Fear of/in the Ethnography
Tarek Younis reflects on the affective and ethical challenges of conducting ethnographic research on the UK’s Prevent counter-radicalisation duty within the NHS.
Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice: An Exploration Through Seva
In the context of the world we live in, one that is experiencing global apartheid and is permissive of abandonment through colonial erasure, the question I ask in this piece is, What can we expect from the law in world-making?
British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945
Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker, eds. 2024. British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945.
Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California
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