...Romano Alquati Co-research is not simply worker’s inquiry. Although it retains some of the hereditary features, co-research represents a radical reformulation of the Marxist model of inquiry, a methodological and political reinvention in a changed context and according to new objectives. The...

...Julien Allavena; Matteo Polleri The stakes of the current shared interest in the idea and the practice of political inquiry are highlighted by the co-research led by Romano Alquati and the Prisons Information Group in which Michel Foucault participated. Each of these experiences produces knowledge...

... seeks to explain this state of affairs and offer reasons why it needs to change. The prospects for a new dispensation are, however, distant. Noel Castree Global Change Research and the “People Disciplines”: Toward a New Dispensation ​Climate scientists today enjoy an...

...Robyn Marasco This article considers The Authoritarian Personality in terms of a consistent argument in early critical theory—that fascism begins in the family. It explores the foundations of this argument in Max Horkheimer’s Studies on Authority and the Family , his first major research project as...

...Ben Trott Shortly after the riots that swept across England following the Metropolitan Police’s shooting of Mark Duggan in August 2011, the British Guardian newspaper and researchers based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) launched what continues to be the most...

... imaginary priors. This essay explores this phenomenon in response to the topicalizing of Palestine by a research cluster at the University of Washington. Complaints about the cluster tended to rebut not our critical agenda but detractors’ imaginary of what those who do such work claim and do. The analysis...

... area of knowledge engaging with the lived realities of creative workers and the forms of subjectivation occurring in forms of labor, we bring together existing accounts addressing the politics of cultural work and the findings of our “Metropolitan Factory” research project. The research project, based...

... struggle to find vocabulary to describe the loss. Often the effect of this discursive gap is testimony that blurs the distinction between fetus and baby. While my research suggests that many women giving their testimonies were not engaged with the discursive effects of this on abortion politics, those who...

...Margaret Gibson This essay examines the expansion of death and grief from private experience and spaces, into public spheres via a range of media events and communication technologies. This shift is increasingly acknowledged and documented in death studies and to some extent in media research. The...

...Leticia Veloso This essay is based on extensive fieldwork with marginalized children and other working children in Rio de Janeiro, conducted in two favelas and on the streets of four different neighborhoods. Specifically, my research focused on how particular children try to earn a living on the...

... mimetic labor in China today. Based on a year of ethnographic research in two vocational schools and theorized using Diane Elson’s value theory of labor, this essay analyzes China’s current regimes of human capital accumulation. I argue that these regimes structure nonelite education such that working...

... based upon research conducted by the authors in six prisons in the city and state of São Paulo. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References Adorno Sérgio Salla Fernando . 2007 . “ Organized Criminality in Prisons and the Attacks of the PCC .” Estudos Avancados 21 , no. 61...

... traditional Greek notion of philotimo , or honor, a finding that bolsters the limited body of research on the pacifying potential of masculine identities in carceral settings. While, and at least in part because, the gains made for order through this process have at best been transitory, the broader politico...

...Alioscia Castronovo Starting from ethnographic research on popular economies carried out in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, I aim to contribute to reflection on the common as a mode of production, analyzing the popular community frameworks, practices of self-management of work, and the...

... recovery, this article draws on long term ethnographic research in the global off grid solar industry to lay the grounds for an anthropology of humanitarianism and solar power. For over half a century, white engineers and entrepreneurs in the Global North have presented solar photovoltaics as a harbinger...

... leapfrogging have been attractive, there has been limited research on how exactly renewable energy resources are adopted in sub-Saharan Africa, especially at times of unreliable access. Drawing on fieldwork with energy professionals in Accra and Tema, Ghana, this article analyzes the transformations in energy...

... traversing the daily practices of law. In this respect, we suggest the following three points as promising research strategies: (1) offering a more extensive temporal framework that focuses on the historical continuities and discontinuities as well as the uneven experience and spatiality of exceptional rule...

... with research output and student throughput (production-time) are all expressions of the dominance of neoliberal time. Further, it describes the ways in which students and workers refused to be keepers of neoliberal time by disrupting their roles as human capital with a focus on issues of racial...

...Shon Meckfessel After our research cluster’s theorizing of common impasses to conversations on Israel/Palestine, we wondered what sort of approaches might break through the usual blockages to discussion. A visit by BDS proponent Omar Barghouti to our campus provided an opportunity for application...

... this reliance on marginalization as a way of understanding sociopolitical exclusion limits political thought, this article calls for a renewed attention to actual material configurations of social exclusion. Considering ethnographic research with adults with mobility and speech disabilities in...