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,
#EVENTS: Temporalities, global movement and more
New year, new events! The start of a new year makes us strangely aware of the passing of time –
December Podcast Round Up
All I want for 2019 is anthropology. In my ears. By way of a discussion with an author about their
The Privileged Discomfort of Border Crossings
As social scientists our work often directly grows out of our personal journeys—journeys that are physical, emotional, intellectual and political.
Essential Readings #ErkkoLecture
I am rereading some of my own articles and chapters as I prepare for today’s lecture, and I thought these
CALL FOR REVIEWS: NEW BOOKS ON THE EUROPEAN MIGRATION REGIME
Three years after Europe declared a ‘crisis’ of migration control, its border and migration regimes have become increasingly repressive. A