Living through the pandemic: anthropology in and on Africa
Panel organised by Daniele Cantini (University of Halle), Amal Abdrabo (Alexandria University), Bouchra Sidi Hida (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), and David Mills (Oxford University) at the 17th EASA conference, Belfast, 26-29 July 2022
Read MorePanel Session at the 7th Global Meeting on Law & Society “Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy”
in association with the Commission on Legal Pluralism, Lisbon July 13-16, 2022 Bertram Turner; Keebet von Benda-Beckmann Decolonizing the normative power of technology and materiality in postcolonial plural legal settings Since early colonial times, technology, materiality and their encoded knowledge regimes have, largely unacknowledged, displayed their normative power within the plural legal configurations created by […]
Read MoreLifeworlds amidst permanent chaos and durable crises: experience, ethics and knowledge across the broader Middle East
Panel organised by Daniele Cantini (University of Halle) and Tommaso Trevisani (Università di Napoli – L’Orientale) at the XV SeSaMO conference, Napoli, 22-24 June 2022
Read MoreMeasuring Kinship: The End of Negotiating Relatedness?
(Panel at the GAA-Conference 2019 at the University of Konstanz) It has become a truism in anthropology that kinship is negotiated. The idea that kinship is a universal human relation that links people even without their knowledge is neverthel- ess gaining persuasive power. Based on this assumption, diverse technologies are being developed and applied to […]
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