Poetic Resonance: Dwelling in the Affective Ripples of Ethnography
This thematic thread presents experiments, exercises, and reflections stemming from a two-day collaborative, practice-led workshop with ‘poetic resonance’.
In the Face of Fury: Holding Disruptive and Connective Intensities through Poetic Resonance
In this essay, I trace the force of fury that emerged within a single ethnographic moment and later saturated the analysis.
Pyropoetic Resonances: Humility, Affect, and Being in the Field (on Fire)
This essay explores how the poetic resonance protocol enabled a deeper, embodied engagement with my ethnographic object: a poetry workshop conducted with wildfire-affected residents in northern Germany.
The Anthropologist as Tuning Fork
This afterword reflects on the practice of ethnography through the metaphor of the anthropologist as a tuning fork—an embodied instrument attuned to the subtle or violent vibrations of lived experience whilst working through ethnographic materials.
Permaculture Pedagogies and the Art of Living Together: Timor-Leste’s Aspirational School Curriculum
In Timor-Leste, children now learn to grow vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of the national school curriculum.
Holding Space: On Risk, Rupture, and Rebuilding Academia Otherwise
I want to begin not with theory, but with a moment. It is early June 2016, and I am in
The Emotional Toll of Death in Syria: Revolution to Toppling
After more than eight years of no contact, I conducted a video call with a former non-influential officer from an
Do walls still have ears?
How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and
Return to a Bare Land
“Al-‘ard haafya. La terra è nuda [the land is bare].” Abdu concluded one of our discussions with this sentence in