Andrea Muehlebach

Andrea Muehlebach is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy (2012) and is currently writing a book entitled A Vital Politics: Water Insurgencies in Europe.

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Introduction: Distribute2020 Teaching Tools

Teaching Tools

Introduction: Distribute2020 Teaching Tools

This academic year, many universities around the world made the professoriate wait until the last minute to receive guidance on whether we would be teaching in ... More

Distribute2020: An Invitation to Use, Reuse, Recombine, Cite, Relate, and Teach!

Teaching Tools

Distribute2020: An Invitation to Use, Reuse, Recombine, Cite, Relate, and Teach!

Welcome to the Teaching Tools series inspired by Distribute2020, the biannual multimodal conference presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) and... More

On Possession, Use, and Financialized Infrastructure

Theorizing the Contemporary

On Possession, Use, and Financialized Infrastructure

Above is an image created by the activist network Berlin’s Water Table (Berliner Wassertisch) in the lead-up to an unprecedented local referendum in 2011, which... More

Inquisitorial Reason

Theorizing the Contemporary

Inquisitorial Reason

Recent reports note that Steve Bannon (now post–Donald Trump and post-Breitbart) is setting up a think tank in Brussels, from which he plans to boost the Europe... More

Time of Monsters

Hot Spots

Time of Monsters

When Hans Fallada’s Little Man, What Now? was published during the last days of the Weimar Republic, his tale of economic depression and shattered petit-bourgeo... More

Camp in the City

Hot Spots

Camp in the City

A number of figures haunt the fantasmatic space of the camps that have mushroomed in Berlin these last few months, figures that jostle for a place in the German... More

Affect: Integration

Member Voices

Affect: Integration

“Instead of asking what affect is,” writes Danilyn Rutherford, “we should be asking where this concept comes from and what it is doing. What kind of analytic ap... More