Toward a Tactile Anthropology
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…
A To-Do List: Song Writing as Anthropological Method
Teaching Anthropology
For Us, with Love
Teaching Anthropology
Collage-Making as Ethnographic Inquiry
Teaching Anthropology
Generative AI and Socio-Technological Advancements: What Now for Anthropology?
Introduction to the Special Section on Generative AI and Socio-Technological Advancements in Anthropology.
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…
“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…
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…
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…
BECCI Irene (dir.), 2024. Les éco-spiritualités contemporaines. Un changement culturel en Suisse
L’ouvrage dirigé par Irene Becci se prête à l’analyse des interactions subtiles entre écologie et spiritualité, en donnant à voir les formes contemporaines et souvent complexes que prennent leurs convergences. Il montre comment des personnes issues de tendances spirituelles ou religieuses (christianisme, New Age, néopaganisme, néochamanisme, écoféminisme) intègrent progressivement l’écologie dans leurs univers symboliques et pratiques. Inversement, des écologistes réinvestissent leurs[…]
Ethnographic Intimacy
In recent decades, anthropologists have increasingly recognised the researcher’s vulnerability as an inherent and indispensable element of ethnographic field research. This article shares my ethnographic fieldwork experiences navigating th…
Unveiling Vulnerability
This article explores the process of “unveiling” researcher positionality during fieldwork in Swiss psychiatric spaces and in academia, whilst the researcher herself has a personal connection to the topic as a family member of someone wit…
Testimonies of Violence during Ethnographic Research
This article looks at how anthropologists deal with the effects of witnessing violence. Although anthropologists work in interaction with human beings, they rarely discuss the consequences of these encounters on their mental equilibrium. H…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
Editorial SJSCA 31/2025
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
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…
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?
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…
Book review of The Afterlives of Extraction
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
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…
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 …