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…

Aprender a surfear el mismo mar

En esta presentación nos proponemos analizar el aprendizaje de “hacer común” desplegado entre niñes de 6 y 7 años, en una escuela de surf ubicada en el Municipio de Pinamar en la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. A lo largo de una clase les niñes v…

Notas sobre derecha, autoritarismo y violencia

Al intentar responder a la pregunta por la génesis y expansión de la derecha en América Latina se evidencia lo elusivo del tema y la necesidad de comprenderlo desde configuraciones sociopolíticas y culturales en vez de explicaciones monocausales. En es…