From Crisis to the University of Utopia
We conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind both ourselves and others:…
Read MoreWe conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind both ourselves and others:…
Read MoreOver the last years academics from different disciplines have become increasingly visible on popular and social media, narrating personal stories and reflecting on the…
Read MoreThe two series of terrorist attacks that hit Paris this year, have given rise to a series of debates and mutual accusations about grief,…
Read MoreWriting ethnography in sites and times of “crisis” is a challenge that more and more anthropologists are dealing with, as this historical moment is…
Read MoreWhen Lori Allen‘s The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine appeared last year, it was – of course –…
Read MoreOver the past months, colleagues in anthropology and other fields have laid out strong arguments for why one should support the academic boycott of…
Read More“If we fail to defend our cause, then we should change the defenders, not the cause.” (Ghassan Kanafani) Oslo has often been defined as…
Read MoreThis week we are featuring a series of posts curated by Dimitra Kofti on a very timely theme: CRISES. Etymologically deriving from the Greek…
Read MoreA few years ago, even an expert on the risks of subprime lending would have been astounded by the very suggestion: a global crisis…
Read MoreSome object to the word ‘crisis’. However, it is useful for describing the sense that what seemed to be an understandable present and a…
Read MoreThis piece is a from-the-field reflection on the ways in which grand events and processes such as global financial crises and revolutionary upheavals come…
Read MoreEconomic crises are especially hard on women (Bettio et al. 2013, Manganara 2014, Seguino 2009, UNICRI 2014, Walby 2009) and the Greek crisis is…
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