NUS Sociology and Anthropology Student Society

Abstract What if rather than conceptualizing it as a ‘method’ ethnography was to be appreciated as an act of anthropological invention? Already decades ago Roy Wagner proposed that more than discovering the cultures they were studying anthropologists ‘invent’ them. In his usage, the anthropological invention happens at a conceptual level: in the process of analysis, […]

Abstract In recent years, ‘intellectual decolonisation’ has become so popular in the Global North that we can now speak of there being a ‘decolonial bandwagon’. This talk identifies some of the common limitations that can be found in this growing field of intellectual decolonisation. First and foremost, it is suggested that intellectual decolonisation in the […]

Abstract Many would change worlds rather than change the world. In the face of growing contradictions, moving somewhere else often sounds appealing. The settlement of communities in ‘empty lands’ somewhere else was often proposed as a solution. Building on a growing body of transnational and interdisciplinary research on the political imaginaries of settler colonialism as a specific mode […]