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A To-Do List: Song Writing as Anthropological Method
Teaching Anthropology
Disrupted Velocities: Embracing Student Agency
This article explores anthropological insights in/outside of classroom spaces and is also a pedagogical experiment in embracing student agency. Co-first authored by four undergraduate students at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LS…
Toward a Tactile Anthropology
Teaching Anthropology
Developing the Teaching of Social Anthropology in Scottish Schools
This paper lays out some quite successful developments in the teaching of social anthropology in Scottish secondary schools and further education colleges. It is written in a personal style because much of the initial work was carried out by the author…
Pre-university anthropology education: where the future of anthropology begins
This introduction to the special section on pre-university anthropology outlines the current context of anthropology teaching and learning in schools. It briefly locates contemporary pre-university anthropology education in historical context, covering…
“Language and culture”: strengthening access to school level anthropology through a cross-disciplinary approach to curriculum design
The International Baccalaureate Organisation, a global leader in international education, has offered Social and Anthropology (SCA), a course in its Diploma Programme (DP), to pre-university school students across the globe for over 50 years. SCA is we…
Anthropology Goes to School – The Story Continues: Personal Reflections on 50 Years of Teaching and Learning about Other Cultures
This paper explores key developments in research and publications that have occurred since 2013 that are relevant to the teaching of pre-university anthropology. It covers several decades of efforts to expand cultural awareness and knowledge of cultura…
Escaping the Game of Representation
In my doctoral research, I work on memory practices of youth collectives in Quibdó, capital of the department of the Chocó (Colombian Pacific). Chocó is a territory marked by many stigmas, and Afro-Colombian youth in Quibdó is considered O…
Art-based (Teaching) Methods as Performance in Ethnography, Restitution, Dissemination
Despite the urgency of developing and promoting reflexivity and innovative, art-based methods as an alternative to the text-centredness of science in general and anthropology in particular – as a means of data collection and dissemination …
Migration, Representation, and Reflexivity.
Contemporary anthropology increasingly confronts challenges of representation amid evolving cultural, social, and political landscapes. This special feature investigates how anthropologists engage in multimodal practices—from academic writ…
Book review of The Afterlives of Extraction
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Reflexivity in Digital Contexts
This article presents the essential input of reflexivity for conducting ethnographic research in digital contexts to highlight how power relations are articulated with digital practices. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2021 and 2022…
The Ascona Charter
How can we not adhere to the values proposed by the Ascona Charter? Has transforming anthropology in order to transform the world never been more urgent?
Interview: An Intergenerational Dialogue on the Politics of Representation within Academia and Beyond
This interview is the edited excerpt of a dialogue recorded in the summer of 2023 between the three editors of this special feature and three experienced researchers: Prof. Susan Ossman, Dr. Eda Elif Tibet, and Dr. Nadine Wanono, who parti…
Introduction to the Special Issue Reciprocal Vulnerability
In this special issue, we seek to uncover the vulnerabilities of researchers in anthropological fieldwork and academia, tracing their political and epistemological potential for the creation of ethnographic knowledge that is based on pract…
Editorial SJSCA 31/2025
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Anthropoesy
What might the transformation in transformative anthropology entail? While several responses might be generated, one element that is generally kept to the background is transformation from within. This “inner enquiry” is not necessarily of…
It Takes More Than One To Hold Complexity
This article discusses the potentials and challenges of psychoanalytically oriented “interpretation workshops”: interpretive, collective spaces that address ethnographic fieldwork’s subconscious, emotional, and experiential aspects. While …
Ascona Charter Response—Towards a Just Academia
This contribution proposes a primary focus on academia as a relational economy that subtends academics as individuals, rather than on relationships running between academics and the outside world—such as research participants. In this rega…
Weaponised Positionality? Coercive Disclosure in the “Publish or Perish” Academy
This paper brings anthropological scholarship on reflexivity and positionality in conversation with debates around issues of self-exploitation in the neoliberal university, to argue that the publication pressures early career anthropologis…
Book Review of Frontiers of Belonging
Book review of: Lems, Annika. 2022. Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Rethinking the Role of Payments in Research
Navigating payments in ethnographic research provides insights into social dynamics within ethnographic research contexts. Drawing from research with financially vulnerable queer male sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya, this article explores th…
Opinion Piece for The Ascona Transformation Charter
This opinion piece discusses the relevance of The Ascona Transformation Charter in the Peruvian case.
The Symbolic Violence of the Unspoken
This paper explores the silence of my traumatic experience, the feeling of vulnerability, and insecurity that affected my fieldwork and the writing process. Drawing on the concept of “auto-reflexivity”, I address the “double violence”, exp…