The violent face of bureaucracy
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s…
Read MoreWhenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s…
Read MoreI grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the early 1990s, when I…
Read MoreHow do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the city? How do they…
Read MoreThis book is a rich cultural analysis of how people live with big cats in India in times of the Anthropocene and climate change….
Read MoreThere is a global push towards making AI more ethical and transparent. As critical contributions on the topic of AI have pointed out: even…
Read More“Trust in humanitarian action” was the top item on the agenda of the 33rd international conference of the Red Cross movement which took place…
Read MoreSpurred by a question I have been commonly asked, yet one that I’ve long neglected as ethnographically revealing in itself, this essay takes queries…
Read MoreHow do globalised health regimes create and shape landscapes of medical regulation and patient safety? This essay asks about the many ways in which…
Read Moreany day or part day that the individual sees their child in person in the UK counts as a day on which they see…
Read MoreWhen encountering the generosity of brilliant colleagues, one can only start with gratitude. Add to that a historical moment when a virus has reconfigured…
Read MoreEvery so often something happens that perfectly encapsulates the consumptive death rattle that is the job market in higher education. A few weeks ago,…
Read MoreNatasha Raheja (Cornell University) will present on ‘Mediating mobility: Migration and brokerage at the borders of the State’. Elizabeth Challinor (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) will act…
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