Democracy on speed
The question, when it came, was striking in its simplicity: “should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European […]
Is Slow Academia Conservative?
In this post, Heather Mendick argues that some calls for slowing down scholarship mask a conservative politics. Last July I blogged
Rethinking Political Agency in the Middle East | Workshop Abstracts
Over the next two days, Allegra will be busy reporting on the international workshop Rethinking political agency in the Middle
Rethinking political agency in the Middle East #project
This week Allegra focuses on an exciting new feature incorporated into our beloved website a while back: namely Projects! What this
How Immigration Policies Create Smugglers
In the spring of 2007, when I was driving with Ramón (all names have been changed), a Mexican man who
Scenes of Gentrification
Scene One: London Soho and Bloomsbury I used to love London for its Indian and Thai vegan restaurants, vibrant queer
In defence of our universal double standards
The two series of terrorist attacks that hit Paris this year, have given rise to a series of debates and
The Road to Oslo and Its Reverse
“If we fail to defend our cause, then we should change the defenders, not the cause.” (Ghassan Kanafani) Oslo has
New Anthropologies of Political Performance – thematic thread on performance
Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the
After the Revolution. Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia
What is the relationship between democracy, development, disappointment, and failure? Is it possible to learn something about ‘democracy proper’ from