Loss in times of revolution and exile
What does loss mean for Syrians living in Southern Turkey in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and in the midst of an ongoing…
Read MoreWhat does loss mean for Syrians living in Southern Turkey in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and in the midst of an ongoing…
Read MoreWith the Fall semester drawing to a close and the end-of-year holidays fast approaching, what better time for one last list of events! 2017…
Read MoreFor a long time, the direction seemed to be clear: the days of remote areas were numbered and it was only a question of…
Read MoreWhat makes a place remote? Is remoteness that which is geographically distant from the centre of administrative, political and economic activities? Or is remoteness…
Read MoreOver the past few years, the resurgence of rural banditry in many regions of Madagascar has been an important topic of public and political…
Read MoreDuring World War II, Ruth Benedict conducted research about Japan at a distance. Challenging the stereotypical image of the white male researcher risking his…
Read MoreWhen we think about deserts, we usually imagine them as quintessentially remote. We tend to take their remoteness as primordial rather than see it…
Read MoreBrega, a village in Odessa province, Ukraine, has not always been a ‘remote’ place. During Soviet times, it was part of a thriving agricultural…
Read MoreThe forested hills where Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and China meet are commonly known as the Golden Triangle, the world’s second largest opium-producing area. A…
Read MoreWhat social practices are used to constitute evidence? What counts as evidence and why? How are different types of evidence processed, and how do…
Read MoreEvidence sometimes suffers from a peculiar problem. It is not always evident. I call this the problem of the evidentiality of evidence. By definition,…
Read MoreMy goal is to skirt gingerly around evidence leaving it just where it lies, and instead to prod the contingent margins where iterative social…
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