Issue 4 (Dec 2025)

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2025

Published by: Berghahn

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Guest Editors

Catherine Alexander
Charline Kopf
Ståle Wig

Editors

Dimitra Kofti, Panteion University, Greece

Magdalena Crăciun, University of Bucharest, Romania

Arne Harms, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

Leonardo Schiocchet, Charles University, Czech Republic

Martin Fotta, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Articles

Editorial

 Arne Harms, Magdalena Crăciun, Leonardo Schiocchet, Dimitra Kofti, Martin Fotta, and Ville Laakkonen

Introduction: Thinking with Absurdity

Catherine Alexander, Charline Kopf, and Ståle Wig

Counting Fake Latrines: Performing the State in Rural Ethiopia

Sarah Howard

Confronting Failure and its Consequences in a Kenyan Public Hospital

Ruth J. Prince

Working in Absurd Times: Speculations and Uncertain Futures among Mali’s Railway Workers

Charline Kopf

States of Fear and Laughter: On the Politics of Absurdity in Cuba and Beyond

Ståle Wig

Stuck in the Law: Migration, Paperwork and Absurdity in Milan, Italy

Stefano Pontiggia

EDM Christmas Music on Infinite Repeat: Absurdity and the Urban Uncanny in Malaysian Borneo

Asmus Rungby

With and Against Absurdity

Mirco Göpfert

Annual Review Article

Navigating Truth in an Age of Uncertainty: A Review of European Anthropology 2024

Pauline Garvey

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Besim Can Zırh, Santhosh Tekumal, Qiao Yi, Rafael Clua-García, Isaac Marrero-Guillamón, Rowan McCormick, Matthew Doyle, Meghan Rose Donnelly, and Hande Çayir