Living Displacement – thematic week on refugees!
Edward Said once wrote: ‘Our age, with its modern warfare, imperialism and the quasi-theological ambitions of totalitarian rulers – is indeed the age of…
Read MoreEdward Said once wrote: ‘Our age, with its modern warfare, imperialism and the quasi-theological ambitions of totalitarian rulers – is indeed the age of…
Read MoreThis week saw a week of fascinating posts by anthropologists working in the field of refugees and (forced) migration. To continue their work, we…
Read MoreThe Syrian conflict has caused the forced displacement of many refugees. In November 2014, UNRWA[1] estimated the total number of Palestinian refugees displaced inside…
Read MoreLe conflit de Syrie a depuis 2011 sévèrement affecté les quelques 600’000 réfugiés palestiniens résidant alors dans ce pays, causant la mort de milliers…
Read MoreOver the past five years, Syria is going through an unprecedented internal crisis and a civil war generating extreme violence and insecurity. Since the…
Read More“Early in the morning”, one of my informants, a 39 year-old Iranian political refugee and former lecturer at the University of Teheran told me,…
Read MoreTansy E. Hoskins. 2014. Stitched Up. The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion. Pluto Press. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780745334561. Tansy E. Hoskins’ Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist…
Read MoreAnxieties of Arrival Like many accounts of ethnographic fieldwork, this one begins with an arrival story. When I arrived for my fieldwork stay in…
Read MoreIn October 2014, three yellow school buses with young anti-mining activists from ecclesiastic grassroots communities from all over Nicaragua ploughed their way through muddy…
Read MorePaul Gilroy is known as a path-breaking scholar and historian of the music of the Black Atlantic diaspora, as a commentator on the politics…
Read MoreBy now many of our devoted Allies may have gathered that ‘something’s up!’ The changing Facebook profile, hints of ‘something to come’… Combined it…
Read MoreOn August 2nd, 2014, Allegra ran a panel titled ‘Boredom, Intimacy and Governance in ‘Normalized’ Times of Crisis’ at the EASA 2014 in…
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