Roundtable: Answers by Julie Billaud
Are those developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some […]
Are those developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some […]
Julie Billaud‘s first monograph, entitled « Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan», came out in 2015 with the University
I walked out of my bedroom to a table garnished with exotic fruits, freshly pressed juice, bread and coffee. During
During World War II, Ruth Benedict conducted research about Japan at a distance. Challenging the stereotypical image of the white
What social practices are used to constitute evidence? What counts as evidence and why? How are different types of evidence
Evidence, whether in law, in natural or social science, or in belief systems, is about establishing certainty. Evidence has thus
The second book by Gardner and Lewis, Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century, is both an update and
Humanitarianism is a chimera, arguably an infection, but certainly an ethos and organising principle of our age that intersects with
Yesterday we highlighted one important development that took place for the Allegra team in March of 2014, namely that we
21st century politics are marked by a focus on ‘life’ (cf. Fassin 2007). Governments, international organisations, and private companies, for