Bordering the Digital Europe
Photo by — @pawel_czerwinski Historical contingencies and dynamic geographies for current future imaginaries of European borders Introduction The European Union is constructing new narratives of borderle…
Tag: Europe
#StayAwake in the Time of Pandemic: A Case of Anti-Government Protests in Slovenia (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Ziga Podgornik Jakil Almost every Saturday afternoon in the past two months, the so called ‘Hygiene-Demo’ takes place at the Rosa…
Why Can’t I Walk Your Dog? Not Accepting Help as a Coping Strategy During the Swiss Lockdown (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Martina von Arx “Et nous souhaitons ici lancer un appel à l’ensemble de la population et notamment un appel aussi aux…
What COVID-19 Reveals about Borders and Citizenship: Europe’s Migrants on Their Way Back Home (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Tunay Altay Travel restrictions became a global response to combat the spread of COVID-19. According to an analysis from April 2020…
COVID-19, the Freedom to Die, and the Necropolitics of the Market by Vito Laterza
Field hospital constructed in Gothenburg, Sweden in March 2020. Photo: Helén Sjöland. While reading Giorgio Agamben’s (2020) anthropological note on the “danger” of habituation of Italians to…
The Vanishing Land: In Search of a Myth for Samothraki
By Eleni Kotsira, University of St Andrews § It is an evening in the early days of August 2019. I am sitting at a café in an alleyway…
Limiting Life for an Unlimited Time – A Student’s Perspective (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Eva Steinberger “It feels like we are in a puzzle. But there are missing pieces, so there is no way to…
The Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities of Patients With Rare Disorders in Poland During a Global Pandemic (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Małgorzata Rajtar The global race to find a vaccine and effective treatments for COVID-19 has already shown its side effects. In…
Corona-Ninjas and Corona-Hyenas: COVID-19 Rhetoric in Poland (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Izabella Main, Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk „Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life…„ Mikhail…
Silent Spring in Europe calls for a New Social Ecology by Tanja Bogusz
Deserted streets in Rome, empty dance-halls in Berlin, died-out tourist attractions in Barcelona, and a lonely Eiffel-Tower in Paris: Europe is experiencing its first locked-down spring. It marks…
Positioniertheit im Gesundheitsnotstand: Wahrnehmungen, Auslassungen und Bewertungen im Kontext von Ebola und Corona (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Anne Menzel „Es ist wohl auch zu spät. Das Virus hat sich so weit verbreitet, dass es kaum noch hülfe, einzelne…
Austerity, Not COVID-19, Strains National Healthcare Systems by Megan Carney
Spain and Italy, two of the countries most affected early on by COVID-19, were also among the EU member-states that underwent severe and extended austerity measures following the…
Why do refugee children continue to take perilous journeys to reach the UK?
Our government just removed the only legislation providing an alternative. by Isabel Soloaga In January, I revisited the refugee camps in Northern France, where I have volunteered since…
Towards a Covid-19 lexicon of conceptual off-shoots: locking sociality down in the Netherlands and Spain
This piece reconsiders the importance and impact of pandemic’s preventive discourses on existing language-scapes in society. During the COVID-19 pandemic, institutionalised anglophone paradigms of hea…
At the Border of „Us“ and „Them“ – An Anecdote of a Korean International Student Going Through Corona Pandemic in France (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Juhyun Lee With the spread of the coronavirus, social distancing has become a new imperative. The changes are indeed very fast-paced.…
Sandro Mezzadra: Politics of struggles in the time of pandemic
A prolonged wait at the pharmacy, a long queue before entering a supermarket. Experiences like this, today increasingly common, can help us to see how the spreading of…
The balcony: normativity lessons in times of crisis by Rebeca Ibáñez Martín
The balcony has become a powerful domestic space symbolizing corona-solidarity in the south of Europe. Movie clips of Italians singing their national anthem from their balconies were broadcast…
Thesis Review: Tasting in Mundane Practices
Please note: As Associate Reviews Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent thesis or would…
Coronavirus: Less Humanitarianism, More Politics!
This essay was written seated on my couch, trying to make sense of the contemporary ‘state of emergency’ as the world around me has gradually come to a…
Naked Anthropologist News for Radio Ava: Jan 2020
Since last spring I’ve been providing Naked Anthropologist News to Radio Ava, a sexworker project in London. Something between tweeting and blogging, these news-bits are meant to be…
Christmas in the unexciting brothel
Edvard Munch painted Christmas in the Brothel in 1905, and every year I feel the same fondness for it. I don’t pay much attention to the ceremonies of…
Europe’s Other Walls
The Berlin Wall has always had multiple lives. Beyond its fall lies a story of proliferating borders and exclusions. “Berlin is not the same without a Wall,” said…
Ep. #44: Digitising Migrants: Annalisa Pelizza on the European immigration crisis in an age of Big Data
“Migration issues in Europe are a hot topic right now – it’s not news that they have been used in the last 50 years as a way to…
Evan Smith: Love milkshakes, hate racism: A short history of throwing food at the Far Right
An earlier version of this article first appeared on Hatful of History. In the last month, milkshakes have been lobbed at several far-right candidates in the European elections…