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Authored Books

Janson, Marloes (2023) Crossing Religious Boundaries: Islam, Christianity, and ‘Yoruba Religion' in Lagos, Nigeria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (International African Institute)

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2023) Dizful Bridge Company: the modern historiography of the Sassanid bridge = Shirkat-i Pul-i Dizfūl : tārīkhʹnigārī-i jadīd-i pul-i Sāsānī. Tehran: Anthropology Publisher.

Rudge, Alice (2023) Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Janson, Marloes, Kresse, Kai, Pontzen, Benedikt and Mwakimako, Hassan, eds. (2023) Coexistence, Conviviality, and Conflict in Plural Religious Fields. Woodbridge: James Currey. (Forthcoming)

Teixeira, Carla Costa, Crewe, Emma and Brum Bernardes, Cristiane, eds. (2023) Dossier: Ethnography of Governance Institutions: Introduction. Brasília: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA). (Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology. Special issue, vol.20)

Adams, Kathleen and Bloch, Natalia, eds. (2023) Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile. Abingdon: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Adams, Kathleen and Bloch, Natalia (2023) 'Problematizing Siloed Mobilities: Tourism, Migration, Exile.' In: Adams, Kathleen and Bloch, Natalia, (eds.), Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-30.

Axelby, Richard (2023) 'Colin Rosser and the ‘Hermit’ Village of Malana: a lost classic of Village Studies Ethnography.' In: Rosser, Colin and Thakur, Kulwant Singh, (eds.), Malana: the Political System of a Himalayan Community. Dhamserh: Tharah Kardu, xi-xx.

Bello, Saheed Adesumbo (2023) '“Èsù Láàlú Ọmọkùnrin Òde”: The Being in/between Aesthetic-Ethical Entanglements.' In: Oloko, Patrick, Ott, Michaela, Simatei, Peter and Vierke, Clarissa, (eds.), Decolonial Aesthetics II: Modes of Relating. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, pp. 155-161. (Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens)

Bernardes, Cristiane, Cornwall, Andrea, Crewe, Emma and Hoyler, Telma (2023) 'Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments.' In: Chibois, Jonathan and Shapiro, Samuel, (eds.), Fieldwork in centres of power, a longitudinal perspective. London: Routledge. (Forthcoming)

Crewe, Emma (2023) 'Reimagining rhythms, rituals and symbols.' In: Reimagining Parliament. Bristol: Bristol University Press. (Forthcoming)

Crewe, Emma (2023) 'Rhythms of navigating time and space in the UK House of Commons.' In: Psarra, Sophia, Sternberg, Claudia Schrag and Staiger, Uta, (eds.), Parliament Buildings: The architecture of politics in Europe. London: UCL Press, pp. 49-62.

Gygi, Fabio (2023) 'Locating Hoarding: How Spatial Concepts Shape Disorders in Japan and the Anglophone World.' In: Newell, Sasha, (ed.), Of Hoarding and Housekeeping: Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 119-142. (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. Vol. 13)

Hull, Elizabeth (2023) 'Rhythms of Mobility: How (Im)Mobility Shapes Rural Food Retail Practices in South Africa.' In: Bender, Daniel E and Cinotto, Simone, (eds.), Food Mobilities: Making World Cuisines. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Culinaria)

Janson, Marloes, Kresse, Kai and Pontzen, Benedikt (2023) 'Relational Perspectives on Islam, Christianity, and African Religious Traditions.' In: Janson, Marloes, Kresse, Kai, Pontzen, Benedikt and Mwakimako, Hassan, (eds.), Coexistence, Conviviality, and Conflict in Plural Religious Fields. Woodbridge: James Currey. (Forthcoming)

Kaur, Jastinder (2023) 'A cautionary and hopeful tale about experiencing, thinking with, writing through, reflecting on, and teaching the emotional in ethnographic fieldwork.' In: Weiss, Nerina, Grassiani, Erella and Green, Linda, (eds.), The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World. London: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Fieldwork and Ethnographic Research)

Modern, Julia Keri (2023) 'Adjusting for time but not money: financial barriers to PhD study for people with long-term health conditions in the UK.' In: Robinson, Kelly Fagan, Carew, Mark and Groce, Nora, (eds.), Inaccessible Access: Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation. Rutgers University Press. (Forthcoming)

Srivastava, Sanjay (2023) 'Technotopias, Consumer Cultures, and the Gendered City.' In: Being Single in the City. Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg Press. (Forthcoming)

Journal Article

Axelby, Richard (2023) 'How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba.' Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 42 (2). pp. 21-35.

Crewe, Emma (2023) 'Parliamentary standards under attack.' Journal of Legislative Studies, 29 (3). (Forthcoming)

Francioni, Marcello (2023) 'Not myself tonight: subjunctive selves and the in-sincerity of service in Japanese queer nightlife.' Asian Anthropology, 22 (2). pp. 99-115.

Gamberton, Lyman (2023) 'Secondary Pathology: ‘Cisgender Fragility’ and the Pandemic Body Politic.' Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie orientale: Supplemento 59 | 2023 Fragile Selves (2).

Graf, Katharina (2023) 'Cyborg Cooks: Mothers and the Anthropology of Smart Kitchens.' Digital Culture and Society, 9 (1). pp. 49-70.

Gygi, Fabio (2023) 'The Afterlives of Dolls: On the Productive Death of Terminal Commodities.' Ars Orientalis, 52. pp. 197-221.

Hirsch, Alan (2023) 'Migration and Africa – what light do four recent books cast on migration in Africa?' South African Journal of International Affairs, 30 (1). pp. 153-157.

Hornby, Donna and Hull, Elizabeth (2023) 'Mobility, marriage decline, and the ceremonial economy: socio-cultural factors influencing farming in South Africa and implications for land reform.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 50 (7). pp. 2539-2559.

Jadhav, Sushrut, Pathania, Gaurav J., Thorat, Amit, Mosse, David and Jain, Sumeet (2023) 'Caste Identities and Structures of Threats: Stigma, Prejudice and Social Representation in Indian universities.' Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 4 (1). 03-23.

Jaspars, Susanne (2023) 'Food and Power in Protracted Crisis: How Systems and Institutions Influence Livelihoods, Food Security, and Nutrition.' Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 44 (2 suppl). S23-S31.

Jaspars, Susanne, Majid, Nisar and Adan, Guhad (2023) 'Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity.' Journal of Modern African Studies, 61 (3). pp. 343-366.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2023) 'The Urban Ritual: Ritual and Counter-Ritual during Muḥarram in Mumbai.' Asian Ethnology. (Forthcoming)

Mosse, David, Baker, Darren, Carroll, Molly, Chase, Liana E., Kloocke, Ruth, Wickremasinghe, Kiara, Cramer, Bethan, Pratt-Boyden, Keira and Wuerth, Milena (2023) 'The Contribution of Anthropology to the Study of Open Dialogue: Ethnographic Research Methods and Opportunities.' Frontiers in Psychology, 14. p. 1111588.

Mosse, David, Pocobello, Raffaella, Saunders, Rob, Seikkula, Jaakko and von Peter, Sebastian (2023) 'Introduction: Open Dialogue around the world – implementation, outcomes, experiences and perspectives.' Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, 13. p. 1093351.

Noy, Itay (2023) 'Unpicking Precarity: Informal Work in Eastern India's Coal Mining Tracts.' Development and Change, 54 (1). pp. 168-191.

Retsikas, Kostas (2023) 'Unleashing the Future: Deleuze’s Crystals of Time and Theo Angelopoulos’ ‘The Travelling Players’.' Deleuze and Guattari Studies. (Forthcoming)

Rudge, Alice and Yamin, Tyler (2023) '“Sounds like” redemption? On the musicality of species and the species of musicality.' Environmental Humanities, 16 (3). (Forthcoming)

Simpson, Nikita (2023) 'Aesthetic Politics in Contemporary India.' Focaal: European Journal of Social Anthropology, 95. pp. 113-119.

Simpson, Nikita (2023) 'Encountering the Dain: Space-Time, Witchcraft Anxiety and Gaddi Tribal Belonging.' Himalaya: journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 42 (2). pp. 70-85.

Simpson, Nikita (2023) 'Ghar ki Tension: Domesticity and Distress in India’s Aspiring Middle Class.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 (3). pp. 573-592.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2023) 'Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India.' Religion and Urbanity Online.

Stewart, Simon and Sanders, Charlotte (2023) 'Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.' The Sociological Review, 71 (1). pp. 126-147.

Xu, Chenjia (2023) 'From culinary modernism to culinary cosmopolitanism: the changing topography of Beijing’s transnational foodscape.' Food, Culture and Society, 26 (3). pp. 775-792.

Conference or Workshop Items

Venkat, Vidya (2023) Participatory democracy in Delhi: How the Aam Aadmi Party's model of governance is addressing unwellness in political institutions. In: Association of Social Anthropologists' Annual Conference 2023, April 11-14, 2023, SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Book Reviews

Campbell, John (2023) 'Review of: 'Participant observers. Anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain' by Freddy Foks, Oakland, University of California Press, 2023.' Ethnic and Racial Studies . pp. 1-3. (Forthcoming)

Graf, Katharina (2023) 'Review of: States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan, by José Ciro Martinez.' Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, 23 (3). pp. 92-93.

Gygi, Fabio (2023) 'Review of: Dahl, Shayne (prod.) and Satoshi Watanabe (dir.). The Buddha mummies of North Japan. 20 mins. DVD / PAL, colour. Watertown, Mass.: DER, 2017. $29.95 (home use).' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 (2). pp. 462-463.

Klein, Jakob A. (2023) 'Review: What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make, by Michael J. Hathaway, foreword by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.' Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 23 (2). pp. 104-105.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Hull, Elizabeth and Masinga, Simangaliso (2023) Informal Retailers: A Missed Opportunity for Tackling Food Insecurity in South Africa’s Covid-19 Response. African Arguments [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Jaspars, Susanne and Oette, Lutz (2023) Sudan's catastrophe: A long history of failed responses to structural and direct violence. African Arguments [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Rudge, Alice (2023) Cultivating Care: How Narratives of Care were used in Colonial Experiments with Palm Oil. China Dialogue [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Simpson, Nikita (2023) Absorbing pressure: Bodily ‘tension’ in a changing Himalayan world. Developing Economics: A Critical Perspective on Development Economics [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Venkat, Vidya (2023) Beyond the numbers: Ethnographic insights on women as politicians. Global Research Network on Parliaments and People [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Audios

Srivastava, Sanjay (2023) Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond. Now and Men (Durham University). [Audio]