The United States and the Human Rights Revolutions of 1948 and of the 1970s
Every American President has grappled with the place of “rights” in U.S. foreign policy. However, the rise to prominence of the idea of “human…
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Legal Pluralism and Governance: Interview with Livia Holden
We have asked ourselves questions like the following: Where and how do social actors initiate their claims? Do the theorizations of law affect access…
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Handbook of Anthropology in Business
When a colleague saw this book in my hand, she exclaimed, ‘Wow, it’s like a Bible!’ – referring, of course, to the book’s size….
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‘The Good Life’ by Edward Fischer, Part 2/2
This is the second part in our Special Review section of Edward Fischer‘s book The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing….
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‘All the world’s a stage?’ A review of Bruno Latour’s Gaïa Global Circus
Theatre, it could be argued, involves three major concerns: warning (criticism), representation (mimesis), and collective aesthetic imagination (aisthesis/poïesis). While the first instrumentalises theatre, and…
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Palestinian refugees and the current Syrian conflict: from settled refugees to stateless asylum seekers?
The Syrian conflict has caused the forced displacement of many refugees. In November 2014, UNRWA[1] estimated the total number of Palestinian refugees displaced inside…
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D’exode en exode: Le conflit Syrien comme révélateur de la vulnérabilité des réfugiés palestiniens
Le conflit de Syrie a depuis 2011 sévèrement affecté les quelques 600’000 réfugiés palestiniens résidant alors dans ce pays, causant la mort de milliers…
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When Camps Become Home: Legal implications of the long-term encampment in Zaatari
Over the past five years, Syria is going through an unprecedented internal crisis and a civil war generating extreme violence and insecurity. Since the…
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On History and Anthropology – An interview with Claudio Lomnitz
Anastasia Martino interviews Claudio Lomnitz on the relationship between history and anthropology, the Mexican revolution and the role of the anthropologist as a public…
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Rachel Black – Porta Palazzo #1!
Rachel E. Black. Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4406-9 The book under review,…
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#Events in 2015 … Time to get started!
Happy new year, Allies! As it is by now the tradition, you will find below a list of exciting upcoming events and calls, not…
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Labors of Memory and the Post-Conflict Economy
During my research on Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 2003, a group of men in Lunsar invited me to a palm wine…
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