de.hypothesesApr 10

How do photographs and films produced by repressive regimes change once the regimes themselves collapse?

Natalija Arlauskaitė views archives not as neutral repositories, but as visual systems of knowledge, power, and loyalty. Focusing on artistic practices of de- and re-archiving, she analyzes how images participate in the production of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship.

https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2579

#VisualHistory #Gulag #PostSovietStudies #DecenteredArchive #hypoverse

How to Look at File Photographs: Archive, Optical Citizenship, and Documentary Art

How are film and photographic documents produced by various repressive regimes used in their own context and later reinterpreted? As a researcher in visual studies, I analyze archives and their evolution somewhat differently than...

The Decentered Archive
de.hypothesesApr 2

‘...as if roasting coffee beans until they are intensely burnt…’

A minor scribal note, left on a copy of a craft handbook ascribed to the Yemeni Rasulid ruler al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf, bears witness to a user’s engagement with craft knowledge.

While seemingly insignificant, comments such as these attest to the ongoing vibrancy of craft recipes, which continued to be used, modified, and transmitted long after first being written down, writes Leonie Böttiger 👇

https://arabicrecipes.hypotheses.org/377

#hypoverse

Roast it Like Coffee Beans: A Copyist’s Practical Tips for Ink-Making

Scholars are still reconstructing the exact process by which coffee entered the everyday life of populations across the Islamicate world, but, as Cemal Kafadar writes, “the earliest users who regularized its consumption as a social beverage, to the best of our knowledge, were Sufis in Yemen at the turn of the fifteenth century.” Coffee barely… Continue reading Roast it Like Coffee Beans: A Copyist’s Practical Tips for Ink-Making

Premodern Arabic Recipes
de.hypothesesMar 17

What does it take to become successful in academia? Publish early in a top journal, co-author with a well-known (and highly cited) scholar, and be affiliated with an elite institution. That's what the statistics say.

Sarah Lang breaks them down and reflects on her decisions, which went completely against this advice (including starting a research blog!) 👇

https://epigrammetry.hypotheses.org/6257

#Academia #hypoverse

de.hypothesesFeb 24

“Industrious” Chinese and British “drunkards and scoundrels”:

In 1908, maritime labour debates were shaped by sharp stereotypes. In the pages of The Seaman, Chinese sailors were cast as a “yellow peril” and British workers as unreliable drunkards. Michelle Watzig shows what these stereotypes reveal about the status of British seamen in the early 19th century 👇

https://ghil.hypotheses.org/7839 via #GHILondon

#MaritimeHistory #hypoverse

‘Industrious’ Chinese and British ‘Scoundrels’: Stereotypes of Asian and British Seamen in the 1908 Issues of The Seaman

Introduction: Competition on the Labour Market ‘A Carnival of Calumny’1—that was how The Seaman, the journal of the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union, described the situation facing its readers in the early twentieth century. The journal was dominated by a campaign claiming that Chinese seamen, who earned lower wages than European seafarers, were the main … Continue reading ‘Industrious’ Chinese and British ‘Scoundrels’: Stereotypes of Asian and British Seamen in the 1908 Issues of The Seaman

German Historical Institute London Blog
de.hypothesesFeb 19

"At its core the reproducibility crisis is a crisis of trust. The findings scientists publish and tout as facts, are often not replicable by others."

Nate Breznau argues that the reproducibility crisis is, at its core, a structural one - and that there is a solution: Diamond #OpenAccess weakens profit driven publishing, supports more ethical research, and improves the knowledge base of generative AI 👇

https://crowdid.hypotheses.org/2144

#DiamondOA #PublishOrPerish #hypoverse

The path toward ethical science is paved with diamonds

I discuss why diamond open access is necessary to reduce perverse incentives in science, and to improve the outputs of Gen AI. Over the last two decades awareness of a Reproducibility Crisis penetrated all scientific disciplines. Studies recently showed that 90% in STEM and 95% in psychology were aware of this Crisis1,2. At its core … Continue reading The path toward ethical science is paved with diamonds

Crowdid
de.hypothesesFeb 12

"They call it efficiency. We call it violence."

In this episode, Leona Ogrisek and Philippa Kaufmann take a look at Australia's practice of offshoring asylum seekers to the island of Nauru. Listen to the student-led podcast, which the producers envisage as part of the fictional "Capital Crimes" podcast series about systemic violence.

🎧 https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/610

#SeminarBlog #HumanitarianSeas #Australia #Asylum #dehypoPodcast #hypoverse

de.hypothesesFeb 11

Sociologists tend to be politically left-leaning. Is this a problem?

Read Nate Breznau's thoughts on politics and the scientific method, and why following the scientific method does not preclude ethical problems 👇

https://crowdid.hypotheses.org/2097

#Sociology #hypoverse

Sociologists tend to be left politically. Is this a problem?

In the Tuskegee Experiment, the scientific method was followed carefully. But the scientific method alone does not guarantee that humans are safe from, and or have equal access to participate in, science. The participants were deceived and treatment for their disease was withheld. Unethical and abusive.

Crowdid
de.hypothesesFeb 10

Switzerland is often portrayed as a neutral and "raceless" society - but in reality, racism in Switzerland was simply invisible after 1945. Racial knowledge defined who was deemed assimilable and who was excluded, while the Swiss state ignored and eliminated racism from contemporary awareness and history, writes Nicolas Blumenthal 👇

https://migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179

#MigrantKnowledge #GHIWashington #HistoryOfMigration #Migration #Switzerland #hypoverse

Challenging “Racelessness:” Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland 

Discusses deportation practices in Switzerland since World War II

Migrant Knowledge
de.hypothesesJan 30

After Kamala Harris’s defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 election, many people concerned with equality in the United States have been asking: “What now?”

Rachel Marie Davis examines feminism in Trump’s second term. She looks at how feminists responded to Trump over the past decade, which strategies failed to connect with the wider public, and what progressive leaders can learn from these experiences 👇

https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/6683

#hypoverse #Trump #Feminism #AmericanStudies

Feminist Politics and Resistance in the Trump 2.0 Era

by Rachel Marie Davis Introduction Following the 2024 electoral loss of Kamala Harris to Donald Trump, the question “so, what...

HCA Graduate Blog
de.hypothesesJan 23

Rising seas threaten the Pacific Islands with a sovereignty crisis that is unprecedented in international law. Rejecting being framed as "climate refugees", Pacific Islanders insist on their agency as nations fighting for survival rather than as victims awaiting rescue.

When territory disappears, what happens to statehood?

https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/449

#PacificIslands #RisingSeas #InternationalLaw #Sovereignty #hypoverse

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