RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 16th January, 4.30 pm The extractive industries and the ‘Age of Conversation’: from corporate social responsibility to corporate diplomacy Paul Robert Gilbert, University of Sussex This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-paul-robert-gilbert-tickets-14527115995 Around the turn of […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 30th January, 4.30 pm Inside the (Dis)Organisation: Political representation and the Boaters of the southern waterways Ben Bowles, Brunel University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-ben-bowles-tickets-14533876215 The itinerant Boaters of the canals and rivers of […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 13th February, 4.30 pm Nature as a circulating entity: hybrid semantics and cultural identity among the Bajo of North Sulawesi, Indonesia Elena E. Burgos-Martínez, Durham University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-elena-burgos-martinez-tickets-14534038701 The way we […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 27th February, 4.30 pm Making relations visible: corporate form and the aesthetics of transparency investigations Taras Fedirko, Durham University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-taras-fedirko-tickets-14534173103 Based on an on-going fieldwork among London-based NGO professionals, my […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 13th March, 4.30 pm Towards an anthropology of coups in Fiji Jas Kaur, SOAS This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-jas-kaur-tickets-14634166185 Jas’ research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Fiji, and looks at how people talk […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 27th March, 4.30 pm Hustling in the village: rural predictabilities, tensions and the flow of life in Western Kenya. Gemma Aellah, LSHTM This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rai-research-in-progress-seminar-gemma-aellah-tickets-14697140543 In the context of the 2007 post-election […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 24 April, 4.30 pm The Masks of the Wauja and the Timbira Indians: towards a theory of aesthetic performances in indigenous Amazonia. Fabiola Luvaro, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, University of East Anglia This event is free, but […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 8 May, 4.30 pm Mapping Labour and Work Ideologies in Contemporary rural India Smita Yadav, University of Sussex How do contemporary ethnographies of labour and work reveal the redundancy of traditional ways of understanding rural societies as in India? Historically speaking, village studies on India […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 22 May, 4.30 pm Trust in Charity: Continuing Two Centuries of UK Involvement in South African Education Oliver Pattenden, PhD Candidate, Rhodes University, South Africa My ethnographic research focuses upon Ngomso, a “special school” for “severely socially marginalised” young people in the Eastern Cape province […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 12 June, 4.30 pm Chocolate and politics: An ethnographic contextualisation of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó Gwen Burnyeat, National University of Colombia and Leverhulme study-abroad scholar. The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó is a peasant farmer community in Urabá, North-West […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 2 October, 4.30 pm Half an Hour in Belfast: theatricality (and a haircut) in the ethnographic present Karen Lane, St Andrews University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: https://karenlane.eventbrite.co.uk Sometimes, an unexpected encounter in the field […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 23 October, 4.30 pm Lampedusa caught between shipwreck and tourism Dr Anna Arnone, SOAS Research Associate This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://annaarnone.eventbrite.co.uk October 2013, la spiaggia dei conigli is Tripadvisor-rated most beautiful beach in the […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 6 November, 4.30 pm ‘We were ready to leave’: Imagination, Migration & Cosmopolitanism between Uttar Pradesh (India) & the Gulf Tom Chambers, Sussex University This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://tomchambers.eventbrite.co.uk This article examines migration and imagination […]
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIESAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Friday 20 November, 4.30 pm Catalan young migrants in London Clara Rubico, Universitat de Lleida This event is free, but places must be booked. To book tickets please go to: http://clararubico.eventbrite.co.uk The high rate of unemployment in Catalonia and the persistent precariousness of the labour market […]
