Erkko Lecture Wrap-Up
Jane Cowan’s inaugural lecture at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is insightful in more than one way not least […]
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Le plus beau métier du monde
Giulia Mensitieri’s book “Le plus beau métier du monde” Dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode examines labor in
On (not) being there: Affective simultaneity across place and time
Through the notion of simultaneity I explore the emotional and affective dimension of the displacement-emplacement continuum within transnational migration and
Ethical dilemmas, anthropological practice, and principles #HauTalk
Hautalk is an opportunity to reinvigorate and remake our disciplinary identities. But how can we move this discussion beyond disciplinary
Personalizing Access, Personalizing Praxis
Anthropology trained us to identify systems of oppression, those “invisibilized” dimensions of culture that reek of prejudice, privilege, and disproportionate
Cultivating Childhood
Samira and Amna visit me in the afternoon after finishing Quran school (madrasa). After they have taken off their buibuis
Notes from inside a Twitter Experiment #EmergingDigitalPractices
Using participation in a collective online experiment with Twitter as a springboard, I interrogate the tweet as a fieldnote. How
Note-taking: A ‘fieldwork device’ duplex?
A re-description of my two-fold engagement as ethnographer-cum-documenter in the activist design collective En torno a la silla. Highlighting the
REDUX: 10 Tips for Surviving Fieldwork & Blogging!
Today’s post was originally published on June 3rd, 2014, as part of last summer’s fieldwork thread. Next week we’re sharing
City Play: Collaborative Filmmaking with Children
In Egypt, children are subject to a conservative and hierarchical public educational system. Underfunding, overcrowded classrooms and precarious infrastructure make