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EASA 2018 – The Other Protocols

The following words, as well as two other poems to be published on Allegra in the near future were written during three plenaries at…

Reading the Signs: Dust, Smoke, and Displacement in Athens

‘At home,’ we are in full command of the dialectics of knowledge and recognition. Jean Améry, “How Much Home Does a Person Need?” (1966:…

When ‘roofless’ migrants make their place. Contradictive perceptions of belonging in São Paulo’s squats

In Brazilian squats, a ‘local population struggles for their ‘right to the city’ and a ‘migrant’ population tries to establish and improve their lives…

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…

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 was awarded an Ambizione…

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 passes between Italy and…

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 passes between Italy and…

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 of Dimitris Dalakoglou’s book…

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 excerpt from Yael Navaro-Yashin’s…

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 Journey” (边疆行). The premise…