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The sound of the absurd: Learning to listen in the Emergency Room

It was a crowded, freezing Monday morning in late January, in the large university hospital in northern Italy where I was leading my fieldwork between…

Of rails and rubbish: critique and the absurdity of cleaning days

In January 2020, the Senegalese President Macky Sall announced a nation-wide ‘Cleaning Day’. Together with a ‘Zero waste’ campaign and followed by monthly ‘Cleaning Days’,…

Letter from Gaza with a response from New York

The Institute of Women’s Studies (IWS) at Birzeit University in Palestine has launched “Women’s Testimonies from Gaza”, a project aiming to amplify the voices…

On an abyssal edge: a streak of blood, and absence

The murdered is carried on the shoulders. In haste, a cadaver shrouded in white is slipped into an indoor mass grave. War’s soundtrack echoes…

How South Africa rescued humanity (and International Law) at the International Court of Justice

Since the creation of the United Nations, and in line with the civilizing mission’s rhetoric used to justify colonialism, racist arguments about the African…

The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco

Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by tracing its hold on…

Heresies and provocations. For a politics of urban justice

In search of urban heresies Wherever I glanced around Solomon’s office, I saw, plastered on the walls and spread over the desk, maps, reports,…

Gaza and the coming age of the ‘warrior’

‘Is it ethical to write something ‘interesting’ about a massacre as the massacre is unfolding?’ I keep asking myself. ‘Is this not a form…

Let there be Light: Frontiers of techno-Solar Capitalism

I grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the early 1990s, when I…

Waiting as Productive Fieldwork

Several weeks into my fieldwork at one of the Integrated Tribal Development Agencies (ITDA) in Telangana, a federal state in India, I couldn’t shake…

SECTION TWO: DESTABILISING CONCEPTS

Introduction: Destabilising Concepts Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård Moving from the first section of the thread where hundreds performed as much as a method…

Section Four: Whose Thinking?

Introduction: Whose Thinking? Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård From the sounds of the third section, we turn in the fourth section to questions about…