Collections and calls for papers

This special issue calls for ‘integrative’ ethnographies of class formation in Africa. It seeks comprehensive research that considers the historic relationships, ruptures and ‘long dispossessions’ through wh...

This special issue is a compilation of essays that investigate migrant labour and labour activism across different ethnographic contexts. Here, we direct our attention to the intersections of what Etienne Ba...

Abstract: Identity politics, both as a concept and as a political approach, has been the focus of heated debates since the term emerged in the seventies. Scholars, activists and policy makers, discussing how...

Scholarly attention to decolonial thought and practice has surged over the past decade. We can read this trend as demonstrating the efficacy of struggles against racism and Eurocentrism in the academy. As su...

This proposal explores the relationship between migration, social reproduction, and the reproduction of capitalism. Its aim is to address how the dynamics of contemporary regimes of accumulation generate mig...

The ubiquity of smartphones and the logic of algorithms that power leading content-sharing apps such as Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube have changed how, through what, and when people become visible locally an...