REDUX: Abjected Spaces, Debris of War
To close our thematic week on the anthropology of the state, we re-publish (with the permission of the author) this […]
REDUX: “Cleaning Up the Streets”
Hillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs
Call for Reviews: #AnthroState #Africa
As we start into 2018, we seize the opportunity of this post by Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan on
Revisiting ‘States at Work. Dynamics of African Bureaucracies’
‘States at Work’ aims to contribute to the academic debates on processes of state-building in Africa, and, among development practitioners,
The state of the state in Africa
How political authority and legitimacy are sustained in societies marked by socio-economic inequality and political exclusion has been a long-standing
Precarity everywhere?
“On politics and precarities in academia”- this was the title of the EASA seminar held at the Institute of Social
Overlapped Precarities
The EASA AGM Seminar in Bern simply came in a bad time. It confronted me with a dilemma: while I
The Precariat Fights Back. A conversation with Dan Hirslund and Carrie Benjamin
This conversation took place after a workshop entitled “Between precarious norms and empowering alternatives – a workshop on the strategies
How to write about precarity from a precarious position
Let me start with a confession: Throughout the past year or so I have become somewhat hesitant to attend conferences
The uncanny predictability of precarious existence
EASA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) Symposium “On politics and precarities in academia: anthropological perspectives” took place in mid-November at the