The Vital Afterlife of Chernobyl Cemeteries
Every year, after Easter, hundreds of families from all over Ukraine gather in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. People converge toward the now-deserted area…
Read MoreEvery year, after Easter, hundreds of families from all over Ukraine gather in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. People converge toward the now-deserted area…
Read MoreThe way we make sense of space has radically changed as a novel Coronavirus spread, with no clear end in sight. While our physical…
Read MoreIntroduction Wong Kwang Lin is an anthropologist and a dancer based in Singapore. K.L. Wong asked her colleagues and friends to create a collective…
Read MoreWhere do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini,…
Read MoreAs neo-nationalists gain strength across Europe and the promise of ‘strong’ borders continues to gain traction with electorates across the world, we need few…
Read MoreThe conference No Country for Anthropologists? Ethnographic Research in the Contemporary Middle East, which we co-organized and hosted at the University of Zurich in…
Read MoreScholarly discussions of charity, philanthropy and humanitarianism in varied contexts tend to uphold the moral ideal of giving for the sake of humanity at…
Read MoreThis post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and…
Read MoreIn 2011, China’s state-run general content television channel, CCTV-4, launched a monumental 100-part series with a title that translates as “Borderland Journey” (边疆行). The premise…
Read MoreUsing participation in a collective online experiment with Twitter as a springboard, I interrogate the tweet as a fieldnote. How do the temporalities of…
Read MoreWhat makes a place remote? Is remoteness that which is geographically distant from the centre of administrative, political and economic activities? Or is remoteness…
Read MoreWhen we think about deserts, we usually imagine them as quintessentially remote. We tend to take their remoteness as primordial rather than see it…
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