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 the biggest possible buzz…
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This thematic thread celebrates Anthropology Professor Jane Cowan’s appointment as Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies for 2018-19.Curated by Allegra. Featured image by Mika Federley.
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 because it resonates with…
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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 workshop « The Bureaucratization…
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The Gloss of Harmony
I spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil servants I worked with,…
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Essential Readings #ErkkoLecture
I am rereading some of my own articles and chapters as I prepare for today’s lecture, and I thought these four might be useful…
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Jane Cowan on the Origins of ‘Minority’
Jane Cowan, the Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies for the academic…
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