Heritage out of Control: Human bones as inherited waste of Europe
Central and Eastern Europe – known as “Bloodlands”, the area where Nazi and Stalin’s atrocities met, leaving behind many sites […]
Heritage out of Control: Buddhist Material Excess in Depopulating Japan
Inherited Buddhist objects and their associated ritual care connect the dead with the living. Buddhist things are not only material.
Inviting disasters
One particularly warm morning in September 2020, I am looking at photographs and videos in the media depicting the aftermath
Indigenous Water Ontologies, Plurilegal Encounters and Interlegal Translation
Lieselotte Viaene (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) will talk about “Indigenous water ontologies, plurilegal encounters and interlegal translation: some reflections from
Animal Displacement from Syria: A Story Yet to be Written
During the Syrian war, which has now raged for a decade, the attention of scholars, media commentators and activists has
Just Transitions
November 2018. A wave of nearly 300,000 women and men in yellow vests floods France. A protest without leaders or
Animal Intimacies
The creative disentanglement of human-animal relationships in Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan is an
Atmospheres of change
This month, Chileans will decide whether to set in motion a process to change the country’s dictatorship-era constitution while marking
Landscapes of Power
The cover of Dana Powell’s book, Landscapes of Power, taken from a painting by Diné teacher and muralist James B.
Landscapes of Power
In her monograph Landscapes of Power, Powell takes the proposed – at the time of her initial fieldwork – development