Anthropology and Development research strengths
This unit brings together scholars concerned with the production of empirically grounded, comparative as well as single-sited anthropological research that addresses social theory and often informs practical interventions directed at the amelioration of inequalities, often in the developing world. Its research is global in geographical focus and its staff collaborate around the following themes:
Identity
- Nationalism
- Ethnicity
- Ageing
- Gender
- Body
- Migration and transnationalism
Politics
- Governance
- The state and stateless societies
- Civil society
- Negotiation
Everyday life
- Creativity, ritual and performance
- Kinship and reproduction
- Leisure (including sport, music and tourism)
- Human-environment relations
- Health and wellbeing
Social Theory
- Bourdieu
- Modernity and multiple modernities
- Psychoanalysis
Areas
- Africa
- Australia and the Pacific
- Europe
- Latin America
- Middle East
- South East Asia
- East Asia
- South Asia