“L’étranger”: Ariane Benoit on the Fluid Mosaic
Introduction Ariane is an anthropologist and a performer who chose to combine these two disciplines in her professional and personal life. She is now…
Read MoreIntroduction Ariane is an anthropologist and a performer who chose to combine these two disciplines in her professional and personal life. She is now…
Read MoreWhere do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini,…
Read MoreThe NGO personnel in Gaziantep’s office (Turkey) was in shock. Little groups were talking loudly in Arabic, or keeping their lips firmly closed. “It…
Read MoreAs neo-nationalists gain strength across Europe and the promise of ‘strong’ borders continues to gain traction with electorates across the world, we need few…
Read MoreIn this thematic week we aim to think through the notion of displacement. At a time that is marked by unprecedented movements of refugees…
Read More‘At home,’ we are in full command of the dialectics of knowledge and recognition. Jean Améry, “How Much Home Does a Person Need?” (1966:…
Read MoreThrough the notion of simultaneity I explore the emotional and affective dimension of the displacement-emplacement continuum within transnational migration and hint to the need…
Read MoreIn my experience, when the ethnographic mission collapsed, this scaffolding remained standing, rich and complex, in plain view. There, the net into which I…
Read MoreOn the fourth and fifth of June, the anthropology department at the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted a workshop exploring how…
Read MoreJulie Archambault’s Mobile Secrets is an ethnographically vivid and distinctive contribution to the ever growing anthropological literature on the topic of youth in Africa….
Read MoreTo close our thematic week on the anthropology of the state, we re-publish (with the permission of the author) this excerpt from Yael Navaro-Yashin’s…
Read MoreMost of us are seeking happiness. Now more than ever, happiness has became one of the most pursued goals, and not just on individual…
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