Kabul Carnival. Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan
I 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 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 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 MoreEconomic crises are especially hard on women (Bettio et al. 2013, Manganara 2014, Seguino 2009, UNICRI 2014, Walby 2009) and the Greek crisis is…
Read MoreThis Autumn marks the 15th anniversary of the passing of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR 1325) 1325 on “Women, Peace and Security”. The adoption…
Read MoreGone are the times when gender was a mostly female domain of enquiry. In our list of recent publications, two publications exemplify novel ways…
Read MoreDepuis la prise de Mossoul par l’État Islamique en Irak et au Levant (Da’ech) en juin 2014, la division définitive du territoire irakien sur…
Read MoreAfter the success of her article published in American Anthropologist in 2002 under the same title, Lila Abu-Lughod released her new book ‘Do Muslim…
Read MoreAs one of our aims is to keep a pulse on the (scholarly) feeling of the moment, we wanted to share these recent encounters…
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