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Saúde mental no Brasil em tempos de pandemia e neoliberalismo: retrocessos e resistências História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos 2024-10-28 https://buff.ly/48ncGZJ Cláudia Freitas de Oliveira, professora do Departamento de História da Universidade Federal do Ceará, analisa aspectos da saúde mental no Brasil como campo político ativo, que envolve vários atores e segmentos sociais em áreas de disputa opostas, em tempos de pandemia e de avanço do projeto neoliberal

[Acceso Abierto/ Open Access] 40 años. Memorias de los 40 años del Colegio de Antropólogos y Antropólogas de Chile (CAACh) - Santiago, Octubre del 2024 Info: https://ow.ly/qYgR50TV0Fa Prólogo de la Actual Directiva A cuarenta años de la creación del CAACh y haciendo un balance del ejercicio de la profesión en Chile, creemos que es fundamental poder retratar el recorrido histórico que ha realizado el Colegio, desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad. Las temáticas que han caracterizado cada contexto social y político, de la mano con los desafíos que han atravesado a la antropología. La directiva del Colegio ha querido conmemorar los 40 años con el desarrollo de esta memoria, a fin de generar un documento que pueda dar cuenta de la trayectoria histórica de nuestra organización y contribuir a futuras revisiones. Agradecemos a todos y todas quienes colaboraron con este trabajo colectivo por medio de sus relatos, envío de materiales gráficos y apoyando este proceso.

Should Humans Go Extinct? Asking the Big Question with Todd May ASLE 2024-10-28 https://buff.ly/3Ym3GPL In this first episode of our extinction series, we met with Todd May to discuss his new book Should We Go Extinct? A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Times. This massive question is accessibly analyzed yet Todd also brings in issues underdiscussed in extinction discourse: Who is the inexact “we” behind the question, how do different humans contribute to ecological crisis and therefore human and nonhuman extinction, and what is the role of art in deciding whether humanity’s existence should continue? Instead of concluding on ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk | The Weekly Read Duke University Press News 2024-10-26 https://buff.ly/3BWZX3A The Weekly Read for October 26, 2024, is “Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Human Sciences’ Labor Problem” by Jiemin Tina Wei. The article appears in Volume 21, Issue 3, of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, edited by Julie Greene. Read this article for free through December 31, 2024. AbstractThis article investigates the rise of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), […]

“Photographing the Dark: Nadar’s Descent into the Paris... THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW 2024-10-27 https://buff.ly/3YgYoVM “Photographing the Dark: Nadar’s Descent into the Paris Catacombs”, @AllisonCMeier on Nadar’s determined efforts (involving Bunsen batteries, mannequins, and a good deal of patience) to document the beauty and terror of this realm of the dead:

Dismantling Borders: (Un)Naming the Queer Diasporic Algérienne NOTCHES 2024-10-21 https://buff.ly/4heUsh0 In Garçon manqué [Tomboy] (2000), Nina Bouraoui explores labels and categories of being; intersections of dealing with nation, culture, gender identity and queer desire.

Guest Post:  This Open Access Week Theme Has a Distinguished History The Scholarly Kitchen 2024-10-22 https://buff.ly/3UdnLGD Some thoughts on this year’s Open Access Week theme, “community over commercialization.” The post Guest Post:  This Open Access Week Theme Has a Distinguished History appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

La dimension sociale des crises sanitaires à travers l’Histoire Historien.nes de la santé 2024-10-22 https://buff.ly/3YA1gyk The social dimension of sanitary crises throughout History 15:30-16:00 The fight against danger and ‘evil’: social stigma and discourse associations in the response to the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Spain by Pau Font Masdeu (Universitat de Girona).

Skin Allegra Lab 2024-10-22 https://buff.ly/3Yx37nI Mónica Degen  The Reciprocity of Touch  Skin is our largest organ and mainly associated with our exterior appearances and identities, […] The post Skin appeared first on Allegra Lab.

Enough! The Spanish Fight to Limit Housing Speculation LPE Project 2024-10-22 https://buff.ly/4hdwXox Throughout Spain, social movements are fighting against a chronic housing crisis caused by an influx of tourists and international capital. In this struggle, law is often a reflection of the existing neoliberal power structure, but with the support of sustained popular mobilizations, it has also served as a tool for emancipation.