Martin Demant Frederiksen is an associate professor of anthropology at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. His current research focuses on the role of speculation in the shadow of Russia, and on decay and emptiness in everyday life. He is the author of Young Men, Time and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia and An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular (Temple University Press, 2013).
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Emptiness and Surface
Recent theoretical engagements with ruins in anthropology have examined questions of whether an abandoned or empty structure is a ruin to be venerated as the ph... More