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How to write about precarity from a precarious position

Let me start with a confession: Throughout the past year or so I have become somewhat hesitant to attend conferences and other academic gatherings….

The uncanny predictability of precarious existence

EASA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) Symposium “On politics and precarities in academia: anthropological perspectives” took place in mid-November at the University of Bern. The…

Tinder as a methodological tool #EmergingDigitalPractices

Imagine being able to remotely and anonymously search through locals in your area, browse through pictures of them, and chat with those who also…

The Art of conflict chic (part 2)

In this essay, Afghan American artist Aman Mojadid reflects on a series of installations entitled “Conflict Chic” he exhibited in a solo exhibition in…

Why Deportation to Afghanistan is Wrong

Since the first week of August, hundreds of young Afghan asylum seekers have been holding a sit-down protest against deportation in central Stockholm. The…

Follow up: #Tinder as a research method

Following the unexpected popularity of my May article Tinder as a Methodological Tool I was asked by Allegra to write a follow up, expanding…

The Bureaucratization of Utopia – A Report

Our students do not dream of global change anymore! It is on these pessimistic words that Alessandro Monsutti opened our workshop « The Bureaucratization of…

The Bureaucratization of Utopia – An international Workshop

The twenty-five years since the end of the Cold War have been a historical watershed for the project of international governance embodied by the…

Interview: Is Berlin done with walls?

The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) evolves by “settling” into one site after another. In each location, the workshop works with a local institution….