SAH Commons | Felicity Callard | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/felicitycallard/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Felicity Callard is a member. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:48:39 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3ed9a675309a0f5e0353d3db4bdefe10 Meredith Lynn Goldsmith started the topic NEH Virtual Convening: Collaborating beyond the Humanities (Health Humanities) in the forum Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/forum/topic/neh-virtual-convening-collaborating-beyond-the-humanities-health-humanities/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:26:41 -0500 Dear colleagues, I write to invite you a virtual convening sponsored by the NEH Division of Education Programs. More information below:

“Collaborating Beyond the Humanities”

The Education Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities fosters curricular innovation through its grant programs, including the Humanities Connections pro…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd4bf7355a21804cfd27bae1569d7fe3 John Mark R. Asio deposited Comparative Analysis of the In-House Review (Revalida) Program and the Student's Performance in the Licensure Examination for Midwives: Inputs for Program Enhancement in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1903330/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:00:02 -0400 This paper aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the in-house review (Revalida) program among midwifery graduates of batch 2022 in the previous licensure board exams for midwives last 2023. This study used a descriptive-comparative research design. One hundred thirty-five graduate midwives participated voluntarily in the study using a purposive…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8a73dc8713266e2a7df41091b0d979c Valeria Graziano deposited Training for Exploitation?: Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902280/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:49 -0400 Foreword by Silvia Federici. ‘Training for Exploitation’ provides a pedagogical framework to deconstruct dominant narratives around work, employability and careers, and explores alternative ways of engaging with work and the economy. Training for Exploitation? includes tools for critically examining the relationship between education, work and…[Read more]

]]> 0 42586d4c93f5ca19c5fa5d3cd8c62316 Ian Willis deposited Australia Day 1915 in Camden: Record-breaking Wartime Fundraiser in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897195/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:56 -0400 This blog post examines the story of mid-1915, when the Camden Patriotic Fund took over Australia Day fundraising, directing proceeds to the Red Cross for Australian wounded. Supporting the Camden Red Cross, the fund raised substantial funds through various events. Meanwhile, on a national scale, Australia Day’s significance evolved, and in 1915,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e796df87189948066df1f94cff08ac9 Ian Willis deposited Camden and the Great War in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897124/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:00:12 -0400 This presentation provides an overview of the Great War’s impact on the town of Camden, including its effects, serving overseas and on the homefront, and the collective memory of Camden and the Great War.

]]> 0 31d60db6300767eaf03cffe6cfaaaf0f Ian Willis deposited Camden Red Cross 110 Years Display: Objects and Ephemera Exhibition 2024 in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894889/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:00:54 -0400 The Camden Red Cross exhibition at Camden Library in August 2024 showcased the historical contributions of local women to the Red Cross during World Wars I and II. Women from the Camden district played a pivotal role in supporting soldiers and shaping the narrative of the Australian Red Cross, creating over 20,300 articles in 40,000 volunteer…[Read more]

]]> 0 b025c109d62ba0f4347ec6ae58810d51 Ian Willis deposited Ministering Angels, Myth and the Red Cross on the Australian Wartime Homefront in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894809/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:00:46 -0400 The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 saw thousands of women across rural Australia set up local Red Cross branches. Country women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, King and Country, while they were encouraged to see themselves as ‘ministering angels’ dutifully serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Their successes meant that by 1918…[Read more]

]]> 0 582c5faa4f1dc21419c9bc6b1ec0a4bd Ian Willis deposited ‘Guardian Angels’, the Red Cross on the wartime homefront in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894764/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:01:05 -0400 Thousands of women rallied to the call of the wife of the Governor-General and formed Red Cross branches across Australia at the outbreak of the First World War. Women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, the King and Country and were encouraged to see themselves as ‘guardian angels’ serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Local Red Cross b…[Read more]

]]> 0 1602d3d8d578295f1e61f7006e402b9e Ian Willis deposited ‘Angels Of Mercy’, The Red Cross On the Homefront During the First World War in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894761/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:00:37 -0400 This blog post examines how the Australian Red Cross mobilized women during World War I as ‘Angels of Mercy’ and ‘ministering angels’ to provide aid with a strong moral overtone. The organisation used motherhood imagery to rally support, portraying itself as the ‘Greatest Mother in the World’. This approach effectively garnered community backing…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bbe4207d2d02a8f4c38a980eac41410 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Goitres, Worms, and Haemorrhoids: Geographical Localisation of Endemic Diseases in Classical Āyurveda in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890603/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:06:25 -0400 As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

]]> 0 24c31d99011cf9444e0f0684dba48bac Anthony Cerulli deposited “Always Already Theorizing … in the Field, Elsewhere, All at Once” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890336/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:13:00 -0400 Reflecting on his fieldwork experiences between 2003 and 2017 at the same healing center in central Kerala, in this chapter Cerulli addresses continuity and change in medical ethnographers’ awareness of themselves and the people, places, and things they study in the field. He draws on experiences in south India and in the classroom teaching a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 19321d2a1327b5904de75a16c34f3fbc Ian Willis deposited The Role of British Red Cross in NSW Wartime Front: Home Truths in Australian History in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890019/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:00:24 -0400 This blog post details a talk by Dr Ian Willis OAM that challenges myths of WWI at the 2024 Australian Historical Association conference. He examines the Australian military’s response to sick and wounded soldiers and the role of the British Red Cross. The conference aims to uncover home truths and dispel historical myths. Dr Willis’s research…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c2b29146f482d8a4920ea6cc0469bb7 Ian Willis deposited The convalescent soldier and the British Red Cross on New South Wales wartime home front in the First World War. in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889916/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:30 -0400 The sick and wounded soldier was the central actor in the performance of Red Cross care during the First World War. This paper uses Jeffrey Reznick’s ‘culture of caregiving’ in his book Healing the Nation to examine the role of the British Red Cross in New South Wales in the convalescent stage in the lines of communications in the early month…[Read more]

]]> 0 085434c45a5e5ad45a5ddc789ec61ba9 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889651/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:53 -0400 In the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6d64ae476bff0afadb04926cb34555a Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Doctors Between Civilisation and Wilderness. Medical Geography in Pre-modern South Asia in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889649/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:42 -0400 Usually theories on disease causation and treatment in early Āyurveda focus on the individual patient, his diet, and his lifestyle. There are however certain contexts, in which the locality or origin of factors jeopardising health is significant. Some climatic regions are understood to constitute more unhealthy surroundings in relation to others.…[Read more]

]]> 0 7958581dbff5d499f679578dbf5bf4bf Valeria Graziano deposited ŽIVOTNA VJEŠTINA RAJE: INSTITUCIONALNO KRPARENJE I PUČKI ILEGALIZMI (THE RABBLE’S LIFECRAFT: INSTITUTIONAL TINKERING AND POPULAR ILLEGALISMS) in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888619/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:00:25 -0400 The essay explores “institutional tinkering,” which refers to practices of disobedience and resource reappropriation that highlight the contradictions within systems or institutions. It argues that practices of institutional tinkering and popular illegalisms are critical lenses to understand power dynamics and resistance in the ongoing crisis of…[Read more]

]]> 0 126c86dc5b996732060e7e87d60ccbe5 Pramod Ranjan deposited बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा : व्यावसायिक अनुदानों की राजनीति [“Bill Gates’ visit to India: The politics of business grants.”] in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884587/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:21:52 -0400 प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा यह लेख बिल ‘गेट्स की भारत यात्रा’ पर दो भागो में लिखा गया है, पहला भाग 22 नवम्बर को और दूसरा भाग 23 नवम्बर 2002 को शिमला से प्रकाशित साध्य दैनिक अखबार भारतेन्दु शिखर में छपा है।

प्रमोद रंजन ने वर्ष 2002 में बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा के अवसर पर “छोटी चाहतों के संगीन निहितार्थ- बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा: व्यवसायिक अनुदानों…[Read more]

]]> 0 d950943051276cbae334c45b77fda716 Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Die Protokolle des cisleithanischen Ministerrates 1867–1918, VIII/1: 1914–1918, Teilband 1: 1914–1916 in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882912/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:01:16 -0400 Am 23. Juli 1914 unterrichtete Ministerpräsident Karl Stürgkh den Ministerrat Cisleithaniens von der Übergabe des österreichisch-ungarischen Ultimatums an Serbien. Am 22. November 1916 fand in der ersten Sitzung nur die „Trauerkundgebung anlässlich des Hinscheidens Sr. Majestät Kaiser Franz Joseph I.“ statt.

Die Sitzungsprotokolle des Minis…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4baa646ffb7287d7e90d25fb938c6ec Pramod Ranjan deposited संक्रामक बीमारियों के भारतीय महासागर में कोरोना कितनी जगह घेरता है? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878449/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:38 -0500 इस लेख में बताया गया है कि किसी प्रकार कोविड 19 अन्य कई बीमारियों की तुलना में बहुत कम घातक था, इसके बावजूद इसका हौव्वा बनाया गया, जिससे अफरातफरी मची और अधिक मौतें हुई। ऐसा इसलिए हुआ क्योंकि विश्व स्वास्थ संगठन ने बीमारियों से होने वाली मौतों का आंकड़ा जमा करने की विधि में कोविड के मामले में बदलाव कर दिया था।

इस लेख में आंकड़ों के साथ बताया…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ff203d2338da884c2782d612c745181 Pramod Ranjan deposited अनूपातहीन भय के कथासूत्र in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878447/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:26 -0500 इस लेख में विस्तार से बताया गया है कि किसी प्रकार कोविड 19 के बारे में अतिशयोक्तिपूर्ण सूचनाएं फैलाईं गईं, जिससे और अधिक मौतें हुई।

The article details how exaggerated information about COVID-19 was somehow deliberately spread, leading to more deaths.

]]> 0 ae059865261723cf222c8253f2c77ff9 Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड-19 का टीका: क्या हम सही सवाल पूछ पा रहे हैं? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878445/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:08 -0500 वर्ष 2021 में कोविड 19 के टीके के संबंध में काफी वाद-विवाद हुआ था।

प्रमोद रंजन इस लेख में बताते हैं कि उस समय कोविड-19 के टीके से संबंधित अनेक भ्रामक प्रश्न जनता के सामने रख दिए गए थे, जिससे चर्चा की दिशा की बदली जा सके।.

इस लेख में कहा गया है कि टीका से संबंधित असली सवाल ये तीन थे। पहला सवाल यह कि, टीकों के निर्माण और वितरण में…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d1154f20d12f544dce5c736950dd594 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874091/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:30 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

]]> 0 0693d3d59a6522a1852a4654f3d998e5 Kit Yee Wong replied to the topic Open access special issue publication in the discussion Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/forum/topic/open-access-special-issue-publication/#post-77947 Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:14:11 -0500 Apologies, the link to the WHOLE special issue (not just to the Introduction) is here:

https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/447/

Kit Yee Wong

]]> 0 4ccaf03dd2a9955532f55f6a372a9b98 Vitus Angermeier deposited Dharma and the Physicians: Ethic reflections in early Ayurvedic literature (pre-submission draft) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869006/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 03:01:17 -0500 This essay shows that physicians of early Āyurveda adopted a pragmatic approach to the challenges dharma imposed on them. While the concept and its importance is generally accepted in the medical compendia, various passages stress the fact that good health is an indispensable precondition to pursue dharma and other goals of life. In the interests…[Read more]

]]> 0 43a9b4bb13f02fc8c5bdc24d05f14e56 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Vies et renaissances des manuscrits en Asie du Sud” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868292/ Sun, 17 Dec 2023 03:00:16 -0500 article + 6 photographs from the Manuscriptistan Project

]]> 0 a93222414dbbbfc2ad5ce38227c419d9 Vitus Angermeier deposited Causes of Suffering: From the Buddha to Ayurveda (accepted manuscript) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868103/ Fri, 15 Dec 2023 03:00:27 -0500 Abstract: The causes of suffering are a central topic in Buddhism as well as in Ayurveda. The Pāli Canon and other early Buddhist texts like the Milindapañha mention eight specific causes resulting in disease or suffering at several places. In contrast, early Ayurveda, as presented in the Carakasaṃhitā, knows a threefold causal complex of dise…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfc5d8859e61b248a54712c01ea1c3f1 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865829/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 03:00:06 -0500 According to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 76a9c56a72bc8b0ca4c46a28bcc0970c Pruritus Migrans deposited 1963.11.22-12:30 in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865712/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:01:58 -0500 1963.11.22-12:30 * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

]]> 0 2b57c7f028e76bb1f3fd4b833f04edc4 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Crisis in Ancient South Asia – Concepts, Causes, Countermeasures in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862537/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 03:00:24 -0400 Although a plethora of ancient South Asian sources refer to situations that would be considered crises by modern standards, the early Sanskrit vocabulary lacks a word that we could understand as a distinct equivalent of the term “crisis” and its Greek and Latin predecessors. Nevertheless, the descriptions and discussions of personal and col…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac269ea3eb503795b9acb90e9fa7fb02 Ilana Gershon deposited Bullshit Genres: What to Watch For When Studying the New Actant ChatGPT and Its Siblings. in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861362/ Wed, 11 Oct 2023 03:00:07 -0400 I lay out what I believe ethnographers of AI who engage with large language models (LLMs) might want to pay attention to in the next couple of years.
My starting point is that it would be helpful to explore how people are responding to ChatGPT in terms of genre, that people’s reactions to ChatGPT is to treat it at its core as though it is a g…[Read more]

]]> 0 81b2a56932c8aafed1acfe036216efec Ian Willis deposited Graeme Clark, a world-famous Camden identity in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861154/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:00:13 -0400 This paper provides a background on the life and times of Graeme Clark, a founder of the area of biomedical engineering and the cochlear implant, who grew up in the small town of Camden, NSW.
The life and times of Professor Graeme Clark, the pioneer of the Cochlear Implant, are part of the Camden story. He was a local boy who made good, improved…[Read more]

]]> 0 520cb8a46e24e96dcba84d7117418bb7 Ian Willis deposited Community Workers - Colin and Dorothy Clark in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860262/ Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:00:22 -0400 This paper contributes to the history of small communities in Australia by examining the life and times of a local pharmacist and his wife in a small country town, the business they ran and their contribution to the local community. Colin and Dorothy Clark were local identities and made a significant contribution to the Camden community. Colin as…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e73c912b992a7abd667d95797a14f68 Ilana Gershon deposited Hello to Tristes Tropes in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860107/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:00:56 -0400 Just how bleak is the academic job market for anthropologists? Job ads over the past twenty years reveal some surprises and point to ways departments are seeking to change themselves and the discipline

]]> 0 e77e2c1edf36d365e9c71b24154686b7 Ilana Gershon deposited Pyramid Scheme. #hautalk in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860103/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:00:44 -0400 Pyramid Scheme. #hautalk

]]> 0 a26974b9036e4d56345dfb5a5b0d17ab Ilana Gershon deposited Studying Humanities Teaches You How to Get a Job in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860101/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:00:38 -0400 Forget the tut-tutting of politicians: The skills you learn in the humanities are exactly the skills you use in a job search.

]]> 0 11a6cb4e55de5d554c2cd7c7999cf281 Ilana Gershon deposited The quitting economy in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860099/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:00:31 -0400 The quitting economy

]]> 0 7d19ed7aa15428a252ded6236a31a155 Ilana Gershon deposited “A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860097/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:00:25 -0400 “A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

]]> 0 627cb873cbfa426b7fe9bdbf3c79cb91 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858429/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:06:18 -0400 From antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbd2093d457ad1f516169b86c003cfa0 Ilana Gershon deposited Plague Jobs: US Schismogenetic Approaches to Social Contracts in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856719/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:11:11 -0400 In this homage to David Graeber, I turn to Americans’ experiences working in person during the pandemic as an ethnographic lens for understanding how workers respond when implicit social contracts are violated and when ideas about the common good are being contested. Because the United States federal government and many state governments refused t…[Read more]

]]> 0 540088612a9ac6c7dd338e4ce42434b4 Ilana Gershon deposited Digital Economy and Labor in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856717/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:11:05 -0400 Digital Economy and Labor

]]> 0 9e37a2762fb7522c7d4fc5f4c0dc4c23 Ilana Gershon deposited New Media and Laborunlocked in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856714/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:10:56 -0400 In the early decades of the internet, many saw new channels of communication as potentially beneficial disruptions, analyzing largely through a utopic lens, albeit often with a technolibertarian bent. This did not last, and by the 2020s, scholars were increasingly pessimistic about how neoliberal logics structured the ways these technologies…[Read more]

]]> 0 93e0426843ef64b2ccfab73e9524c514 Ilana Gershon deposited The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021 in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856712/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:10:50 -0400 Every fall, some lucky anthropology departments get to hire. The search for a new colleague happens behind the scenes for a while before it goes public—five-year plans have been written, external reviews have been navigated, lots of conversations have occurred, and some pleading with a dean has taken place. But the first public hint that the d…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fb693b7b6a7d4438ed4d9ae5ac0f51c Ilana Gershon deposited Genres are the drive belts of the job market in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856710/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:10:44 -0400 Many job applicants spend an inordinate amount of time struggling with the task of fashioning the most appealing biography of the increasingly skillful self out of interwoven genres that can also circulate individually. These struggles are most frequently articulated as questions of how best to manage different genres’ chronotopic expectations. U…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd8f3c2bd559b6bbb1d4c5353586ecad Ilana Gershon deposited Genres in new economies of language in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856682/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:09:22 -0400 This article suggests that one of the understudied and substantive ways in which actors produce and transform social hierarchies and classifications is by aligning and misaligning genres. Alignments within and across genres have furnished methods for construing and evaluating qualities of people – as examples, the genre repertoires of job a…[Read more]

]]> 0 76686f522f9e85a98a9bfb32a682797b Ilana Gershon deposited Media as Channel in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856680/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:09:16 -0400 To understand how people navigate shifting media ecologies, linguistic anthropologists have turned to an array of analytical concepts that address how people communicate when using multiple channels: media ideologies, remediation, participant structures, heteroglossia, and entextualization. After demonstrating how these concepts are pertinent to…[Read more]

]]> 0 8596910ad4cb11e87ae5c179ec1de235 Ilana Gershon deposited Click for work: Rethinking work through online work distribution platforms in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856678/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:09:10 -0400 Online work distribution platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk or Uber alter how work tasks are chosen or assigned. Put succinctly, instead of the employer choosing the employee, the worker chooses the task. Responses to these new technological possibilities for distributing tasks are all deeply influenced by the contemporary historical moment,…[Read more]

]]> 0 82e5db214a8944dd80e210b2e203d8e2 Ilana Gershon deposited You got a hole in your belly and a phone in your hand: How US government phone subsidies shape the search for employment in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856676/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:09:04 -0400 Many of the tasks involved in looking for a job these days involve sharing and storing
digital data. Digital technology is now required for job seekers to research employers,
store resumes, complete applications, and schedule interviews. What is the employment
process for people who are living on the poverty line, without reliable access to…[Read more]

]]> 0 287376d5f4bd90551ac91aa92af052c8 Ilana Gershon deposited Introduction: genre work and the new economy in the group Labor Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856674/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:08:57 -0400 The special issue brings together anthropologists working at the intersection of language and economy to draw attention to the dynamics of how people’s experiences of social change are articulated through genre work in different institutional contexts. In recent years, many scholars working in cultural economy have turned to language as an a…[Read more]

]]> 0 4aa5f25c33f3874e61370e0f319cb53e Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemic Prevention. Precursors of Public Health in Early Āyurveda? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853596/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 02:24:18 -0400 Āyurveda, the predominant medical system in pre-modern South Asia, is by definition a very individualistic tradition of healing, discerning and treating the patients under special consideration of their personal constitution, diet, physical strength, habituation, character and age. Furthermore, the āyurvedic source texts show a strong commitment t…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ca8019d761a29dfecb44b0f25f6764b Vicky Brewster deposited Lesbian Lovers and Forbidden Caves: Sapphic Survival Horror in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead in the group Queer Theory Group https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852527/ Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:24:34 -0400 In 1894, Lord Alfred Douglas referred to homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name”, a phrase that describes the unmentionable nature of homosexuality in a period of time when sodomy was illegal. Even in the 21st century, there continues to be something unspeakable and forbidden about homosexuality. This paper equates the uns…[Read more]

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