Animal Displacement from Syria: A Story Yet to be Written
During the Syrian war, which has now raged for a decade, the attention of scholars, media commentators and activists has primarily focused on human…
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During the Syrian war, which has now raged for a decade, the attention of scholars, media commentators and activists has primarily focused on human…
Read MoreThis is the second part of the conversation our assistant editor Emilie Thévenoz had with Nika Dubrovsky (Read part 1 here). They chatted…
Read MoreThe Anthropology 4 Kids book “What is a nation?” begins like this: This book is a game. We are going to invent a new…
Read More“Anthropology for kids” as a research project I spent most of my life doing two things – raising children and moving from country to…
Read MoreOn a February Thursday afternoon, Nika Dubrovsky and Allegra assistant editor Emilie Thevenoz sat down together over Zoom. The chat covered the pedagogical concepts…
Read MoreTo kick-off our #AisforAnthropology thread, Nika Dubrovsky will be talking to us throughout the week about her project, A4Kids. Our hope is that this…
Read MorePart Four: “When will this Covid be over?” During the first month of T.’s search for work in Dubai, Covid-19 felt like something that…
Read MoreIn December 2020, a group of social scientists gathered virtually at the LSE Department of Anthropology to discuss the relationship between data science and…
Read MorePart Three: A Travel Agent selling Freedom For the second half of my stay, I lived in a shared accommodation of mostly Egyptian men…
Read MorePart Two: New Opportunities, New Stress In the Gulf region, Dubai has been a forerunner in the transformation towards a neoliberal market of skills…
Read MoreArrivals to uncertainty In mid-December 2020, my friend T. returned to Dubai from Egypt in the hope of getting his old job back or…
Read MoreFor more information about Smith & Willing, see: www.smithandwilling.com Smith and Willing are fictional characters and in the following interview that accompanies this film,…
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