Gendered Harm
Victoria Canning’s (2018) new book makes an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the asylum system, bringing much-needed attention to the…
Read MoreVictoria Canning’s (2018) new book makes an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the asylum system, bringing much-needed attention to the…
Read MoreHilary Parsons Dick’s multi-site ethnography Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants is based on fieldwork conducted between 1997…
Read MoreIn the frenzied media coverage of Europe’s migration “crisis” in recent years, the borders of Europe have been depicted as under attack, desperately in…
Read MoreUnless they are disrupted, deportations tend to go unnoticed. It is usually only the shocking deaths of deportees, or direct action of activists that…
Read MoreA close friend, currently preparing to become a military firefighter in Brazil, described his training as an exercise in “how to become a hero.”…
Read MoreAnthropologists are known for being great travel buddies. Take one (or more) with you to Vietnam and Ghana by way of Malta or the…
Read MoreLet me begin this second part of my non-linear surveying of digital ethnographies by quoting the anthropologist Tom Boellstorff once more. Along with him,…
Read MoreI’ll start with the most embarrassingly candid disclosure one could possibly make in the context of this thematic week: I am not such a…
Read MoreIn October 2018, I went to a ‘Black travel symposium’ in Brussels. Its aim was to bring together travel writers, bloggers and photographers to…
Read MoreNew year, new events! The start of a new year makes us strangely aware of the passing of time – so don’t forget to…
Read MoreAll I want for 2019 is anthropology. In my ears. By way of a discussion with an author about their new book. I hope…
Read MoreAs social scientists our work often directly grows out of our personal journeys—journeys that are physical, emotional, intellectual and political. However, this is rarely…
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