Bourgeois Knowledge
Young man: Hey, what’s he talking about? Old man: The professor is discussing ideas of justice and humanity in the […]
On “Patient Zero” and other metaphors of the Ebola epidemic
On 28th of December 2013, Emile, a two-year-old child who lived with his family in a small Guinean village near
NATIONALISM, POLITICS AND THE EVERYDAY IN A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP
During the ‘Arab Spring’, one of the most puzzling enigmas of al-Wihdat – a Palestinian refugee camp set up in
The Good, the Bad & the Whatnot: AAA 2014
What do you know: almost as soon as the AAA 2014 began, it came to its end. After one last
Tunisia: c’è mai stata una primavera araba?
Sono passati più di tre anni da quando, dalla Tunisia, sono partite le prime rivolte [1] che hanno sovvertito molti
Conversation One-Shots
Being a Resilient Community: An Interview with Shahida Zubair
Milan. A few meters from Duomo’s Square. Beginning of October. We are under the “Galleria” waiting for Shahida Zubair and
Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State
Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State. By John B. Bowen, 2010, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
“You don’t know me”: Disorientation, Reorientation, and Not Knowing in the Ethnography of Asylum and Refugees
During a long drive in the snow to meet my family for the dubiously-founded yet nonetheless celebratory U.S.-American Thanksgiving, my
The Deportation Corridor. A spatial, institutional and affective state of transit
In the course of the last two decades, the territorial exclusion of unwanted foreigners, constructed as a threat to national
‘Gender, Home & Identity: Nuer repatriation to Southern Sudan’ – Katarzyna Grabska talks about her book
Stories of war, violence, running and survival were a common narrative of many South Sudanese Nuer whom I met first