Dr Nafay Choudhury (LSE) has published a new book, co-edited with Dr Annika Schmeding (KNAW, Netherlands) entitled Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Berghahn Books, 2024). Frontier Ethnographies explores the ethnographic edges of contemporary anthropological inquiry in Afghanistan and Pakistan by assembling voices of emerging scholars who have conducted field research within the region in the past two decades. Ethnography as a form of knowledge production destabilizes conventional notions of the “frontier” as merely a geographic space and offers crucial impulses for investigating the layers of encounters and symbolic meanings produced by diverse forms of research in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Through examining moments of insecurity, vulnerability, doubt, fear, failure, and daydreaming, the contributors to this volume reflect on their own experiences of field research and how—faced with frontiers—they have been forced to reimagine or reconstruct their understanding of the social world.
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