Exploring the Roots of Humanity: A Journey Through Folklore from Around the World

Aubrey Morris Published: Categories: English

Folklore is the ancient collective consciousness of a people – serving as a mirror of their traditions, customs, beliefs, and aspirations. This powerful tool is essential to understanding societies across the globe and through the ages. In this blog post, we journey across continents, exploring a variety of folklore topics that shape humanity. Europe: Ireland’s […]

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Living Legends: An Exploration into Varying Folklore

Aubrey Morris Published: Categories: English

Welcome to an enchanting journey through the charming, harrowing, and captivating world of folklore. Whether it’s about breathtaking Kodama spirits from Japanese mythology or spine-chilling wendigos from Native American lore, every culture has a rich reserve of magical entities, origin tales, and mythical occurrences that continue to shape their identities. Scandinavian Folklore: The Allure of […]

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Scaling Feminist Activism

Tereza Kuldova Published: Categories: English

The continuous protests in the Islamic Republic of Iran since Jina Mahsi Amini’s death in the fall of 2022 are challenging common perceptions of resistance, and even revolution. Through looking at the politics of maneuvering of both exiled f…

Knowing Digital Governance from Below

Tereza Kuldova Published: Categories: English

This paper considers the question of what it is to ‘know’ digital governance through an experiential, bottom-up lens, and presents some empirical detail from recent fieldwork with feminist movement actors in northern India – both formally or…

Elogi de la “construcció densa”

Eloi Sendrós Ferrer Published: Categories: English · Spanish

Basant-me en el meu llibre The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty ([2023] 2025)3, presento una defensa en favor de la “construcció densa” com una aproximació racionalista que ens serveix per emmarcar i dur a terme l’etnografia. Impregnat per l’epist…

Presentació

María Gabriela Navas-Perrone Published: Categories: English · Spanish

“Contextos alimentarios en transformación: discursos, prácticas e iniciativas” se enmarca en una realidad marcada por profundas y aceleradas transformaciones sociales, económicas y políticas que afectan el sistema alimentario a nivel global y local. En…

Relaciones alimentarias emergentes entre huertos sociales y bancos de alimentos: una aproximación etnográfica a la provisión de alimentos frescos en el distrito de Horta-Guinardó, Barcelona

María Gabriela Navas-Perrone Published: Categories: English · Spanish

Este artículo contribuye al debate sobre la garantía alimentaria mediante una aproximación etnográfica a nuevas prácticas de inclusión de alimentos frescos de un huerto social a los bancos de alimentos en Horta-Guinardó, Barcelona. Se analiza cómo esta…