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Research areas:

• The theory and practice of sensory media (visual, aural, material)
• The intersections of art and anthropology
• The role of visual technologies(graphic and mechanical) in the history of representations of native peoples
• The anthropology of sound and the political ecology of military technologies, particularly aircraft
• Japan, where he has worked particularly on asceticism and the Zen arts, and ideas about copying and the heritage industry

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Research areas:

• Kinship (parenting, personhood, gender, families of ‘choice’, secrets and lies)
• The anthropology of science and technology (bodies, biotechnology, biomedicine)
• The politics of social class, community and identity

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Research areas:

• Education, childhood and youth
• Urban anthropology, including gender, youth, 'the street', crime, working class life in the city, urban elites, the state and urban policy, post-industrial regeneration and sporting mega-events
• The anthropology of Britain including race, class, ethnicity, indigeneity and multiculturalism
• Phenomenology, materiality, ontology and personhood
• Regional specialisation: UK

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Research areas:

• Globalisation and transnationalism
• Politics
• Social movements and the state
• Urban and rural poverty
• Indigenous rights
• Historical anthropology
• Regional specialism: Mexico, Central America and Brazil

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Research areas:

• Development policy and categories
• Poverty and destitution
• East Africa
• Health seeking behavior and health systems (including 'traditional' healing)

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Research areas:

• Anthropology of science and technology (engineering; infrastructures such as roads, canals, railways; design and construction practices; material relations; experimentation)
• Ethnographic approaches to state formation, post-colonial politics, neo-liberal regulation and public participation
• Space and affect – landscape, mobility, environmental controversy, toxic economies
• The politics of communication (language practice, information technologies, community radio, digital visualisation, exhibitions)
• Regional specialisations are the Andean region, in Peru, Spain and the UK

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Research areas:

• Death
• Illness and medical anthropology
• HIV/AIDS
• Interior dialogue, memory and imagination
• Visual, sensory and bodily perception
• The anthropology of time
• Art, performance and aesthetics
• Experimental methods and collaborative anthropology
• Existential and phenomenological anthropology
• Urban anthropology and spatial perception
• Regional specialisations: East Africa and New York City

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Research areas:

• Hope, 'normality' and political-economic change, especially post-socialist transformations (yearnings, expectation, despair, planning, imagined futures)
• Anthropology of the state (state effects, borders, hegemony, resistance and compliance, senses of entitlement, ideology, cynicism, socialism and neoliberalisation)
• Home-making and place (displacement, entrapment, 'ethnic cleansing', the (im)possibility to cross borders)
• Everyday configurations of nationality and belonging
• Memory (remembering and forgetting, remembered normality, nostalgia)
• Regional specialism: post-Yugoslav states and other postsocialist states

See Stef's full research profile

Research areas:

• Practices of play, imitation, illusion, and simulation as transformative forces in social life
• Identity play and cultural appropriation in transnational settings
• Conceptions of indigeneity
• Materiality
• Material culture and human-thing relationships
• Anthropology of landscape and art
• Skill and knowledge production
• Ecological anthropology
• Human - non-human animal relations
• Anthropology of the senses

See Petra's full research profile

Research areas:

• Social change
• Agender and kinship
• The anthropology of political processes (elections, the state, borders, legality) and livelihoods
• Regional specialisation: the Middle East and Arab speaking populations

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Research areas:

• The anthropology of socialism and postsocialism
• Political anthropology
• Sovereignty, the state, and experiences of state "failure"
• Emotion and affect
• Borders and bordering
• Transnationalism and experiences of im/mobility
• The history of Russian and Soviet anthropology
• Regional specialisations: Central Asia and Russia

See Madeleine's full research profile

Research areas:

• Identity
• Education
• Christianity
• Missionaries
• Religious conversion
• Medical anthropology
• HIV/AIDS
• Death
• Masculinities
• Childhood

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Research areas:

• Fairness and equality
• Social class
• Englishness
• Belonging
• Policy and the state
• Political correctness
• Democracy and democratic participation
• Humour and joking relationships
• Anthropology of moralities
• Anthropology of Britain

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Research areas:

• Social reconstruction and theories of society
• The anthropology of knowledge
• Aesthetics
• Ethics
• Intergenerational relations and property relations

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Research areas:

• Studies of favela (slums)
• Securitisation/pacification/violence
• Urban anthropology
• Economic morality of material practices
• Visual anthropology
• Ethnographic cinema
• Migration studies/transnationalism
• Brazilian international migration

See Angela's full research profile

Research areas:

• Social change
• Personhood
• Shamanic and animist cosmologies
• Resilience
• Climate change and environmental transformations
• Place, locality and displacement
• Human-animal relations
• Childhood
• Adolescence
• Socialisation
• Memory
• Post-socialism
• Legacy of the Soviet Gulag
• Regional specialisation: Siberia, Alaska, Circumpolar North

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Research areas:

• Art and craft
• Weaving
• Islam
• Development
• Description and representation
• Material culture
• Regional expertise: South Asia, especially India, and Uzbekistan

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Research areas:

• Blackness and racial identity in Latin America (and the Caribbean)
• Ethnic social movements in Latin America
• Constructs of nature, biology and culture in racial identity
• Genomics, genetics and race
• Ideologies of race, gender, sexuality and nation
• Popular music and identity (in Latin America and the Latino diaspora)

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Research areas:

• Development
• Humanitarianism
• NGOs
• Questions of the secular, and relatedly, religion (especially in Asia)
• Ethics and morality
• Sustainability, the environment, disasters
• Regional specialisation: Japan, Myanmar

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