Recent Publications on the ‘Anthropology of the State’ #AnthroState
We recently featured a review on the ‘Anthropology of the State’ with Madeleine Reeves’s new publication on Border Work: Spatial […]
Undercover at the U.N. Lounge, Where Diplomats Get Drunk and Handsy
In keeping with this week’s theme, today Allegra is happy to direct you to a piece written by Noreen Malone,
Mumbai (1992-93) and Ahmedabad (2002), a tale of two cities: Narratives of violent and victimized women enduring urban riots in India
Brief extract from a forthcoming publication  Over the past decades, the rapid rise of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva in
Conversation Kurdistan One-Shots
Interview with Latif Tas on Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora
Today we are happy to share with you an interview with Latif Tas who is a socio-legal researcher currently based
The Land-Grab Trap. Is there a Will to Govern Global Land-Grabbing? #AIGNetwork
How to govern the “global land rush” was at issue in the final negotiations on Principles for Responsible Investment in
Universities in a State of Exception
Today we continue our thread ‘Allie’s Jewels on University Crises’ by a post by Dimitris Dalakoglou, originally published in October
Democracy building unraveled
This thematic thread gathers together a series of posts by leading experts and anthropologists of Afghanistan, who analyse the 2014
Elections as domestication of violence and threats of war
The 2014 Afghan presidential election reveals the dual quality Achille Mbembe described in Politics as a Form of Expenditure[i] as,
After Elections: Hope?
Worldwide debates on 2014 Afghan elections condense some of the most influencing myths – one of which certainly being related
Violence, Voting and the Monopolization of Power
The following is based on edited excerpts from the introduction of Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan: Elections in an Unstable Political