EVENTS! #HumanRights
To conclude our thematic week, it’s time for yet another events’ post! This time the theme is, of course, human […]
REDUX: In Search of Hope #HumanRights
On April 30 and May 1, 2015 fourteen anthropologists from seven countries and thirteen universities and research institutions came together
An Anniversary as a Laboratory
This Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention
Pragmatisms as Historical, Holistic, Total Social Facts
The theme of #pragmatisms comes from my fieldwork with a handful of civil movement organisations in Seoul during the mid-2000s.Â
Pragmatism Threads
Lived Theories: Hayek’s Neoliberalism and Pragmatism
One way of characterizing Amy Levine’s rich ethnographic inquiry into pragmatism is to posit South Korean Civil Movement Organisations as
Pragmatism & the Magic Book for Nuclear Power
This is a brightly colored South Korean pro-nuclear children’s book adorned with friendly animals dancing around a light bulb in
Pragmatism Threads
Boilerplate Clauses as Pragmatic Knowledge Practices
Prompted by the invitation to participate in this thematic week on #pragmatisms for Allegra, I would like to share some
Knowing Economies, Doing Economies: How Sociologists of Markets Have Acknowledged the Legacy of Pragmatism
In her new book, South Korean Civil Movement Organisations: Hope, Crisis and Pragmatism in Democratic Transition, Amy Levine shows us
The Neoliberal Race to the Bottom Affects Us All!*
Over the last years academics from different disciplines have become increasingly visible on popular and social media, narrating personal stories
Picture of a House – toward the ethnography of the academia
There was a time when universities were modelled after churches. Today their designs echo temples of different kinds – namely