RECLAIMING THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Universities are in turmoil. There was a time when they stood out as pinnacles of Enlightenment, where scholarly elites could […]
Urban development and the resistance of archaeology
By some estimates, one in ten thousand people in Turkey is an unemployed archaeologist. In an alternative café while on
It’s time for #EVENTS: democracy, art and more
With the Fall semester drawing to a close and the end-of-year holidays fast approaching, what better time for one last
Slam that ethnography! – Troubling Fieldwork
Let’s start our ethnography slam with contributions by David Bukusi, Silke Hoppe, Justine Laurent, and Natashe Lemos Dekker. If you
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Underlying the domain of human rights is the conception of the human on which we predicate, and advocate for, human
Reviews Week – and a Student-Led Research Project!
This week we have two new reviews for you, tackling the question of #race (see our #callforreviews here):Â Tomorrow, our
Colleex: A Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation
Fieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is
Saving the periphery from itself: The problem with thinking the postcolonial from the metropole
In February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at
Inside-out Jokes & Scientific Pantomimesis: Questioning Interpretations of the Inhuman
In a fit of ambition, I attended or spoke at five academic conferences in the humanities and social sciences during
Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
When the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned body first hit the headlines, it was instantly iconic. For many, the simple