The Work Group Medical Anthropology organizes the workshop „Embodied Belonging: In/Exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion“ at the German Anthropological Association’s Biannual Conference on the theme titled „Belonging: Affective, Moral and Political Practices in an Interconnected…
At recent Donald Trump for president rallies in the United States, supporters held signs reading “Build the Wall,” a reference to Trump’s public calls for a structure completely physically and symbolically dividing the US from Mexico. More insidiously, “build the…
Als in Frankreich lebende Ethnologin[*] war ich wortlos, ja geradezu ideenlos, als tagtäglich von „der Flüchtlingskrise“ und Deutschlands Aufenthaltslagern, politischen Ansprachen, von rechten Anschlägen und humanitären Aufnahmeaktionen, von scharfen Anklagen und hilflosen Antwortversuchen in den Medien berichtet wurde. Ich konnte mir…
In the city of Johannesburg hundreds, perhaps thousands, of blind and otherwise disabled cross-border migrants – mostly from Zimbabwe – try to survive in the city. They live under conditions of extreme precarity, many residing in unlawfully occupied buildings, subject…
June 2005: It is the annual end of year examination period in Al-Qasr Al-Aini Medical School in Cairo when some students in their clinical years have to carry out their practical examinations next to the bedside. Outside of the medical…