This essay by Sina Knecht traces my experience as a student-participant in the performative piece laut&LAUTER, staged as part of a seminar at the University of Münster. The topics of gender, sexis…

Vi har alle oppfatninger om ulike språk og dialekter. I dette innlegget skal vi grave litt mer i hvordan stereotypier om språk oppstår og virker. Det sentrale eksempelet blir trønderdialektens rykte …

By Shahram Khosravi “What should we do when the heaven turns away from us?” I was asked this some years ago by a childhood friend from our village in Zagros mountains. What he meant was this: how…

I can’t stop thinking about anthropologist Michael Taussig’s book Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man about the terror of the rubber trade in Colombia. In it, he describes how coloniz…

Simmons, Dana. 2025. On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520412989 xiii + 234 pp. Acknowledgements, notes, bibliograp…

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Shulan Sun: How would you introduce the main arguments of Borderland Circuitry in 2026, especially in light of the U.S. gover…

Written by Jehron Muhammad West Africa’s “coup belt” widens as the continent confronts a striking resurgence of military attempts at …

A.A. Dhand und Saima Mir sind in England für ihre Krimis bekannt, die in Breadford spielen, einer ehemaligen Textilmetropole mit einer großen Community muslimischer „british asians“. Ihre Literatur sp…

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Josie Hu
MA Creative and Collaborative Enterprise

I used to think that anthropological fieldwork always happened somewhere far away, in unfamiliar places. Over time, I realised that my earlie…

This article, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperative…