Lectures

April 29, 2020

Silent Spring in Europe calls for a New Social Ecology

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

Deserted streets in Rome, empty dance-halls in Berlin, died-out tourist attractions in Barcelona, and a lonely Eiffel-Tower in Paris: Europe is experiencing its first locked-down spring. It marks an experiential as well as a paradoxical break in our everyday lives. On the one hand, Covid-19 has emerged as a brutal, tragic and unquestionable fact within world society. On the other …

Features

July 2, 2018

Respect, care, and labor in collaborative scholarly projects

As members of Somatosphere’s Editorial Collaborative, we have been following the unfolding crisis surrounding Hau with profound concern (Agro 2018, Flaherty 2018). As others have noted, this crisis has revealed multiple structural issues that deserve intense engagement beyond the specifics of the individual case: open-access (OA), digital scholarship and publication, yes, but also academic power, precarity, and vulnerability; …

Features

June 15, 2016

Storage and stockpiling as techniques of preparedness: Managing the bottlenecks of flu pandemics

By Frédéric Keck

This article is part of the series: After the End of Disease

In the last twenty years, influenza has been considered by global health experts as a model for the emergence of new pathogens from animal reservoirs. In the logic of zoonoses, human disease is the tip of the iceberg constituted by a wide circulation of viruses – often asymptomatic – in animals; it is often described as an “evolutionary dead-end”. As …

Books

February 12, 2016

Fernando Vidal’s and Nélia Dias’s Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture

By Frédéric Keck

Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture

By Fernando Vidal and Nélia Dias (editors)

Routledge, 2016, 264 pages

What do natural reserves, botanical and zoological parks, anthropology museums and department of linguistics have in common? They all describe their objects as endangered beings. The series of essays collected by Fernando Vidal and Nélia Dias start from this diagnosis. If there is a contemporary …

Announcements

July 8, 2014

Call for candidates: one-year fellowship at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France (Paris)

By Frédéric Keck

The Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, based at the Collège de France in Paris, will hire a researcher for a one-year post-doctoral contract starting 1st January 2015 to study the perception of animal diseases in Australia.

This position takes part to the project « Social representations of pathogens at the frontiers between species », sponsored by the Axa Research Fund and led …

Announcements

March 5, 2014

Call for candidates : one year fellowship at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France (Paris)

By Frédéric Keck

The Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, based at the Collège de France in Paris, will hire a researcher for a one-year post-doctoral contract starting 1st September 2014 to study the perception of animal diseases in southeast Asia (including China, India and Indonesia).

This position takes part to the project « Social representations of pathogens at the frontiers between species », sponsored by …

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Author Archives: Frédéric Keck

Silent Spring in Europe calls for a New Social Ecology

Respect, care, and labor in collaborative scholarly projects

Storage and stockpiling as techniques of preparedness: Managing the bottlenecks of flu pandemics

Fernando Vidal’s and Nélia Dias’s Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture

Call for candidates: one-year fellowship at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France (Paris)

Call for candidates : one year fellowship at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France (Paris)