Magical afterlives in post-genocidal Turkey
One enters the city of Dersim, surrounded by the steep holy Munzur Mountains in central Anatolia, after showing one’s ID […]
The Corona Diaries
Welcome to The Corona Diaries from Allegra, first recorded in April 2020 as part of the Corona thematic thread. The
Coronavirus: Less Humanitarianism, More Politics!
This essay was written seated on my couch, trying to make sense of the contemporary ‘state of emergency’ as the
The return of the plague-spreader
Written in lockdown amid the pandemic, this post speculates about the political and epistemological implications of ‘middle-class’ reactions to the
When the Silk Road Vanished
“I still need to cross Attabad before I reach home” – so our Shimshali travel companion commented matter-of-factly. We had
On being voices of prudence in times of a pandemic
Many academic disciplines have a lot to say these days about COVID-19. There are the medical experts, of course, epidemiologists,
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
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
Anthropology? What ‘Anthropology’?
In September 2018, Jarosław Gowin, Poland’s Minister of Science and Higher Education, abolished anthropology as an academic discipline by an
51 essential rules for doing research
Be free. Eat sweets. Do not go to university (but use the university to print for free). Resist academic hierarchy.