The Art of Listening #Keynote by Judith Beyer
In her Keynote “On little and grand narratives in Central Asia” (28 March 2019), Allie Judith Beyer investigates the inter-linkages […]
Words of Passage
Hilary Parsons Dick’s multi-site ethnography Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants is based on
The Borders of “Europe”
In the frenzied media coverage of Europe’s migration “crisis” in recent years, the borders of Europe have been depicted as
What’s in a Name? From Astana to Nursultan
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare,
Undoing Work, Rethinking Community
How does work confer dignity and a sense of belonging? Is work the central identity-conferring activity of society? What if
Jair Bolsonaro and Affirmative Action: Political Rupture or Escalation?
On October 8, 2018, the day after the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections, I exchanged several worried whatsapp
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
“Tuesday 8:30 – Good morning circle 9:00 – I’m raising the children you have forgotten. 10:15 – And you
Ethnographic Poetry: A Conversation with Ather Zia
This interview with Professor Ather Zia was conducted on March 31, 2018, at the University of Michigan (UM) where she
After Deportation
Unless they are disrupted, deportations tend to go unnoticed. It is usually only the shocking deaths of deportees, or direct
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border
A close friend, currently preparing to become a military firefighter in Brazil, described his training as an exercise in “how