Ethnos Special Issue Launch - Governing Opacity

Please join discussants Alex Pillen (UCL) and Joel Robbins (Cambridge), guest editors Natalia Buitron (Cambridge) and Hans Steinmüller (LSE) and authors Megan Laws (LSE), Rupert Stasch (Cambridge), Judith Bovensiepen (Kent), and Thomas Widlok (Cologne) for this hybrid event.

Tuesday 3 May 2022, 17:00-19:00 (Frankopan Hall, Jesus College and online)
17:00-18:00 - Hybrid event - Discussants' comments and authors' responses, followed by Q&A
18:00-19:00 - In person drinks reception

How we deal with the challenge of opacity has decisive influence on the kinds of government we can imagine. This special issue explores the correlations between the ways intentions are concealed and revealed, and how political regimes are created. Rather than a psychological or cultural problem, the opacity of other minds is discussed as a political issue. Contributions from Amazonia, the Kalahari, Papua New Guinea, and Southeast Asia present case studies of governing opacity, and explain them using concepts of accountability, legibility, and signposting.

You can read the introduction

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2021.2007154

and the articles are open access here

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/retn20/0/0

The event is open for in-person attendance. Please note that the entry to the Frankopan Hall is via the reception at West Court which is directly on Jesus Lane, near to the intersection with Park Street. Please DO NOT ENTER through the main entrance to the Porters’ Lodge, known as "the Chimney”. Check the map to assist you in finding the entrance.

To join online only, please register by 2 May on the event's Eventbrite page. After this date, please contact Tina Bird (kdb28@cam.ac.uk) by 4.30pm on 3 May for the Zoom link. There's no need to register if you are attending in person.

For further information, please contact Dr Natalia Buitron (nb668@cam.ac.uk).