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‪✍️ New year, new essay!
Are there emotions culturally specific to Germany? Julia Faulhaber (University of Tübingen) explores whether stress can be seen as a culturally embedded emotion, shaped by history, society & modern capitalism. 🔗 www.anthrometronom.com/post/is-stre... ✨ Art: Lisa Hannen
Is Stress a German Emotion?
Julia Faulhaber discusses the cultural embeddedness of stress as an emotion. Focusing on the case of Germany this essay...
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January 2, 2026 at 1:49 PM
With 2026 approaching, we extend an invitation to you to share your texts or artwork engaging with discussions at the intersection of anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry! Visit our website to find our contact form www.anthrometronom.com/contact or write us an e-mail to [email protected]!
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
✨New Essay on [anthro]metronom🌊

How do emotions, race, and power intersect in humanitarian borderwork?
In Part 2 of her essay, Melina Fischer digs deeper into the racialized and emotional dynamics of humanitarianism on Gran Canaria. 👉Read Part 2 here: www.anthrometronom.com/post/the-hum...
The humanitarian borderscape on Gran Canaria (Part 2)
In this analysis of the humanitarian borderscape on Gran Canaria, Melina Fischer traces how the im/mobility of migrants and humanitarian actors shapes its structure, and how emotional and racialized d...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
💜✊New essay on anthrometronom!

In "The Feminism We Need" Merle Lüking explores the interplay between intersectional and decolonial feminist approaches, highlighting their synergies and tensions.

📖 Read now & discover our new collab: www.anthrometronom.com/post/the-fem...
The Feminism We Need:
Merle Lüdike explores how intersectional and decolonial feminisms converge, clash, and transform struggles against colonial patriarchy...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
📝New essay on [anthro]metronom📝
Part 2 of "Un Be Longing" by Luisa Brühne

This continuation of Brühne’s contribution gets even more vulnerable, exploring the roles interpersonal relationships can play in the process of healing. Read it here:
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Un (Be) Longing Part 2
The path from monogamy to opening up the relationship to polyamory is not an easy one. It exposes wounds...
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October 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
✨ New Essay Out Now!

What if well-intended humanitarian borderwork reinforces the very borders it seeks to undo? Melina Fischer's essay “The Humanitarian Borderscape on Gran Canaria: Where Are the Angry White Saviours?” explores this topic. Read it here:
tinyurl.com/2sauxcnv
The humanitarian borderscape on Gran Canaria (Part 1)
In this analysis of the humanitarian borderscape on Gran Canaria, Melina Fischer traces how the im/mobility of migrants and humanitarian actors shapes its structure, and how emotional and racialized d...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Is modern yoga just exercise — or a legacy of colonial power?

In "The Whitewashing of Yoga", Lisa Hannen unpacks yoga’s entanglement with colonial histories & cultural appropriation — and how it can also be reclaimed as resistance.

📖 Read now & discover our new collab: tinyurl.com/mvkfuk4c
The Whitewashing of Yoga
From boutique studios to Instagram reels, yoga has become a global wellness trend. Yet what happens when a practice rooted in South Asian spirituality is stripped of its context and repackaged for Wes...
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September 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM