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#Review: Anthropology, Theatre and Development #Performance

October, 2015 / By Scott Head

In their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an […]

October, 2015 / By Vanessa Farr

I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a

October, 2015 / By Čarna Brković

What is the relationship between democracy, development, disappointment, and failure? Is it possible to learn something about ‘democracy proper’ from

In 1978, psychologist Jack Flasher defined the term ‘adultism’ as a way of perceiving children “not only as unconditionally subordinate

October, 2015 / By Sébastien Bachelet

On the Doorstep of Europe is a vividly written ethnography of the asylum process in Greece, “with its ethos of mystification,

October, 2015 / By Gabriela Radulescu

Since gender sensitivity was first given recognition under the official UNHCR Guidelines in the 1990s, approaches in decision making processes

October, 2015 / By Sarita Fae Jarmack

With students sprawled out on the lawn, a passer-by stopped to listen to the workshop as we sat in a circle

September, 2015 / By Sonja Trifuljesko

Prologue When the fireworks in the Senate Square in Helsinki announced the beginning of 2015, they also marked the start

September, 2015 / By Amina Tawasil

In my first blog installment I described one of my bus rides in Tehran in order to show that education,

August, 2015 / By Amina Tawasil

The bus I was riding on my way to Tajrish (north Tehran) was beyond maximum capacity with its passengers. We