“You don’t know me”: Disorientation, Reorientation, and Not Knowing in the Ethnography of Asylum and Refugees
During a long drive in the snow to meet my family for the dubiously-founded yet nonetheless celebratory U.S.-American Thanksgiving, my […]
The Deportation Corridor. A spatial, institutional and affective state of transit
In the course of the last two decades, the territorial exclusion of unwanted foreigners, constructed as a threat to national
‘Gender, Home & Identity: Nuer repatriation to Southern Sudan’ – Katarzyna Grabska talks about her book
Stories of war, violence, running and survival were a common narrative of many South Sudanese Nuer whom I met first
Recent Publications on the ‘Anthropology of the State’ #AnthroState
We recently featured a review on the ‘Anthropology of the State’ with Madeleine Reeves’s new publication on Border Work: Spatial
Undercover at the U.N. Lounge, Where Diplomats Get Drunk and Handsy
In keeping with this week’s theme, today Allegra is happy to direct you to a piece written by Noreen Malone,
Smoking Discouraged: Some Observations on Sociality and Measured Authority at the United Nations
I arrived in Geneva for the first time in July 2010, hoping to spend a few days getting my bearings
Recent Publications in Human Rights #HumanRights
We then feature another one of our recent thematic lists on Human Rights. However this time the list is a
Human Dignity and Glory – The future of human rights discourse?
Stephen Hopgood has recently argued in The Endtimes of Human Rights [i] that human rights discourse has fallen into decay
LGBT Advocacy in Northern Ireland
In the summer of 2008, Iris Robinson had a lot to say about homosexuality. On 6 June, in a radio
Music’s Marvellous Medicine & Moerman’s ‘Meaning Effect’
I am not alone in using music medicinally. The use of music’s mood altering properties was one of the themes