Outputs & Media

Publications

Book: Traces of Sisterhood

This open-access volume, edited by Eliza Proszczuk and Ewa Chomicka, brings together scholars, artists, and activists who explore sisterhood as a framework to address social justice and climate change. The book includes reflections from a workshop and exhibition titled Traces of Sisterhood, alongside essays and artworks that examine historical, cultural, and activist dimensions of sisterhood.

Contributions range from scholarly chapters, critical reflections to powerful artistic works like Paulina Penc’s Fukkatsu and Monika Weiss’s Nirbhaya, to explorations of textile art, performative actions, and community practices. The book was accompanied by Traces of Sisterhood exhibition in the Galeria Salon Akademii in Warsaw, 16th August–16th September 2022.

Special Issue: TRAJECTORIA Journal: Museums, Anthropology and Art on Landscape Memories, Archival Ecologies

This special issue of TRAJECTORIA: Anthropology, Museums, Art, edited by Lee Douglas, explores Landscape Memories, Archival Ecologies through multimodal ethnographic works that use still and moving images to investigate landscapes marked by extraction, toxicity, and pollution. It includes an introduction by Douglas, followed by Alice Cazenave’s Parallel Archives: Photographic Silver & Its Landscapes, Beatriz de Almeida’s photo-essay A Complicated Portrait of the Portuguese River Paiva, and Andrea Bordoli’s Remediating Visual Extractivism and the Geological Archive, which offers perspectives from Subarctic Québec. The special issue argues that engaging with visual traces—such as still and moving images—allows a deeper exploration of how communities experience landscapes marked by toxicity, extraction, and pollution. These traces serve as vital tools in visual ethnographic work, helping to reveal the complex social, political, and ecological dimensions of climate crisis and enabling new ways to narrate and understand environmental violence and memory.

Book: Unearthing Collections: Archives, Time and Ethics

Unearthing Collections, edited by Magdalena Buchczyk, Martin Fonck, Tomás J. Usón, Tina and Palaić, challenges readers to rethink the ethics of collections and archives through the lens of temporality. Centered on ‘unearthing’—the revealing of hidden histories—the book highlights how knowledge often involves displacement, exploitation, and colonial legacies. It advocates for ‘re-earthing,’ a critical approach that embraces the complex, evolving nature of traces, urging scholars and practitioners to disrupt traditional timelines and adopt new ethical ways of engaging with collections and archives. Contributors explore these topics through diverse international case studies such as protests over glacial sampling, the ethics of human remains, and ephemeral political art.

Book series: Spectropia – Experiments in Trace (forthcoming)

The Spectropia Book Series stands as a vital legacy of our COST Action, continuing to advance research, foster collaboration, and inspire critical dialogue on trace well beyond the project’s conclusion in October 2025. This series, published with De Gruyter, aims to open up new discussions about the epistemological, methodological, and ethical implications of trace and tracing. Spectropia transcends disciplinary boundaries and areas of practice, creating a space for sharp, provocative debate on the implications of trace and their reverberations. It celebrates innovative, experimental, and engaged research that address the spectres, afterimages, and activations that occur around traces left by critical episodes of mass violence and conflict, environmental destruction and climate crisis, economic upheaval and dispossession, and rapid technological change.

Spectropia, experimentation is as much about alternative modes of knowledge production as it is about rigorous research in the social sciences, humanities, and the arts, both digital and otherwise.

Toolkits

Practising Collection Ethics Toolkit

This toolkit goes beyond formal guidelines and codes of ethics related to collection practice by using real-world examples and thought-provoking questions to help curators and museum and archive professionals reflect on ethical dilemmas.

The toolkit includes case studies from Diego Ballestero, Víctor Barros, Hana Curak, Ayesha Fuentes, Susanne Kass, Michel Lee, Katharina Nowak, Órla O’Donovan, Róisín O’Gorman, Tina Palaić, and Petra Šarin, and was edited by Tina Palaić, Magdalena Buchczyk, and Aimée Joyce

TRACTS media

Explore our work on traces of sisterhood during the City of Women festival in Ljubljana

Discover the Connecting Lines: Tracing Care on the Intersection of Feminism and Ecology Conference

Hear Sanja Horvatinčić discussing TRACTS on Croatian TV (HRT)

Webinars exploring trace research across Europe

Our network includes talented researchers who bring diverse perspectives and showcase innovative projects. To highlight some of these, we created the webinar series Traces across Europe, featuring projects from across the continent. Together, we explore how traces shape our understanding of the past, present, and future.

Each webinar centers on a theme related to traces—such as cultural heritage, environmental impact, digital imprints, or migration—offering presentations, discussions, and interactive Q&A sessions to deepen our understanding of how traces are researched and interpreted.

See examples of TRACTS webinars here: