A fear that never ends #fieldnotes
I started my own journey in the Brazilian northeast, on the plane from Rio de Janeiro to Fortaleza, Ceará, with a dream. After wandering…
Read MoreI started my own journey in the Brazilian northeast, on the plane from Rio de Janeiro to Fortaleza, Ceará, with a dream. After wandering…
Read MoreThe past is irrecoverable and the past is not past; the past is the resource for the future and the future is the redemption…
Read MoreBy Dalene Swanson. Who counts as human? Whose lives count as lives?… Loss and vulnerability seem to follow from our being socially constituted bodies,…
Read MoreLoss and its relationship to translation and incommensurability have been central features of my work. My interdisciplinary PhD (Social and Political Thought, Sussex) and…
Read MoreWhat does loss mean for Syrians living in Southern Turkey in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and in the midst of an ongoing…
Read MoreThe Slow Professor originated in telephone conversations about coping with our academic jobs. Not reading an email sent by the department chair at 10:45…
Read MoreTo set this week in motion we revisit a theme that we seem unable to escape: boredom. Whether at academic conferences or the elaborate…
Read MoreToday we are pleased to share this talk by our ‘Allie’ Samuli Schielke. The talk is titled ‘Dreaming of the Inevitable: How Money, Morals and Destiny Come…
Read MoreHello everyone – it’s yet another glorious Allegra week! Fine, admittedly the weather in some parts of the world (aka where this post is…
Read MoreWith students sprawled out on the lawn, a passer-by stopped to listen to the workshop as we sat in a circle under the sun and…
Read MoreAnger was abundant in South Africa during the 1990s. After the abolition of Apartheid in 1994, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to…
Read MoreThis time we are proud to present The Other Side, an enchanting ethnographic film by Mukhtar Shehata and Samuli Schielke. The Other Side tells…
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