Der Bartgeier
by Jake Goetz
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Intertwining research and field notes, this poem traces the complex relationship between humans and the bone-eating Alpine bird, the bearded vulture. ...Recycling Cultures in India: Studying Electronic and Textile Waste
19 minutes
At our home in Delhi’s National Capital Region (NCR) in India, I often wake up in the morning to the calls of street vendors. Many of them are experts...How We Got Here
by Rowan Deer
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Perhaps all I’m good for, at my age, is telling stories. I’ve told many in my time, long and textured and short and cryptic, some that tuck themselves...
(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Conversation with Davide Orsini
by Davide Orsini and Uwe Lübken
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Launched in March 2025, Davide’s Volkswagen Foundation Change! project seeks to foster research collaborations between academic and nonacademic partne...Puppets at the Hands of Water: Sex Workers in Mongla, Bangladesh
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On a summer afternoon in 2022, I made the long drive from Jessore to Mongla, a port city in southern Bangladesh. My route took me through Bangladesh’s...Step Away
by Kata Beilin
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The time of hard-earned success had arrived, and Eve was receiving more invitations to give presentations than she could possibly accept. Her salary h...Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix
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Early September 2024: When, on the morning of my third day in Venice, I wake and grab my phone to check the weather app, I am met by the same orange b...The Nutmeg’s Curse
by Amitav Ghosh
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The story of The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021) begins almost exactly 400 years ago, in a very faraway place—so far away that very few of you are likely...Walking a Sicilian River
by Paolo Gruppuso and Erika Garozzo
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On the sandy shoreline of eastern Sicily, the Simeto River meets the Ionian Sea against the dramatic backdrop of the volcano Etna. Groves of reeds sur...Organic Farming in Thailand: A Conversation with Judith Bopp
by Judith Bopp and Mascha Gugganig
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Judith’s background in cultural geography and (eco)linguistics, and Mascha’s training in sociocultural anthropology, and science and technology studie...“Everybody Talks About the Weather”
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One summer day in 1966, the 23-year-old secretary Margot Müller was serving coffee at the McCann advertising agency’s Frankfurt office. In the confere...Stew of the Earth
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Besides the leaves that a bag gathers, all you need for a cup of tea is hot water, and in the town of Furnas the earth boils it directly. I ...