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focaal_admin , March 11th, 2022
After nearly two weeks of violent conflict in Ukraine, it is increasingly difficult to stand back and see the bigger picture. The West has lined up behind the…
Maximilian C. Forte , June 6th, 2021
In Part 1 we ended with the documentary’s discussion of the type of business model that has been created around COVID-19, or to match the title of the…
focaal_admin , January 27th, 2021
The PrecAnthro Collective within EASA has shown staying power and bite. That is what the EASA precarity survey demonstrates (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020). Mariya Ivancheva has turned…
Anna-Riikka Kauppinen , September 14th, 2020
In his summer statement, Rishi Sunak, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that VAT (Value-Added Tax) would be dramatically cut from 20% to 5% for the…
| , August 3rd, 2020
On page 99 of my dissertation, the reader finds themself in the middle of an ethnographic description of a heated political debate held during the 101st Universal Congress…
Alex Moltzau , June 16th, 2020
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…
Rebecca_Irons , April 11th, 2020
FRANCESCO FLORIS On 4th April, more than two months after the declaration of the state of emergency and almost one month after the start of the quarantine throughout…
Maximilian C. Forte , May 24th, 2019
First shown at London’s East End Festival in June of 2017, Brexitannia was the very first documentary about Brexit. It is a striking and deeply pensive film, in…
Maximilian C. Forte , July 17th, 2018
Finally, on Monday, July 16, 2018, the Helsinki Summit bringing together Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump took place, despite shrill demands that it be…
Maximilian C. Forte , July 2nd, 2018
In Madeleine Albright’s new book, dramatically titled Fascism: A Warning, she slams the anti-globalization crowd, claiming yet again that globalization is here to stay—it’s a “fact of life…
Vito Laterza , May 22nd, 2018
The League’s Matteo Salvini and the Five Star’s Luigi Di Maio have entered into coalition to form a government in Italy [AP] You can read my latest piece…
Alexandra Frankel , October 16th, 2017
On the relocation of the UK in a time of populist instability. [pquote]Once the formal Brexit process is completed, Britain will no longer be in the same place…
Focaal Web Editor , April 5th, 2017
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). Earlier this…
Focaal Web Editor , March 29th, 2017
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). Sixty…
Focaal Web Editor , March 27th, 2017
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). In…
Deborah Jones , February 1st, 2017
The sociotechnical functions of secondhand trams in Romanian cities. This post is the first in a three-part series on Romanian Mobilities: Vehicles of Migration in New Europe. The…
Maximilian C. Forte , October 21st, 2016
Is Brexit bad for UK universities? This appears to be the question at the centre of an article from the Times Higher Education titled “UK researchers face uncertainty…
Maximilian Forte , August 4th, 2016
Immigration, rightly or wrongly, has been marched to the frontline of current political struggles in Europe and North America. Whether exaggerated or accurate, the role of immigration is…
Felix Stein , July 12th, 2016
The decision of people in Britain to leave the European Union has come as a surprise, even a shock to most of my friends and colleagues who work…
Paul Boyce , July 8th, 2016
On the morning of 24th June I had what I have since learnt to be a common experience. I lay in bed in conscious abeyance; Schrodinger’s Brexit: ‘If…
Thomas Hylland Eriksen , July 7th, 2016
Mainstream newspapers, politicians and commentators across Europe instantly expressed dejection and bitterness in the face of the Brexit outcome, and avid Brexiteers have typically been portrayed as x…
Sarah Green , July 1st, 2016
Brexit means trouble, that is for certain; what is less certain is what kind of trouble. Some might sympathise with the immediate response of Chris Gregory (ANU): “I…
Focaal Web Editor , June 29th, 2016
Against the predictions of the last polls, a narrow majority of the UK voters decided to leave the EU. Once again, the political crisis of Europe has deepened….
Maximilian Forte , June 24th, 2016
The European Union is now to be written as a postscript. Thanks to British voters, who were given an extremely rare chance to have a say on one…