The Endangered Fishers of the Archipelago Sea
Regulation and the Archipelago Sea ”You are looking at the last generation of coastal fishers!” a fisherman told me, as I was getting my…
Read MoreRegulation and the Archipelago Sea ”You are looking at the last generation of coastal fishers!” a fisherman told me, as I was getting my…
Read MoreOur students do not dream of global change anymore! It is on these pessimistic words that Alessandro Monsutti opened our workshop « The Bureaucratization…
Read MoreI spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil servants I worked with,…
Read MoreWhile our newsfeed is filled with content related to the mid-term elections in the United States, President Trump’s xenophobic and racist discourse, and his…
Read MoreThree years after Europe declared a ‘crisis’ of migration control, its border and migration regimes have become increasingly repressive. A growing body of critical…
Read MoreWith #anthrostate, allegralab seems to suggest that there is a distinct subdiscipline of anthropology that studies the contemporary state. However, following Bourdieu (1994), Navaro-Yashin…
Read MoreThe surest signal that we are having something akin to a #metoo moment in academia is when my social media accounts, email inbox, and…
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 a contributor to a recent issue in Cultural Anthropology noted, enough attention has been devoted to sovereignty over the past 15 years to…
Read MoreThe study of bureaucracy has become a standard prerogative of English-language anthropology in recent years. Long gone are the days when bureaucracy was considered…
Read MoreWhat is ‘crime’? A social pathology? A violation of social order? The object or raison d’être of law enforcement? How can we best conceive…
Read MoreHillbrow, 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….
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