Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics

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Are you a current undergraduate or postgraduate student or recent graduate? Would you like to gain experience in event organisation while having the opportunity to attend workshops, engage with anthropologists and encourage the study of anthropology?

The Royal Anthropological Institute is recruiting volunteers to help at our annual London Anthropology Day (18th October 2024).

To apply, please complete this online form: https://ow.ly/988Z50TfAIm

Visit our website to find out more about London Anthropology Day: https://ow.ly/4GYx50TfAIu

London Anthropology Day
18 October 2024, British Museum

Are you fascinated by different cultures?
Curious about human evolution?
Looking for a broad and exciting degree?

Join us at the Royal Anthropological Institute and British Museum's free university taster day! Explore what anthropology is, the career paths it offers, and meet experts from top universities. This event is perfect for Year 11, 12, 13, and FE students, as well as teachers, careers advisers, and parents.

Booking opens soon!

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Did you know that fieldwork photos from the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics are now on LSE's digital library?

Explore the collection, which ranges from 1995 to 2005.
➡️ https://ow.ly/NlG750STVfo

🖼️ This image shows people gathering in front of a pandal in Calcutta. In Hinduism, this is a temporary building set up during specific festivals.

Welcome to LSE: A Guide to Your Exciting Journey Ahead Welcome, welcome, welcome, and congratulations on your offer to LSE! Are you ready to step into LSE and begin your exciting journey here? Starting...

Visiting fellow Marina Sapritsky-Nahum has recently published a book with Indiana University Press called 'Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine'.

'Drawing on extensive field research, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum examines how the role of Russian language and culture, alongside lingering memories of the Soviet era, have been critically re-evaluated, leading to new forms of expression for Odesa's Jewish community within the broader Ukrainian national context.'

Jewish Odesa Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life in Ukraine's port c...

Democracy shouldn’t be limited to elections Voter participation in the 2024 UK election was 60 per cent, the lowest in over 20 years. Mukulika Banerjee argues that the UK needs to cultivate a democratic culture that engages citizens on polit…

Will Aberdeen’s clean energy ambitions damage its local community? | LSE Research Aberdeen’s plans to move away from oil and gas towards clean energy have highlighted the difficulties in ensuring such transitions are equitable....

🤩Congratulations to Professor Katy Gardner who has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy! A well deserved honour.

📖Just published 📖

Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China by Andrea E. Pia

'The book explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change.

China is experiencing climate whiplash—extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding—that threatens the health and autonomy of millions of people. Set against mounting anxiety over the future of global water supplies, Cutting the Mass Line explores the enduring political, technical, and ethical project of making water available to human communities and ecosystems in a time of drought, infrastructural disrepair, and environmental breakdown.'

Cutting the Mass Line | Hopkins Press Explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change.China is experiencing climate whiplash—extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding—that threatens the health and autonomy of millions of people. Set ag...

We are looking forward to the European Association of Social Anthropologists conference taking place 23-26 July 2024. Many members of the department and other LSE departments will be speaking at the conference.

Conferences Any queries should be sent to NomadIT on conference(at)easaonline.org. Applications should be sent to EASA's Secretary: Monica Heintz E: monica.heintz(at)parisnanterre.fr

We have more online LSE Discovery sessions! 🎓

📅 Wednesday 26 June, 10 July and 24 July

📌 Undergraduate and Graduate sessions included

📣 Find out what LSE has to offer and learn more about the study options at LSE, student life and the application process

Book your place now! ➡️ https://ow.ly/Hyxx50SmvA9

Virtual information session for graduate offer holders Join our webinar for graduate offer holders to get information about what to expect when you arrive at LSE

New book celebrates Argonauts Centenary

🌍 New Podcast Episode: Exploring Wa State as a Borderland 🌍

In our latest episode of "Dialogues on Southeast Asia," SEAC Director John Sidel talks with Dr. Hans Steinmüller, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at LSE. Dr. Steinmüller, known for his research in China, now focuses on the intriguing Wa State along the Myanmar-China border. This discussion sheds light on how this area challenges traditional views on statehood and sovereignty, reflecting on the complex socio-political forces at play.

🎙️ Tune in to gain insights into how local practices in Wa State intertwine with broader political dynamics, making it a fascinating case study in regional geopolitics.

🔗 Listen to the full episode on Spotify or click here: https://rss.com/podcasts/lseseac/1520937/

This evening at 6pm! Join the historian Ilan Pappé for a talk and discussion on the history and prospects of Palestinian colonisation and liberation.

Online attendance is open to the public and still open for registration.
https://tinyurl.com/PappeLSE
For any questions or access needs, please contact Riccardo Jaede [email protected]

As results in the 🌐's largest elections - in 🇮🇳 - are counted, The Ralph Miliband Programme LSE & LSE South Asia Centre will host a special event with Professor Mukulika Banerjee (Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics), Sanjay Kumar (CSDS, Delhi) and Professor Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po, Paris):

📅 11 June 2024 HYBRID
⏲️ 6.30pm🇬🇧 11pm🇮🇳
📌 Sumeet Valrani Theatre, Centre Buildings, LSE

JOIN US in person at the venue, or register FREE (link below) to receive the livestream link.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/2bzakuxp

Reminder that entries close 30th of June

LSE Festival 2024 is taking place next week. Alongside the events will be the Festival exhibition, Displays of Power, which will be on display throughout Festival week until Friday 5 July on the Ground and Lower Ground Floors of the CKK building.

The exhibition brings together research from across the social sciences and includes a display exploring water scarcity in Jordan by Dr Frederick Wojnarowski, a research fellow at our department.

'This display represents Jordan’s water system not as a technical system for the movement and management of a natural resource, but as a social and economic metabolism, in which many people and places are brought into relationships with each other at different scales by the contested flows of water. Water here speaks to wider flows of power, revealing issues of equity and distribution. Through a series of case studies the map looks at the water system, as it is generally understood, and asks some questions about what within this picture is unknown, uncertain, open to question or contentious.'

Displays of power | LSE Festival exhibition 10-15 June | Exhibition as part of the LSE Festival: Power and Politics | Free entry

This month Dr. Sandhya Fuchs will publish their first book, 'Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India', which is based on their LSE PhD research. 📖

'Recently, India has seen a rise in violence against Dalits (ex-untouchables) and other minorities. Consequently, an emerging "Dalit Lives Matter" movement has campaigned for the effective implementation of India's only hate crime law: the 1989 Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA). Drawing on long-term fieldwork with Dalit survivors of caste atrocities, human rights NGOs, police, and judiciary, Sandhya Fuchs unveils how Dalit communities in the state of Rajasthan interpret and mobilize the PoA.'

Fragile Hope- Combined Academic Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore. I...

Join us tomorrow for the Malinowski Memorial Lecture 2024!

2 weeks remaining, hope to see you there!

We are holding a competition to support early career anthropologists in publishing their first monograph. The LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology have long published classic works by Edmund Leach, Raymond Firth, Alfred Gell, Sutti Ortiz, Lucy Mair, Frederik Barth, Maurice Bloch, Peter Van Der Veer and Yunxiang Yan, among other well-known figures.

We are now looking for new generations of ethnographers who are raising innovative questions vital to the discipline which are grounded in long-term fieldwork. We do so at a moment that the Monographs have found a new publishing home in LSE Press, a move through which we are able to reaffirm our commitment to high quality descriptive analytical publications, while reaching a wider audience, including through our open access model.
As the diversity of the LSE Monographs suggests, we welcome research from a wide range of ethnographic settings, and from diverse anthropological backgrounds. The competition seeks to reward monographs that use ethnography’s radical commitment to a nuanced empiricism to explore central aspects of human experience.

The competition rules are as follows:
1. The closing date for submissions is midnight on 30 June 2024. Applications should be in the form of a book proposal presented on a standard form (available from https://lnkd.in/gYcxgCev ). Along with this, the full manuscript should be submitted. Both documents should be emailed to the series managing editor, Mathijs Pelkmans ([email protected]).
2. The manuscript must be between 70,000-90,000 words (including all notes, references, bibliography, and appendices).
3. An expert committee will select up to three manuscripts, to be announced in September 2024. Peer reviews of selected manuscripts will be shared within two months thereafter, and its authors invited to a workshop dedicated to manuscript improvement and revision in November or December 2024.
4. Selected manuscripts will be contracted to be published by LSE Press (in print as well as digitally open access), as part of the relaunched LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology series.
5. While the series is associated with LSE’s Department of Anthropology, we explicitly welcome submissions from authors with other institutional backgrounds and affiliations.
6. Only authors who have not previously published a monograph can submit.
7. Unrevised PhD dissertations will not be considered.
8. At the time of submission the author must confirm that the work is all their own and that the manuscript has not been previously published in its entirety.
9. The book proposal and manuscript can only be submitted if they are not currently under consideration by another publisher. They should not be submitted elsewhere until the outcome of the competition has been announced.

Interesting post-doc position at Wageningen University

Postdoc in ERC project 'Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America' - Medellín Vacancy Postdoc in ERC project 'Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America' - Medellín article_published_on_label April 24, 2024 Location Wageningen End date Mon 20 May 2024 Respond Click here to respond Your jobProviding affordable and decent housing to the population is a fundamental respon...

Join us on the 7th of May 2024, 5.30pm-7.00pm for a panel discussion to launch 'Extraction/Exclusion' in the LSE Old Anthropology Library.

Thursday 2 May: students and staff from Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and UCL Anthropology are hosting a discussion on Anthropology and Gaza – all welcome to participate! Places are limited so please register here:
https://lse.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Ph4BhwDvZ4J73o