How can we talk about our relationship with images?
Why do images matter? How is it that these assemblages of pixels and ink come to shape not only 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
#Review: Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
The second book by Gardner and Lewis, Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century, is both an update and
Picture of a House – toward the ethnography of the academia
There was a time when universities were modelled after churches. Today their designs echo temples of different kinds – namely
Toward a Messy History of Creative Tensions
To the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’
The Language of Food. A Linguist Reads the Menu
Dan Jurafsky, computational linguist at Stanford University, achieved what many academics only dream of when his blog The Language of
Anthropology and the Persistence of Universal Europe: Translation as a Key Term
The following paper [in German] was presented during the symposium ‘The Future of German Anthropology’ on 7 November 2014 at the
FINALMENTE: The KNOT and its process. El nudo y su proceso.
For almost a month Allegra has been exploring different ways to fill ‘Dead Space’ by showcasing the seminar Anthropological Knots,
From ‘REAL’ Reality to ‘UN’ Reality (Part 2/5)
In UN treaty body proceedings members of the bodies regularly mention – after they are done with elaborate rounds of