Punctuation and Flow
The past two years have been marked by an ever-accelerating cascade of global “events”: once in a lifetime events, generational events, unexpected events, catastrophic…
Read MoreThe past two years have been marked by an ever-accelerating cascade of global “events”: once in a lifetime events, generational events, unexpected events, catastrophic…
Read MoreEthnography and Political Engagement This Thematic Thread emerged from a workshop organised (online) at the LSE in February 2021, entitled “In the moment and…
Read MoreIn their introduction to this thematic series, and the symposium that preceded it, Berisha, Mafizzoli and Ojani invite us to reflect on what happens…
Read MoreAround the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students (and other researchers)…
Read MoreAfterlives are proliferating. Whether it is empire or destruction, Ebola or punk, revolution or waste – there seems to exist hardly anything these days…
Read MoreWhere did afterlives fever come from? These reflections suggest a trajectory. Today, amid a lively eruption of usages, afterlife has moved away from longstanding…
Read More“Lena, you can turn on the camera now.” The view of the space station changes from monitor to film image. The opening scene of…
Read MoreNew year, new events! The start of a new year makes us strangely aware of the passing of time – so don’t forget to…
Read MoreDear Allies, after a ‘magical intellectual carpet ride’ that has already lasted for five years, it is time for a new chapter in the…
Read MoreThis post explores the notion of displacement through the experience of Franziska, who has spent her whole life in a peaceful touristic village of…
Read MoreThrough the notion of simultaneity I explore the emotional and affective dimension of the displacement-emplacement continuum within transnational migration and hint to the need…
Read MoreMonrovia Modern is a beautiful and perceptive book that describes the limitations and contradictions of architectural forms of political and urban imaginations in Monrovia….
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