“There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the Atmosphere of War
This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence.
Holding Space: On Risk, Rupture, and Rebuilding Academia Otherwise
I want to begin not with theory, but with a moment. It is early June 2016, and I am in
She braids, I listen
I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair
Seeing Sednaya: Echoes of a Fallen Regime
Sednaya Prison, long cloaked in secrecy and fear, has stood as a stark symbol of the Asad regime’s repression. For
At the state’s gate: The uncomplicated coexistence of ideas about rights and hospitality among Syrian refugee youths in Jordan
Introduction In the short story Before the Law, Franz Kafka writes about a man from the country who attempts to
Ethics without the Ethics: The Institutionalized Committees and the Question of Integrity
I would like to use this opportunity to reflect on the long journey of ethics that I, as the PI
An audio note on Commitment
‘We have to sit with the structural inequality of our work, and not try to dance around the obligation of
Introduction: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Global South
Conducting field research in the Global South comes with its own challenges in various stages: pre-field, during fieldwork, and post-fieldwork.
Waiting for ghosts
I am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is
Two sides of the same Euro: A field note on recent farmer protests from southern Italy
Between February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of