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Larissa’s Story: Behind the Migration Crisis Headlines

In late September, 2019, the current US presidential administration struck several unprecedented deals with the Northern Triangle governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador…

Anthropology at, and of, the Limit

Where do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini,…

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The No-Map and the Fear of Being in the No Go World

The NGO personnel in Gaziantep’s office (Turkey) was in shock. Little groups were talking loudly in Arabic, or keeping their lips firmly closed. “It…

An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular

Do the efforts to avoid meaningful action among young Nihilists in an undisclosed location make sense in a time where everything seems to be…

A note on humanitarian terminology

This article reviews the lexical field associated with “charity,” “philanthropy,” “humanitarianism” and similar terms in English, and concludes with a brief account of comparable…

Theorizing Humanitarianism for an Islamic Counterpublic #MUHUM

Closely attending to Muslim theorizations provides an opportunity for social scientists to stop asking such questions as ‘what is so Islamic about Islamic humanitarianism?’…

The Art of Listening #Keynote by Judith Beyer

In her Keynote “On little and grand narratives in Central Asia” (28 March 2019), Allie Judith Beyer investigates the inter-linkages between orality, narratives, textual…

Jair Bolsonaro and Affirmative Action: Political Rupture or Escalation?

On October 8, 2018, the day after the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections, I exchanged several worried whatsapp messages with friends and…

Ethnographic Poetry: A Conversation with Ather Zia

This interview with Professor Ather Zia was conducted on March 31, 2018, at the University of Michigan (UM) where she delivered a keynote at…

How to Win at Photography – How Games Teach Us to See

I have worked as photography director for The Long Day Of Young Peng with Andrea E. Pia, with a specific focus on the role…

On Digital Ethnographies. Anthropology, Politics and Pedagogy (PART II)

Let me begin this second part of my non-linear surveying of digital ethnographies by quoting the anthropologist Tom Boellstorff once more. Along with him,…