All Outputs (3)

Rhythms, riffs, and rituals in political parties: An anthropological view of complex coalitions (2020)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2021). Rhythms, riffs, and rituals in political parties: An anthropological view of complex coalitions. Ephemera, 21(1), 187-198

From an anthropological perspective politics is a form of work that involves political struggles in the face of difference. The discipline of anthropology has the potential to offer rigorous and in-depth accounts of politics by relying on reflexivity... Read More about Rhythms, riffs, and rituals in political parties: An anthropological view of complex coalitions.

Audit as political struggle: the doxa of managerialism clashing with the uncertainty of real life (2020)
Journal Article
Crewe, E., & Mowles, C. (2021). Audit as political struggle: the doxa of managerialism clashing with the uncertainty of real life. Development in Practice, 31(3), 368-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2020.1841738

Auditing firms tend to promote rule-bound orthodoxies about management based on the fiction that the world is more predictable than it is. Managers in INGOs find that long-term planning requires endless readjustment. This article explores what happen... Read More about Audit as political struggle: the doxa of managerialism clashing with the uncertainty of real life.

Anthropology of Parliaments (2020)
Book Chapter
Crewe, E. (2020). Anthropology of Parliaments. In C. Benoit, & O. Rozenberg (Eds.), Handbook of Parliamentary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legislatures (389-407). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906516.00032

Parliaments are of the centre of webs created by democracy, complex sites where culture meets economics, psychology and politics; elected politicians consult with lobbyists, constituents and each other; and the political work of law-making and scruti... Read More about Anthropology of Parliaments.