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‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity (2022)
Book Chapter
Egorova, Y. (2022). ‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity. In B. Gidley, & S. S. Everett (Eds.), Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience (231-249). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514331_012

Building upon an ethnographic study of initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK, I explore the way Muslim participants in such initiatives conceptualise the position of their community in the UK in relation to that of their Jewish co-citizens.... Read More about ‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity.

Thrift, Anti-thrift, Scale and Paradox (2022)
Book Chapter
Alexander, C., & Sosna, D. (2022). Thrift, Anti-thrift, Scale and Paradox. In C. Alexander, & D. Sosna (Eds.), Thrift and its Paradoxes: From Domestic to Political Economy. Berghahn Books

Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorising and Research (2022)
Book Chapter
Abram, S. (2022). Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorising and Research. In M. H. Bruun, A. Wahlberg, R. Douglas-Jones, C. Hasse, K. Hoeyer, D. B. Kristensen, & B. R. Winthereik (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology (741-755). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_38

What is electricity? Is it a natural force, a technology, or an infrastructural system? Is electricity a flow of electrons or an electromagnetic effect? Is it a liberating power or a silent killer? Is it even a thing that can be grasped? However we d... Read More about Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorising and Research.

Mother-love in the time of malaria: the politics of internal colonisation, endemic disease, and parent-child relations in Britain (2021)
Book Chapter
Kendall, E. J., & Kendall, R. (2021). Mother-love in the time of malaria: the politics of internal colonisation, endemic disease, and parent-child relations in Britain. In E. J. Kendall, & R. Kendall (Eds.), The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time (95-115). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355912-6

Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Era (2021)
Book Chapter
Ringel, F. (2021). Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Era. In E. Kirtsoglou, & B. Simpson (Eds.), The time of anthropology : studies of contemporary chronopolitics. Routledge

Like the rest of this volume, this paper emerges out of the 2016 annual meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (ASA). The conference took place just ten days after the UK referendum on EU membe... Read More about Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Era.

Resilience dynamics in a rapidly changing social-ecological system: Shifting inequalities in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley (2021)
Book Chapter
Hodbod, J., Stevenson, E. G., & Fekadu Mulugeta, M. (2021). Resilience dynamics in a rapidly changing social-ecological system: Shifting inequalities in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley. In J. Lautze, M. McCartney, & J. Gibson (Eds.), The Omo-Turkana Basin: Cooperation for Sustainable Water Management. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169338

Over the past 150 years there have been four major social-ecological regimes in the Lower Omo. Each regime shift has changed the structure and function of the system. Local communities utilized diverse forms of livelihood and broad social networks to... Read More about Resilience dynamics in a rapidly changing social-ecological system: Shifting inequalities in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley.

Low Carbon Energy Democracy in the Global South? (2021)
Book Chapter
Campbell, B., Cloke, J., & Brown, E. (2021). Low Carbon Energy Democracy in the Global South?. In A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, D. Endres, T. R. Peterson, & S. L. Gomez (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429402302

Social science tools and practitioner experiences help to understand relations of democratic processes to low carbon energy transitions in the Global South. This requires interrogating Euro-centric assumptions about participation, national developmen... Read More about Low Carbon Energy Democracy in the Global South?.

Biocultural perspectives on infant sleep (2021)
Book Chapter
Rudzik, A. E., Tomori, C., McKenna, J. J., & Ball, H. L. (2021). Biocultural perspectives on infant sleep. In S. Han, & C. Tomori (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction. Routledge

The chapter synthesizes research on infant sleep in biological and sociocultural anthropology. We first describe an early phase in which the evidence base was established to support the position that parent–infant sleep proximity and lactation are in... Read More about Biocultural perspectives on infant sleep.

Democracy in Scare Quotes: The Granularity of Control in the Hybrid State of Bangladesh (2021)
Book Chapter
Lacy, M., & Mookherjee, N. (2022). Democracy in Scare Quotes: The Granularity of Control in the Hybrid State of Bangladesh. In A. Ruud, & M. Hasan (Eds.), Masks of authoritarianism: Hegemony, power and public life in Bangladesh (237-246). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4314-9_16

Hybrid cars. Hybrid workplaces. Hybrid war. Hybrid states. We are witnessing today the mixing of elements to create new forms of life, business, work, war and politics. In times of technological, geopolitical, social and political change, the ability... Read More about Democracy in Scare Quotes: The Granularity of Control in the Hybrid State of Bangladesh.

Graphic Ethnography and Generative Resilience of Sexual Violence in Conflict of the Birangonas (War-heroines) in Bangladesh (2021)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, N. (2021). Graphic Ethnography and Generative Resilience of Sexual Violence in Conflict of the Birangonas (War-heroines) in Bangladesh. In J. Clark, & M. Ungar (Eds.), Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919500.007

The use of rape was common during the 1971 war in Bangladesh. Six days after the war ended, the new government publicly declared that any woman raped in the war was a birangona or ‘war heroine’. There exists a public memory of wartime rape through va... Read More about Graphic Ethnography and Generative Resilience of Sexual Violence in Conflict of the Birangonas (War-heroines) in Bangladesh.

Innovative field research methodologies for more inclusive transport planning: Review and prospect (2021)
Book Chapter
Porter, G., & Dungey, C. (2021). Innovative field research methodologies for more inclusive transport planning: Review and prospect. In R. H. Pereira, & G. Boisjoly (Eds.), Social Issues in Transport Planning (273-303). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.atpp.2021.06.006

This chapter focuses on innovative field research methodologies developed over the last few decades that have the potential to support and promote more inclusive transport planning. The review covers methodologies that have been tried out in the Glob... Read More about Innovative field research methodologies for more inclusive transport planning: Review and prospect.

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P., & Kuchler, S. (2021). Introduction. In P. Fortis, & S. Kuchler (Eds.), Time and Its Object: A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images (1-20). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003158806

Biographical Relations in Amerindian and Melanesian Societies (2021)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P., & Kuchler, S. (2021). Biographical Relations in Amerindian and Melanesian Societies. In Time and Its Object: A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images (129-147). Routledge

Future-Making in Times of Urban Sustainability: Maintenance and Endurance as Progressive Alternatives in the Postindustrial Era (2021)
Book Chapter
Ringel, F. (2021). Future-Making in Times of Urban Sustainability: Maintenance and Endurance as Progressive Alternatives in the Postindustrial Era. In M. Kazubowski-Houston, & M. Auslander (Eds.), In Search of Lost Futures (129-149). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63003-4_6

Different times evoke different relations to the future. Recent additions look discouragingly conservative: sustaining, maintaining, and enduring describe practices that look like they are aimed at preventing change rather than provoking it. However,... Read More about Future-Making in Times of Urban Sustainability: Maintenance and Endurance as Progressive Alternatives in the Postindustrial Era.

Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin (2021)
Book Chapter
Stevenson, E. G., & Kamski, B. (2021). Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin. In E. Gabbert, F. Gebresenbet, J. Galaty, & G. Schlee (Eds.), Lands of the future: Anthropological perspectives on pastoralism, land deals and tropes of modernity in Eastern Africa (292-308). Berghahn Books

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commer... Read More about Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin.