Circulating loss: Snakes, melancholy, and the affective memory of trauma in Grassfields birth rites
Circulating loss: Snakes, melancholy, and the affective memory of trauma in Grassfields birth rites Trying to accommodate the puzzling coexistence of two formulations of human conception and reproduction in a…
Transversal multiverses: Across ontologies and multiplicities in the Guianas
Transversal multiverses: Across ontologies and multiplicities in the Guianas The use of “ontology” in anthropology poses descriptive and theoretical challenges. How to deal with beings who simultaneously inhabit different realities—described…
Radical hospitality in a Berlin hackerspace
Radical hospitality in a Berlin hackerspace Go to Source
Playing dangerously: Reproducing and displacing heroic and entrepreneurial masculinity in Senegalese wrestling with punches
Playing dangerously: Reproducing and displacing heroic and entrepreneurial masculinity in Senegalese wrestling with punches During their training and daily life, làmb (Senegalese wrestling with punches) wrestlers usually embody forms of…
Dialogue vs. “doing”: Running without aim for improved interfaith relations in Luxembourg
Dialogue vs. “doing”: Running without aim for improved interfaith relations in Luxembourg This article analyses an annual interfaith run in Luxembourg. Across diversities of backgrounds, ideas about interfaith, and how…
Ethnoproduction: Scripted ethnography using a cast and crew
Ethnoproduction: Scripted ethnography using a cast and crew This article introduces ethnoproduction, a scripted ethnographic methodology developed through the creation of the film Between. The approach explores how living in…
Afterword: Temporalities of care and transformative potentials
Afterword: Temporalities of care and transformative potentials In this afterword, I discuss the collected articles’ theoretical potential for thinking about care beyond political critique and illuminating how its multiple temporalities…
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…
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