The sound of the absurd: Learning to listen in the Emergency Room
It 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 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…
Read MoreHuman rights are avowedly universal but must be translated by local activists to make sense in specific contexts, a process Sally Engle Merry called…
Read MoreThe climate crisis is upon us. Extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves and fires are increasingly wreaking havoc around the globe….
Read MoreBetween February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of Puglia. The first came…
Read MoreOver 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by far-right leader Le Pen….
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