Deborah James' report on Collaborations to Curb Indebtedness has been published.
Warm Bodies, Cold Homes. Mayanka Mukherji's heat map is now live!
The Global China Lab is now live!
Congratulations to Mareike Winchell for being awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2022 SLACA Book Prize competition for her book After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia
Rahile Dawut: A Lifetime Passion That Ended with a Life Sentence (Author Anonymous)
Caitlin Zaloom and Deborah James' Annual Review of Anthropology article ‘Financialization and the Household' is out!
Catherine Allerton’s 2021 Malinowski Lecture Discordant Temporalities of Migration and Childhood has been published in the JRAI. Read it here
Congratulations to Dr Andrea Pia and colleagues who have been shortlisted for the prestigious Immersive Experiential Learning Award by QS Reimagine Education for their digital ethnography The Long Day of Young Peng.
Congratulations to Dr Hans Steinmüller, who is part of a group of 20 scholars awarded a £1.5m three-year grant from the British Academy on Chinese Global Orders. The team under grant leaders Leigh Jenco (LSE Government) and Hassan Karrar (Lahore) will focus on Chinese entanglements with different regions of the world to ask: what do Chinese global orders look like, where are they constituted, and from whose perspective?
LSE Anthropology is delighted to contribute to the funding of Made in China and the Global China Pulse. You can read these journals here:
Made in China: https://madeinchinajournal.com/
The Global China Pulse: https://thepeoplesmap.net/globalchinapulse/global-china-pulse-1-2022/
How People Compare : Read our collected volume here: https://www.routledge.com/How-People-Compare/Pelkmans-Walker/p/book/9781032229973
Workshops:
Trans-European perspectives on migrants’ social navigation of uncertainty: An interdisciplinary approach
Justice After Carbon Workshop https://www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/2023/Justice-After-Carbon-Virtual-Workshop
China as Context Workshop https://cld.web.ox.ac.uk/article/china-as-context-workshop
In the media
An interview with Deborah James on her Collaborations to Curb Indebtedness report
Mukulika Banerjee on UK riots: A deliberate challenge to new Labour government in the Indian Express.
A new study by Insa Koch (Anthropology Visiting Professor), Patrick Williams, and Lauren Wroe on how the Home Office’s approach to tackling county lines drug operations is based on unproven assumptions and “racialised tropes” that criminalise Black boys and young men. Read The Guradian article here.
Fuad Musallam on the BBC World Service's weekend news magazine show, Weekend
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172z37ch9fq5hb
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172z37ch9fq97g
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172z37ch9fqdzl
Mukulika Banerjee, Thinking Allowed - Democracy - BBC Sounds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001l9bt?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Mukulika Banerjee, on the march with Rahul Ghandi in India https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/05/rahul-gandhi-marching-india
Andrea Pia on Food Sovereignty as a model for scholar led open access publishing https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/10/24/food-sovereignty-as-a-model-for-scholar-led-open-access-publishing/
Deborah James on Tackling consumer indebtedness in South Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE_EKuqsfd4&list=PLK4elntcUEy1v1hX-R7es_IWdtCIIT6zL&index=5
Digital ethnography The Long Day of Young-Pen: Andrea Pia has recently been awarded both an LSE Catalyst Grand and a KCL Faculty Education Fund grant (with Dr Konstantinos Tsimonis) for the update and preservation of his digital ethnography The Long Day of Young Peng http://thelongdayofyoungpeng.com/
Has COVID-19 changed your social life?As we move into the next stage of the pandemic, some of us are still struggling to reconnect with friends. LSE Anthropology’s Nick Long outlines the benefits of socialising and why some of us are finding it difficult.
https://web.facebook.com/watch/?v=642640293494683