Essays

Autoethnography, Narration and Emancipation

Shiva Alinaqian

Shiva Alinaqian has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology. When writing her thesis on the construction of maternal identity, she realized that she is not to set aside her personal experience of mothering and, thus, she opted for an autoethnographical approach.

Toward an Aesthetics of the Epistemologies of the South

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

This manifesto in twenty-two theses is a chapter of the book Knowledges Born in The Struggle (2019), edited by the Portuguese sociologist, Boaventura de Sousa Santos. In this manifesto-like text Boaventura de Sousa Santos states his ideas about the intertwined nature of domination systems in our world and the possibilities to confront them. Sarazad has translated this text in a collective endeavour.

About Autoethnography: Hunting for Hope

ُShahram Khosravi

Shahram Khosravi is a professor of anthropology at Stockholm University. He mainly focuses on issues of migration, forced displacement and border studies. In this piece, Khosravi writes about autoethnography as a research method and a writing style. He explores the possibilities this method offers to confront the division between North/theory and South/field.

Transportations

Peter Lagerqvist

In Transportations, Peter Lagerqvist tells the story of Palestinians who challenge the everyday realities of occupation and the restrictions on movement in the occupied lands in a peculiar manner. Through his narrative, he provides an anthropological analysis of the auto theft and joy-riding in Palestine.