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Ateliers d’anthropologie is an online thematic journal with a review committee. Open to subjects focused on ethnographic studies combining theoretical innovations and precise observations, the journal publishes anthropology in the making. Since it is published online, it allows authors to include any supporting information and multimedia sources.
We publish one or two thematic issues per year, as well as publishing articles progressively under the Varia section of the journal.

Latest issue
56 | 2025
"Re-worlding relations" : anthropologie et pratiques artistiques

Re-worlding relations: Anthropology and artistic practices
Edited by Francesca Cozzolino , Giuliana Borea and Alex Ungprateeb Flynn
Couverture d'Ateliers d'anthropologie, 56|2025
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Credits: Avec l'aimable autorisation de Denilson Baniwa, tous droits réservés

This special issue takes as its starting point a shared enquiry into how anthropology and artistic practice can reconfigure contemporary understandings of relation, temporality, and world-making. Originating in a workshop held at Newcastle University in November 2023 organised by EASA's Anthropology and the Arts Network (ANTART), the issue draws together contributions that explore how re-worlding—the imaginative and material process of unmaking dominant frameworks to make otherwise—can offer tools for navigating and transforming emergent political, ecological, and epistemological challenges.

Across six contributions (in English and French), the issue introduces the concept of re-worlding as a means of articulating the affective, political, and sensory dimensions of anthropological and artistic inquiry. The articles examine how artists and anthropologists collaborate to model alternative socialities, from the repurposing of colonial visual archives to the creation of new aesthetic forms grounded in Indigenous epistemologies. This includes the exploration of artistic practices that respond to urban marginalisation, ecological destruction, and extractivist logics by forging situated, embodied, and speculative responses to crisis.

The issue is organised around three interrelated modes of re-worlding: sensory approaches that engage perception and art experience as research tools; Indigenous artistic practices that reconfigure archival and colonial imaginaries; and critical engagements with urban aesthetics and design that challenge dominant spatial narratives. Contributors draw on fieldwork and creative collaboration in contexts including experimental design in a Danish library (Nouwens), musical practices rooted in Brazilian urban peripheries (Wahid-Simon), West African music scenes (Carbonnel), Indigenous communities in Australia involved in the ‘ghostnet art’ mouvement (Le Roux), North American Indigenous futurisms (Journée-Duez), and Indigenous Australian, Touareg and French Polynesian artistic practices and cosmovisions (Glowczewski).

Together, these articles propose re-worlding not as an abstract concept but as a practical, imaginative, and transformative methodology—one that unfolds through material interventions, experimental aesthetics, and a commitment to plural ways of knowing and relating. The issue invites reflection on how anthropology and the arts, in entangled and sometimes uncomfortable dialogue, can act as generative sites for world-making otherwise.

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