Notes from a blurry border (Part 1): Can that mountain stop me?
While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and…
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Notes from a Blurry Border (part 2): Shatter the border!
While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and…
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Living a good life through infrastructure. A Review of three recent monographs on Central Asia
This post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and…
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#PrecAnthro in support of #USSstrike: once the pension dispute is won UCU should prioritise the fight against casualisation
On the 22nd of February 2018 University and College Union (UCU), the largest academic union in the world with over 100,000 members went on…
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Call for Reviews: #AnthroState #Africa
As we start into 2018, we seize the opportunity of this post by Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan on their influential edited volume…
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Towards a relational anthropology of the state
This ain’t New York As a contributor to the recently published edited volume Stategraphy: Towards a relational anthropology of the state (Thelen, Vetters, and…
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Precarity everywhere?
“On politics and precarities in academia”- this was the title of the EASA seminar held at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern…
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Overlapped Precarities
The EASA AGM Seminar in Bern simply came in a bad time. It confronted me with a dilemma: while I was eager to follow…
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The Precariat Fights Back. A conversation with Dan Hirslund and Carrie Benjamin
This conversation took place after a workshop entitled “Between precarious norms and empowering alternatives – a workshop on the strategies of labour organisation between…
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How to write about precarity from a precarious position
Let me start with a confession: Throughout the past year or so I have become somewhat hesitant to attend conferences and other academic gatherings….
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#review: space of boredom
Bruce O’Neill’s (2017) The Space of Boredom is a historically rich and theoretically innovative ethnography of contemporary homelessness and social exclusion in Bucharest. O’Neill…
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A Year of Two Elections
Victor flew into the tackle, blocking the opponent’s shot at goal. Shouts of praise went up from the fans and substitutes standing on the…
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