Claiming the bodies of Kurdish women: Kurdish women’s funerals in Northern Kurdistan/Turkey
Claiming the bodies of Kurdish women: Kurdish women’s funerals in Northern Kurdistan/Turkey The Turkish state strictly bans funerals and other forms of public mourning for Kurdish guerrillas, considering them to…
Deception-based knowledge in Indigenous and scientific societies: American Indian tricksters and experimental research designs
Deception-based knowledge in Indigenous and scientific societies: American Indian tricksters and experimental research designs The emerging movement to decolonize the sciences, social sciences, and humanities has emphasized the differences between…
Emotivity and excess of spirits in the Andes
Emotivity and excess of spirits in the Andes In the Quechua community of Coipasi (Bolivia) relations between the living and the dead (almas—souls) swing between excess and containment, remembrance and…
Uywasiña in Aymara cosmopraxis: Ontogenesis and attentionality
Uywasiña in Aymara cosmopraxis: Ontogenesis and attentionality This article revolves around the theoretical and ethnographic experiences of an ongoing anthropological study with contemporary Aymara families about how “education by attention”…
Contemporary Shuar beliefs: The indigenous use of a vexed anthropological concept in post-conversion Amazonia
Contemporary Shuar beliefs: The indigenous use of a vexed anthropological concept in post-conversion Amazonia The critique of belief as an analytical tool in anthropology has overshadowed belief as an ethnographic…
Kurdish transformative politics in Turkey
Kurdish transformative politics in Turkey This article discusses the transformative potential of Turkey’s pro-democracy movement which has emerged out of a long history of Kurdish political struggle. It looks at…
Spreading whose word? Militarism and nationalism in the transnational Turkish mosques
Spreading whose word? Militarism and nationalism in the transnational Turkish mosques In this article, I explore the role of religious discourses and practices in the diasporic Kurdish-Turkish conflict and investigate…
Turkish Islam and Kurdish difference
Turkish Islam and Kurdish difference In this article I discuss the ways in which the Turkish state uses Islam as a weapon to delegitimize and render unnecessary Kurdish distinctiveness and…
Balancing acts and worldviews
Balancing acts and worldviews Go to Source
A “normal” day under authoritarian rule: An ethnographic account of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict
A “normal” day under authoritarian rule: An ethnographic account of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict This article examines how a “normal” day passes under a conflicted and authoritarian governmentality in an ethnically…
On board the quarantine-ship as “floating hotspot”: Creeping externalization practices in the Mediterranean Sea
On board the quarantine-ship as “floating hotspot”: Creeping externalization practices in the Mediterranean Sea Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, migration was framed in Italy as ‘the emergency…
Playing ethnographically living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment
Playing ethnographically living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment Ethnography, Ahead of Print. How can we live well together? The question is critical for cities, where “wicked problems” like…
Fair Trade in an unfair market: economic competitiveness and workers’ rights in Costa Rica’s banana industry
Fair Trade in an unfair market: economic competitiveness and workers’ rights in Costa Rica’s banana industry Ethnography, Ahead of Print. The Fair Trade movement aims to provide producers and workers…
Relying on the Kindness of Strangers: Welfare-Providers to Seafarers and the Symbolic Construction of Community
Relying on the Kindness of Strangers: Welfare-Providers to Seafarers and the Symbolic Construction of Community Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Seafarers who call into ports usually hope for,…
Risky business? Parenting children of deployed Danish soldiers
Risky business? Parenting children of deployed Danish soldiers Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article focuses on children’s reactions to military deployment from the perspective of their parents. Based on ethnographic…
‘Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences
‘Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences Ethnography, Ahead of Print. In the literature on migration to the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC),…