#PrecAnthro. Let’s talk about unionisation.
The HAU controversy is both a disappointment and an opportunity. It is a disappointment because it reflects the troubled condition in which academic anthropology…
Read MoreThe HAU controversy is both a disappointment and an opportunity. It is a disappointment because it reflects the troubled condition in which academic anthropology…
Read MoreFor people immersed in bureaucratic institutions, like universities, the current ruckus over HAU raises at least one longstanding anthropological question: what kinds of organizational…
Read MoreAs students and academics in Poland are fighting to defend democracy and autonomy of the universities, this post is a battle cry. It outlines…
Read MoreThe “publish or perish” imperative in academia is periodically debated in the newspapers. I think some distance should be taken from the arguments developed…
Read MoreIn her new book, Kirsten Doughty provides us with an ethnographic account of the paradoxes, contradictions and omissions of remediation processes in post-genocide Rwanda….
Read MoreThe Space of Boredom takes us to spaces on the edge of new global orders, focusing on the lives and practices of homeless men…
Read MoreThis text, written by our guest editor Salvatore Poier, is a plea for solidarity and a request to engage in a vigorous and honest…
Read MoreOn the 22nd of February 2018 University and College Union (UCU), the largest academic union in the world with over 100,000 members went on…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe Force of Custom presents a strongly grounded ethnographic argument for the rethinking of ‘customary law’ as a category in the anthropology of law….
Read More“It was so special” appears in simple white letters on a black screen while the performer Yadgar Bakir is speaking in a calm voice…
Read More“On politics and precarities in academia”- this was the title of the EASA seminar held at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern…
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