Utopias of Crime: Review of the Maurice Halbwachs Summer Institute 2016
“They say everyone’s born a hero. But if you let it, life will push you over the line until you’re the villain. Problem is,…
Read More“They say everyone’s born a hero. But if you let it, life will push you over the line until you’re the villain. Problem is,…
Read MorePolicymaking and implementation across state institutions, international organisations and transnational networks of civil-society organisations are expanding fields of anthropological research. The complex positionalities that…
Read MoreDestroyed under global media coverage, exalted as identity symbol, traded and purchased, heritage is taking on a growing and controversial role in the making…
Read MoreWhat do you know: the summer is finally over – even in parts of the world where we would insistently like to think otherwise…
Read MoreFieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is not what it used…
Read MoreHave you been affected by Ethnographic Experimentation Breakdown (EEB) or Excess of Engagement Stress (EES)? Are you suffering from breach-of-the-canon infection (BOTS)? Do you…
Read MoreThe first ever team comprised of refugees debuted at this year’s Rio Olympics. They were the penultimate team to enter the Olympic stadium, coming…
Read MoreIn February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at a New York-based university….
Read MoreIn a fit of ambition, I attended or spoke at five academic conferences in the humanities and social sciences during the spring 2016 semester….
Read MoreNovember 2015; I proceeded ten metres behind Ertan Abi for much of the morning, a place in which I was not directly within the…
Read More1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I started my ethnographic career in the Pakistani city…
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