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Pasts Cast in Concrete and Steel? Infrastructure and the War in Ukraine
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The Social Act We Call Memory
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Two sides of the same Euro: A field note on recent farmer protests from southern Italy
Between February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of
Heresies and provocations. For a politics of urban justice
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Waiting as Productive Fieldwork
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Give a Hand To the Fallen, as Long as You Are Standing: Earthquake Disaster Relief among Afghans
Mullah Yaqub appeared in the doorway of his Quranic school, and smiled when he saw me, shaking my hand firmly.
“ARE YOU HEADING TO THE FUN ZONE?”: NOTES FROM THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER
Research takes you to unexpected places. After finishing my PhD, I got a postdoc position at the ERC-funded project WARFUN
Sliding through life
On a chilly afternoon in April of 2016, Lana and I were about to embark on a ride through Saint
When Nothing Fits
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