State of Rebellion
In State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard moves away from an anthropological tendency […]
Bringing anthropologies of the state to Mainz: A workshop report
With #anthrostate, allegralab seems to suggest that there is a distinct subdiscipline of anthropology that studies the contemporary state. However,
Sovereignty in Exile
As a contributor to a recent issue in Cultural Anthropology noted, enough attention has been devoted to sovereignty over the
The Truth About Crime
What is ‘crime’? A social pathology? A violation of social order? The object or raison d’être of law enforcement? How
Because we’re #HAPPY? REDUX
Today we have, once again, witnessed the arrival of the World Happiness Reports – reports that claim nothing less than
Living a good life through infrastructure. A Review of three recent monographs on Central Asia
This post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof.
The State and International Relations, Ethnographically: Sites, Objects, Lives
This week begins a new thematic thread conceived around the topic, “The State and International Relations, Ethnographically: Sites, Objects, Lives.”
The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan
The Force of Custom presents a strongly grounded ethnographic argument for the rethinking of ‘customary law’ as a category in
REDUX: Abjected Spaces, Debris of War
To close our thematic week on the anthropology of the state, we re-publish (with the permission of the author) this
REDUX: “Cleaning Up the Streets”
Hillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs