The Ethnographer’s Catch 22
Did I hear a knock at my door? I stopped what I was doing, listening more attentively. South Africa […]
Idols that ring hollow
For the occasion of this year’s Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, the likeness of a migrant woman was chosen for
Connected by extension – How paying connects old regimes and new isolations
The situation in Myanmar during and shortly after my fieldwork in March 2020 reminded me of the uncertainty of
Distributing Anthropological Films During the Pandemic
During the COVID-19 lockdowns in the spring of 2020, when cinema theatres and university buildings closed, many film festivals decided
The Fiscal Life of Pandemics
In his summer statement, Rishi Sunak, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that VAT (Value-Added Tax) would be
Don’t Come Home this Year
‘Don’t come home this year’ is a short video about Romanian migrants returning home from Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Political Lives of Masks: Citizenship, civility and covering up during the COVID-19 pandemic
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the science of masks has become hotly debated by epidemiologists, public health officials, and the
World élite? Latvia, national identity and the pandemic
An introduction to somewhere less observed Research on Covid-19 is a hot topic worldwide, and, recently, the Latvian goveernment has
The Murkiness of the Peruvian Lockdown
Around the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate
Neither Markets Nor Militaries: On the critical importance of restoring the commons
In Southern Africa – where South Africa and Botswana account for two of the most economically unequal countries in the