Interview – Navnita Chadha Behera
Navnita Behera discusses the multilayered nature of the Kashmir conflict, the key ethical issues for research in conflict zones, and her work drawing on dharmic cosmology.
Review – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
It is a happy irony that families like Ocean’s who have sacrificed so much, bequeath to their host society a narrative not only gorgeous, but priceless.
Interview – Julia Leser
Julia Leser discusses the concept of affect in knowledge production in politics, the ethnography of states, and how ‘wolf politics’ can help explain the re-emergence of the far right in Eastern Germany.
Ethnography in International Relations
Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study.
I Don’t Know What to Do with Myself: ‘I’ as a Tool, a Voice, and an Object in Writing
In presenting a story of my own negotiation, I call for careful consideration of ‘I’ as an object, voice, and tool – and how it might entwine with hierarchies.
Failing Better Together? A Stylised Conversation about Fieldwork
There is much more to critical research than publish or perish, success and failure. Supervision, collegiality, and care are crucial. ‘Failure’ must be worked through.
Interview – Katarina Kušić
Katarina Kušić discusses the concepts of intervention and liberal governmentality, her research on Serbia, ethnography and decolonial thought applied to Southeast Europe.
Review – From Righteousness to Far Right
Mc Cluskey proposes an anthropological rethinking of critical security studies by focusing on the response of a small Swedish village to 100 resettled Syrian refugees.
What Do We Mean by ‘Local People’? The Palestinian Case.
In the West Bank and Gaza, municipal leaders do truly thankless and heroic tasks every day. Let them represent their people.
What I Learned Fending off Wild Camels in Pamukkale (A Travelogue)
Fieldwork teaches you to appreciate the similarities of individuals and communities across the globe.
