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.

Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics (2025)
Book Chapter
Bernardes, C., Cornwall, A., Crewe, E., & Hoyler, T. (2025). Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics. In J. Chibois, & S. Shapiro (Eds.), Fieldwork in centres of power, a longitudinal perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003356349-12

In August 2022, a group of four ethnographers assembled in São Paulo to undertake a collaborative inquiry with politicians, each with their own different identities, positions of power, rhythms of work and sensibilities. By researching as a team, we... Read More about Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics.

Reimagining rhythms, rituals and symbols (2024)
Book Chapter
Crewe, E. (2024). Reimagining rhythms, rituals and symbols. In D. Judge, & C. Leston-Bandeira (Eds.), Reimagining Parliament (32-47). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529227024-005

This chapter identifies problems found within Westminster that exacerbate inequality, exclusion, unwellness and a shallow ethics. Four principles are proposed to guide thinking about how to reimagine parliament: a more inclusive approach to knowledge... Read More about Reimagining rhythms, rituals and symbols.

Dossier: Ethnography of Governance Institutions: Introduction (2023)
Other
Dossier: Ethnography of Governance Institutions: Introduction. Brasília

The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies (2022)
Journal Article
Crewe, E., Taylor-Robinson, M. M., & Martin, S. (2022). The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies. Parliamentary Affairs, 75(4), 754-766. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac009

In this article, Emma Crewe, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson and Shane Martin discuss the future of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the Past, Present and Future of Parliamentary Studies, which was held onli... Read More about The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies.

The Past of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies (2022)
Journal Article
Martin, S., Taylor-Robinson, M. M., & Crewe, E. (2022). The Past of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies. Parliamentary Affairs, 75(4), 727-739. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac008

In this article, Shane Martin, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson and Emma Crewe discuss the past of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the Past, Present and Future of Parliamentary Studies, which was held online... Read More about The Past of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies.

The Present of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor-Robinson, M. M., Crewe, E., & Martin, S. (2022). The Present of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies. Parliamentary Affairs, 75(4), 740-753. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac010

In this article, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson, Emma Crewe and Shane Martin discuss the present of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the Past, Present and Future of Parliamentary Studies, which was held onl... Read More about The Present of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies.

An Ethnography of Parliamentary Ethnographers: riffs, rhythms and rituals in their research (2021)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2021). An Ethnography of Parliamentary Ethnographers: riffs, rhythms and rituals in their research. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 10(3), 337-345. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-10-2021-085

Social science has witnessed a growing respect towards ethnography albeit in an uneven way across regions and disciplines [1]. The tolerance for ethnography in parliamentary studies seems to be far higher in the United Kingdom (UK) than in the USA, b... Read More about An Ethnography of Parliamentary Ethnographers: riffs, rhythms and rituals in their research.

An Anthropology of Parliaments: Entanglements in Democratic Politics (2021)
Book
Crewe, E. (2021). An Anthropology of Parliaments: Entanglements in Democratic Politics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003084488

The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe’s insights deepen our... Read More about An Anthropology of Parliaments: Entanglements in Democratic Politics.

The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa (2019)
Book
Amoah, M. (2019). The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781838600501

Nationalism and the nation state, globalization and Pan-Africanism are leading international relations concepts which have a particular relevance for Africa as an emerging economic power. This book examines the concept of nationalism, the nationalist... Read More about The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa.

Anthropologie des parlements (2018)
Book Chapter
Crewe, E. (2018). Anthropologie des parlements. In O. Rozenberg, & E. Thiers (Eds.), Traité d’études parlementaires (607-636). Bruylant