“The Road Goes Ever On and On”: The PhD Candidate, Uncertainty and Creative #Blogging
To say that a PhD in anthropology represents a journey is equal parts cliché and “social fact,” at least for some students. In this…
Read MoreTo say that a PhD in anthropology represents a journey is equal parts cliché and “social fact,” at least for some students. In this…
Read MoreA re-description of my two-fold engagement as ethnographer-cum-documenter in the activist design collective En torno a la silla. Highlighting the importance of note-taking as…
Read MoreStories are a venue for experimentation and research, they tell about, define, create, and interact with social realities. Therefore they are important to include…
Read MoreResearching with social movements (environmental activism, makerspaces) brings ethnography’s nuanced, embodied and collective sense-making to the fore. I also argue that anthropological research within…
Read MoreCollaboration is an epistemic figure resulting from the careful craft of articulating inventive shared modes of doing together with our companions in the field….
Read MoreEthnographic experimentation refers to an ethnographic modality where anthropologists venture into the collaborative production of venues for knowledge creation that turn the field into…
Read MoreFollowing the unexpected popularity of my May article Tinder as a Methodological Tool I was asked by Allegra to write a follow up, expanding…
Read MoreEarlier this year I attended a workshop on academic writing. The intent, so I thought, was to explore avenues in academic research to see…
Read MoreDorothy Noyes, Professor of English and Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University, responds to the questions Chiara Bortolotto has recently raised in her virtual…
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRadPqPJhB4&feature=youtu.be “The Bureaucratization of Utopia: International Governance, Audit Cultures and Administrative subjectivities in the 21st Century” was a workshop organized at the Graduate Institute…
Read More“Collaborative dilemmas” was the title of a workshop held last April at EHESS in Paris under the framework of “UNESCO frictions: heritage-making across global…
Read MoreAre those developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some kind of innovation vis-à-vis…
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