Thematic week: History of Human Rights
This Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human rights. Furthermore, this thematic…
Read MoreThis Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human rights. Furthermore, this thematic…
Read MoreIn September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the world in a matter…
Read More“Fate met Chance; I don’t know what she said to him but it was something about pictures and time” (Lorelei, 104). It is nearly…
Read MoreContemporary phenomena of migration and human trafficking pose challenges to modern states, which may struggle to deal effectively and fairly with how to address…
Read MoreI was visiting Chiang Mai, Thailand, at around the same time travel magazines began to herald Myanmar as the “it” destination of 2015. When…
Read MoreI spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil servants I worked with,…
Read MoreAllie’s conference week has been packed full of interesting reads from the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Tired of reading already? We…
Read MoreRelations and Dependencies, the second Helsinki Knots Symposium, tackled how two disciplines, anthropology and sociology, deal with the interplay between the intellectual and political/economic…
Read MoreToday our coverage of the Biannual Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society continues with selected notes from panels – brought to you by Maija…
Read MoreThis week, anthropologists will be making their way to Denver for the yearly academic (and sometimes chaotic) ritual that is #AAA2015. The “Familiar/Strange” theme…
Read MoreAn academic interview is just a snapshot but it can offer a vivid account of a life’s work. The following is an edited version…
Read MoreAnna Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of Santa Cruz, California and the Nils Bohr professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she…
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