– – – – TL;DR – – – – – – – – – – – – While other disciplines in the humanities study humans as individuals, anthropology studies humans in relation to other humans (and non-humans). They do this through ethnographic methods.Anthropologists recognise that technologies are always intrinsically linked…

I will participate in this year's Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference in Sydney (4SSydney) this August. I'll be sharing and discussing my work Technology in a shared home as part of this year’s Making and Doing session. 4S is a an international society that brings together researchers and…

Gaining access to the field is generally not an easy task, but it seems much harder if one relies on contacting strangers through online discussion boards and when the proposed project implies not answering predefined questionnaires through online surveys but visiting participants in their own homes. In this initial phase…

I'm currently looking for German users of the second-hand online marketplace Kleiderkreisel.de that are interested in participating in my fieldwork on the circulation of second-hand clothes and its implications for questions of sustainability. Feel free to forward the call for participation (German only) included below. Call for participation Moving wardrobes –…

For quite a while now, many scholars in anthropology have argued for a new way of practicing and looking at anthropology while pointing out the important intersection between their field and contemporary art. Most of them also argue that such an approach is largely being ignored in anthropology. This might…

Soundscapes: “a total appreciation of the acoustic environment” (Schafer 1994). After reading a lot about Anthropology’s new research interest in soundscapes here and here and mentioning it briefly here, I became more interested in the practical aspects of soundscape research in anthropology. The importance of rethinking and including sonorous aspects…