Refugees on the other side
Recently there has been a lot of talk in Europe about refugees, sometimes designated as ”migrants”, always pronounced with a moralising overtone in order to emphasise that the…
Author: Diana Szanto
Celebrating anthropology
This blogpost is an open message to my colleagues and friends who are celebrating today the 25th anniversary of the first anthropology department in Hungary. Dear all, I…
Blame it on Ebola
Since the 7th of November Sierra Leone is officially Ebola-free. Even if the outbreak lasted far too long and it was far too painful, there is reason now…
DisNGOization in practice
I have been here for three weeks that have run so fast that it seems I landed yesterday. It is time to focus on the main reason of…
Dignity Market
Dignity Market is a place that my friends rented so that disabled people living in different collective homes in and around the city can come there to work,…
Closed fists of Ebola
I did long term anthropological fieldwork amongst the polio-disabled communities of Freetown between 2008 and 2012. The research fed into my doctoral dissertation: „Where parallel worlds meet: civil…