Linda Lapiņa, Roskilde University Notes [1] The spellings of europe and european bodies in this text are inspired by an editorial by Anika Keinz and Pawel Lewicki from AJEC (2019) where the authors use small letters for european and the eu (European Union) and italicise the terms white and whiteness in order to interrupt the …
In November, the world lost another relatively young anthropologist, Professor Marcus Banks. He was a visual anthropologist based in Oxford University’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME). Paolo Favero reflects on some of his own personal memories of getting to know Marcus.
There have been four books on hitchhiking published in as many years. The thing is, two of these have been history overviews from North America (Mahood 2018; Reid 2020) and the other a personal account of thumbing rides around Europe in order to visit as many countries as possible in as short a time as can be achieved (Ipavec 2020). As a result my own monograph on this activity, Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads, is the first contemporary account within the social sciences to holistically examine the meaning of hitchhiking in Europe at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. This short Blog posting gives a general summary to the volume, which is now available as a hardback or E-book and will be published in paperback next year.
David Graeber was a fiery mind and a fascinating man. He was one of the few intellectuals of our time to link activist practice with high-level analysis throughout his career. I had the pleasure of doing my PhD under his supervision the years he spent at Goldsmiths (2008-2013), before he headed for the LSE (2013-2020). …
We are inviting expressions of interest for a forthcoming forum edition of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures to be published in early 2021. The theme of this edition is ‘Cultural Heritage Across European Borders: Bridges or Walls?’ and will be edited by Philip McDermott and Sara McDowell (Ulster University).
In my ethnographic monograph, Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia (Berghahn Books, published 2019), I explore the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia through the lens of food. As an everyday object of consumption, food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity in light of recent events, such as the rise in support for secessionist politics and changing identity politics in Spain as a whole. Here I would like to discuss some of my motivations for studying the topic and my approach, and my aims with the book.
I have been visiting western Poland for the past quarter of a century and more, partly for personal reasons, partly to do research especially on politics and identity in what until WWII had been a German region. My base while there has been Świebodzin, a small town of about 21,000 people situated roughly in the …
The Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr[1], – entered the extremely warm and almost full screening room of the Film Museum in Vienna with a broken arm, and started his almost two-hour long masterclass by saying ‘Let’s talk’. The manifesto-like, genuine conversation moderated by journalist Patrick Holzapfel began there. Tarr came to Vienna for his latest installation film, …
Anika Keinz and Paweł Lewicki reflect on the thematic issue they prepared for the latest AJEC edition (Volume 28, Issue 1). Available open access.
Prof. Ullrich Kockel (or Ulli as most of us know him) was the editor of AJEC for over a decade. With the new leadership of the journal in place now, we took the opportunity to discuss his impressions. As the note of appreciation published in a recent AJEC issue (volume 28, issue 1, June 2019) …