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01/10/26
 
About
Visit our Panel Power Struggles in Academia at the conference Anthropology. Activism. Power. Celebrating 10 Years of boasblogs at the ICI Berlin on October 16, 2026. This boasblog addresses recurring patterns in academic life that many experience but few can openly name: how power within academia is structured unevenly, opaquely, and often elides accountability. It […]
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Smitha Muttanoly
13/10/26
What Changed?
Post-Pandemic Fieldwork, Mental Health and  Academic Support
“Well, I think the entire research process – including the preparation and follow-up – is one big emotional balancing act because you have to take care of yourself during that time.“ The reflection by one of my informants offers insight into feelings, experiences, and the effects on body, mind, and wellbeing. The student was a […]
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Julia Nina Baumann
13/10/26
Who Cares When Academia Doesn’t? 
The Hidden Infrastructures of Care and Academic Kinship within academic cultures of no-feeling
Abstract The article asks: Who cares when academia doesn’t? Who makes ethnographic knowledge production possible, and what becomes visible when we look beyond “the other” in the field to those sustaining researchers at home? At the same time, care is unequally distributed and can itself reproduce burdens and inequalities. Recognising these hidden infrastructures therefore means […]
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