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Layers – A Photography Exhibition

Allegra has an extensive archive of photographs. These images are usually incorporated as supporting materials to written essays. This exhibition is a small intervention…

Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text. A Conversation with Stuart Kirsch

How can an anthropologist who teaches at a university work towards helping indigenous people in their efforts to make their lives better? Many turn…

Introduction: Displacement and New Sociabilities

In this thematic week we aim to think through the notion of displacement. At a time that is marked by unprecedented movements of refugees…

On (not) being there: Affective simultaneity across place and time

Through the notion of simultaneity I explore the emotional and affective dimension of the displacement-emplacement continuum within transnational migration and hint to the need…

On being made feel out of place

Based on the experiences of two young Eritreans who arrived in Switzerland as unaccompanied minors, this article thinks through the feeling of being made…

Ethical dilemmas, anthropological practice, and principles #HauTalk

Hautalk is an opportunity to reinvigorate and remake our disciplinary identities. But how can we move this discussion beyond disciplinary boundaries—into spaces where we…

State of Rebellion

In State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard moves away from an anthropological tendency to study the margins…

In praise of the scaffolding

In my experience, when the ethnographic mission collapsed, this scaffolding remained standing, rich and complex, in plain view. There, the net into which I…

Shocked, not Surprised

The surest signal that we are having something akin to a #metoo moment in academia is when my social media accounts, email inbox, and…

Community-Based Open Access, Fast and Slow

I would like to make the case that open access remains relevant to the mix of painful problems and worthy opportunities still before the…

Pyramid Scheme. #hautalk

For people immersed in bureaucratic institutions, like universities, the current ruckus over HAU raises at least one longstanding anthropological question: what kinds of organizational…