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Reflections on “The Future of Central Asian Studies”
The workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” was organized by Judith Beyer and Madeleine Reeves at the University of Konstanz and held on…
Read MoreThe workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” was organized by Judith Beyer and Madeleine Reeves at the University of Konstanz and held on…
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Read MoreResearching with social movements (environmental activism, makerspaces) brings ethnography’s nuanced, embodied and collective sense-making to the fore. I also argue that anthropological research within…
Read MoreFollowing the unexpected popularity of my May article Tinder as a Methodological Tool I was asked by Allegra to write a follow up, expanding…
Read MoreEarlier this year I attended a workshop on academic writing. The intent, so I thought, was to explore avenues in academic research to see…
Read MoreThis summer, Allegra has been particularly inspired by the intricacies of global bureaucracies. Our readers may have already read the report of the workshop…
Read MoreOur students do not dream of global change anymore! It is on these pessimistic words that Alessandro Monsutti opened our workshop « The Bureaucratization of…
Read MoreThe twenty-five years since the end of the Cold War have been a historical watershed for the project of international governance embodied by the…
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