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Interview with Jean ComaroffJean Comaroff is the Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. |
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About this talkIn this interview Jean Comaroff discusses her early influences, her career and the ongoing work she is doing with John Comaroff on crime and social (dis)order in South Africa. In part, this interview touches on her 2004 essay (with John Comaroff), 'Criminal Obsessions, after Foucault: Postcoloniality, Policing, and the Metaphysics of Disorder,' which was published in Critical Inquiry. Click this icon |
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Interview with David BerlinerDavid Berliner is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. In 2001-2003, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He has published various articles about memory, religion, youth, art and gender in West Africa. He is author of Le Silence des Masque, which is about his ethnographic research in Guinea-Conakry and is co-editor of Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Europe's leading anthropology journal Social Anthropology. |
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About this talkIn this interview David Berliner discusses his early influences, career and his interests in cultural transmission. In part the interview covers ground that David Berliner covered in his 2005 essay for the American Ethnologist, An ''impossible'' transmission: Youth religious memories in Guinea–Conakry. Click this icon |
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Interview with Liza SchusterDr Liza Schuster Lectures in City University London and previously worked at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at Oxford University. Before that she was T. H. Marshall Fellow at the London School of Economics. Her research is on domestic and European asylum policy and involves comparative work on Britain, France, Germany and Italy, and increasingly Afghanistan and Uganda. Liza Schuster is author of The Use and Abuse of Political Asylum in Britain and Germany (2003). |
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About this talkIn this interview Liza Schuster discusses her early influences, career and her scholarship and activism in the areas of migration, asylum and security. In part the interview covers ground that Liza Schuster wrote about in the following book chapter: 'Engendering Insecurity: The EU Asylum Regime' in Security, Insecurity and Migration , Lazaridis, G. (ed) London: Ashgate, 2011. Click this icon |
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