Somatosphere

14/05/2023

Robert Dingwall reviews the memoir of French sociologist Edgar Morin: Leçons d’un siècle de vie (Pluriel: 2022):

http://somatosphere.net/2023/edgar-morins-lecons-dun-siecle-de-vie.html/

16/03/2023

Diffracting Trauma in the Global South between biology and culture / Difractar La Noción de Trauma en el Sur Global entre biología y cultura by Benjamin Hegarty, Stephanie Lloyd and Maurizio Meloni:

"On 22 November 2022, 14 international scholars met, both online and in-person, at Deakin University in Melbourne to consider the present state of biological and cultural research on trauma and its distribution in the Global South." Read more about it here:

http://somatosphere.net/2023/diffracting-trauma-in-the-global-south-between-biology-and-culture-difractar-la-nocion-de-trauma-en-el-sur-global-entre-biologia-y-cultura.html/

10/01/2023

We’re very pleased to announce that a new collective editorial team based in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King's College London will be taking on the editorship of soon! Watch this space for more details.

29/11/2022

In the final piece in the "Writing Life" series, Natashe Lemos Dekker speaks with Ruth Behar about home, ethnography, and writing in different genres.

Edited by Anna Harris and Denielle Elliott, "Writing Life" focuses on the craft of writing in the social studies of medicine.

Image 1: One of Ruth’s writing spaces filled with family and childhood photos, art and objects that inspire her and that are filled with memories. On the laptop screen in my home in Amsterdam, the …

10/10/2022

Valle Bruno Latour (1947 - 2022)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/09/bruno-latour-french-philosopher-anthropologist-dies

04/10/2022

"The emergence of multimorbidity as a matter of concern" by Esca van Blarikom, Deborah Swinglehurst, and Nina Fudge:

"Multimorbidity increasingly forms the lens through which the public health community views the growing burden of population ill-health. As such, it holds a promise of breaking through long-established silos in care... However, that promise is doomed to fail unless care services address the radical challenge that multimorbidity presents regarding the way bodies have been conceptualised in biomedicine: as containers for diseases."

http://somatosphere.net/2022/the-emergence-of-multimorbidity-as-a-matter-of-concern.html/

04/10/2022

The Department of Anthropology at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Medical Anthropology at the level of Assistant Professor.

30/06/2022

In the 19th piece in the "Writing Life" series, a conversation between Sean M. Muller and Jason Pine, author of The Art of Making Do in Naples (2012) and The Alchemy of M**h: A Decomposition (2019).

http://somatosphere.net/2022/writing-life-jason-pine-sean-muller.html/

Figure 1 (Jason): Writing is painful for me. I do TRX Suspension Training with an amazing online and affordable personal trainer/physical therapist (email me and I’ll give you his number) to correc…

30/06/2022

"Radical Harm Reduction and the Responsibility of a World" by Jarrett Zigon, part of the "Reducing Harm Responsibly" series:

http://somatosphere.net/2022/radical-harm-reduction-responsibility-work-zigon.html/

30/06/2022

Techno-geographies of digital phenotyping in mental health research by Jessy Williams and Jessica Pykett

http://somatosphere.net/2022/techno-geographies-digital-phenotyping-mental-health-williams-pykett.html/

30/06/2022

On the Power and Nourishment of Multidisciplinary Inquiry: Remembering Adele H. Hite by Nutrire CoLab

http://somatosphere.net/2022/on-the-power-and-nourishment-of-multidisciplinary-inquiry-remembering-adele-h-hite.html/

21/04/2022

Somatosphere is seeking an editor or small editorial group to begin a 5-year term on September 1, 2022. Applicants should be active researchers in medical anthropology or a neighboring discipline in the social sciences or humanities of health and medicine. Prior editorial experience is highly desirable, as is some familiarity with digital communications and publication platforms. Applicants should have a clear and original editorial vision for the website. This position requires institutional support. Those interested in applying for the position should send an inquiry to current Somatosphere editor Eugene Raikhel ([email protected]) for more details about the selection process and details concerning time-commitments and levels of institutional support.

01/04/2022

Up now: the "Interrogating Speculative Futures" workshop report from Els Roding, Natashe Lemos Dekker, & Natassia Brenman:

http://somatosphere.net/2022/workshop-report-speculative-futures.html/

In 1992 Nancy Munn argued anthropological research should pay more attention to people’s lived realities of time. Since then, we have seen time and temporalities grow into a much-studied topic in a…

25/03/2022

Latest in our series from Catherine Larocque, Thomas Foth and Wendy Gifford, on the "humanitarian paradox" in Canadian harm reduction NGOs:

http://somatosphere.net/2022/unequal-value-lives-harm-reduction-drug-use-ngos-canada.html/

18/03/2022

"In the hospital, we are all equally captive to smell." New piece up now from Cristina A. Pop on the power of smell to reveal social relations (and more!):

http://somatosphere.net/2022/smellscapes-cristina-pop.html/

17/03/2022

Latest in our series, a conversation between Basit Kareem Iqbal and Stefania Pandolfo:

http://somatosphere.net/2022/writing-life-stefania-pandolfo-basit-kareem-iqbal.html/

08/03/2022

A final piece in the "Chronic Living" series: Aditya Bharadwaj on chronic looping, temporality, illness, and experience: http://somatosphere.net/2022/chronic-time-afflicted-lives.html/

08/03/2022

In the Journals, February 2022 - Anna Zogas covers Cultural Anthropology, Social Science and Medicine, Transcultural Psychiatry and others: https://somatosphere.net/2022/in-the-journals-february-2022.html/

08/03/2022

Barbara Pieta reviews Annette Leibing & Silke Schicktanz's "Preventing Dementia?" (Berghahn Books, 2020):

http://somatosphere.net/2022/book-review-preventing-dementia-leibing-schicktanz-pieta.html/

Preventing Dementia? Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age Edited by Annette Leibing and Silke Schicktanz Berghahn Books, 2020. 268 pages In their recently published edit…

28/02/2022

Today we're pleased to publish Richard Keller's essay "Memorializing Death in an Age of Mass Mortality: Keywords of Covid-19" - on (not) counting, valuing, memorializing, and grieving pandemic deaths in the US and elsewhere:

http://somatosphere.net/2022/memorializing-death-mass-mortality-covid-keller.html/

24/02/2022

In the first piece of the "Reducing Harm Responsibly" series, "Incarceration as Harm Reduction: The realities of lethal street-based opioid overdoses in neoliberal Philadelphia," Tali Ziv describes how the court system can operate as a site of harm reduction for drug users: http://somatosphere.net/2022/incarceration-harm-reduction-neoliberal-philadelphia-ziv.html/

24/02/2022

Earlier this month we launched our new series, "Reducing Harm Responsibly" from editors Johannes Lenhard & Eana Meng on the "ideological and political paradox at the heart of debates about the theory and practice of contemporary drug policies": http://somatosphere.net/2022/introduction-reducing-harm-responsibly.html/

24/02/2022

Up now: Writing Life No. 17 - a conversation between Aarushie Sharma & Stacy Leigh Pigg on dreaming, ethnographic expression, accessibility, and graphic ethnography:
http://somatosphere.net/2022/writing-life-stacy-leigh-pigg-aarushie-sharma.html/