Spring is only slowly arriving here in our parts of Europe, but it is March nonetheless. This month offered fewer new journal issues than was the case in previous years.
BioSocieties has recently started publishing open access articles. The latest of these is Hannah Landecker’s Food as exposure: Nutritional epigenetics and the new metabolism. In her article, Landecker discusses …
The Association of Africanists in Germany e.V. (Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland) has extended their call for abstracts for their 2012 conference on Embattled Spaces/Contested Orders in Cologne, Germany. Not all of the panels will be held in English; however, several of them specifically request applicants to hand in abstracts in English. Topics of panels range from governance, language and …
The July issue of Health contains a surprising article by Gwendolyn Blue and Melanie Rock of the University of Toronto on “the intermingling of animal and human bodies”. In Trans-biopolitics: Complexity in interspecies relations the authors introduce a framework on global thinking about human-animal power relations with a special focus on zoonotic diseases.
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