Iron ore wagons arriving from the Swedish state-owned mining company LKAB, located in the Arctic town of Kiruna via the Malmbanan railway line to the ice-free port in the Norwegian town of Narvik (2022).

Ria-Maria Adams is a PhD candidate at the department and part of the ERC funded project InfraNorth, which focuses on the role of transport infrastructures in the Arctic. Her PhD research is concerned with Arctic youth well-being issues.

This picture represents one of the vast banana plantations in the French Overseas Department of Martinique. Banana's plantations and the extensive use of various phytochemical products have been for years at the center of a social and political turmoil in both the overseas French regions of Martinique and Guadeloupe (2023).

Giorgio Brocco is postdoc at the department and part of Janina Kehr's research team. His postdoctoral project grapples with the multiple ways humans conceive, interact with, and imagine the lasting presence of artificial chemical molecules in the two French overseas departments and Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), an art institution of the global south.
Kochi, India

Manuela Ciotti is professor of the Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Global South. One of her research strands focuses on the politics of art, materiality and representation generated by the global circulation of art and material culture out of India, and the history of the art world from the standpoint of the global south.

Windswept snow along a road in the setting arctic sun.
Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada (2022)

Katrin Schmid is a PhD candidate at the department and part of the ERC funded project InfraNorth, which focuses on the role of transport infrastructures in the Arctic. Her PhD project examines the role of transport infrastructure in sustaining the arctic community of Iqaluit, Nunavut.

Screening of the short films made with young people as part of the We:Design project.
Vienna, Austria (2022)

Suzana Jovicic is a postdoc at the department and Co-PI of the We:Design project - a participatory approach to digital empowerment of young people in the work context.

In an effort to preserve the mountain ecosystem and local heritage, a new generation of livestock breeders is reviving the practice of extensive grazing on the Balkan mountain.
Izatovci, Stara planina, Serbia (2022)

Ivan Rajkovic is a postdoc at the department and part of Tatjana Thelen's research team. His current research explores the shift from work to ‘nature’ as the basis of new political alliances in the Balkans.

Concrete jungle: Historical low-rises (Wallace Neff's bubble-houses from the 50s) are swallowed-up by new constructions
Dakar, Senegal, West Africa (2022)

Pierre Wenzel is a PhD candidate at the department and part of Manuela Ciotti's research team. His research in urban anthropology investigates the entanglements between cementification and urbanization in Dakar (Senegal).

Harbor in Kirkenes, Norway (2022)

Peter Schweitzer is professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and PI of the ERC funded project InfraNorth, which focuses on the role of transport infrastructures in the Arctic.

A mural about women who have participated in the "equality space Maria Moliner" in Madrid’s barrio Vallecas
Mural by Zaida Escobar
Madrid, Spain (2022)

Janina Kehr is professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health. She works and publishes on time politics, moral economies and the environmental impact of biomedicine and public health.

The port of Churchill, its grain elevators and shipping facilities connected to the Hudson Bay Railway.
Churchill, Manitoba, Canada (2022)

Philipp Budka is a postdoc at the department and part of the ERC funded project InfraNorth, which focuses on the role of transport infrastructures in the Arctic. He ethnographically explores affordances of transport infrastructures in sustaining communities in (Sub-)Arctic Canada.