The Privileged Discomfort of Border Crossings
As social scientists our work often directly grows out of our personal journeys—journeys that are physical, emotional, intellectual and political.
PETITION: Against ‘Race Realism’
Justin Oakley and Michael Selgelid Editors in Chief, Monash Bioethics Review Monash Bioethics Centre Menzies Building 20 Chancellors Walk Clayton Campus
Off the Beaten Track in Malta, Maritime Ethnographies and More
The year is nearing it’s end, so now is as good a time as ever to start thinking about what
Secular Powers and Heretic Undercurrents in a God-Fearing Part of the World
We live in a world where the secularisation thesis has been proven wrong, where modernities more often than not are
Podcast Interview Round Up: The Best of November
It’s getting cold (in some parts of the world) and, as we all know, the best thing for keeping ears
An Anthropologist in the Archives
Is it Christmas already?! This week, Allegra is collaborating with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies* to celebrate and create
Erkko Lecture Wrap-Up
Jane Cowan’s inaugural lecture at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is insightful in more than one way not least
The Bureaucratization of Utopia – A Report
Our students do not dream of global change anymore! It is on these pessimistic words that Alessandro Monsutti opened our
The Gloss of Harmony
I spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil
Essential Readings #ErkkoLecture
I am rereading some of my own articles and chapters as I prepare for today’s lecture, and I thought these