Utopias of Crime: Review of the Maurice Halbwachs Summer Institute 2016
“They say everyone’s born a hero. But if you let it, life will push you over the line until you’re […]
Colleex: A Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation
Fieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is
CLEENIK: A clinic for ethnographic experimentation syndromes
Have you been affected by Ethnographic Experimentation Breakdown (EEB) or Excess of Engagement Stress (EES)? Are you suffering from breach-of-the-canon
Olympic Resilience: The “Refugee Nation” Competes For A Place on the World’s Stage
The first ever team comprised of refugees debuted at this year’s Rio Olympics. They were the penultimate team to enter
Saving the periphery from itself: The problem with thinking the postcolonial from the metropole
In February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at
Inside-out Jokes & Scientific Pantomimesis: Questioning Interpretations of the Inhuman
In a fit of ambition, I attended or spoke at five academic conferences in the humanities and social sciences during
Hunting in Northern Cyprus
November 2015; I proceeded ten metres behind Ertan Abi for much of the morning, a place in which I was
Celebrating Arba’een. Shia in Myanmar
On December 2nd 2015, the Shia community in Myanmar celebrated Arba’een – the fourtieth day after Ashura. I recorded this
Where are the ladies, Didier Fassin? #EASA2016 Keynote
It’s hot and humid, and yet circa 1000 anthropologists are determined to enter the main conference room of U6 of
Ivory Tower
From the poetic notes written this morning for today’s opening lecture – I communicated this but not as ‘poetically’: A