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Merchants and Mediators: The Production of a “Chinese-style” Tea Culture in Taiwan (2025)
Thesis
Harlay, P. C. Merchants and Mediators: The Production of a “Chinese-style” Tea Culture in Taiwan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In this thesis, I explore Taiwanese tea merchants’ roles in the production of “Chinese-style Taiwanese tea culture”. Due to decades of uncertainty relating to the position and status of Taiwan (ROC) in the world, articulations of political and cultur... Read More about Merchants and Mediators: The Production of a “Chinese-style” Tea Culture in Taiwan.

Sustainability (2025)
Other
Rudge, A. (2025). Sustainability

The term ‘sustainability’, as used in policy and common contemporary parlance, has a very European heritage, but its meanings and implications defy easy definition. While perhaps most famously the term is used in the UN’s ‘Sustainable Development Goa... Read More about Sustainability.

Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil (2025)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A., Hoyler, T., Crewe, E., & Bernardes, C. (online). Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil. Ethnography, https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381251357507

Developments in qualitative research have increasingly recognized the value of modes of ethnographic inquiry that go beyond the conventional model of the lone ethnographer. Many examples involve parallel, collaborative enquiry in which ethnographers... Read More about Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil.

‘They're Going to Have to Start Becoming’: What Inclusive Capitalism Tells Us About the Changing Face of Development (2025)
Journal Article
Dolan, C., & Rajak, D. (in press). ‘They're Going to Have to Start Becoming’: What Inclusive Capitalism Tells Us About the Changing Face of Development. Anthropologie et développement,

In recent years, business has reimagined corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a proactive market strategy, aligning itself with contemporary development orthodoxies of pro-poor and inclusive growth by enrolling the un- and under-employed into new... Read More about ‘They're Going to Have to Start Becoming’: What Inclusive Capitalism Tells Us About the Changing Face of Development.

A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics (2025)
Journal Article
Solsø, K., Crewe, E., & Chauhan, K. (2025). A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics. International Journal of Action Research, 21(1), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v21i1.04

The influence of complexity theory on action research scholarship and practice has been kaleidoscopic. Further integrating ideas derived from the complexity sciences could enrich this research tradition, but there are choices to be made about what to... Read More about A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics.

Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection (2025)
Journal Article
Adams, K., Cheer, J. M., Chio, J., Di Giovine, M., MacCannell, D., Mostafanezhad, M., Picard, D., Porananond, P., Simoni, V., Yu, W., Yamashita, S., & Zhu, Y. (online). Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection. Tourism Geographies, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2493779

The academic world is shaped by individuals who challenge the status quo, confront obstacles, and inspire generations of scholars. Professor Nelson H.H. Graburn was one such scholar widely known for his groundbreaking contributions to the interdiscip... Read More about Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection.

Review of: Howes, David. Sensorial investigations: a history of the senses in anthropology, psychology, and law. 290 pp., illus., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. $29.95 (paper) (2025)
Journal Article
Marchand, T. (2025). Review of: Howes, David. Sensorial investigations: a history of the senses in anthropology, psychology, and law. 290 pp., illus., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. $29.95 (paper). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 31(2), 627-628. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14284

Strategic ignorance and interests in the UK Parliament: the case of Transatlantic African Trafficking and Chattel Enslavement (2025)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2025). Strategic ignorance and interests in the UK Parliament: the case of Transatlantic African Trafficking and Chattel Enslavement. International Journal of Parliamentary Studies, 5(1), 9-38. https://doi.org/10.1163/26668912-bja10104

Elected UK MPs claim to represent our interests, for which they need to know our preferences within our social contexts, while peers in the House of Lords position themselves as knowledgeable experts. Parliaments are institutional knowledge producers... Read More about Strategic ignorance and interests in the UK Parliament: the case of Transatlantic African Trafficking and Chattel Enslavement.

Women in surgery: The social construction of gender in surgical practice. (2025)
Journal Article
Schneidman, J., Rice, K., & Armstrong, N. (online). Women in surgery: The social construction of gender in surgical practice. American journal of surgery, 116343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2025.116343

Despite comprising over half of Canadian medical graduates, women remain underrepresented within surgery. Strategies to address this gap have largely focused on increasing numbers or targeting individual women, overlooking subtle, systemic gender ine... Read More about Women in surgery: The social construction of gender in surgical practice..

Normative Language and Judgements of Cognition: A Methodological Reflection on Difficult Sign Language Interactions (2025)
Journal Article
Modern, J. (2025). Normative Language and Judgements of Cognition: A Methodological Reflection on Difficult Sign Language Interactions. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 12(2), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.12.2.9670

In this article, I investigate the case of a deaf woman, Silivia, who lived in western Uganda. Silivia did not use standardised sign language and was commonly considered to be ‘mad.’ However, some of her interlocutors disagreed, arguing that percepti... Read More about Normative Language and Judgements of Cognition: A Methodological Reflection on Difficult Sign Language Interactions.

Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India (2025)
Book Chapter
Srivastava, S. (2025). Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India. In S. Rau, & J. Rüpke (Eds.), Handbook of Religion and Urbanity. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.13901298

The city of Gurugram, the administrative headquarters of a district of the same name, is located in the state of Haryana. Gurugram adjoins the southern borders of Delhi and has been the site of intense urban development over the past two decades. Rap... Read More about Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India.