The Bureaucratization of Utopia – A Report
Our students do not dream of global change anymore! It is on these pessimistic words that Alessandro Monsutti opened our […]
The Gloss of Harmony
I spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil
Call for Reviews: Ethnographies of the United States
While our newsfeed is filled with content related to the mid-term elections in the United States, President Trump’s xenophobic and
CALL FOR REVIEWS: NEW BOOKS ON THE EUROPEAN MIGRATION REGIME
Three years after Europe declared a ‘crisis’ of migration control, its border and migration regimes have become increasingly repressive. A
Bringing anthropologies of the state to Mainz: A workshop report
With #anthrostate, allegralab seems to suggest that there is a distinct subdiscipline of anthropology that studies the contemporary state. However,
Shocked, not Surprised
The surest signal that we are having something akin to a #metoo moment in academia is when my social media
Pyramid Scheme. #hautalk
For people immersed in bureaucratic institutions, like universities, the current ruckus over HAU raises at least one longstanding anthropological question:
Sovereignty in Exile
As a contributor to a recent issue in Cultural Anthropology noted, enough attention has been devoted to sovereignty over the
Current Trends in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy – A Report
The study of bureaucracy has become a standard prerogative of English-language anthropology in recent years. Long gone are the days
The Truth About Crime
What is ‘crime’? A social pathology? A violation of social order? The object or raison d’être of law enforcement? How