A world upside down
In the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors – […]
How solidarity with migrant people is stifled at the France-UK border
Over 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by
On an abyssal edge: a streak of blood, and absence
The murdered is carried on the shoulders. In haste, a cadaver shrouded in white is slipped into an indoor mass
The politics of condemnation
As if he was, for the occasion of Halloween, joyfully embracing the figure of the grotesque, Hubert Aiwanger, former as
Going beneath the surface: The subtler messages about forced displacement in ‘The Swimmers’
The screen is dark, the music sombre. There are sounds of muffled voices and explosions. The dark screen breaks to
Against false solidarity. A call for true solidarity among people with experiences of displacement.
Ideas discussed in this contribution were first presented at the Solidarity, Displacement & the University workshop that took place on
Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 1
Falkof’s book discusses the everyday experiences of fear and moral anxiety in the city of Johannesburg in post-apartheid state South
Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 2
Falkof, Nicky (2022): Worrier State. Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press.  South Africa 2022
Race, Security, and the Contradictions of Humanitarianism
In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We –
Heritage out of Control: Don’t trash my holocaust
It was an ordinary, unseasonably cool, summer day in a sleepy town just forty minutes outside of Berlin. Oranienburg once