Text by Feliciana Chiaradia As an expat from Calabria, Italy, I have experienced throughout my life abroad what it means to be away from the things I loved about the place I came from: my family, friends, the mountains rising above the sea… yet less people ever asked me about that. The most common question, […]
The dominance of oil as an energy source persists because of how the substance has been and continues to be culturally imagined. In September last year I visited the U.S. state most associated with oil production, and ‘energy capital of the world’, Houston, Texas, to explore how a ruling imaginary of oil has materialised through […]
In 2024, Hannah Mayinza joined our team as a student assistant. In the blog post below, she describes the differences in practices between Germany and her home country, Uganda. Thereby, she shows from an everyday perspective how places are shaped by practices and how practices are shaped by places. The two states being different is […]