Crisis is normally conceived of as an isolated period of time in which our lives are shattered.
It defines the loss of balance and the inability to control the exterior forces influencing our …

In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces
and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society …

This article takes a critical look at 'the ontological turn'. Illuminating 'the turn's' theoretical
point of departure, and clarifying its anthropological implications, the article argues that two …

This article exploresimagined migration and migrantimaginaries. It takes its point of
departure in fieldwork among would-be migrants in Bissau and traces the realization of their …

" This book argues that the runaway popularity of Pentecostal Christianity on the Zambian
Copperbelt is a result of this religion's capacity to produce novel forms of value realization. A …

In this article, I introduce an anthropological approach to time and temporality which
suggests that anticipatory actions are not always guided by futures separated from the …

This article sheds light on the mobilisation of young people into conflict. It argues that
warfare constitutes a terrain of possibility for urban youth in Guinea-Bissau, and shows how …

This paper analyses migrant disappearances in connection to EU bordering practices and
techniques. Drawing on fieldwork in various localities at Greek borderlands, I argue that …

This article analyzes the relationship between conflict, social invisibility, and negative
potentiality. Taking its empirical point of departure in fieldwork conducted in Belfast …

Ethnography bears witness, in this respect, to a dizzying array of imaginative viewpoints:
children of different co-wives argue in an African house compound; an Amazonian shaman …