Waiting for ghosts
I am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is October, just past the…
Read MoreI am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is October, just past the…
Read MoreIn Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, I found a musical roundabout. Large loudspeakers turn this otherwise innocuous infrastructure into an…
Read MoreIt was a crowded, freezing Monday morning in late January, in the large university hospital in northern Italy where I was leading my fieldwork between…
Read MoreOn Monday, May 25th, 2020, Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canél, involuntarily found himself in the spotlight. Diaz-Canél had become the Cuban head of state…
Read MoreWhen Nadja was evacuated from the bomb shelter in eastern Ukraine, she took her cheese with her. She took the cheese from Luhansk to…
Read MoreOne scalding hot June day in 2014 in a remote village health post in North Shewa, Ethiopia, I attended an event intended to provide…
Read MoreIn January 2020, the Senegalese President Macky Sall announced a nation-wide ‘Cleaning Day’. Together with a ‘Zero waste’ campaign and followed by monthly ‘Cleaning Days’,…
Read MoreWhenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s…
Read MoreAnthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are staying with the strange…
Read MoreThis year, once again, the national capital of India is witnessing a farmer’s protest, amidst state repression, media blackout and disinformation. We are witnessing…
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