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Eirik Saethre’s Illness Is A Weapon by Shir Lerman
Illness Is A Weapon: Indigenous Identity and Enduring Afflictions by Eirik Saethre Vanderbilt University Press, 2013. ix + 213 pp. Eirik Saethre’s book, Illness Is A Weapon, is a welcome and crucial...
View ArticleHistorical Trauma: a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry by Eugene Raikhel
The latest issue of Transcultural Psychiatry is devoted to the concept of “historical trauma” in studies of Indigenous peoples in North America. As Laurence J. Kirmayer, Joseph P. Gone, and Joshua...
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From fish lives to fish law: learning to see Indigenous legal orders in...
“The necessity of respecting game is still widely acknowledged by Inuit. The awareness, that the continuity of society depends on the maintenance of correct relationships with animals and the land, is...
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Top of the Heap: Helen Verran by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Helen Verran, a historian and philosopher of science who is Adjunct Professor at Charles Darwin University in Australia as well as...
View ArticleHistory, Ethics, and the Environmental Archive by M. X. Mitchell
In Marshallese culture the environment itself is sacred.[1] Yet American colonizers used ancestral environments in the Marshall Islands for devastating nuclear weapons testing and related environmental...
View ArticleKlamath Connection and Critical Histories/Activist Futures: The Role of...
The Klamath River flows from Southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean through some of the most wild lands of the continental United States. It is home to diverse communities including American Indian...
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Top of the heap: Nayantara Sheoran by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, who is a medical anthropologist and lecturer in the Cultural Anthropology program at Victoria University of...
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Reaching Out, Looking In: On Research, Refusal, and Responsibility by Tess...
The papers in this series, “Critical Histories, Activist Futures,” have captured some of the exciting conversations that took place during a conference titled “Critical Histories, Activist Futures:...
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A Report on the 2018 4S Conference in Sydney, Australia by Tessa Leach
What characterises STS in different regions? What kinds of research projects, educational programs, and people are doing STS around the world? What problems exist in different regions? Can we draw...
View ArticleIs Hunger Culture-Bound? by Sophie Chao
Over the last decade, indigenous Marind communities in the rural district of Merauke, West Papua, have seen vast swaths of their forests and savannas razed to make way for monocrop oil palm...
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