The Bureaucratization of Utopia – An international Workshop
The twenty-five years since the end of the Cold War have been a historical watershed for the project of international governance embodied by the…
Read MoreThe twenty-five years since the end of the Cold War have been a historical watershed for the project of international governance embodied by the…
Read MoreAre those developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some kind of innovation vis-à-vis…
Read MoreWhen Vladimir Nalivkin, a Russian officer who had served in several military campaigns, and his wife, Maria Nalivkina, took up farming in 1878 in…
Read MoreJulie Billaud‘s first monograph, entitled « Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan», came out in 2015 with the University of Pennsylvania Press, in…
Read More1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I started engaging with the notion of political agency…
Read MoreLast May, an international workshop entitled Rethinking political agency in the Middle East: Engaging political anthropology took place in Fiesole at the European University Institute….
Read MoreThose who have followed Allegra’s adventures from its creation in 2013 will probably remember that our initial motto was “Slow down!”. Prior to launching…
Read MoreMy fieldwork in Afghanistan in 2007 involved a substantial amount of time spent at wedding parties. It was rare to spend a week without…
Read MoreThe sexual assaults that occurred in Cologne on New Year’s Eve will long be remembered in Germany and in Europe more broadly. What a…
Read MoreGish Amit is a historian who has been involved in non formal education for twenty years. He taught cinema and literature at the Arab…
Read MoreThe Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) is a program run by The New School for Social Research for the second time this year….
Read MoreWorried by the current crisis affecting the Eurozone and many other parts of the world, we also sometimes feel disempowered by our lack of…
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