Who

Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is editor of the Worlds in Motion (Berghahn) book series, co-editor of Pacing Mobilities (2020), Methodologies of Mobility (2017), Keywords of Mobility (2016), Regimes of Mobility (2014) and Tourism Imaginaries (2014), and author of Momentous Mobilities (2018), Envisioning Eden (2010) and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on mobility and imaginaries. Salazar is secretary-general of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), past president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and founder of the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (AnthroMob). In 2013, he was elected as member of the Young Academy of Belgium.

Eilis Lanclus is a PhD student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the KU Leuven, Belgium. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Sociology and a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the KU Leuven. Her research is situated in the field of anthropology of sport, bodies-in-motion, and leisure studies. She is currently conducting fieldwork with endurance runners and endurance walkers in Belgium, using a mixed-methods approach.

Raphael Schapira is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and a Doc.Mobility Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at KU Leuven in the Faculty of Social Sciences. He is also an expert practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and German ju-jutsu. His main research interest lies in the anthropology of sport, which he approaches from the perspectives of the body, skill, and religion. He has conducted long-term research in Rio de Janeiro on Brazilian jiu-jitsu for which he immersed himself into the practice of this martial art using embodiment as a topic and research method.