Book Review: Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change
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Book Review: Social Division and Later Life: Difference, Diversity and Inequality
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Book Review: Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship and Personhood
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Book Review: Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
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Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Conceptualization of Ageing in India
Through a mapping of field data collected from two parts of India: Hisar in North India and Hyderabad in South India, this paper looks at the ways in which reproductive decline and ageing have become part of the discourse on assisted reproduction in In…
For Whom Does the Clock Tick?: Male Repro-Temporality in Fertility Campaigns, Scientific Literature, and Commercial Accounts
Sperm swimming in circles or a lone sperm cell with two heads: male reproductive aging is increasingly equated with poor sperm quality, the prevalence of offspring learning disabilities even schizophrenia. To discuss the construction of a male biologic…
Knowing and Not Knowing about Fertility: Childless Women and Age-Related Fertility Decline
Knowledge claims may play an essential role in reproductive decision-making, as individuals seek out, assess, reject, and use information about health and fertility gathered from numerous sources. This paper focuses specifically on childless women’s se…
Introduction. Contending with the Hourglass: Time, Reproduction, and the Problematization of Ageing
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When Does Fertility End? The Timing of Tubal Ligations and Hysterectomies, and the Meaning of Menopause
We applied a biocultural lens to examine the temporal order of biological, behavioral, and medical events related to fertility across the female reproductive lifespan in three sites, two in Mexico and one in the United States. Using a mixed-method des…
Smith, Jason E. 2020. Smart Machines and Service Work. Automation in an Age of Stagnation. London: Reaktion Books.
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Debugging the Techno-Utopian Myth of Predictive Policing
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
Reviewed by Anthony Ballas, University of Colorado at Denver Madina Tlostanova. What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 145 pp. Although the days of socialist realis…
32 | 2021 – Knowledge in Common and the Diversification of Scientific Fields in the Ottoman Worlds: Diffusion, Actors, Epistemologies
Knowledge in Common and the Diversification of Scientific Fields in the Ottoman Worlds: Diffusion, Actors, Epistemologies [Full text]
Philippe Bourmaud and Aude Aylin de Tapia
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32 | 2021 – Knowledge in Common and the Diversification of Scientific Fields in the Ottoman Worlds
Knowledge in Common and the Diversification of Scientific Fields in the Ottoman Worlds: Diffusion, Actors, Epistemologies [Full text]
Philippe Bourmaud and Aude Aylin de Tapia
Communauté …
32 | 2021 – Savoirs en commun et diversification des domaines scientifiques dans les mondes ottomans
Knowledge in Common and the Diversification of Scientific Fields in the Ottoman Worlds: Diffusion, Actors, Epistemologies [Full text]
Philippe Bourmaud and Aude Aylin de Tapia
Communauté …
Òṣòròmọ̀nìgà
Cinematically, Yoruba filmmakers represent different aspects of the Nigerian nation and various elements of traditional cultures, customs, and praxes. In particular, they pay close attention to the influences of supernatural powers and metaphysical age…
Digitising folktales
Digitisation has altered and reinvented the fabric of African folklore, redefining the concept of the audience and the performance, as well as the audience-performer relationship. These reconfigurations have raised questions regarding the capacities of…
Murmurations: A Conversation Between Sarah Friedland and Tess Takahashi on CROWDS
by Sarah Friedland and Tess Takahashi Featured Image: Still from Sarah Friedland, CROWDS, Channel 1. Curator´s note by Almudena Escobar López: Sarah Friedland and Tess Takahashi have been in dialogue since they met at the “moving.media@brown” conferenc…
Introduction / Issue 32 Rest and the Rest: The Aesthetics of Idleness
Artwork by contributor Nina Luostarinen. For Issue 30, the editorial board of InVisible Culture is honored to present a special introduction by Dr. Jean Ma. “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do,” the old saying goes, or in another vers…
Contributors / Issue 32: Rest and the Rest: The Aesthetics of Idleness
Irene Alcubilla Troughton is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University within the Acting Like a Robot Project, where she researches on what theatre has to offer to the development of human-robot interaction and the design of robot behavior. She holds two R…
Cultivating (In)attention, Listening to Noise
by Emily Bock Featured image: Chantal Regnault, Legendary Voguer Willi Ninja wearing a Thierry Mugler body piece, 1989. Photo courtesy of the photographer. For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to …
Cracks of Productivity: The Vitality of the “flesh” in Danzad Malditos
By Irene Alcubilla Troughton “Are we not in awe of this piece of flesh called our “body,” of this aching meat called our “self” expressing the abject and simultaneously divine potency of life?” —Rosi Braidotti1 Introduction Idleness is usually seen as …
The House That Ghosts Built (And Mediums Performed)
By Paula Vilaplana de Miguel Featured image: Seances, a popular entertainment in the late 19th century, under a red light. *The following work acknowledges that the phenomenon of haunting is neither uniquely Western nor exclusively related to the Spiri…
Dolce far niente, Ärjä
by Nina Luostarinen Ärjä island is known for its long sand beaches, high shoreline cliffs and deep pine forests. The island is a geomorphically important ridge island on the Oulujärvi ridgeline in Kainuu area, Finland. Its cultural history includes anc…
Apis Mellifera: Towards an Ecoaesthetics of Stillness
By Michał Krawczyk Humanity became the major geo-shifting force on the planet. The current epoch of the Anthropocene sadly affirms our disrupting engagement with the more-than-human world.1 The rates of endangerment among mammals, birds, reptiles, amph…