The Gloss of Harmony
I spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil […]
Essential Readings #ErkkoLecture
I am rereading some of my own articles and chapters as I prepare for today’s lecture, and I thought these
REDUX: “Cleaning Up the Streets”
Hillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs
#review: anthropology and law
The task of reviewing Mark Goodale’s Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction was weird, in a fractal way. The book
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 Bureaucratization of Utopia – An international Workshop
The twenty-five years since the end of the Cold War have been a historical watershed for the project of international
Interview: Gabriele del Grande is Free
Gabriele del Grande is a journalist and human rights activist, co-director of the documentary ‘On the Bride’s Side’ and founder of
‘Pretend to be straight!’ What’s wrong with the world?
By Miia Halme-Tuomisaari with a comment by Antu Sorainen On February 26 the Guardian reported of new UK Home Office
Bonded labour in Pakistan
The most common pattern for bonded labour in Pakistan is for a landlord or an employer to extend a loan
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Underlying the domain of human rights is the conception of the human on which we predicate, and advocate for, human