Scientific journals are expected to do a lot of different things. They are often identified with both the cumulative and the present state of knowledge possessed by scientific communities.
A cultural history of yoga’s development in South Asia shows how the body has been implicated in the politics of nationalism, science and medicine throughout the 20th century.
Abstract: The Franco regime (Dictatorship regime from 1939 to 1975) had a highly distinctive vision of what “science” should be, in sharp contrast to the views of the former Second Spanish Republican regime (the democratic regime from 1931 to 1939, surrendered after the Spanish C
“Audit culture” has become a common – and extremely useful – rubric for capturing an ensemble of emergent ideologies, languages, documents, measures, and consequences within our academic worlds.
What happens if we take ‘eating’ as a model of what it is to know, to act and/or to relate? This is the research project that Mol currently works on with the Eating Bodies in Practice and Theory team. This project takes a fresh look at what it is to eat. What, in practice, are t
The third lecture of the Provost's Forums on the Public University and the Social Good features Alessandro Duranti, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA, who will speak on:
The University of California Press has this year launched an Open Access mega-journal – Collabra – with unique revenue-sharing features, and a modular approach to disciplines and communities within this infrastructure.
Tracing Lines is a trans-disciplinary and inter-medial reflection on the concept of the US-Mexico border that is framed and reframed. Montezemolo’s talk will examine the geopolitical framing of the border — with a particular emphasis on her fieldwork experience be
Abstract: Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with a Catholic scientific project in Peru, this article examines the creation of lead exposure studies in the Andean city of La Oroya, home to South America's largest poly-metallic smelter.
