#Review: Anthropology, Theatre and Development #Performance
In their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an admirable job of lending…
Read MoreIn their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an admirable job of lending…
Read MoreI recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a hybrid practitioner-academic who has…
Read MoreWhat is the relationship between democracy, development, disappointment, and failure? Is it possible to learn something about ‘democracy proper’ from an Eastern European context,…
Read MoreIn 1978, psychologist Jack Flasher defined the term ‘adultism’ as a way of perceiving children “not only as unconditionally subordinate until they attain legal…
Read MoreOn the Doorstep of Europe is a vividly written ethnography of the asylum process in Greece, “with its ethos of mystification, unpredictability, and arbitrariness” (p.217),…
Read MoreSince gender sensitivity was first given recognition under the official UNHCR Guidelines in the 1990s, approaches in decision making processes and the legal framework…
Read MoreWith students sprawled out on the lawn, a passer-by stopped to listen to the workshop as we sat in a circle under the sun and…
Read MorePrologue When the fireworks in the Senate Square in Helsinki announced the beginning of 2015, they also marked the start of a special year…
Read MoreIn my first blog installment I described one of my bus rides in Tehran in order to show that education, the transmission and acquisition…
Read MoreThe bus I was riding on my way to Tajrish (north Tehran) was beyond maximum capacity with its passengers. We were cramped and people…
Read MoreAlbertin Sarrazin once wrote, “whether you’re on the lam or whether you’re out hustling, gold is worth nothing compared to silence” (p.149). Those marginalised…
Read MorePatterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways…
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