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Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home (2022)
Book
Srivastava, S. (2022). Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009179874

Imagining the city as a series of interconnected spaces, the book explores how several such connections – between the home and the street, family and public spaces, religious and non-religious contexts, for example – relate to the topic of masculinit... Read More about Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home.

Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa (2022)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J. (2022). Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa. Political Geography, 98, Article 102674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102674

Drawing on the example of South Africa, the article explores how the state, an incoherent and opaque set of ideas, discourses and relationships, is made into a ‘thing’ by its citizens. It describes how citizens encounter the state physically when the... Read More about Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa.

Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses (2022)
Journal Article
Graf, K. (2022). Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(2), 577-594. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13708

In this article, I explore how cooking knowledge is constituted and show that a sense of taste is central to it. Drawing on the thick description of domestic couscous preparation in Marrakech, Morocco, I treat taste both as a multisensory form of kno... Read More about Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses.

Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation (2022)
Journal Article
Caron, J., & Khan, S. (2022). Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation. Critical Asian Studies, 54(2), 149-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2022.2030776

This article’s premise is that war is ontological devastation, and that this opens up questions as to how to write about it. It contends that even critiques of war, whether critical-geopolitical analyses of global structures or ethnographies of the e... Read More about Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation.

An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2021, March). An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021. Presented at Panel: An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Cambridge Festival 2021), Online

This experimental panel invites the audience to engage with visual research of interfaith relations and shared religious environments by producing collaborative ‘chain poems’ to be used as prompts in the Q&A with the researchers. 'An Interfaith Pictu... Read More about An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021.

‘Masterless Men’; Riots, Patronage and the Politics of the Surplus Population in Kinshasa (2021)
Journal Article
Trapido, J. (2021). ‘Masterless Men’; Riots, Patronage and the Politics of the Surplus Population in Kinshasa. Current Anthropology, 62(2), 198-217. https://doi.org/10.1086/713765

On the basis of fieldwork in Kinshasa, this essay makes a link between riots, the recent anthropology of “surplus populations,” and distributive politics in low-income countries, especially Africa. Tracing the history of a political demonstration tur... Read More about ‘Masterless Men’; Riots, Patronage and the Politics of the Surplus Population in Kinshasa.

Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India (2021)
Journal Article
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2021). Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India. The British Journal of Sociology, 72(1), 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12815

Piketty's propositions for arresting inequality are discussed through the lens of racism/casteism. We focus on the case of India's George Floyds—the persistence of caste and tribe oppression under economic growth in India—through the insights of our... Read More about Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India.

“Things should be better”: immobility, labour and the negotiation of hope amongst young Ghanaian craftsmen (2021)
Journal Article
Clifford Collard, N. J. (2021). “Things should be better”: immobility, labour and the negotiation of hope amongst young Ghanaian craftsmen. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(5), 810-826. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758211001382

Drawing on an ethnography of life in a Ghanaian weaving workshop, this article traces the intersections between young rural weavers’ affective labour, hope and their experiences of immobility. Hope is explored as an ambivalent resource which shapes t... Read More about “Things should be better”: immobility, labour and the negotiation of hope amongst young Ghanaian craftsmen.

The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop (2020)
Book Chapter
Clifford Collard, N. J. The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop. In B. Baillie, & M. L. S. Sørensen (Eds.), African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development (181-199). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4366-1_7

Exploring the values attached to heritage through an ethnography of craftwork in southern Ghana, this chapter looks at how the routine, quotidian sociality of weaving, engaged in by young men seeking livelihoods, embodies ideas about cultural practic... Read More about The Antinomies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop.