What is a Public Space Without a Public?
A warm lunchtime in Sheffield, a city of half a million people in the north of England. It is late […]
Contested Sustainabilities and Socio-Ecological Change
The accelerating growth of the technosphere, climate crises, shifting species distribution and other phenomena contribute to increasingly dramatic socio-ecological changes
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
Jane Cowan on the OriÂgins of ‘MinorÂity’
Jane Cowan, the Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced
#HAUTALK: the tyranny of structurelessness and no end in sight
On June 11th 2018, David Graeber published an apology about the amount of time it took him to understand the
The Un(der)revealed Relations of Things in Museums: an introduction
I was at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam one fall afternoon when I decided to take a shortcut through the exhibition