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This thematic thread presents experiments, exercises, and reflections stemming from a two-day collaborative, practice-led workshop with ‘poetic resonance’.

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What does it mean to do research with climate? This essay reflects on the potential of poetic resonance as a method of creative experimentation and (auto)ethnographic practice, attuning the researcher/writer to the sensory experience of body and place.

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When I am in spaces where poetry is performed, there are invisible yet palpable forces which raise my heartbeat, make my tears well up, and give me goosebumps.

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This essay explores how poetic resonance can deepen ethnographic analysis by attuning to sensorial, embodied, and existential dimensions of experience.

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In this essay, I trace the force of fury that emerged within a single ethnographic moment and later saturated the analysis.

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This essay explores how the poetic resonance protocol enabled a deeper, embodied engagement with my ethnographic object: a poetry workshop conducted with wildfire-affected residents in northern Germany.

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During a multispecies ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish private garden, I encountered a weird-looking gourd (Calabash) that was turned into a birdhouse.

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This experimental essay treats uncertainty as bodily and relational and uses rhythm as a way of noticing it. It begins in the writing vibrations of the Poetic Resonance Protocol and carries their structure through the composition of the piece.

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This afterword reflects on the practice of ethnography through the metaphor of the anthropologist as a tuning fork—an embodied instrument attuned to the subtle or violent vibrations of lived experience whilst working through ethnographic materials.

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In June 2025, I gave the keynote “Community-led Digital Sovereignty: Insights and Lessons from an Indigenous Initiative in Remote Canada” at the International Digital Security Forum (IDSF) in Vienna. Since the recently published report focused mainly on the panel discussions, I wanted to briefly share some of the keynote’s central themes here as well. My… Continue reading Community-Led Digital Sovereignty: Key Takeaways From A Keynote in 2025

By Filis Demirov On a warm June afternoon in 2022, I sat with Annie, a 76-year-old breathwork facilitator, outside the Peace Chapel in Unity Village, Missouri. The breeze stirred the trees; birdsong drifted through the quiet campus. Annie watched the…

Budka, P. (2026). [Review of the book Sustainable energy transitions in Canada, by M. S. Winfield, S. D. Hill & J. R. Gaede]. Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 46(76), 198-199. The edited volume Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada addresses one of the most urgent and complex challenges of the twenty-first century: steering a federal, resource-dependent country toward… Continue reading Review: Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada

Budka, P., Schweitzer, P., & Povoroznyuk, O. (Eds.). (2026). Ethnographies of infrastructure [Special issue]. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 55(1). Summary Philipp Budka, Peter Schweitzer, and Olga Povoroznyuk have published a special issue titled “Ethnographies of Infrastructure” in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (Vol. 55, No. 1). The issue showcases research on infrastructure as a social,… Continue reading Special Issue: Ethnographies of infrastructure

Budka, P. (2025). Infrastructural disruption, entanglement and change in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Anthropologica, 67(1). https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica67120252709 My openly accessible article is published in the Special Issue “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience,” which I co-edited with Giuseppe Amatulli for Anthropologica. The article explores how infrastructural disruptions and entanglements reshape social relations and everyday life… Continue reading Article: Infrastructural disruption, entanglement & change in Northern Manitoba, Canada