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Read Morenotes from the field, diary extracts, sound recordings, fieldwork playlists, reflections on methods
It has been three weeks since we re-launched our beloved website – and we are overjoyed by the ample positive feedback that the new design…
Read MoreAnxieties of Arrival Like many accounts of ethnographic fieldwork, this one begins with an arrival story. When I arrived for my fieldwork stay in…
Read MoreIn October 2014, three yellow school buses with young anti-mining activists from ecclesiastic grassroots communities from all over Nicaragua ploughed their way through muddy…
Read MoreThe anthropology of human rights has devoted increasing attention to how diverse groups and societies interpret and implement (or not) international legal norms. The…
Read MoreI’ve never been one for doing things the easy way, but then again life has never offered me the easy route to anything. My…
Read MoreIntroduction and Photographs by Judith Beyer, Book Review by Nina Johnen On an office desk in Yangon (Rangoon), the former capital of Myanmar…
Read MoreThe summer is coming…anthros are packing their suitcases, getting prepared for some weeks of fieldwork in remote and less remote places around the world….
Read MoreIt is the last day of the UN Human Rights Committee’s session and I should be frantically making last-minute notes, to be tying up…
Read MoreDuring treaty body sessions at the Palais Wilson one of the undoubted ‘hotspots’ for action is the cafeteria located on the first floor opposite…
Read MoreAs part of my doctoral research on workers in the fashion industry in Paris and Brussels, I conducted fieldwork for a year and a…
Read MoreThis is a phenomenally impersonal and detached forum for addressing what really are issues of life and death for millions of people…. The meeting…
Read MoreIn UN treaty body proceedings members of the bodies regularly mention – after they are done with elaborate rounds of welcomes, thank yous and…
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