A Conversation with Alessandro Monsutti on his book “Homo Itinerans”
Alessandro Monsutti’s last book “Homo Itinerans: La Planète des Afghans” came out in September last year, with Presses Universitaires de […]
Conversation One-Shots
Gendered Harm
Victoria Canning’s (2018) new book makes an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the asylum system, bringing
Words of Passage
Hilary Parsons Dick’s multi-site ethnography Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants is based on
The Borders of “Europe”
In the frenzied media coverage of Europe’s migration “crisis” in recent years, the borders of Europe have been depicted as
After Deportation
Unless they are disrupted, deportations tend to go unnoticed. It is usually only the shocking deaths of deportees, or direct
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border
A close friend, currently preparing to become a military firefighter in Brazil, described his training as an exercise in “how
#EVENTS: Cultural Heritage, Ethnographic Storytelling and the Future of the University
Anthropologists are known for being great travel buddies. Take one (or more) with you to Vietnam and Ghana by way
On Digital Ethnographies. Anthropology, Politics and Pedagogy (PART II)
Let me begin this second part of my non-linear surveying of digital ethnographies by quoting the anthropologist Tom Boellstorff once
On Digital Ethnographies. Anthropology, Politics and Pedagogy (PART I)
I’ll start with the most embarrassingly candid disclosure one could possibly make in the context of this thematic week: I
(Im-)mobile Travels: Navigating Categories of Movement and Identities
In October 2018, I went to a ‘Black travel symposium’ in Brussels. Its aim was to bring together travel writers,