The Global Sociology Blog: The Visual Du Jour – GOOOOOOAAAAL
I love soccer, or as we Europeans call it, football. I also like network visualizations. So, how can I not love this network visualization of Ballon D’Or votes. If you don’t know what the Ballon D’Or...
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: Authentic cool: Global hipsters and consumer...
South by Southwest hipsters image, courtesy of Todd Dwyer (Flickr 2009)America appears to be confronted by a sinister wave of indifference, inauthenticity, and shallow irony, but somewhat surprisingly...
View ArticleIslam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist: Think Tanks, weak research and the...
Think Tanks, often linked to a party in the nation’s political system, are becoming increasingly popular (particularly in the US and the UK), receive funds, and produce very easily digestible...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Another perfectly cromulent word
Miranda Leitsinger, "11 killer whales free after being 'locked' in ice, mayor says", NBC News 1/10/2013: Twenty of the Inukjuak villagers were tasked with doing much the same: they were going to...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Buradan da paylaşalım: Yarın #pub203 sınavı. Sınav...
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View ArticleEthno::log: Vortrag am Amerika-Institut
Dr. Sonja John (Berlin): New Orthography to Save the Lakota Language – Help or Harm? Datum/Uhrzeit: 16.01.2013 um 18 Uhr Ort: Amerika Institut, Schellingstr. 3/VG, Raum 201
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: thinking about the southern weekend event
It’s called “the Southern Weekend Incident (南周事件)” in Mandarin and refers to a standoff between the Guangdong Provincial Minister of Information, Tuo Zhen and the editorial board of the Southern …...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cumhur Bumudur’dan şiir: “Sadece Akşam”
Sadece Akşam yorgun bir aceleyle koşup gidiyor zaman koyu bir duman çöküyor sokakların ışıklı yalnızlığına üzerine toplu mezarlığın duman hep aynı duman sadece ölüm tükenmiş coğrafyayı çığlığı...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Barış notu/Enver Paşa/Afrika Politikası
Barış notu Artık hep barışı kurmak üzerine kafa yorsak, yazsak. Oslo görüşmelerinin açıklanmasından sonra kamuoyunun verdiği olumlu tepkinin aynısı bugün de geçerli. Keza 2009 açılımının kapanmasından...
View Articletabsir.net: More of the Sham of al-Sham
Image source: alhadath.yemen The demise of Bashar al-Assad continues its downward spiral with bodies strewn all over Syria in the process. What makes him hang on? Can he not see what just about every...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: YÖK vs. Redhack. Haberler derlemesine devam…
‘YÖK’ün görevi gazetecileri tehdit etmek değil iddialara cevap vermektir’ from Medyatava.com Çağdaş Gazeteciler Derneği, RedHack tarafından ele geçirilen “gizli” belgeleri yayınlayan basın...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Overestimating, underestimating, whatever
This post hits a trifecta of LLOG themes: the troublesome interaction of multiple negations with scalar predicates that we call "misnegation"; the flexible phrasal or conceptual templates we call...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Hagel "refused to stop efforts to end terrorist attacks"
Earlier today, "Patriot Voices" (Rick Santorum's PAC) sent out an email containing the following paragraph: I strongly oppose President Obama's nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel for Secretary...
View ArticleMedia and Social Change: Logics of History: Social Theory and Social...
By Daniel Little via Project MUSE (and Savage Minds) Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Number 1, Fall 2007 pp. 181-182 | 10.1353/jsh.2007.0140 Logics of History is a fascinating and insightful...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: Book Review – Existence
Us science-fiction fans have been waiting for a long time for a new full-fledged novel by David Brin since Kiln People. It is finally here: Existence. I think Existence is on a par with the Uplift...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Ethnographic Data Mining
From the online Journal of Social Structure ABSTRACT: Advances in text analysis, particularly the ability to extract network based information from texts, is enabling researches to conduct detailed...
View ArticleCONNECTED in CAIRO: Revolutionary Art in the Streets–and in the Galleries
Nancy Demerdash has a new article out on the role(s) of art in the “Arab Spring”. Her article “Consuming Revolution: Ethics, Art and Ambivalence in the Arab Spring” in New Middle Eastern Studies...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: on strike in longgang
According to molihua dot org, 4,000 workers at the Zhongda Printing Factory went on strike on January 10, 2013 to protest the factory’s decision to discount all years of service. … Continue reading →
View ArticleC L O S E R: Het Kabinet Rutte 2 – Het Blanke Bordes
Closer Blog: Dit blog gaat over een vorm van racisme: white privilege die het gevolg is van voordelen die blanke mensen genieten ten opzichte van zwarte mensen in gelijksoortige sociale, politieke en...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Speech and silence
I recently became interested in patterns of speech and silence. People divide their discourse into phrases for many reasons: syntax, meaning, rhetoric; thinking about what to say next; running out of...
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