Auffallend häufig finden sich in der Gegenwartsliteratur Texte, die bereits Erzähltes revidieren und noch einmal von Neuem beginnen. Die Literatur setzt hierfür Verfahren des Zurücksetzens und Wiederh…
By Bogumila Hall and Marina de Regt – Recent clashes between the Houthis and anti-Houthi forces in Yemen have led to hundreds of “casualties”, thousands of wounded and…
Foguera de Sant Joan segons un gravat del segle XIX, recollit per Joan Amades al seu Costumari Consideracions per Stefano Portelli enviades l’agost …
This reflective essay examines the author’s experience conducting fieldwork while managing chronic illness and disability. The post Unhealthy at the Health Fair: A personal account of chronic illness…
This article introduces The New Ethnographer’s call for a “compassionate turn” in anthropology, extending the reflexive turn by foregrounding how fieldwork impacts researchers as well as interlocutors…
In this article, Nieves Galera reflects on the practical and emotional challenges of conducting ethnographic fieldwork with infants and their families. The post Through the looking glass: learning…
Richard McNeil-Willson critiques sensationalised and unethical approaches to researching so-called “extremist” groups, responding to popular accounts that celebrate deception, infiltration, and person…
Writing from experiences of harassment, surveillance, and sexualised misrecognition during fieldwork in a highly militarised context, Anya Evans foregrounds the ethnographer’s body as a central site o…
This article explores the ethical precarity of conducting anthropological research within contested conservation spaces, where moral boundaries are blurred and alliances are unstable. The post The eth…
Emanuelle Roth critically examines how institutional risk frameworks reshape ethnographic practice through her experience of being recalled from doctoral fieldwork in Guinea after disclosing a pregnan…
Drawing on her Master’s fieldwork in Leipzig, Salma Moustafa Khalil reflects on how orientalism, gender, and racialised assumptions shape ethnographic encounters when a Middle Eastern woman conducts r…
This post reflects on contemporary challenges in ethnographic research, foregrounding the everyday ethical, emotional, and institutional pressures that shape fieldwork practice. The post Gender and da…
Hareem Khan examines the fragility and fluidity of friendships formed during ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on trust, distrust, and rupture as constitutive elements of research relationships. The po…
In many parts of the world, there is an increasing discomfort with middlemen in the healthcare industry (Pearl, 2024). They are characterized as greedy, profit seekers and vilified…
In Season 2 of the show Ramy, two Muslim American men perform umrah (the minor pilgrimage to Mecca) while sitting in an Atlantic City hotel room. Ramy is…
From The New York Times: The World, September 17, 2026. For more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/us/merriam-webster-new-words-looksmaxxing-yacht-rock.html Please don’t get the Silver Week …
Playing this game in class was the highlight of my 2025 teaching year.
You can hear me talk about my new book After the Flush with Alex Wise from Sea Change radio here.
فیلم «لو (Lou) » فیلمی در ژانر هیجان انگیز و اکشن و محصول سال ۲۰۲۲ است که توسط شبکه نتفلیکس ساخته شده و آنا فورستر (Anna Foerster) کارگردانی…
اول سپتامبر در کوهستک شهر ساحلی کوچکی نزدیک سیریک در هرمزگان سقف پایین آمد. مهماتی خورد به خانهای که در آن عروسیِ دخترِ یک ماهیگیر برپا بود. رسانههای…
گفتوگو کننده: زهره دودانگه از اینکه دعوت نشریۀ میدان فرهنگ را برای مصاحبه پذیرفتید از شما سپاسگزاریم. در سالهای اخیر شاهد افول جایگاه و منزلت مدرسه در جامعه…
Much of the contemporary conversation about higher education has become heavily focused on the moral economy of artificial intelligence. Universities are rewriting assessment policies, introducing AI …
Where and to whom do ancient things belong? What happens when they are stolen—not by a colonial power, but by a national museum claiming them as state patrimony?…
November 9th, 2016 found me as shocked and depressed as any Hilary Clinton supporter — and not only because the xenophobic, racist, sexist, and generally despicable Donald Trump…