Anthropology at, and of, the Limit
Where do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister […]
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The No-Map and the Fear of Being in the No Go World
The NGO personnel in Gaziantep’s office (Turkey) was in shock. Little groups were talking loudly in Arabic, or keeping their
An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular
Do the efforts to avoid meaningful action among young Nihilists in an undisclosed location make sense in a time where
A note on humanitarian terminology
This article reviews the lexical field associated with “charity,” “philanthropy,” “humanitarianism” and similar terms in English, and concludes with a
Theorizing Humanitarianism for an Islamic Counterpublic #MUHUM
Closely attending to Muslim theorizations provides an opportunity for social scientists to stop asking such questions as ‘what is so
The Art of Listening #Keynote by Judith Beyer
In her Keynote “On little and grand narratives in Central Asia” (28 March 2019), Allie Judith Beyer investigates the inter-linkages
Jair Bolsonaro and Affirmative Action: Political Rupture or Escalation?
On October 8, 2018, the day after the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections, I exchanged several worried whatsapp
Ethnographic Poetry: A Conversation with Ather Zia
This interview with Professor Ather Zia was conducted on March 31, 2018, at the University of Michigan (UM) where she
How to Win at Photography – How Games Teach Us to See
I have worked as photography director for The Long Day Of Young Peng with Andrea E. Pia, with a specific
On Digital Ethnographies. Anthropology, Politics and Pedagogy (PART II)
Let me begin this second part of my non-linear surveying of digital ethnographies by quoting the anthropologist Tom Boellstorff once