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
Counting our Losses: Reflections from a Newton Fund/British Council Workshop on Loss and Displacement
The past is irrecoverable and the past is not past; the past is the resource for the future and the
NO WALL TO LEAN ON
By Dalene Swanson. Who counts as human? Whose lives count as lives?… Loss and vulnerability seem to follow from our
From self-identified ‘Turkish migrants’ to ‘Kurdish Diaspora’ in London
Loss and its relationship to translation and incommensurability have been central features of my work. My interdisciplinary PhD (Social and
Loss in times of revolution and exile
What does loss mean for Syrians living in Southern Turkey in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and in the
The slow professor (book excerpt)
The Slow Professor originated in telephone conversations about coping with our academic jobs. Not reading an email sent by the
Moments when ‘things happen’: BOREDOM – REDUX!
To set this week in motion we revisit a theme that we seem unable to escape: boredom. Whether at academic