Anthropology of Crime
and Criminalisation
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) network
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Inaugural Seminar
Towards an Anthropology of Crime and Criminalisation May 07th, 2021 03:30 PM CEST time (please check your current timezone here) This is the inaugural online event of the EASA network on the anthropology of crime and criminalisation, AnthroCrime. During this event, we will briefly introduce the network and discuss the past, present and future of the anthropology of crime and criminalisation. Co-Convener Welcome Note: Martijn Oosterbaan (Utrecht University), Davide Casciano (University of Bologna) and Lene Swetzer (Graduate Institute of Geneva). Keynote: Henrik Erdman Vigh Professor, Head of the PhD Programme in Anthropology, Institut for Antropologi, University of Copenhagen. PI of…
Vigilantism Resurrected
Anthropological Explorations of Violent Transfigurations of State, Crime and Politics across Contexts May 20-22, 2021 Keynote Speech by Prof Jean Comaroff (Harvard University) Across the globe, we are witnessing collective dissent against police violence and (abusive) state practices alongside a resurrection of vigilante activities, that is citizens’ attempts to take law into their own hands to punish alleged criminals. While the perceived targets of these vigilante endeavours vary in different contexts – ranging from communities who are deemed illegal to those who are considered immoral-indecent and from those who slaughter cattle to elected members of parliaments – vigilante groups, by…
Online book presentation by Didier Fassin: Death of a Traveller
Online book presentation by the author Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Death of a Traveller: An Experiment in Investigating and Writing November 15th, 2021 02:30 PM CET time (please check your current timezone here) Book edited by Polity Press. Co-Conveners: Martijn Oosterbaan (Utrecht University), Davide Casciano (University of Bologna) and Lene Swetzer (Graduate Institute of Geneva). The book presentation will be held online on November 15th, 2021, from 02:30 PM CET (8.30 AM EST). The event will be held on the software platform Zoom, online. No recording will be stored after the…
Criminal cultures and criminal figures in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet space
March 30, 2022, 2-5.30 PM CET (3-6.30 PM EET) Given the ongoing war in Ukraine, and the crisis unfolding in the region and beyond, this workshop wants to be in the first place a platform for discussion and reflection on how our knowledge and experience could help understand current events and future challenges, as citizens and as academics. Literature on the Soviet Gulag has an established tradition in academia and beyond (Barnes 2011, Hardy 2016, Klevniuk 2004, Solzhenitsyn 1973, Shalamov 1978). Research on prison systems in communist successor countries has also developed steadily (Pallot 2005, Piacentini & Katz 2017, Piacentini…