The Ethnographer’s Catch 22
Did I hear a knock at my door? I stopped what I was doing, listening more attentively. South Africa had been on lockdown…
Read MoreDid I hear a knock at my door? I stopped what I was doing, listening more attentively. South Africa had been on lockdown…
Read MoreFor the occasion of this year’s Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, the likeness of a migrant woman was chosen for a much-celebrated idol of…
Read MoreThe situation in Myanmar during and shortly after my fieldwork in March 2020 reminded me of the uncertainty of knowledge and call for…
Read MoreDuring the COVID-19 lockdowns in the spring of 2020, when cinema theatres and university buildings closed, many film festivals decided to move their activities…
Read MoreIn his summer statement, Rishi Sunak, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that VAT (Value-Added Tax) would be dramatically cut from 20%…
Read More‘Don’t come home this year’ is a short video about Romanian migrants returning home from Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. The video uses viral…
Read MoreSince the outbreak of COVID-19, the science of masks has become hotly debated by epidemiologists, public health officials, and the public at large. The…
Read MoreAn introduction to somewhere less observed Research on Covid-19 is a hot topic worldwide, and, recently, the Latvian goveernment has also launched its own…
Read MoreAround the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students (and other researchers)…
Read MoreIn Southern Africa – where South Africa and Botswana account for two of the most economically unequal countries in the world according to the…
Read MoreThe switchover to remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19 has prompted a flurry of conversation among academics regarding technology’s (in)capabilities in replicating the…
Read More“Ben really isn’t keeping up well. He looks fine, but he’s been complaining and he’s constantly out. […] You don’t see a change with…
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