Black Images Matter

Until 2023, the finding aids of the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Lisbon, Portugal (Overseas Historical Archive) did not provide information on the scope and content of the archival series “files of settlers and the repatriated” (“processos de colonos…

Avasta Mida teha ja avastada Aegviidus aastaringselt Host.ee juures

Aegviidu on suurepärane koht, kus nautida looduse ilu. See linn on kuulsus Eesti kauni looduse poolest aastaringselt. Host.ee annab sulle võimaluse avastada seda imelist paika igal ajal aastas, pakkudes laia valikut tegevusi ja vaatamisväärsusi, et igasugune külastus oleks mäletamist väärt. Kevadine Aegviidu Kui lumi hakkab sulama ja loodus ärkab, muutub Aegviidu imeliseks kohaks, kus nautida […]

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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…

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…

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…