A View From the Train Tracks
In September 2015, the disturbing image of a drowned Syrian toddler named Aylan Kurdi, whose body had washed ashore on a beach in Turkey, triggered an international outcry…
Museums and Ecology: The Story of “Little Frog” (Ranunculus paucifolius)
By Joanna Cobley, University of Canterbury § One botanical specimen collected in the late nineteenth century provides the starting point for this commentary on “museums and ecology.” What can…
Activist Chefs and the Food Movement
David Beriss University of New Orleans A few weeks ago, Greg de St. Maurice wrote an intriguing piece on this blog about chef activism. He drew on the…
Will women talk about the war?
In 2014 I spent 3 months in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, working with a Sierra Leonean research assistant to record women’s stories of wartime and domestic…
Will women talk about the war?
In 2014 I spent 3 months in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, working with a Sierra Leonean research assistant to record women’s stories of wartime and domestic…
Will women talk about the war?
In 2014 I spent 3 months in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, working with a Sierra Leonean research assistant to record women’s stories of wartime and domestic…
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi, “The Han: China’s Diverse Majority” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi’s new book opens with a series of questions that animate the study. They include but are not limited to: What does being Han mean to those…
Geschichte und der aktuelle Stand der historischen Flüchtlingsforschung
Dieser Vortrag wurde beim Arbeitstreffen „Geschichte und Gedächtnis in der Flüchtlingsforschung” des DFG-Netzwerkes Grundlagen der Flüchtlingsforschung gehalten. Die originale Version des Vortrags (in…
#Review: Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe
It is a banal insight that law creates the illegal and the conditions for illegality. At the most basic level, crossing a border without the required identification (passport)…
History and current state of historical research in Refugee Studies
This paper was presented at the Workshops “History and Memory in Refugee Research” of the DFG-Netzwerk Grundlagen der Flüchtlingsforschung. The paper is also accessible translated into German. …
A Path Toward Well-Being
It’s been 15 years since I learned that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a set of blood cancers, which, as they say, can be managed but not cured. When…
A Path Toward Well-Being
It’s been 15 years since I learned that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a set of blood cancers, which, as they say, can be managed but not cured. When…
A Path Toward Well-Being
It’s been 15 years since I learned that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a set of blood cancers, which, as they say, can be managed but not cured. When…
A Path Toward Well-Being
It’s been 15 years since I learned that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a set of blood cancers, which, as they say, can be managed but not cured. When…
A Path Toward Well-Being
It’s been 15 years since I learned that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a set of blood cancers, which, as they say, can be managed but not cured. When…
A Path Toward Well-Being
It’s been 15 years since I learned that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a set of blood cancers, which, as they say, can be managed but not cured. When…
A Path Toward Well-Being
It’s been 15 years since I learned that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a set of blood cancers, which, as they say, can be managed but not cured. When…
A Path Toward Well-Being
It’s been 15 years since I learned that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a set of blood cancers, which, as they say, can be managed but not cured. When…
A Path Toward Well-Being
It’s been 15 years since I learned that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a set of blood cancers, which, as they say, can be managed but not cured. When…
Ethnographic case, legal case: From the spirit of the law to the law of the spirit by André Menard
In 1956, Claude Lévi-Strauss addressed a letter to the 1st International Congress of Black Writers and Artists held in Paris. In the letter, he stated that “after the…
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Hi all, Let’s start the week with some fresh readings! Development news features: Wyclef Jean’s ‘Ask me Anything’ disaster; the troubling comfort of aid lives in Geneva; UK…
What does social media tell us about sociality in Grano?
‘Good morning’ message received on WhatsApp [double-click on the image to see the video]. So, what does the ethnography of social media use in southeast Italy tells us? In my…