RECLAIMING THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Universities are in turmoil. There was a time when they stood out as pinnacles of Enlightenment, where scholarly elites could […]
Counting our Losses: Reflections from a Newton Fund/British Council Workshop on Loss and Displacement
The past is irrecoverable and the past is not past; the past is the resource for the future and the
NO WALL TO LEAN ON
By Dalene Swanson. Who counts as human? Whose lives count as lives?… Loss and vulnerability seem to follow from our
Urban development and the resistance of archaeology
By some estimates, one in ten thousand people in Turkey is an unemployed archaeologist. In an alternative café while on
A Story of Two Stones
On a cold December day in 1995, after finishing my daily studies as a junior high school student, I was
From self-identified ‘Turkish migrants’ to ‘Kurdish Diaspora’ in London
Loss and its relationship to translation and incommensurability have been central features of my work. My interdisciplinary PhD (Social and
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
It’s time for #EVENTS: democracy, art and more
With the Fall semester drawing to a close and the end-of-year holidays fast approaching, what better time for one last
Anthropological takes on the ‘return of remoteness’ – Introduction
For a long time, the direction seemed to be clear: the days of remote areas were numbered and it was
Selective access or how states make remoteness
What makes a place remote? Is remoteness that which is geographically distant from the centre of administrative, political and economic