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Introduction: What Competition Does (2022)
Journal Article
Hopkinson, L., & Zidaru, T. (2022). Introduction: What Competition Does. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, 66(4), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2022.660401

Anthropologists, like neoliberal economists, have often assumed that competition (re)orders society in broadly predictable ways. By contrast, we contend that competition always facilitates changes beyond its anticipated outcomes and disciplinary effe... Read More about Introduction: What Competition Does.

Only one Mayweather: a critique of hope from the hopeful (2022)
Journal Article
Hopkinson, L. (2022). Only one Mayweather: a critique of hope from the hopeful. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(3), 725-745. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13762

Professional boxing offers hope of vast wealth and global mobility for aspiring athletes in Accra, hopes bolstered by the understanding that Ghanaians are particularly suited to boxing's attrition. However, when boxers become active in the global ind... Read More about Only one Mayweather: a critique of hope from the hopeful.