Round Table: Responses by Jason Danforth
Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites…
Read MoreQuestion 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites…
Read MoreQuestion 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites…
Read MoreAfter a week long extravaganza of performance and politics around music and dance, it is time for performance & politics of an entirely different…
Read MoreTo conclude our thematic week, it’s time for yet another events’ post! This time the theme is, of course, human rights. Given what we…
Read MoreOn April 30 and May 1, 2015 fourteen anthropologists from seven countries and thirteen universities and research institutions came together on the campus of…
Read MoreThere has, of late, been a loud and to some extent circular debate within the field of human rights studies. The debate is over…
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2C4D-nTUS8 The relationship of anthropology and human rights has by now been aptly illustrated: over the past decades we have moved from ‘engagement’ to…
Read MoreThis Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention is not entirely coincidental…
Read MoreChild Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering reflection when read against the backdrop of recent global media stories about…
Read MoreSeth Holmes’ ethnography Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is a timely and innovative text blending theory and praxis. As a physician anthropologist, the author tries…
Read MoreYesterday I took my two children, aged 4 and 7, to the doctor. Both had been ill for the past week; the older one…
Read MoreToday we re-visit a post on the deportation conundrum by Barak Kalir. The post was first published in the spring of 2014 as a…
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