It was the autumn of 2021. As I walked through the crowded streets on that gloomy day in Milan, I held my umbrella to protect my leather notebook containing [...]
One of my interlocutors stood in front of me. In her hand, she held an empty syringe. She said she wants to kill herself. We were in a shelter [...]
Close up of letters from people in US immigration detention, part of “En Medio: Senses of Migrations,” an exhibition at The Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, [...]
“Meghna, are you going to share today?” asked at least one classmate every week of my second semester of fieldwork at the postgraduate program in counseling psychology (colloquially termed [...]
Late last year, when I embarked on my journey into the field, I had a cache of theories, methods, and academic training at my disposal. However, all this prior [...]
The Boulder County Marshall Fire, which sparked on December 30, 2021 after an abnormally dry early winter, took two human lives, killed more than 1000 pets, and destroyed over [...]
The Bird. Photo by Upsplash Oté okpé, ikojóke ona bak ta kandaré nhi kinnan aki n’unkudé ka nhi na tando kanhinan a ki n’unkudé? Oté to kobentén, [...]
“Affect in the Ethnographic Experience of Studying Death,” by Oriol Pascual Pérez, is based on long-term fieldwork conducted in the Poblenou Cemetery of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), focused on the [...]
Warning: This text discusses suicide I shouldn’t have been so scared before this research interview. It was the second time I was going to meet this interviewee. The first [...]
A soldier holds a portrait of Kostya at the funeral. Courtesy of Kostya’s family. It was freezing as we carried his coffin to its final resting place. [...]
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