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A Note on MUHUM

Muslim Humanitarianism – short MUHUM – is a platform that seeks to foster debate on the complex relationship between charity, philanthropy, humanitarianism, development and…

Friends and Relations

Glocalism is a (double-blind) peer-reviewed, open access and cross-disciplinary journal that aims at stimulating increasing awareness and knowledge around the new dynamics that characterise…

Why?

Mission Statement Allegra began in 2013 as a small group of renegade anthropologists creating a voice for themselves in the margins of the neoliberal…

On the Recent Rulings against Academics for Peace in Turkey

The criminal proceedings against several hundreds of academics in Turkey who signed a petition for peace (Academics for Peace) continue in Istanbul. They are…

Current Trends in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy – A Report

The study of bureaucracy has become a standard prerogative of English-language anthropology in recent years. Long gone are the days when bureaucracy was considered…

SCA2018: An experiment in carbon conscious conferencing and radical access

The Society for Cultural Anthropology is experimenting with a new exciting initiative this year. Next week (19-21 April 2018) the Biennial Meeting will take…

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Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity

The book “Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity: The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation” by Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann…

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 excerpt from Yael Navaro-Yashin’s…

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 since the Apartheid era….

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 preoccupation in the social…