UNESCO frictions: Heritage-making across global governance
Destroyed under global media coverage, exalted as identity symbol, traded and purchased, heritage is taking on a growing and controversial […]
Goodbye summer, hello autumn
What do you know: the summer is finally over – even in parts of the world where we would insistently
Colleex: A Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation
Fieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is
CLEENIK: A clinic for ethnographic experimentation syndromes
Have you been affected by Ethnographic Experimentation Breakdown (EEB) or Excess of Engagement Stress (EES)? Are you suffering from breach-of-the-canon
Olympic Resilience: The “Refugee Nation” Competes For A Place on the World’s Stage
The first ever team comprised of refugees debuted at this year’s Rio Olympics. They were the penultimate team to enter
Saving the periphery from itself: The problem with thinking the postcolonial from the metropole
In February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at
Inside-out Jokes & Scientific Pantomimesis: Questioning Interpretations of the Inhuman
In a fit of ambition, I attended or spoke at five academic conferences in the humanities and social sciences during
Hunting in Northern Cyprus
November 2015; I proceeded ten metres behind Ertan Abi for much of the morning, a place in which I was
Virtual Roundtable: ALESSANDRO MONSUTTI’S RESPONSE
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I started my ethnographic career
Celebrating Arba’een. Shia in Myanmar
On December 2nd 2015, the Shia community in Myanmar celebrated Arba’een – the fourtieth day after Ashura. I recorded this