Events
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Perveez Mody (Cambridge). Corrosive Kinship and Forms of Healing and Care: “Forced Marriage in the UK”
15:00 - 17:00 10 March 2025
This paper begins with a difficult and troubling question. It concerns the distortions that arise from a temporal privileging of the UK’s Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007, designed as it is, to prevent a “forced marriage” in its run-up, rather than to offer redress where one has already taken place, often many years ago. In effect,...
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Mateusz Laszczkowski (Manchester). 'Territorio is Where You Meet Others': Politics of Place in an Alpine Rebellion
15:00 - 17:00 17 March 2025
This paper, drawing on a chapter from my upcoming book about the No TAV movement, fighting against the construction of high-speed railway through the Italian Alps, explores the concepts of 'territory' that emerge from that struggle. I describe various dimensions of 'territorialization from below': the daily functioning of presidi - sites that were...
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Jieun Kim (Leeds). Blood and Citizenship in a Fragmented Nation: Logics of Gift, Debt and Inheritance in South Korea
15:00 - 17:00 24 March 2025
Drawing on archival materials and interviews with donors, blood bank staff, and experts, this talk explores how the logics of gift, debt and inheritance shape the moral and affective economies of citizenship in South Korea. From hematologists’ reflections on introducing blood banking in the mid-twentieth century to the national crisis narrative...
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Maria Abranches (East Anglia). When the Dust Settles: Exploring Temporalities amongst Reunited Refugee Families through Multi-Media Narratives
15:00 - 17:00 31 March 2025
This seminar will reflect on the results of one year of fieldwork with refugee families in Manchester and Glasgow using a co-production approach based on narrative interviews and participant-led photography and film to understand post-reunion lived experience. While the consequences of separation following displacement, and the most immediate needs...
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Maron Greenleaf (Dartmouth College). Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon – Book talk
15:00 - 17:00 28 April 2025
The book Forest Lost (Duke, 2024) is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource extraction; instead, they require keeping carbon in place through forest protection. In this book I explore...
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