Invitation to join a series of (virtual and in-person) gatherings Exhausted by academic writing that mistakes joyless seriousness for rigour? Suffocated by the writing voice you’ve somehow adopted aga...

Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft (ed.)

Future-making is an embodied social, cultural and political practice (Appadurai 2013). Anchored in the present, futures are the ground for struggles and debates. In contemporary contexts of violent co...

Future-making is an embodied social, cultural and political practice (Appadurai 2013). Anchored in the present, futures are the ground for struggles and debates. In contemporary contexts of violent co...

The Kashmir conflict flares up again – Dr Pascale Schild explains causes, interests, and consequences for the region and the world.

While engaged anthropology foregrounds the privilege and ethical responsibility of researchers toward interlocutors suffering all forms of oppression, anthropologists' own vulnerabilities and troubli....

In The Vulnerable Observer, anthropologist Ruth Behar notes “anthropology that doesn't break your heart just isn't worth doing anymore.” The theoretical