Afghan Elections: the pen, the gun and the slippage between
Afghanistan’s Presidential elections were scheduled to coincide with the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops and Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer of power. The first…
Read MoreAfghanistan’s Presidential elections were scheduled to coincide with the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops and Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer of power. The first…
Read MoreThe creation and maintenance of a national border is an act of political geography. The building of a wall or fence on that same…
Read MoreOn May 22 and 23, 2014, Security Lancaster, the Lancaster University Centre for Science Studies and the Centre for International Law and Human Rights…
Read MoreAllegra is delighted to welcome on board Judith Beyer as a Review Editor! Judith is an anthropologist specializing in legal and political anthropology. She…
Read MoreTwo particularly significant types of borders divide the global world. There are the national borders separating different countries, and then there are the class…
Read MoreHeath Cabot’s first monograph, entitled « On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece », will come out with the University of Pennsylvania Press,…
Read MoreDe Lauri, Antonio, ed., 2013, “War”, Antropologia, Vol. 16, Milan. 135 pp., ISBN 978-88-6705-129-8 Although war and, more broadly, the ‘problem of violence’…
Read MoreWhen I introduce myself as an historian, I am usually met with any one of a number of different reactions. There is the enthusiastic…
Read MoreIn January Allegra has made repeated ‘noise’ over an event titled Anthropological Knots. Prior to the event we shared all of its details in…
Read MoreToday Allegra pays tribute to an extraordinary scholar and person – Jane Cowan! Jane Cowan is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department…
Read MoreDuring treaty body sessions at the Palais Wilson one of the undoubted ‘hotspots’ for action is the cafeteria located on the first floor opposite…
Read MoreIn UN treaty body proceedings members of the bodies regularly mention – after they are done with elaborate rounds of welcomes, thank yous and…
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