A knot in the throat, or that time a gangster died of appendicitis
Based on “Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)” by Zilberg Elana. I…
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Section Three: Understanding as Resonance
Introduction: Understanding as Resonance Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård In this third section of the thread, Understanding as Resonance, the essays explore that…
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Call for reviewers: Books on mobilities and migration!
The past decade has been increasingly marked by the movement of bodies across political borders. Whether fleeing violence or working within new labor regimes,…
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Give a Hand To the Fallen, as Long as You Are Standing: Earthquake Disaster Relief among Afghans
Mullah Yaqub appeared in the doorway of his Quranic school, and smiled when he saw me, shaking my hand firmly. He looked tall in…
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Unfinished adulthood: discontinuous precarities as epistemic opportunities
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both…
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Going beneath the surface: The subtler messages about forced displacement in ‘The Swimmers’
The screen is dark, the music sombre. There are sounds of muffled voices and explosions. The dark screen breaks to reveal blue skies as…
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Against false solidarity. A call for true solidarity among people with experiences of displacement.
Ideas discussed in this contribution were first presented at the Solidarity, Displacement & the University workshop that took place on October 13-14, 2022, in…
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Sister Parks: North American Coloniality and the Monarch Butterfly
Monarch migration and the making of North America At the end of each summer, the northern prairies and Great Lakes regions of North America…
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Heritage out of Control: When Heritage Turns to Rubble
In December 2017, Toungouma was stolen, the famed stone said to render justice in the Département of Dogondoutchi, Niger. When it was found a…
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Heritage out of control: Is Libation a Prayer?
Religion as Heritage in Ghana In 2009, Ghana celebrated its 52nd birthday as an independent country with the usual pomp and circumstance. The parade…
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GAA 2021 Conference Diary: Atmospheric Discussions?
In collaboration with the conference organisers, Allegra had reached out to a number of colleagues to submit some impressions in the form of “daily…
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Artefacts and Repertoires
After the 2011 Tunisian revolution, some of the fishermen of Zarzis – a coastal town close to the Libyan border, facing the southernmost Italian…
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