ByLily WellsBSc Human Science Time does not move cleanly through a city. It accumulates unevenly, settling into buildings, street names, and the habits of everyday life. In Bristol, the…
ByJoe PainterAnthropology PhD student, NERC London DPT Taken by the author Deprived these days of loose changeand splurged gossip, no longer fat on 20psor strictly necessary calls, her…
By Yuting FuMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology MOTHERS This piece is a response to Temporalities, the theme of our 2026 print issue, which you can read here.
ByAlessandro PatelBSc Anthropology This poem grew out of fieldwork around the Brunswick Centre, where I was exploring how residents experience a building that places domestic life above comme…
ByHyden (Ke Shi)MA Ethnographic and Documentary Film Memory Murmur Memory Murmur is a multimodal zine exploring temporality through two veteran oak trees on Sandy Heath, England. The oaks…
ByApril (Junhan) HuangBA Media On Arrival Detergent, and a mixture of brewed coffee. As I inhale the air in the corridor, I know I am back again, and…
To celebrate our 2026 printed issue of Anthropolitan, we held a competition, asking members of the UCL community to create images which hold our theme of temporalities. Here…
ByYuije Wang We are used to measuring time by clocks and calendars, letting days and years slip away along a straight, linear path. Yet from an anthropological perspective,…
ByDanielle GalwayMSc Anthropology and Professional Practice The photograph shows two young women, on a summer evening, a night out in Cornwall. Similar but so different, they are sisters…
To celebrate our 2026 printed issue of Anthropolitan, we held a competition, asking members of the UCL community to create images which hold our theme of temporalities. Here…