Anna Lisa Ramella
Biographic Data
| ID | 914017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Lisa Ramella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramella |
| SIGNATURE | RAMELLA A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethnography Beyond Earth
What is at stake in engaging outer space ethnographically when colonial histories and power structures continue to shape its exploration and imagination? This question anchored a panel convened in November 2024 at the World Anthropological Union Congress (WAU) in Johannesburg, where we, Hanna Nieber, Anton Nikolotov, Alana Osbourne and Anna Lisa Ramella, explored the intersections of cosmic inquiry, colonial legacies, and ethnographic method. Uni…
From ruins and rubble
In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, much future-making in Kenya is taking place in ruins of unfinished promising projects, failed capitalist enterprises, and decades of colonial and postcolonial exclusion and marginalization. When discussing future-making in Kenya specifically and Africa more generally, especially in the context of vision-driven developmentalist narratives that rely on visions of linear progress and growth, analysts…
Suspending ruination
This article focuses on the financial collapse of and the subsequent interplay between material deterioration and maintenance on a flower farm in Naivasha that was placed under receivership in 2014. Our research is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the three authors before, during, and after the farm’s collapse. We examine how laid-off workers, current employees, owners, and new management engage in a process we call ‘suspending ruinat…
Finding One’s Rhythm
Deciphering movement and stasis
This article explores a reconceptualisation of movement and stasis in the narrations of contemporary touring musicians in Europe and the USA. Within these two music markets, touring has become a necessity that derives from and simultaneously pushes commercial success. By analysing the experiences of touring via the embodied and the imaginative, and drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with musicians on tour, the article contributes to an understan…
De-hierarchization, trans-linearity and intersubjective participation in ethnographic research through interactive media representations
This article reflects on the advantages as well as the challenges of interactive media productions as a form of (re-)presentation for ethnographic and anthropological research. It draws upon the example of the interactive website www.laviedurail.net, which retraces the Malian part of the former Dakar-Niger Express train track. The website invites users to take stops at different stations where mutual influence with the train determines life along…
From ruins and rubble
In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, much future-making in Kenya is taking place in ruins of unfinished promising projects, failed capitalist enterprises, and decades of colonial and postcolonial exclusion and marginalization. When discussing future-making in Kenya specifically and Africa more generally, especially in the context of vision-driven developmentalist narratives that rely on visions of linear progress and growth, analysts…
Suspending ruination
This article focuses on the financial collapse of and the subsequent interplay between material deterioration and maintenance on a flower farm in Naivasha that was placed under receivership in 2014. Our research is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the three authors before, during, and after the farm’s collapse. We examine how laid-off workers, current employees, owners, and new management engage in a process we call ‘suspending ruinat…
De-hierarchization, trans-linearity and intersubjective participation in ethnographic research through interactive media representations
This article reflects on the advantages as well as the challenges of interactive media productions as a form of (re-)presentation for ethnographic and anthropological research. It draws upon the example of the interactive website www.laviedurail.net, which retraces the Malian part of the former Dakar-Niger Express train track. The website invites users to take stops at different stations where mutual influence with the train determines life along…
Finding One’s Rhythm
Deciphering movement and stasis
This article explores a reconceptualisation of movement and stasis in the narrations of contemporary touring musicians in Europe and the USA. Within these two music markets, touring has become a necessity that derives from and simultaneously pushes commercial success. By analysing the experiences of touring via the embodied and the imaginative, and drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with musicians on tour, the article contributes to an understan…
From ruins and rubble
In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, much future-making in Kenya is taking place in ruins of unfinished promising projects, failed capitalist enterprises, and decades of colonial and postcolonial exclusion and marginalization. When discussing future-making in Kenya specifically and Africa more generally, especially in the context of vision-driven developmentalist narratives that rely on visions of linear progress and growth, analysts…
Suspending ruination
This article focuses on the financial collapse of and the subsequent interplay between material deterioration and maintenance on a flower farm in Naivasha that was placed under receivership in 2014. Our research is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the three authors before, during, and after the farm’s collapse. We examine how laid-off workers, current employees, owners, and new management engage in a process we call ‘suspending ruinat…
Ethnography Beyond Earth
What is at stake in engaging outer space ethnographically when colonial histories and power structures continue to shape its exploration and imagination? This question anchored a panel convened in November 2024 at the World Anthropological Union Congress (WAU) in Johannesburg, where we, Hanna Nieber, Anton Nikolotov, Alana Osbourne and Anna Lisa Ramella, explored the intersections of cosmic inquiry, colonial legacies, and ethnographic method. Uni…
Ethnography (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)