Support for Displaced Students and Scholars at the University of Trento with Ester Gallo
On this Episode of Displacing Universities Ian and Monica speak with Ester Gallo, an Associate Professor at the University of Trento.
Global University Academy with Marianne Knarud
On this Episode of Displacing Universities Svitalna and Ian speak with Mariana Knaurd, Secretary General of the Global University Academy.
Towards a compassionate turn
This article introduces The New Ethnographer’s call for a “compassionate turn” in anthropology, extending the reflexive turn by foregrounding how fieldwork impacts researchers as well as interlocutors.
Through the looking glass: learning to do ethnography with children and their families
In this article, Nieves Galera reflects on the practical and emotional challenges of conducting ethnographic fieldwork with infants and their families.
The ethnographer’s body is gendered
Writing from experiences of harassment, surveillance, and sexualised misrecognition during fieldwork in a highly militarised context, Anya Evans foregrounds the ethnographer’s body as a central site of knowledge production and vulnerability.
Centre for Migration Research and Integration Practice at The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences with Louis Henri Seukwa and Janina Hertel
On this Episode of Displacing Universities Ian speaks with Louis Henri Seukwa and Janina Hertel who both work at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
The ethics of mediation in conservation spaces
This article explores the ethical precarity of conducting anthropological research within contested conservation spaces, where moral boundaries are blurred and alliances are unstable.
Emotions of Friendship: The Psychological Challenges of Doing Fieldwork in Xinjiang
In this article, Lisa Ernst examines the overlooked psychological toll of “friendship as method” within ethnography, specifically during high-risk fieldwork in Xinjiang, China.
Elective Affinities: Fragility and Injustice in the Field
Luisa Enria reflects on profoundly sensitive experiences of fragility, power and reflexivity in the context of her long term ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone.
Dis/ability to do Fieldwork
In this article, Rine Vieth critiques the “Malinowskian” ideal of fieldwork, which prizes able-bodied endurance and long-term isolation as markers of professional authority.