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New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Some Joys and Sorrows of Co-Producing Knowledge with Ethnographic Collections" by Gertrud Boden boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "’How Can your Research Benefit our Community?’: How a Multilingual Research Dissemination Booklet Emerged" by Julia Brekl boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Writing (Un)comfortably: Collaborating and Co-Producing Knowledge in Times of Crisis and Distance" by Cathrine Bublatzky boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "The Intimate Relations of Creating Knowledge Together" by Alestine Andre & Franz Krause boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Restitution and Reparation: A Collaborative Blueprint for Justice" by Valence Valerian Meriki Silayo boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "Whose Health? Recruiting Vietnamese Nursing Trainees into a German Healthcare Sector in Crisis" by Edda Willamowski boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Un/Commoning Migration: "Do We Still Need Migration Studies as We Share a Common Planet? Towards Decolonising Migration Research Through New Vernaculars and Theories" by Friedemann Yi-Neumann, Karim Zafer & Souleymane Diallo boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Re/Commoning Cultural Heritage: "Practices of (Re)Commoning at the Industrial Heritage Site Cerro Rico and Mining Tourism in Potosí, Bolivia" by Lars-Michael Schacht boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "Reframing Syphilis in an Extreme Climate Event: Tensions Between Epidemiological Surveillance and Primary Care" by Eduardo Zanella, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "‘Training Citizens for Universal Health?’ An Ethnographic Account of a Public Health School in the Lao People‘s Democratic Republic" by Amelie Katczynski, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Commoning Knowledge: "Vom ‚Nachleben‘ der Daten. Digitale ethnografische Forschungsdaten archivieren – und dann?" by Sabine Imeri & Michaela Rizzolli, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Boasblogs • Un/Commoning Anthropology This boasblog accompanies the 2025 conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology entitled “Un/Commoning Anthropology”, which will take place in Cologne from Sept...

Check out the proposals for the handbook project discussed in today's panel “Accompanied Research” at: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...

New on U/C A – Plenary Session III Un/Commoning Anthropology: "Digital (Un)Commoning as Ethnographic Praxis" by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – More-than-human Un/Commoning: "The Relational Paths Of Water: Wayuu Women Positioning Collective Relationships Around Water In La Guajira, Colombia" by Astrid Ulloa Cubillos, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "The Price to Pay for a Racialized Labor Market is Health: Depletion and Restless Bodies among EU-2 Migrant Workers" by A. Valentina Moraru, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Boasblogs • Urban Super Food vs. Rural Staple Food Einleitung Im Jahr 2023 setzte der G20-Gipfel in Neu-Delhi ein bemerkenswertes Signal. Anstelle des üblichen, fleischlastigen Menüs entschied sich Premierminister Narendra Modi für ein rein vegetarisc...

New on U/C A – Un/Commoning Foodways: "Urban Super Food vs. Rural Staple Food. (Re)discovering Ragi in Bangalore and South Karnataka" by Jasmin Lasslop, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Commoning Museum and University: "Dialogues of Display and Dissertation. Reflections on a Doctorate in the Museum" by Katharina Nowak, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Commoning Museum and University: "Ethnologische Museen als Orte affekthistorischer Forschung" von Carl Deußen, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Boasblogs • Uncommoning conservation? In our research on orangutan conservation, my colleagues and I have often noted a fundamental tension—an uncommonality, if you will—that arises at the interface between conservation interventions and ...

New on U/C A – More-than-Human Un/Commoning: "Uncommoning conservation?" by Liana Chua, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Boasblogs • The Futures of Deliberative Democracy Introduction[1] Citizens’ assemblies, planning cells, consensus conferences etc.: Over the past decade these “deliberative mini-publics” have been promoted as the fix for the so-called “crisis of demo...

New on U/C A – Radical Futures: "The Futures of Deliberative Democracy. Citizens’ Assemblies as Technocratic Population Management" by Jannik Schritt, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Boasblogs • Authoritarian Publics In recent years, right-wing politics and discourses have gained substantial traction in Germany, mirroring broader trends across Europe and globally. While anthropological research has focused on far-...

New on U/C A – Authoritarian Publics: "Authoritarian Publics. Anthropological Perspectives on the New Right in Germany" by Nitzan Shoshan, Mario Krämer, Konstanze N’Guessan & Simone Pfeifer, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Boasblogs • The Songs of My Grandparents, the Heritage of My People The idea of commoning evokes notions of openness, of transparency, sharing and solidarity. Often, we anthropologists share these ideals as we work together with our project partners and interlocutors ...

New on U/C A – Re/Commoning Cultural Heritage: "The Songs of My Grandparents, the Heritage of My People. The Creation of a Huni Kuin Song Archive between the Sacred Secret and the Struggle of Remembering" by Felix Uhl, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... 'DGSKA2025

Boasblogs • How to Open-Access in Social and Cultural Anthropology? Open Access: A Question of Discipline? In many disciplinary contexts, the decision of whether to publish open access or not is primarily a question of reputation, impact and financing. Is the journal ...

New on U/C A – Commoning Knowledge: "How to Open-Access in Social and Cultural Anthropology?" by Kathleen Heft. boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

NEW boasblog "Co-Producing Knowledge"
"Co-Productive Research in Contested Fields" by Mario Krämer.
Is it possible to co-produce knowledge in politically contested fields?
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Out now!
The boasblog: "Who’s afraid of anti-racism?"
A roundtable explores anthropology’s colonial legacies, resistance to anti-racist initiatives, and how to build a discipline committed to justice and inclusion.

Give it a look:
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Latest on the boasblog Un/Commoning Migration:
Un/commoning Migration Studies and Decolonization as Distinction.
The AG Migration reflects on borders, divides, and how to rethink Migration Studies beyond colonial legacies.

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New blog on "Un/Commoning Migration"!
"Multilingual as decolonial practice: ethnographic experiments of an anthropologist between Brazil and Italy" by Letizia “Tita” Patriarca

Take a look at:
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Boasblogs • Rethinking Collaboration in Social Anthropology Introduction The shift from extractive to collaborative models of knowledge production is about redefining the ethics and politics thereof, especially in North–South relations, interdisciplinary resea...

🌍 New on Co-Producing Knowledge:
“Rethinking Collaboration in Social Anthropology” by Lamine Doumbia, Peter Narh & Drissa Tangara ✍️
From extractive to collaborative models—rethinking ethics & politics of #KnowledgeProduction in North–South relations & African studies.
👉 boasblogs.org/coproducingk...

🚀 Our new blog “Co-Producing Knowledge” is live!
co-edited by Ute Dieckmann, Gerda Kuiper, @simonepfeifer.bsky.social and
Hauke-Peter Vehrs.

Collaborative anthropology – with new posts every Tuesday.

Read the intro 👉 boasblogs.org/coproducingk...

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Boasblogs • Reimagining Colonial Archives: The LEAKY ARCHIVE Project at Cologne’s Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum   In an era where museums worldwide are grappling with their colonial legacies, Germany’s Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (RJM) in Cologne embarked in 2022-2023 on a digital initiative that challenged...

Read more: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/commoning-knowledge/reimagining-colonial-archives-the-leaky-archive-project-at-colognes-rautenstrauch-joest-museum