30.11.2021

In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes…

16.11.2021

This book provides an overview of the theories and concepts, with which social scientists approach gender in their research, as well as case studies from the fields of anthropology, history, political…

19.04.2019

Le prix Jean Widmer, décerné par l'Université de Fribourg (Suisse) et doté de 5'000 francs suisses, récompense un article en sciences sociales publié par une jeune chercheuse ou un jeune chercheur, apportant…

02.11.2018

David Bozzini's contribution in a book edited by Tekle Mariam Woldemikael on Postliberation Eritrea is available online

08.05.2018

Olaf Zenker's research project on "Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State" is currently featured in an article of the Journal "Research Features".

16.04.2018

Andrea Boscoboinik, Hana Horáková and Robin Smith co-edited a collection of ethnographies that seek to unpack the uneasy relationship between utopia and rural spaces in the context of global pressures.

20.03.2018

David Bozzini's contribution in this new book called "Affective States. Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions" and edited book by Mateusz Laszczkowski and Madeleine Reeves.

20.03.2018

Olaf Zenker co-edited with Markus V. Hoehne a new book which offers important insights into the divergent strategies used by African officials in handling this paradox of customary law and, somehow, getting…