BLOG POST: Making relative place in eastern Helsinki
In a fieldwork blog post Saara Toukolehto ponders about relative discourses of place through which her interlocutors both described as well as manipulated the sense of place attached to Itäkeskus in East Helsinki. Such relativization is intriguing in relation to the topological approach to the study of everyday coexistence that we’ve adopted in Co-Imagine.
BLOG POST: The distant others and conferencing in troubled times
In this blog post we reflect on our work sessions at this year’s ETMU conference. The conference theme – ‘breaking barriers’ – cannot be separated from the broader context of an escalated state violence with regard to migration control and authoritarian tendencies that shape contemporary politics. In this context, migration scholars need to rethink what constitutes meaningful scholarship.
BLOG POST: Da Bus*—Density in everyday encounters
In a fieldwork blog post Bruno Lefort shares an encounter he had with an elderly lady on the bus while conducting fieldwork in the provincial town of Troyes, France. The short episode included everything our project aims to engage with, from the entanglement of existences with political, social, and economic developments to people’s concerns and reflections about contemporary times.
ANTHROMOB WORKSHOP 2025: ‘FEELINGS ON THE MOVE‘
On 11-12 September 2025 we participated in the EASA AnthroMob Network workshop in the Hague, Netherlands. In our contribution, we focused on intersubjectivity by looking at how ‘implication’ (Rothberg 2019) guides the affective realities that unfold between differentially positioned people at the level of everyday encounters.
PROGRAM PUBLISHED: ETMU CONFERENCE 2025
The program for the ETMU 2025 conference has been published. Our two-part work session “Visualizing Invisible Barriers” will take place on Thursday and Friday, 13-14 November. On the first day we’ll host a panel session, and on the second, visual storyteller Yorgos Konstantinou facilitates a workshop on visual language!
CALL FOR PAPERS: Visualizing invisible barriers—Cartographies of everyday coexistence
Submit your abstract to our work session on visual methods by August 24th! In it we will explore how deep mapping, narrative mapping and other types of visualizations may serve as analytical tools to better understand the complex tension between inclusion and exclusion shaping everyday existence.
BLOG POST: Ethnography of the everyday—studying coexistence amid lived inequalities beyond identity
In a fieldwork blog post Bruno Lefort uses a scene he observed in Marseille to illustrate our project’s analytical approach to everyday coexistence that focuses on the exploration of the ‘in-between’.
BLOG POST: Reflections on fieldwork ‘flow’
In a fieldwork blog post Saara Toukolehto reflects on the feeling of fieldwork ‘flow’ and its’ epistemic implications in the context of her ongoing ethnographic research on coexistence in Helsinki.
PROGRAM PUBLISHED: Finnish Anthropological Society Conference
The program for the Finnish Anthropological Society Conference has been published. Our panel “Coexistence as in-betweenness: everyday practices of comparison” (Panel number 16) will take place on Tuesday, June 17 at 10:30-12:00 and 14:00-15:30 as two consequent sessions.
CALL FOR PAPERS Coexistence as in-betweenness: everyday practices of comparison
We would like to invite abstract submissions for the panel “Coexistence as in-betweenness: everyday practices of comparison”, chaired by our team members Bruno Lefort and Saara Toukolehto, at the biennial conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society (FAS)
Research visit at the Centre Norbert Elias (CNRS, UMR 8562) in Marseille
Between October 1 and November 1, 2024, Bruno Lefort, Principal Investigator of Co-Imagine, was invited to a research visit at the Centre Norbert Elias (CNRS, UMR 8562), in Marseille.
Kick-off symposium: “(Im)Mobile Entanglements: Places, Temporalities and Methods”
Between October 1 and November 1, 2024, Bruno Lefort, Principal Investigator of Co-Imagine, was invited to a research visit at the Centre Norbert Elias (CNRS, UMR 8562), in Marseille.
18th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in Barcelona
Between July 23 and July 26, 2024, Bruno Lefort, Principal Investigator of Co-Imagine, participated in the 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in Barcelona, entitled “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology”.
Keynote speech at the Annual Meeting of the Finnish Anthropological Society (Suomen Antropologinen Seura)
On March 27, 2024, Bruno Lefort, Principal Investigator of Co-Imagine, delivered the keynote speech at the Annual Meeting of the Finnish Anthropological Society (Suomen Antropologinen Seura)
Research visit at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Between March 11 and March 15, 2024, Bruno Lefort, Principal Investigator of Co-Imagine, was invited to a research visit at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, by Ast. Prof. Piera Rossetto.
Meeting with the Social Center Victor Hugo in Troyes
On January 30, 2024, Bruno Lefort, Principal Investigator of Co-Imagine, presented preliminary reflections from his fieldwork in Troyes.