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New on Co-Producing Knowledge – "‚Choose Your Name‘: Naming, Consent, and the Ethics of Storytelling" by Saleh Seid Adem boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
January 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge – "‚Choose Your Name‘: Naming, Consent, and the Ethics of Storytelling" by Saleh Seid Adem boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
New on Co-Producing Knowledge – Composite Collaborations: "Stories from a Digital Team Ethnography" by Cihan El Mentawi & Simone Pfeifer boasblogs.org/de/coproduci... #DGSKA2025
January 5, 2026 at 10:09 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge – Composite Collaborations: "Stories from a Digital Team Ethnography" by Cihan El Mentawi & Simone Pfeifer boasblogs.org/de/coproduci... #DGSKA2025
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Some Joys and Sorrows of Co-Producing Knowledge with Ethnographic Collections" by Gertrud Boden boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Some Joys and Sorrows of Co-Producing Knowledge with Ethnographic Collections" by Gertrud Boden boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "’How Can your Research Benefit our Community?’: How a Multilingual Research Dissemination Booklet Emerged" by Julia Brekl boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "’How Can your Research Benefit our Community?’: How a Multilingual Research Dissemination Booklet Emerged" by Julia Brekl boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Writing (Un)comfortably: Collaborating and Co-Producing Knowledge in Times of Crisis and Distance" by Cathrine Bublatzky boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Writing (Un)comfortably: Collaborating and Co-Producing Knowledge in Times of Crisis and Distance" by Cathrine Bublatzky boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "The Intimate Relations of Creating Knowledge Together" by Alestine Andre & Franz Krause boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "The Intimate Relations of Creating Knowledge Together" by Alestine Andre & Franz Krause boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Restitution and Reparation: A Collaborative Blueprint for Justice" by Valence Valerian Meriki Silayo boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Restitution and Reparation: A Collaborative Blueprint for Justice" by Valence Valerian Meriki Silayo boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "Whose Health? Recruiting Vietnamese Nursing Trainees into a German Healthcare Sector in Crisis" by Edda Willamowski boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "Whose Health? Recruiting Vietnamese Nursing Trainees into a German Healthcare Sector in Crisis" by Edda Willamowski boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Un/Commoning Migration: "Do We Still Need Migration Studies as We Share a Common Planet? Towards Decolonising Migration Research Through New Vernaculars and Theories" by Friedemann Yi-Neumann, Karim Zafer & Souleymane Diallo boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
New on U/C A – Un/Commoning Migration: "Do We Still Need Migration Studies as We Share a Common Planet? Towards Decolonising Migration Research Through New Vernaculars and Theories" by Friedemann Yi-Neumann, Karim Zafer & Souleymane Diallo boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Re/Commoning Cultural Heritage: "Practices of (Re)Commoning at the Industrial Heritage Site Cerro Rico and Mining Tourism in Potosí, Bolivia" by Lars-Michael Schacht boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
November 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
New on U/C A – Re/Commoning Cultural Heritage: "Practices of (Re)Commoning at the Industrial Heritage Site Cerro Rico and Mining Tourism in Potosí, Bolivia" by Lars-Michael Schacht boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "Reframing Syphilis in an Extreme Climate Event: Tensions Between Epidemiological Surveillance and Primary Care" by Eduardo Zanella, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "Reframing Syphilis in an Extreme Climate Event: Tensions Between Epidemiological Surveillance and Primary Care" by Eduardo Zanella, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "‘Training Citizens for Universal Health?’ An Ethnographic Account of a Public Health School in the Lao People‘s Democratic Republic" by Amelie Katczynski, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "‘Training Citizens for Universal Health?’ An Ethnographic Account of a Public Health School in the Lao People‘s Democratic Republic" by Amelie Katczynski, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Commoning Knowledge: "Vom ‚Nachleben‘ der Daten. Digitale ethnografische Forschungsdaten archivieren – und dann?" by Sabine Imeri & Michaela Rizzolli, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
October 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
New on U/C A – Commoning Knowledge: "Vom ‚Nachleben‘ der Daten. Digitale ethnografische Forschungsdaten archivieren – und dann?" by Sabine Imeri & Michaela Rizzolli, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
Check out the proposals for the handbook project discussed in today's panel “Accompanied Research” at: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...
Boasblogs • Un/Commoning Anthropology
This boasblog accompanies the 2025 conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology entitled “Un/Commoning Anthropology”, which will take place in Cologne from Sept...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Check out the proposals for the handbook project discussed in today's panel “Accompanied Research” at: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...
New on U/C A – Plenary Session III Un/Commoning Anthropology: "Digital (Un)Commoning as Ethnographic Praxis" by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
September 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
New on U/C A – Plenary Session III Un/Commoning Anthropology: "Digital (Un)Commoning as Ethnographic Praxis" by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – More-than-human Un/Commoning: "The Relational Paths Of Water: Wayuu Women Positioning Collective Relationships Around Water In La Guajira, Colombia" by Astrid Ulloa Cubillos, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
September 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
New on U/C A – More-than-human Un/Commoning: "The Relational Paths Of Water: Wayuu Women Positioning Collective Relationships Around Water In La Guajira, Colombia" by Astrid Ulloa Cubillos, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "The Price to Pay for a Racialized Labor Market is Health: Depletion and Restless Bodies among EU-2 Migrant Workers" by A. Valentina Moraru, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
September 30, 2025 at 6:23 AM
New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "The Price to Pay for a Racialized Labor Market is Health: Depletion and Restless Bodies among EU-2 Migrant Workers" by A. Valentina Moraru, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Un/Commoning Foodways: "Urban Super Food vs. Rural Staple Food. (Re)discovering Ragi in Bangalore and South Karnataka" by Jasmin Lasslop, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
Boasblogs • Urban Super Food vs. Rural Staple Food
Einleitung Im Jahr 2023 setzte der G20-Gipfel in Neu-Delhi ein bemerkenswertes Signal. Anstelle des üblichen, fleischlastigen Menüs entschied sich Premierminister Narendra Modi für ein rein vegetarisc...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
New on U/C A – Un/Commoning Foodways: "Urban Super Food vs. Rural Staple Food. (Re)discovering Ragi in Bangalore and South Karnataka" by Jasmin Lasslop, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Commoning Museum and University: "Dialogues of Display and Dissertation. Reflections on a Doctorate in the Museum" by Katharina Nowak, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
September 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM
New on U/C A – Commoning Museum and University: "Dialogues of Display and Dissertation. Reflections on a Doctorate in the Museum" by Katharina Nowak, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Commoning Museum and University: "Ethnologische Museen als Orte affekthistorischer Forschung" von Carl Deußen, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
New on U/C A – Commoning Museum and University: "Ethnologische Museen als Orte affekthistorischer Forschung" von Carl Deußen, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – More-than-Human Un/Commoning: "Uncommoning conservation?" by Liana Chua, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
Boasblogs • Uncommoning conservation?
In our research on orangutan conservation, my colleagues and I have often noted a fundamental tension—an uncommonality, if you will—that arises at the interface between conservation interventions and ...
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September 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New on U/C A – More-than-Human Un/Commoning: "Uncommoning conservation?" by Liana Chua, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Radical Futures: "The Futures of Deliberative Democracy. Citizens’ Assemblies as Technocratic Population Management" by Jannik Schritt, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
Boasblogs • The Futures of Deliberative Democracy
Introduction[1] Citizens’ assemblies, planning cells, consensus conferences etc.: Over the past decade these “deliberative mini-publics” have been promoted as the fix for the so-called “crisis of demo...
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September 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
New on U/C A – Radical Futures: "The Futures of Deliberative Democracy. Citizens’ Assemblies as Technocratic Population Management" by Jannik Schritt, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Authoritarian Publics: "Authoritarian Publics. Anthropological Perspectives on the New Right in Germany" by Nitzan Shoshan, Mario Krämer, Konstanze N’Guessan & Simone Pfeifer, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
Boasblogs • Authoritarian Publics
In recent years, right-wing politics and discourses have gained substantial traction in Germany, mirroring broader trends across Europe and globally. While anthropological research has focused on far-...
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September 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
New on U/C A – Authoritarian Publics: "Authoritarian Publics. Anthropological Perspectives on the New Right in Germany" by Nitzan Shoshan, Mario Krämer, Konstanze N’Guessan & Simone Pfeifer, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Re/Commoning Cultural Heritage: "The Songs of My Grandparents, the Heritage of My People. The Creation of a Huni Kuin Song Archive between the Sacred Secret and the Struggle of Remembering" by Felix Uhl, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... 'DGSKA2025
Boasblogs • The Songs of My Grandparents, the Heritage of My People
The idea of commoning evokes notions of openness, of transparency, sharing and solidarity. Often, we anthropologists share these ideals as we work together with our project partners and interlocutors ...
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September 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
New on U/C A – Re/Commoning Cultural Heritage: "The Songs of My Grandparents, the Heritage of My People. The Creation of a Huni Kuin Song Archive between the Sacred Secret and the Struggle of Remembering" by Felix Uhl, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... 'DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Commoning Knowledge: "How to Open-Access in Social and Cultural Anthropology?" by Kathleen Heft. boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
Boasblogs • How to Open-Access in Social and Cultural Anthropology?
Open Access: A Question of Discipline? In many disciplinary contexts, the decision of whether to publish open access or not is primarily a question of reputation, impact and financing. Is the journal ...
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September 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New on U/C A – Commoning Knowledge: "How to Open-Access in Social and Cultural Anthropology?" by Kathleen Heft. boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025