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Compartimos el artículo de Raúl Necochea, "Development as Gender Equity: Women's Advocacy and Cancer Control at the Pan-American Health Organization, 1980–2000", publicado en Journal of Contemporary History. Se puede leer en: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

🎧[Editor’s Picks] El podcast "Escritura Etnográfica" explora la escritura y la publicación etnográfica en la academia. En este episodio, Mónica Cuellar y Vladimir Caraballo dialogan sobre la investigación etnográfica y los procesos de documentación. 🔗tapuya.org/resources-2/ed…

Today on Platypus Eva Steinberg asks how Mars Candy Corporations use of romance and the family shapes our understanding of plant breeding, genetics, and climate change. Read the complete post here: blog.castac.org/2026/03/love-a…

Amid the chirping crickets and the crackling of the fire, an animated peanut with a bowler hat and a white beard calls out: “Gather round my little legumes, it's story time!” (1/2)

On March 17th, WG will be hosting, "A Listening Session for Doctoral Students." We are eager to hear from doctoral students about the challenges they are facing and how we might serve them more effectively. buff.ly/CPDItUa

Read and listen to the complete post: blog.castac.org/2026/03/engine…

This week on platypus Meenakshi Mani shows that the everyday work of typically well-paid tech professionals—whether that be within specific domains like EdTech or within Big Tech—are by no means without frustration.

Good ethnographies see value in the waiting and "wasting" of time on the field.

We’re thrilled to share that Joshua Burraway’s Becoming Somebody Else: Blackouts, Addiction, and Agency amongst London’s Homeless—published by HAU Books in 2025—has received the Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology. spa.americananthro.org/prizes/boyer-p…

On March 23 the Ethnography Studio and USC will be hosting, "Infrastructural Aporia", with Dr. Marcos Lopes Campos, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), at MCB102 from 12:00 to 1:30pm. buff.ly/ICgSjZl

by framing the MPC as a platform of spatiotemporal discourse for Black expression. Read and listen to the complete post here: blog.castac.org/2026/03/hip-ho… (2/2)

This week on Platypus Jonathan Givan analyses the uptake of Akai Music Production Centre (MPC) among Black American Hip Hop producers and moves toward an ontology of Black American Hip Hop production (1/2)

What might we learn by studying science and technology through the lens of stuckness? Today, Michelle Venetucci and Shoko Yamada introduce a new series, exploring stuckness as a way to draw out structural conditions and meaning-making amongst experts: blog.castac.org/2026/03/series…

This article explains how climate crisis and ecocide are connected to colonialism and genocide, which is often left out in topics about climate crisis and why colonizers can't stop the climate crisis.

@alanschrodin Hi! No, the applications are already closed.

@CASTAC_AAA Is this Still available ?

🔎 CASTAC is still seeking applications for the Public Relations Manager role, a key board member who supports our organisation by managing social media and email communications. 🌎 Open for everyone in the world: castac.org/cfa-public-rel… 🗓️Final day to apply: February 26.

"What kinships & constellations come into view when we approach ethnography with an indifference to the boundedness of categories?" SCA Contributing Editor Poornima Rajeshwar interviews Naisargi N. Davé about her Gregory Bateson Prize winning book. culanth.org/fieldsights/in…

A high-profile assault on a New Delhi bus in 2012 led to the installation of panic buttons on city's autorickshaws. Today on Platypus, William Stafford Jr. writes about the complex interplay of suspicion, affordance, and securitization that played out: blog.castac.org/2026/02/a-prom…

Today on Platypus, Rachel Lim explores how climate‑crisis ‘emergency’ rhetoric ignores colonial roots, urging us to confront racial capitalism and extractive violence: blog.castac.org/2026/02/there-… #STS

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