Publications

After Difference: Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The Italian queer activists in this book value difference as something that must be produced, in opposition...

The new publication, The Social Life of Politics, by Dr Sian Lazar of Cambridge University, examines the intimate, personal, and family dimensions of two political activist groups: the Union of National Civil Servants (UPCN) and the Association of State Workers (ATE).

Dr Sian Lazar: Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe The first fully comprehensive comparison of the Latin American ‘turn to the left’, the Middle East and North African ‘Arab Spring’ and the Occupy and anti-austerity movements of Europe and North America, with a...

Criminal Capital: Violence, corruption and class in industrial India Dr Andrew Sanchez Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is...

Ethnographic Plague: Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier Dr Christos Lynteris Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the...

MARRIAGE RITES AND RIGHTS EDITED BY
JOANNA MILES, PERVEEZ MODY AND REBECCA PROBERT Recent years have seen extensive discussion about the continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the right to marry from previously excluded groups, and the need to protect those who do not wish to marry from being forced to...