The Strangers are Back…

To celebrate this world anthropology day, we’re back with a very special interview.

This week Sean Heath sat down with Noel B. Salazar, Professor of Anthropology at KU Leuven to discuss the celebration of Anthropology Day(s). Their conversation covered the initiation of world anthropology day by the American Anthropological Association and touched on national celebrations of anthropology day, as well as the potential for a World Anthropologies Days. They also discussed Noel’s latest work on emplaced mobilities and mobile places.

Noel B. Salazar is Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Founder of the Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe) cluster at KU Leuven. His research interests include anthropologies of mobility and travel, heritage and tourism, discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, world anthropologies, and endurance locomotion.

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If you were curious about Noel’s work and wanted to reach out, check out his information below.
https://soc.kuleuven.be/anthropology/staff/00059545
Email: noel.salazar@kuleuven.be
Twitter: @NoelBSalazar

If you wanted to reach our Familiar Stranger for today, check out Sean below!
Sean Heath
Email: sean.heath@kuleuven.be
Twitter: @SeanmrHeath

References:

Salazar, Noel B. 2023. “Mobile Places and Emplaced Mobilities: Problematizing the Place-Mobility Nexus.” Mobilities 18 (4): 582–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2023.2226358.