Landscapes of Power
In her monograph Landscapes of Power, Powell takes the proposed – at the time of her initial fieldwork – development […]
Landscapes of Power
In Landscapes of Power, Dana Powell maps a failure: the proposed Desert Rock power plant which never came into being
Introduction to stateless/displaced/disappeared
This thematic thread evolved out of a workshop on Claiming justice after conflict. The stateless, the displaced and the
#EVENT: 70
Utopia3 and the International History Department – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva present: 70 On 10 December
Erkko Lecture Wrap-Up
Jane Cowan’s inaugural lecture at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is insightful in more than one way not least
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
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