Beyond Fieldwork: emotions, facial ‘disfigurement’ and a PhD #Fieldnotes
What does it feel like to do fieldwork? How does one encounter experiences of suffering, trauma – even death – while maintaining […]
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It has been three weeks since we re-launched our beloved website – and we are overjoyed by the ample positive
My Parents’ Material (and Immaterial) Labor: Notes on Duty, Love, and Privilege in Fieldwork
Anxieties of Arrival Like many accounts of ethnographic fieldwork, this one begins with an arrival story. When I arrived for
‘B2Gold has to go!’ Rancho Grande’s Struggle against a Canadian open pit gold mine in Northern Nicaragua
In October 2014, three yellow school buses with young anti-mining activists from ecclesiastic grassroots communities from all over Nicaragua ploughed
Dispatch from Geneva: A treaty on transnational corporations? A declaration on peasants’ rights? #AIGNetwork
The anthropology of human rights has devoted increasing attention to how diverse groups and societies interpret and implement (or not)
#Fieldwork with Children and PhD Parenting in Mexico
I’ve never been one for doing things the easy way, but then again life has never offered me the easy
Almost Englishmen. Baghdadi Jews in Yangon
Introduction and Photographs by Judith Beyer, Book Review by Nina Johnen On an office desk in Yangon (Rangoon), the
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The summer is coming…anthros are packing their suitcases, getting prepared for some weeks of fieldwork in remote and less remote
And so it ends: Last Day at UN Human Rights Committee
It is the last day of the UN Human Rights Committee’s session and I should be frantically making last-minute notes,
NGO Strategies, Press Releases and Coalition Building at the UN
During treaty body sessions at the Palais Wilson one of the undoubted ‘hotspots’ for action is the cafeteria located on