annual rate of death by suicide among elders over the age of 85 in Clark County, Nevada, increased by 14 percent across the pre- and post-pandemic periods, according to research in forensic anthropology. In fact, many of us rarely, if ever, testify.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The project investigates how communities accommodate differences in culturally resonant ways and asks what everyday practices and justifications they draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence. Everyone was enthusiastic to do so. The sign (in Hebrew) reads: “There is no academia without democracy. (No?)”

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While these trends have been underway in the subfields of global health and economic development for some time, increasingly similar demands are being made for the incorporation of SBS into the fields of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG). In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In some circles, the use of capitalization for “Deaf” and “Disabled” indicates a cultural identity rather than a medical diagnosis. At the time, they did not know the whereabouts of the children and staff. ( In this essay, I do not capitalize these terms unless the people and organizations I am referring to self-identify as such. )

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2024

While Israeli media boasted the images depict “Hamas terrorists surrendering in Gaza,” Palestinian and international organizations reacted with horror over the flagrant human rights abuses. Even the United States government, Israel’s main ally and a relentless weapons provider, expressed concern. This is not far from reality.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But even the companies seeking to require users to either provide their data or else pay for access aren’t reinforcing the idea that users “own” data so much as they are converting privacy from a right into a service. I believe that tackling the elitism underlying the industry-academia divide is a worthy goal, and also an urgent one.

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