About

ANTHROPOCOASTER Project is a publication that approaches global current affairs through an anthropological lens. It takes contemporary events—whether widely visible or chiefly relevant within specific contexts—as a starting point for understanding how decisions, norms, infrastructures, conflicts, crises, and transformations take concrete form in everyday practices, relationships, and experiences.

The name brings together two intuitions. Anthropo- refers to human beings and to the anthropological tradition; coaster evokes movement, changes in elevation, unexpected turns, and perspectives that change as we move forward. The metaphor is not intended to turn knowledge into spectacle, but to remind us that thinking, too, can be a vivid experience: rigorous, demanding, curious, and stimulating.

The word Project does not suggest that the publication is provisional. It names an ongoing editorial undertaking: bringing into relation scales, languages, and perspectives that often circulate separately, without reducing them to a single voice or a definitive synthesis.

This work moves in two directions at once. One travels back and forth between specialist knowledge and the questions of those seeking to understand the present: it brings academic concepts, debates, and tools into the concrete terrain of current affairs, while carrying concerns arising from the present into the spaces where knowledge is produced. The other moves laterally between dominant agendas and situated perspectives, without treating any centre as the universal measure.

Through this double movement, current affairs cease to be a flat surface. What seemed peripheral within one agenda may emerge as central within another; what seemed minor may reveal a deep tension; what seemed self-evident may call for a slower, more situated reading that pays closer attention to its effects.

The publication does not accept every point of view uncritically. It works from cross-checked sources and context, with interpretive caution and attention to the effects of representing people, territories, and groups. Nor does it assume that any single academic, cultural, or political tradition can, on its own, explain the complexity of the present.

This is the editorial promise of ANTHROPOCOASTER Project: to follow the twists and turns of current affairs with rigour, situated perspectives, and the joy of understanding worlds in motion.