Illustration by Joana Cruz Sustain the world in dialogue with the invisible Carolina Ribeiro Araujo Abstract Climate change is a global reality, the result of intense and unsustainable human exploitation of natural resources and environmental degradation. The regular sustainable techniques are not enough to change this situation. Some authors attribute this to the lack of […]
Illustration by Kadna Anda “No Such Thing as ‘Can’t’ in the Romanian Railroads”: On Technological Ruination and Creative Maintenance in the Age of Innovation Adrian Deoancă Abstract At the end of a frustrating work duty, I asked Iosif, the foreman of a Romanian rail repair crew, what would have happened had his team not managed
Illustration by Alex Săvescu The Nightshift Julius-Cezar MacQuarie Abstract Most ethnographic research projects are conducted during the day. But how suitable is such a work schedule in global cities that operate twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, or where potential interlocutors work during the night? Researching at night, as I found out, is
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Bootcamp #7 – Romania, May 2024 Sector 6 Sustainability Bootcamp: Creative Strategies for Community Engagement in Recycling in partnership with with Sector 6 City Hall Buchareset In May of 2024, we came together with Antropedia and Namla in Bucharest to host a local bootcamp on Sustainability. We gathered a group of artists and anthropologists to
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Illustration by Cristina Barsony “It Was Beautiful, Eventually!” Nature and Ruins in Văcărești Nature Park Călin Cotoi Abstract From the late 1700s to 2016, when it became an urban nature park, Văcărești Pit was a mixture of wastelands and modernization projects on the southern fringes of Bucharest. While always integrated in the productive and power
Illustration by Cristina Pîrvu Putih, Bersih, Cantik (White, Clean, Beautiful). Tracing Beauty and Color among Women in Bali and Closer to Home (Romania) Irina Savu Cristea Abstract The desire to have a lighter skin color and the efforts to achieve it are rarely just purely individual choices based on personal style and preferences. Rather the
Illustration by Daia – Diana Grigore Notes for an Anthropology of Plastics Magdalena Crăciun Abstract Nowadays fossil-based plastics are ubiquitous. They are in our clothes, buildings, cars, and roads. Accumulations of very small pieces of plastics, called micro-plastics and nano-plastics, are present everywhere in nature and various organisms, including humans, with effects whose gravity we
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Illustration by CO+LOR Constantin Cojocaru și Loreta Isac The Political Ecology of Locked-Down Cities Lucian Vesalon Abstract This text inventories some of the ecological consequences of city lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses critically their uneven distribution and ways in which social groups experienced them. The discussion includes a critical approach to extractive capitalism,
Illustration by Oana Hajos A Short Introduction to Multispecies Studies and Ethnography Claudia Câmpeanu Abstract Multispecies studies is a field that was born out of the pressures generated by questioning the centrality of the human in a number of disciplines (anthropology, philosophy, history, feminist studies, ecology, art), by normalizing and extending questions and interests in
Illustration by Andreea Chirică When We Write We Listen to Ourselves: Letters from the Imaginary Border Between Research and Friendship Ana Chirițoiu and Izabela Tiberiade Abstract Ami and Izabela are friends. One is an ethnic Romanian and a PhD candidate in anthropology, the other, thirteen years her junior, is an ethnic Roma and an undergraduate
