An ‘infiltration’ of time? Hindu Chauvinism and Bangladeshi migration in/to Kolkata, India

In the context of the growth of Hindu chauvinism (Hindutva) in India, this article explores the ways Bengali middle-class caste-Hindus have become increasingly anti-Bangladeshi and, in particular, increasingly hostile to...

Gendering research: from skepticism to trust. General contexts, local comments

The article presents the current volume in relation to the context of gender research and education in present-day Romania. The author discusses, from a participant’s perspective, the development and the state of gender...

Creating an identity – safe spaces and events in LGBTQIA+ community: A literature review

Through history, people who are part of sexual minorities were marginalized, abused and for a long time had no or little rights. In order to discover the way that public and semi-public spaces are organized through sexua...

Book review – Roland Cvetkovski & Alexis Hofmeister, An Empire of Others: Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR, Central European University Press, Budapest, 2014.

Words leaking from objects: thinking with absent photographs

The possibilities within notions of the object constitute a special area of interest in my research. As I have come to see it, the object is bounded by – and yet comes to alter- views of representation/re-presentation; i...