Living a good life through infrastructure. A Review of three recent monographs on Central Asia
This post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof. […]
The Road – An Ethnography of (Im)Mobility, Space, and Cross-border Infrastructures in the Balkans
Central to the capturing cover-image, the downhill stone-paved street of the Pazari district of Gjirokastër, south Albania, reflects the orientation
On Edge: China’s Frontiers in a Time of Change
In 2011, China’s state-run general content television channel, CCTV-4, launched a monumental 100-part series with a title that translates as “Borderland
Towards a relational anthropology of the state
This ain’t New York As a contributor to the recently published edited volume Stategraphy: Towards a relational anthropology of the
Locating Care within the Nascent Infrastructure: Renal Dialysis in Thailand
When new epidemics hit us, calls for infrastructural development are renewed. More investment in hospital facilities, medical staff and the
Medical Technologies and Infrastructure: Exploring Im/Mobility and Dis/Connectivity in “Global Health”
There are numerous approaches to defining “Global Health” (Brown, Cueto, and Fee 2006; Farmer et al. 2013; Fassin 2012; Janes
Selective access or how states make remoteness
What makes a place remote? Is remoteness that which is geographically distant from the centre of administrative, political and economic
#Podcast Interview Round Up May-August: New Books in Anthropology
It’s once again time for us to help your eardrums get some anthropological loving in collaboration with our dear friends,
Facades and Facelesness
“We will continuously say how rooted we are in this county like a plane tree embracing the soil with its