The French system of asylum is steeped with liquid metaphors. Scholars have highlighted the ways in which demographers, politicians and media have long tapped into hydraulics and hydrology to [...]
Introduction In 2014, the Supreme Court of India ruled that no gender-related cases can be arbitrated at the village level; any assembly of this nature remains unconstitutional. 1 This judgement [...]
“Excuse me, miss. Do I understand you were looking for a particular AF [Artificial Friend]? One you’d seen here before?” “Yes, ma’am. You had her in your window a [...]
by Janelle S. Taylor A few years ago, I moved out of the university office that I had occupied for many years. I kept the place relatively neat, but I [...]
“Don’t you ever, ever feel, like you’re less than fuckin’ perfect.” (Fuckin’ Perfect, Pink) The fieldnotes I have chosen to reflect on come from fieldwork I carried out in Lisbon, [...]
“[O]ur stories are silenced too often. The struggles and trials that women anthropologists must endure and overcome to get access to some of the same field sites and data as [...]
When I flew from the US to Russia, from Chicago to Vladivostok, the COVID-19 pandemic was not yet a pandemic. From the news, Russia seemed to be doing better [...]
One’s fieldnotes mirror one’s fieldwork, not simply because they record ethnographic observations but because they shed light on the life of the observer in the field (Devereux 1967). When I [...]
According to Anna Tsing and her Matsutake Worlds Research Group, “[g]ood fieldwork is supposed to change the fieldworker’s research questions” (2009, 382). This requires the fieldworker to “allow research objects [...]
I could not write. I would get back to my apartment in the center of San Pedro Sula, and I could not write. I would pull my little red-orange hatchback [...]
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