Poignant Pasts and Uncertain Futures in the Greek Crisis: Ethnographic Snippets from ATM Queues
July 2nd 2015, it is 4.30pm and the temperature is touching 40’c. I am standing in a queue of some […]
Going Native at Home – Explorations in Method- and note-ology
I’m from here. Well, sort of. When I was 18 months old, we moved to this small town on the
REDUX: #Fieldwork with children
Today we combine two recent Allegra themes – both very dear to us – by revisiting a jewel from our
Fieldnote One-Shots
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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Deadline MASH-UP
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