(SoSS) Social Anthropology

Time and progress across postsocialist China’s northeastern borders

16:00 - 18:00 2 October 2023
Ed Pulford (University of Manchester): Time and progress across postsocialist China’s northeastern borders. Crossing borders between states often involves a sense of temporal shift,…

Tasty molds: brewing culinary cultures for contemporary Japan

16:00 - 18:00 9 October 2023
Alice Doublier (CNRS): Tasty molds: brewing culinary cultures for contemporary Japan. For about a decade now, a small group of Japanese soy sauce brewers have been working on the revitalisation…

Entitled to contraband: citizenship and sovereignty in an indigenous borderland (Venezuela-Guyana)

16:00 - 18:00 16 October 2023
Olivier Allard (EHESS): Entitled to contraband : citizenship and sovereignty in an indigenous borderland (Venezuela-Guyana). Illicit trade became pervasive in Venezuela in the late…

What does care take? Saving and sequestering in orangutan conservation

16:00 - 18:00 23 October 2023
Liana Chua (with the GLO [globallivesoftheorangutan.org] and POKOK [pokokborneo.wordpress.com] project teams): What does care take? Saving and sequestering in orangutan conservation.…

Free culture and the city: hackers, commoners and neighbours in Madrid, 1997-2017

16:00 - 18:00 6 November 2023
Alberto Corsin Jimenez (Spanish National Research Council): Free culture and the city: hackers, commoners and neighbours in Madrid, 1997-2017. This talk introduces our recently published…

The Politics of Dignity: Existential Movements in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

16:00 - 18:00 13 November 2023
Valentina Zagaria (University of Manchester): The Politics of Dignity: Existential Movements in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia. This paper seeks to approach dignity (karama) ethnographically…

The War on Politics: Policing as the Generation of Disorder and the Already Existing Abolition

16:00 - 18:00 20 November 2023
Deniz Yonucu (Newcastle University): The War on Politics: Policing as the Generation of Disorder and the Already Existing Abolition. In this talk, based on my book Police, Provocation,…

Russian (schizo-)patriotism: ancient Orthodox perspectives on the war in Ukraine

16:00 - 18:00 27 November 2023
Dominic Martin (Oxford University): Russian (schizo-)patriotism: ancient Orthodox perspectives on the war in Ukraine. This paper, which is based on 10 months’ fieldwork in 2022 in…

State archives, embodiment, and (in)security: notes from the field

16:00 - 18:00 4 December 2023
Kodili Chukwuma (Durham University): State archives, embodiment, and (in)security: notes from the field. This paper explores the importance of embodiment in (research on) archival…

Edward Simpson (Lancaster University)

16:00 - 18:00 11 December 2023
Edward Simpson (Lancaster University): State Highway 31: Infrastructure, climate change and a multi-scalar ethnographic approach to no behaviour change. This talk follows the route…

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