Abstract: Reviewing the Takhayyul Team’s long journey of ethics approvals by various institutional bodies, this paper questions the ethics of […] The post Ethics without the Ethics: The…
Wandering through the central streets of Tehran, you will invariably come across the ubiquitous street booksellers and their stalls. As […] The post Street Books in Tehran: Collective…
Keywords: Feminism, emotion, methods, ethnography It was a hot sweltering Sunday afternoon in the bustling city of Karachi. I had […] The post The Ethics of Researching the…
In this audio file, I reflect on my fieldwork in Palestine. Using commitment as a frame, I address how it […] The post An audio note on Commitment…
Until the fairly recent turn towards therapy and mental health of educated middle classes in Turkey, talking with one’s neighbor, […] The post The Transformative Potential of Intimacy:…
Conducting field research in the Global South comes with its own challenges in various stages: pre-field, during fieldwork, and post-fieldwork. […] The post Introduction: Conducting Ethnographic…
Cornell University has been in the news for suspending the British-Gambian student Momodou Taal for his lawful involvement in protests […] The post Against racist blackmail on US…
It is an honor to write an afterword to this provocative and engaging collection of short essays and films by […] The post Afterword for Sensory Media Anthropology…
Leonardo Custódio Sometimes, when I think about multiple processes of communication in doing research, I feel as if I become […] The post Clocks appeared first on Allegra…
Áine Mangaoang: The nicest prison walls in the world? The prison begins, and ends, with the wall. Ten-feet tall, smooth […] The post Walls appeared first on Allegra…
Marie Gorm Aabo Even before I started my fieldwork on sound, tinnitus, and soundscapes, I had a feeling that I […] The post Gut Feeling appeared first on…
Leonardo Custódio: Cameras, Narratives and Actions in Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Complexos (Finland/Brazil 2020) is a 26-minute-long film that […] The post Moved appeared first on Allegra…
Mónica Degen Steps to move and change Steps can be both those we take every day, one foot after the […] The post Steps appeared first on Allegra…
Sanne Krogh Groth Fragility of voltage Needless to say, electronic music has something to do with electricity. As a genre, […] The post Electricity appeared first on Allegra…
Niina Oisalo Weather, diary of the body Meri Kytö Weather walking In Venice, there is a habit of “andar sconte” […] The post Weather appeared first on Allegra…
Mónica Degen The Reciprocity of Touch Skin is our largest organ and mainly associated with our exterior appearances and identities, […] The post Skin appeared first on Allegra…
WHAT IS SENSORY MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGY? With this thread, we want to make a case for what we call sensory media […] The post Sensory Media Anthropology appeared first…
Richard Rorty once remarked that in times of uncertainties and profound transformations, there is a tendency to turn to philosophy […] The post On the Grievability of Palestinian…
Why should anthropologists support the motion to suspend collaborations with Israeli academic institutions? And why did a group of EASA […] The post Refusing genocide and academic complicity…
This week when I went back to Stockholm University the encampment was not there anymore. All songs, music, debates, seminars, whispers, shouts, and slogans were replaced by a…
In 1931, an American newspaper competition asked its readers to submit the best use of the word denial in a sentence. The winner was “Denial ain’t (just) a…
In the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors – who participated in the 2011 revolution and are…
Not long after Tufan Al-Aqsa in October, political ecologist Andreas Malm observed in an interview the peculiar temporality of popular revolt in the Arab world. Remarking on the…
I am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is October, just past the turn from summer to…