Author: Charline Kopf

Charline Kopf is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her work revolves around questions of history and memory in the postcolonial context, as well as infrastructure, mobilities and borders in West Africa. She is currently writing her first book on the afterlives of the Dakar-Bamako railway for the University of California Press's book series “Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century”. 

Charline Kopf

Charline Kopf is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her work revolves around questions of history and memory in the postcolonial context, as well as infrastructure, mobilities and borders in West Africa. She is currently writing her first book on the afterlives of the Dakar-Bamako railway for the University of California Press's book series “Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century”. 

Anthropology of the Absurd Threads

Of rails and rubbish: critique and the absurdity of cleaning days

April, 2024 / By Charline Kopf

In January 2020, the Senegalese President Macky Sall announced a nation-wide ‘Cleaning Day’. Together with a ‘Zero waste’ campaign and followed […]

Anthropology of the Absurd Threads

Anthropology and absurdity: Introduction

April, 2024 / By Ståle Wig, Charline Kopf and Catherine Alexander

Anthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are