No Go World: How No Go Zones Make the World a More Dangerous Place
As neo-nationalists gain strength across Europe and the promise of ‘strong’ borders continues to gain traction with electorates across the […]
Introduction: Displacement and New Sociabilities
In this thematic week we aim to think through the notion of displacement. At a time that is marked by
Reading the Signs: Dust, Smoke, and Displacement in Athens
‘At home,’ we are in full command of the dialectics of knowledge and recognition. Jean Améry, “How Much Home Does
On (not) being there: Affective simultaneity across place and time
Through the notion of simultaneity I explore the emotional and affective dimension of the displacement-emplacement continuum within transnational migration and
In praise of the scaffolding
In my experience, when the ethnographic mission collapsed, this scaffolding remained standing, rich and complex, in plain view. There, the
#Report: Envy and Greed: A Political Economy of Accusation and Critique
On the fourth and fifth of June, the anthropology department at the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted
Mobile Secrets
Julie Archambault’s Mobile Secrets is an ethnographically vivid and distinctive contribution to the ever growing anthropological literature on the topic
REDUX: Abjected Spaces, Debris of War
To close our thematic week on the anthropology of the state, we re-publish (with the permission of the author) this
Visualising happiness
Most of us are seeking happiness. Now more than ever, happiness has became one of the most pursued goals, and
A fear that never ends
I started my own journey in the Brazilian northeast, on the plane from Rio de Janeiro to Fortaleza, Ceará, with