#Review: Working the System
Working the System is a great book. It holds the promise of its subtitle and offers a deep ‘political ethnography of the new Angola’….
Read MoreWorking the System is a great book. It holds the promise of its subtitle and offers a deep ‘political ethnography of the new Angola’….
Read MoreThis month’s round up of the best anthropology podcasts brought to you in collaboration with the ever amazing New Books in Anthropology features motorcycles, Catalonians, sex…
Read MoreThis text, written by our guest editor Salvatore Poier, is a plea for solidarity and a request to engage in a vigorous and honest…
Read MoreThis week begins a new thematic thread conceived around the topic, “The State and International Relations, Ethnographically: Sites, Objects, Lives.” Consistent with the overall…
Read MoreHillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs since the Apartheid era….
Read MoreHow political authority and legitimacy are sustained in societies marked by socio-economic inequality and political exclusion has been a long-standing preoccupation in the social…
Read MoreIn 2011, China’s state-run general content television channel, CCTV-4, launched a monumental 100-part series with a title that translates as “Borderland Journey” (边疆行). The premise…
Read MoreThe EASA AGM Seminar in Bern simply came in a bad time. It confronted me with a dilemma: while I was eager to follow…
Read MoreLet me start with a confession: Throughout the past year or so I have become somewhat hesitant to attend conferences and other academic gatherings….
Read MoreEASA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) Symposium “On politics and precarities in academia: anthropological perspectives” took place in mid-November at the University of Bern. The…
Read MoreSolidarity humanitarianism Taking as a vantage point the blossoming humanitarian milieu that emerged as a response to the “refugee crisis” in Greece after 2015,…
Read MorePorous borders What has happened on Libya’s borders in recent years? Here are some examples: During the insurgency and civil war in Mali in…
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