Institutional care across borders: How care relocation (re)articulates sediments of German histories of East-Central Europe
Institutional care across borders: How care relocation (re)articulates sediments of German histories of East-Central Europe Based on fieldwork in care homes in Silesia, Poland, and the former Sudetenland in the…
Kantala comes to the clinic: Tuberculosis, distributed emotions, and states of exhaustion
Kantala comes to the clinic: Tuberculosis, distributed emotions, and states of exhaustion Inspired by a young woman’s insistence at a tuberculosis (TB) dispensary in Mumbai that kantala—a Marathi and Hindi…
Becoming Orthodox: Transcendental pathways as intimate structures of subjectivity
Becoming Orthodox: Transcendental pathways as intimate structures of subjectivity What is it about Orthodoxy that helps the worshipper build the “right” interiority? It is shown here how the transcendental may…
Questioning care for things (and their people)
Questioning care for things (and their people) There is an increasing assertion within the heritage sector that museums holding ethnographic collections should position themselves as spaces of care. Yet the…
Care for neighbors and care on paper: Relationships, medical bureaucracies, and conflicting time in community health work
Care for neighbors and care on paper: Relationships, medical bureaucracies, and conflicting time in community health work By foregrounding the exploration of the epistemology of time, this article theorizes heterochronicity…
Care and karmic stories
Care and karmic stories This article elucidates a common relationship between care and temporality in contemporary Thai social worlds through attention to circulating narratives and their effects on both the…
Enduring violence, times of care: “Forced-marriage” in the UK
Enduring violence, times of care: “Forced-marriage” in the UK This paper is concerned with the distortions that arise from a temporal privileging of the UK’s Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act…
Care as social action: Child care and children caring in Yauyos, Peru
Care as social action: Child care and children caring in Yauyos, Peru Children are deeply enmeshed in webs of care which have strong and weak points and gaps, and within…
Sounds of the Neighbourhood: Shouting, Belonging, and Sonic Governance in Berlin’s Maybachufer Market
Sounds of the Neighbourhood: Shouting, Belonging, and Sonic Governance in Berlin’s Maybachufer Market Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This paper examines how vendors’ shouting shapes—and is shaped by—gentrification…
The high-modernist state: Rethinking environmental authoritarianism in the twenty-first century
The high-modernist state: Rethinking environmental authoritarianism in the twenty-first century Go to Source
Transforming care
Transforming care Go to Source
A plethora of polities: The state, the nation-state, and the ethnonational state
A plethora of polities: The state, the nation-state, and the ethnonational state Go to Source
Seeing like a surveillance state: Settler colonialism on the China–Myanmar border
Seeing like a surveillance state: Settler colonialism on the China–Myanmar border Go to Source
Weapons of the wronged: Notes on law’s double-edge
Weapons of the wronged: Notes on law’s double-edge Go to Source
After Scott: Perspectives for the future of the ethnography of the state
After Scott: Perspectives for the future of the ethnography of the state Go to Source
Rethinking Scott in an era of post-developmental restorationist state formation
Rethinking Scott in an era of post-developmental restorationist state formation Go to Source
How Nigerians see the state: An essay in honor of James C. Scott
How Nigerians see the state: An essay in honor of James C. Scott Go to Source
Introduction: Marveling over the state
Introduction: Marveling over the state Go to Source
Playing with concepts
Playing with concepts Go to Source
Embodied Experience and Emotional Labor: An Autoethnography of Capturing and Archiving Screenshots From Ephemeral Social Media
Embodied Experience and Emotional Labor: An Autoethnography of Capturing and Archiving Screenshots From Ephemeral Social Media Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article interrogates my dual role as…