State of Rebellion
In State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard moves away from an anthropological tendency […]
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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
Till Mostowlansky on Muslim Humanitarianism
Till Mostowlansky is a Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute in Geneva who
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
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
The Road – An Ethnography of (Im)Mobility, Space, and Cross-border Infrastructures in the Balkans
Central to the capturing cover-image, the downhill stone-paved street of the Pazari district of Gjirokastër, south Albania, reflects the orientation
REDUX: Abjected Spaces, Debris of War
To close our thematic week on the anthropology of the state, we re-publish (with the permission of the author) this
On Edge: China’s Frontiers in a Time of Change
In 2011, China’s state-run general content television channel, CCTV-4, launched a monumental 100-part series with a title that translates as “Borderland
Overlapped Precarities
The EASA AGM Seminar in Bern simply came in a bad time. It confronted me with a dilemma: while I