TRANSPARENCY in PoLAR
Has the modern world become more transparent? Or is transparency simply a lure? Bureaucratic procedures such as audits and performance monitoring mechanisms may conceal…
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Human Rights in Asia in Asian Studies Review
The last issue of Asian Studies Review, Volume 37 (3), 2013 is dedicated to Human Rights in Asia. This issue, edited by Vera Mackie,…
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Trouillot (2001)
A classic that I enjoy every time! It feels that the past ten (plus some) years have only made this article more topical. It…
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Fielding challenges, challenging the field: The methodologies of mobility
27-28 September 2013 Where: University of Oxford, UK (for more info, click here)
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Looking for the Afghan State in Abu-Dhabi
Huge skyscrapers in the middle of the desert. The city looks like a mega shopping mall. On my way from the airport (through which…
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Anthropologists Engaging Violence, 1980-2012, in American Anthropologist
Virtual Issue edited by Virginia R. Dominguez Full content available: here
Read MoreAAA 2013 Panel – Where are values? Exploring the ‘genuine’ within the law
Friday, November 22, 2013 Chicago Hilton 1:45 PM-3:30 PM Organised by Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Julie Billaud Chaired by Sally Engle-Merry Sponsored by the…
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SAVE THE RECHTSKULTUREN PROGRAM IN BERLIN
It is with dismay that we take note of the recent announcement by the Berlin Senate to cut the funding for the Forum Transregionale…
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The Fantastic and the Banal: Rethinking Bureaucratic Authority
September 27-28, 2013, University of Colorado, Boulder. A Graduate Student Conference
Read MoreThe Legalization of Culture and the Enculturation of Law
McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Montreal, Canada. February 21, 2014,
Read MoreParliaments and Methodology: Anthropological, Discourse-Oriented and Digital Approaches to Parliamentary History
12-14 June 2014, Helsinki & Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. DEADLINE closed
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Change policies that have led to the resignation of Marshall Sahlins
Campaign launched in March 2013. The recent extraordinary act of Marshall Sahlins in resigning from the National Academy of Sciences is an exemplary…
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