SNAPSHOT OF FIELDWORK
This rich ethnography unpacks the profound link between the folk music revival and queerness, with a specific look at their intersecting capacity to develop a reflexive tradition and craft radical temporalities
Major auction houses located in London's West End promote themselves as "open to all". However, in my extensive fieldwork in the auction houses, I discovered how the presence of ambivalent boundaries works to exclude undesirable visitors and create value in the contemporary art world.
Being black at the LSE is filled up with daily experiences of systemic racism and ambivalence. However, there are ways to cope with this and to find community in a place where feeling part of the university community can be very difficult. Looking at the black male experience in team sports, Oliver sheds light on its nuances and its intersections with gender, class and ethnicity.
An article by Jingye Tang, based on his fieldwork in a workplace in China
I reflected for the first time on discourses of ‘memory’, ‘recognition’, and ‘personhood’, gradually becoming aware that the correlation between these was in fact artificially constructed and cannot be taken for granted. It was also through close encounters with elderly people with dementia that I saw their vivid but little-known vitality as well as their deep bonds with London and their loved ones.
An article by Carli Jacobsen, based on her work in a vineyard in central Italy
An article by Ishani Milward-Bose, based on visits to a small town in rural India
An article by Juliette Gautron, based on her fieldwork in northern Colombia
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An emotive poem borne of reflections on Palestinian martyrdom while walking through the Glasgow Necropolis
A poem on Christmas in the Anthropocene, from anomalous climate conditions, to the Capitalist condition of Christmas, to the genocide waged on Palestine.
An obituary of Sinead O’Connor, in recent times also known as Shuhada’ Sadaqat. The music of the Irish singer recently passed away has still a lot to tell us, especially at the present moment, about resistance to domination and its abuses.
The realisation that what once felt confusing has now become mundane, habitual. I wrote this poem whilst walking around Soho one day when I forgot my headphones, so I had more of a chance to observe everything on a route I take often.
A reflection on the first retrospective exhibition on the work of photographer Chris Killip and its relationship with Anthropology
A review of ‘Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism’, an exhibition at the Courtauld gallery featuring a series of private drawings by the eccentric 18th century Swiss artist, Henry Fuseli (1741- 1825).
A poem by Ishani Milward-Bose.
This poem was written as a visceral reaction after witnessing the horrific labour conditions that young men and women working in the construction industry of the developing world have to withstand. It is by nature reactionary and emotive.
The art of photography comes with the challenging nature of politics of representation and narratively complex entanglements. Amidst these anxieties, one must not forget to celebrate life through the lens of their camera and capture what they deem peculiar, beautiful, and thrilling. Here, I want to share three photographs representing exactly this sentiment; to photograph is to express your appreciation and awareness of those that surround you.
“Dear Readers: observe, enjoy, and capture life in any medium that satisfies your eyes and mind.”
Features
The concept of race will never not arouse heated debate in France, where just in July 2018 the National Assembly removed the word itself from the Constitution
Are Asia and Europe that much different, after all? A fresh perspective from Bingxing Liu on the history of Eurasia.
An article by Konrad Stillin on European immigrants in Australia, also known as "wogs", and their collective attempt to establish a community through football.
An article by Harry Compton on the appropriation of 'black' ethnicity by 'white' male adolescents in the UK.
God is dead, and Society- or Cyberspace- replaced his role as the ideological agency of humanity.
An interview with Claire Brewin, a Social Anthropology student and the lead actress of the LSESU Drama Society’s production of Made in Dagenham.
An ethnographic exploration of a Charity Shop in Camden which puts sustainability in conversation with ideas of necessity, reciprocity, and community.