Experimenting with Stories
Stories are a venue for experimentation and research, they tell about, define, create, and interact with social realities. Therefore they […]
Chaotic borderlands: Libya’s porous borders after Qadhafi
Porous borders What has happened on Libya’s borders in recent years? Here are some examples: During the insurgency and civil
Interview: Is Berlin done with walls?
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) evolves by “settling” into one site after another. In each location, the workshop works
Roundtable: Answers by Giulia Scalettaris
Are these developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some
Dwelling Among Walls: An Artist prepares for MMTW Berlin
One may recall a house with nostalgia, but the feelings of joy or melancholy with it have much to do
When Anthropologists Act as Artifacts
This post is the third installment of our thread on the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW), a project that explores
Some Thoughts on Movement and the MMTW
It was the moment that the sociologist from University of Amsterdam Olga Sezneva announced “I will be a talking artifact”
Filming Future Imaginaries in Kurdistan
It was during my fieldwork in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan, when I started seeing Kobane popping up everywhere in the city.
“EUER WEH”: Accra station woe
EUER WEH – German for ‘your woe‘, reads the car inscription on the bonnet. An unwitting meaning, residue of the
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop: An Interview with Susan Ossman
Anthropologist and writer Helen Faller interviews Susan Ossman, Artistic Director of the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop and professor of Anthropology