Invisible Veterans
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Category: English
The Debts of War
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To Be or Not to Be a Hero
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Introduction
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Unintended Securitization
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Processes of Territorialization in Mexico
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28 | 2019 – Narrating Experience: Rethinking Gender, Violence, Family and Media in Contemporary Turkey
Narrating Women’s Experiences of Gendered Violence: An Introduction [Full text]
Berna Ekal and Åsa Eldén
The Grammar of Gender Ideology: The Press Coverage of Sexual Violence in Turkey and the …
Ruination and the Affective Presence of the Past in relation to the Beit Beirut in Lebanon
The following essay is based on fieldnotes I took during my dissertation fieldwork in Beirut, Lebanon. It focuses on Beit Beirut, a building used by snipers during the height of the Lebanese Civil War, but that has now been repurposed as a museum and s…
Ruination and the Affective Presence of the Past in relation to the Beit Beirut in Lebanon
The following essay is based on fieldnotes I took during my dissertation fieldwork in Beirut, Lebanon. It focuses on Beit Beirut, a building used by snipers during the height of the Lebanese Civil War, but that has now been repurposed as a m…
Spectral Beings and Being Spectral: Ghostly Enchantment within Edinburgh’s Ghost Tours
Ghost tourism is big business in Scotland and in Edinburgh specifically. This paper is based off ethnographic fieldwork conducted with a number of the Scottish capital’s ghost tour companies. It is concerned primarily with the performance and emb…
‘The Traveller Way’
Although a population recognised externally for their itinerancy, the mobility of Gypsy Travellers in Scotland has been fundamentally misunderstood. Endowed with creative power, mobility exists for Gypsy Travellers not only in times of transit, but con…
The Leith Project
This essay reflects on the politics of abandoned buildings juxtaposed with memorials to a thriving industrial past whilst walking through Leith. I argue that these abandoned buildings reveal capitalism’s inherent obsolescence and counteract its teleolo…
Spectral Beings and Being Spectral: Ghostly Enchantment within Edinburgh’s Ghost Tours
Ghost tourism is big business in Scotland and in Edinburgh specifically. This paper is based off ethnographic fieldwork conducted with a number of the Scottish capital’s ghost tour companies. It is concerned primarily with the performa…
‘The Traveller Way’
Although a population recognised externally for their itinerancy, the mobility of Gypsy Travellers in Scotland has been fundamentally misunderstood. Endowed with creative power, mobility exists for Gypsy Travellers not only in times of trans…
The Leith Project
This essay reflects on the politics of abandoned buildings juxtaposed with memorials to a thriving industrial past whilst walking through Leith. I argue that these abandoned buildings reveal capitalism’s inherent obsolescence and counteract …
Who Needs a Man When You Got a Gun?
What does gun ownership mean to armed women in a city in the Midwestern United States? Gun culture is an aspect of American life which has been neglected in anthropological literature. I examine how armed women I met and shot with told me how carrying …
Coming to One’s Senses
My paper is concerned with decolonising contemporary museological practice, specifically in relation to ethnographic collections at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver. I propose that display practices can be reformed through Indigenous collaboration…
From ‘Taroosh’ to ‘Tom Jones’
This essay explores how student members of an LGBTQ+ rights organisation discursively navigate queer identifications and concepts of belonging, based on fieldwork conducted in Quezon City, Philippines. I argue that elements of ‘gay lingo’, one of many …
(dis)connection
Mobile phone use and social media have become the norm in modern societies around the world. In an attempt to connect with the world out there, people sometimes neglect present time and immediate environments. For some, this is a way ‘in’ and for other…
(dis)connection
Mobile phone use and social media have become the norm in modern societies around the world. In an attempt to connect with the world out there, people sometimes neglect present time and immediate environments. For some, this is a way ‘in’ an…
Coming to One’s Senses
My paper is concerned with decolonising contemporary museological practice, specifically in relation to ethnographic collections at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver. I propose that display practices can be reformed through Indigenous co…
From ‘Taroosh’ to ‘Tom Jones’
This essay explores how student members of an LGBTQ+ rights organisation discursively navigate queer identifications and concepts of belonging, based on fieldwork conducted in Quezon City, Philippines. I argue that elements of ‘gay lingo’, o…
Who Needs a Man When You Got a Gun?
What does gun ownership mean to armed women in a city in the Midwestern United States? Gun culture is an aspect of American life which has been neglected in anthropological literature. I examine how armed women I met and shot with told me ho…
Different dimensions of diligence in the contemporary Polish rural areas
For farmers, work is not merely making a living but also a valid component of their identity, therefore diligance is a highly-valued trait among farmers. There are, however, many ways to realize this trait. We tried to understand what it meant to be di…
Questioning Bacteria. How Farmers in North-Eastern Poland Resist Forced Progress
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork Poland and concerns lack of trust towards expert knowledge amongst farmers living in a rural municipality in north-eastern Poland. It investigates farmers’ accounts on fraud concerning supposed frauds rel…