by Sasha Beg | Dec 31, 2020
What does it mean when the media present migration as cosmopolitan experience? What is at work when a program constructs its audience as a convivial hybrid “we”? The paper examines these questions in the context of various discourses on “cultural diversity” in the...
by Sasha Beg | Dec 27, 2020
Mobility is widely debated to be the key strategy that allows pastoralists to flexibly make use of variable resources. But while mobility is a function of both time and space, discussions have tended to favour spatial trajectories revealing a sedentary bias. Based on...
by Sasha Beg | Mar 10, 2020
Based on two years of fieldwork in self-defense and martial arts classes, this paper explores the distinct and irreconcilable perceptions of violence and fear that orient, shape and constitute the experience of instructors and students alike. For example, the fear of...