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Ines Hasselberg , May 30th, 2016
The following article initially appeared on FocaalBlog and was reposted with the kind permission of the author. On 14 April 2010, I was approached by J., who had come across…
Elad Ben Elul , May 2nd, 2016
At a time when the words “Israel” and “Anthropology” are constantly attached to “boycott,” “occupation,” or “war,” it is very easy to fall into simplistic or generalised perspectives on…
Andreas Hackl , April 13th, 2016
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Meike Rottermann , February 22nd, 2016
“Looking for a story? I might just have one!” With those words, Hikmet, a Turkish friend, invited me for a walk: story hunting in Istanbul. It was…
Transformations Network , January 15th, 2016
Just a few days after the brutal terror attack on tourists took place in Istanbul, Turkish president Erdoğan and prime minister Davutoğlu used this tragic event to attack a petition by “Academic…
Jonathan Burrow , October 17th, 2015
During my fieldwork in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, I was constantly faced with large photographs of children’s faces, in many emotional states, accompanied by milk powder tins and…
Transformations Network , July 22nd, 2015
The workshop will be held by the price-winning journalist Matthias Eberl, who is one of the pioneers of multimedia storytelling. Participants will learn how to combine different media…
Transformations Network , June 22nd, 2015
Our panel “Engaged Anthropology: Reality? Necessity? Utopia?” seeks to reflect ‘engagement’ in anthropology against the backdrop of utopia. What is the purpose of our scientifi…
Daniel Miller , May 13th, 2015
Perhaps the biggest problem of our entire project is that every time anyone asks us a question we have nine different answers, which is not what the person…
Eva Kössner , May 4th, 2015
In the occupied West Bank, mobility and migration aren’t just everyday routine. They are highly charged political issues. In my field research (2010) among young Palestinians who had…
Jana Gerold Michelle Engeler , April 16th, 2015
Only recently, debates on global mobility of people consider the movement from economically richer to poorer countries, even though this trend increases from year to year. People do…
Andreas Hackl , March 31st, 2015
For decades, the Palestinian citizens of Israel had to cope with a life at the margins of both Palestine and Israel, were largely excluded from the ‘peace process’…
Natalia Paszkiewicz , February 17th, 2015
I always enjoyed swimming, and I was even training to become a professional swimmer when I was in a primary school. It did not work out because I…
Razvan Nicolescu , February 5th, 2015
First, we should keep in mind that low income is not necessarily related to poverty in Grano. I will briefly explain why. Indeed, the unemployment figures for the local…
Andreas Hackl , February 5th, 2015
How are peace and conflict connected to im/mobilities? We invite papers for the 5th Bi-annual meeting of the network ‘Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology’ (PACSA), held 2-4 Septembe…
Kathrin Heitz T. , January 29th, 2015
Between 2002 and 2011, the northern half of the Côte d’Ivoire was controlled by the rebel group Les Forces Nouvelle. In contrast to other violent groups, the rebels did not hide in the…
Andrés Forero Rueda , January 10th, 2015
“Listening and watching, that’s what it is about” said Martin with a Frisian accent, who together with Sven, was teaching me about the Frisian tradition of lapwing egg-hunting….