The Murky World of ‘Extremism’ Research
Richard McNeil-Willson critiques sensationalised and unethical approaches to researching so-called “extremist” groups, responding to popular accounts that celebrate deception, infiltration, and person…
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…
On this Episode of Displacing Universities Ian speaks with Louis Henri Seukwa and Janina Hertel who both work at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences The post Centre for…
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.
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…
Table of Contents By Layla El-Dakhakhni, with editing by Erdanya Anderson What is Accuracy? What is Rigour? Science requires accuracy and rigour, but how are these qualities built?…
I was picking up an order on 67th st and Columbus Ave when I saw the guy get on my bike and start to ride away. I got…
For some time now I have been interested in why social scientists and humanities scholars pay so little attention to rivers that run dry. By length, these rivers…
This is almost live (well, the pdf of the main is live – check it out) …an amazing collection of 45 papers for the fourth International Conference on…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/visualizing-latinx Karen Mary Davalos: Visualizing Latinx could not be more timely, although I can imagine some readers thinking about the creative arts as esoteric …
To what extent do measurements from an electroencephalography headset provide evidence of the aesthetic contemplation state of the person wearing it? In the 2015 neuroaesthetic research project Action…
14 September 2026 Samprati Pani A long-time resident of a neighbourhood might suggest one to you. And when you set out looking for it, a chaiwala or a…