Editorial

Recently, scholars have paid increased attention to affect as a structuring principle of political life, aesthetic engagement, cultural practice, and social formation (Ahmed 2010, Brown et al. 2019, Lutz 2017, Neuman 2007, Papoulias and Call…

Dinero y campos etnográficos

La revolución digital y las nuevas tecnologías de la información han impulsado cambios profundos en nuestras sociedades, la forma en que convivimos diariamente, nuestros hábitos de entretenimiento, cómo estudiamos o hacemos negocios son muy …

Juan Ignacio González del Castillo

El presente artículo ofrece una relectura de una parte de las composiciones breves del dramaturgo gaditano Juan Ignacio González del Castillo (1763-1800), reputado por su condición de sainetista y de discípulo de Ramón de la Cruz, creador de…

“The Usual Antisocial Protocol”

This article considers experience narratives of “dålig stämning” (bad atmosphere and unease) in Swedish workplaces. The aim of this article is to show how office-employees in Sweden experience, negotiate and understand bad atmosphere and unease in thei…

Flâneurs – Street Rambles

Between film projects and following the birth of his daughter, a Canadian in Paris (Matthew Lancit) must confront his slacker lifestyle and decide if there is something in it worth passing on to the next generation, or if he is better off getting a job…

A Peaceful Place / Un Abri Paisible

More than one million people form the Central African Republic (CAR) have fled their homes since the beginning of a new civil war in 2013. This film follows newborn Elias and his extended family over a period of four years, as they are trying to start …

Knots and Holes

Nets are all around us. They materialize such principles as connecting, filtering and patterning. Which is why we might want to have a closer look at what people do with them — and what they do with people. In Bahia, Brazil, I travelled to places wher…

The Wireless Set

Like many island communities, residents of the Orkney Islands, Scotland are acutely aware of the urban-rural dynamic at play in our ever-globalised world. This character-driven film comes as a contribution to an ongoing conversation – one concerning he…

Teaching and Learning Urban Anthropology in Bosnia-Herzegovina

In the summer of 2019, two professors led seven students from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, in a high impact immersive learning course in urban anthropology in Bosnia-Herzegovina. They spent a week each in three different cities: the multie…