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Sustaining Containability: A Conversation with Elana Resnick

Sustaining Containability: A Conversation with Elana Resnick

In this interview, Elana Resnick reflects on the evolution of her research on recycling and waste in Bulgaria. She highlights the longer historical contexts sha... More

On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan

On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan

In this interview, Rishabh Raghavan discusses his encounter with everyday life in Ennore, as residents contest authoritative discourse on pollution and toxicity... More

Who Is Ethnography For?: An Interview with Lachlan Summers

Who Is Ethnography For?: An Interview with Lachlan Summers

In this interview, Lachlan Summers reflects on the craft of his article and offers a compelling critique of liberal tendencies and imaginaries in contemporary a... More

Discarded Candidates: An Interview with Dr. Tanya Jakimow

Discarded Candidates: An Interview with Dr. Tanya Jakimow

In her article “Discarded Candidates: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere),” Tanya Jakimow explores Australian electoral... More

Constructive Security: A Conversation with Sahana Ghosh

Constructive Security: A Conversation with Sahana Ghosh

Sahana Ghosh’s article ethnographically explores soldiering in independent India, focusing on the Border Security Force or BSF. Drawing on feminist thought and ... More

Good Bureaucrats and God: An Interview with Maira Hayat

Good Bureaucrats and God: An Interview with Maira Hayat

In this interview, Maira Hayat reflects on her ethnographic and theoretical engagements with bureaucrats and their everyday practices within Punjab’s irrigation... More

In/visible Routers: An interview with Ann-Christin Zuntz

In/visible Routers: An interview with Ann-Christin Zuntz

Ann-Christin Zuntz’s “Human Routers” offers a powerful peripheral vision of contemporary (im)migration, border regimes, and agency by shifting attention from re... More

It’s an Ordinary Game—If We Forget the Ghost: An Interview with Paolo Heywood

It’s an Ordinary Game—If We Forget the Ghost: An Interview with Paolo Heywood

In this interview, Paolo Heywood further discusses the uneasy art of forgetting in Predappio, a town still bound to Mussolini’s shadow despite its attempts to a... More

Quantifying Vulnerability: An Interview with Malay Firoz

Quantifying Vulnerability: An Interview with Malay Firoz

In his article, “Quantifying Vulnerability: Humanitarian Datafication and the Neophilia of Integrated Power,” Malay Firoz interrogates the increasing dataficati... More

The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin

The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin

Following Gregory Hollin's article, our interview further explores the wrestler’s world and its synecdochical, if not allegorical, connections to the contempora... More