Doing an Ethnography of Corruption
When: 15 January 2021 / 2-3.30 pm CET Link: https://zoom.us/j/93210372616pwd=dTZZ… ID: 93210372616 Password: 4JzWZ6 Abstract This webinar will explore
Casting Out the Disabled and Ill Immigrant: The Legacies of Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act of 1901
Collectively, immigration policies function to perform national sovereignty by reinforcing the division between citizen and migrant, usually conflated with ‘native’
Heeding anthropological mottos in the study of law
When: 11 December 2020 / 2-3.30 pm CET Link: https://zoom.us/j/93210372616… ID: 93210372616 Password: 4JzWZ6 Abstract Even though I have been
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
Today’s Totalitarian Menace
Wherever one looks across the globe today democracy is in decline and trends towards what was once called “totalitarianism” are
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
#Failures: When things don’t hold: Anthropologies of failure, breakdown, and dysfunction
The fragility of our infrastructures and modes of living seldom become as ubiquitously palpable as they have with the current
#Failures: Failure is a Feeling
We were sat upstairs in a favourite hot-pot restaurant in old Taipei, nestled in between a deep red temple and