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Reading Between the Lines: Maternity Benefit Law in India and Whom It Truly Benefits (2024)
Journal Article
Dadke, S. (2024). Reading Between the Lines: Maternity Benefit Law in India and Whom It Truly Benefits. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 31(2), 177-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/09715215241235349

The gendered and performative role of motherhood, an ideal of patriarchy, has been codified into the letters of law. A feminist lens has been applied to understand how motherhood and patriarchy interact within the maternity benefit law in India, whic... Read More about Reading Between the Lines: Maternity Benefit Law in India and Whom It Truly Benefits.

Parliamentary standards under attack: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Westminster Parliament (2024)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2024). Parliamentary standards under attack: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Westminster Parliament. The Journal of Legislative Studies, 30(2), 169-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2024.2345036

Healthy democracies require ethical leadership and respect for rules, but since the 2000s we have witnessed serious attacks on standards in the UK Parliament. Two narratives about scandals will reveal cultural and social aspects that are often ignore... Read More about Parliamentary standards under attack: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Westminster Parliament.

Readiness, Resilience and the Ripple Effect: Women-owned enterprise in Kenya and the Promise of Global Inclusion (2024)
Journal Article
Rajak, D., & Dolan, C. (2024). Readiness, Resilience and the Ripple Effect: Women-owned enterprise in Kenya and the Promise of Global Inclusion. Critical African Studies, 16(1), 51-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2024.2332199

This article interrogates the promise of inclusive markets as the vehicle of gender empowerment empirically through a case study of a small women-owned enterprise in Nairobi on its journey to inclusion in one of the world’s largest corporate supply c... Read More about Readiness, Resilience and the Ripple Effect: Women-owned enterprise in Kenya and the Promise of Global Inclusion.

'Healing Waters: An Unhyphenated Welcome' and Conference Programme, ‘Being with Water Otherwise: Sacred Knowledge and Sustainable Water-Human Relations’, Cambridge (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2024, April). 'Healing Waters: An Unhyphenated Welcome' and Conference Programme, ‘Being with Water Otherwise: Sacred Knowledge and Sustainable Water-Human Relations’, Cambridge. Presented at Being with Water Otherwise: Sacred Knowledge and Sustainable Water-Human Relations, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

As we grapple with the pressing issues of water management and its impact on ecosystems, economies, and societies, this conference seeks to explore a transformative perspective. Can diverse religious philosophies and practices offer lessons for susta... Read More about 'Healing Waters: An Unhyphenated Welcome' and Conference Programme, ‘Being with Water Otherwise: Sacred Knowledge and Sustainable Water-Human Relations’, Cambridge.

Valene Smith, tourism, and the remapping of anthropological terrain (2024)
Journal Article
Adams, K. M. (2024). Valene Smith, tourism, and the remapping of anthropological terrain. Tourism Geographies, 26(4), 695-699. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2342467

This article argues that Valene Smith’s contributions were fundamental for mapping out the terrain for what was envisioned as an ‘anthropology of tourism.’ As the first major collection of anthropological research on the topic of tourism, Smith’s 197... Read More about Valene Smith, tourism, and the remapping of anthropological terrain.

Translator as Researcher: Co-Producing Research on Food-Based Livelihoods in South Africa (2024)
Book Chapter
Dlamini, K. T., & Hull, E. (2024). Translator as Researcher: Co-Producing Research on Food-Based Livelihoods in South Africa. In Sage Research Methods Cases: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529690576

This case is based on a project in rural South Africa investigating food access and livelihoods after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research entailed remote collaboration between an anthropologist and a locally based translator. By explainin... Read More about Translator as Researcher: Co-Producing Research on Food-Based Livelihoods in South Africa.

The logic of carbon substitution: from fossilised life to “cell factories” (2024)
Journal Article
Ehrenstein, V., & Rudge, A. (2024). The logic of carbon substitution: from fossilised life to “cell factories”. Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 105(1), 99-123. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00206-z

This paper examines how researchers in biotechnology reflect on the challenges of turning microbes into what they call “cell factories”. These researchers use the tools of genome editing to harness the biochemistry of single cell organisms, such as b... Read More about The logic of carbon substitution: from fossilised life to “cell factories”.

'Underworlding: Methodologies of Survival and Repair from the Bosnian Karst', invited talk for the Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Goldsmiths University of London (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2024, March). 'Underworlding: Methodologies of Survival and Repair from the Bosnian Karst', invited talk for the Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Goldsmiths University of London. Presented at Matters of Violence & Repair: Repurposing Anthropology in Critical Times, Goldsmiths University of London, Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series, Goldsmiths University of London

Set in southern Bosnia, in the enduring shadow of a genocidal project and its last escalation from the 1990s, this talk follows the meandering course of one sinking river, Trebišnjica, as it submerges into and emerges from the karst underground of th... Read More about 'Underworlding: Methodologies of Survival and Repair from the Bosnian Karst', invited talk for the Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Goldsmiths University of London.

Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice (2024)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (2024). Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice. In E. Gilberthorpe (Ed.), Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges (1-28). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003460954-8

This chapter uses the immersive experience of Open Dialogue, an innovative approach to mental healthcare, as the pretext for reflection on the stance of anthropologists in relation to our interlocutors, fieldwork as ethical practice and the personal... Read More about Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice.