Publications
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Religious Polarization and Under-Supply of Public Goods
(2022)
Social heterogeneity results in a lower supply of public goods because of the conflict, diverse preferences and political insecurity that predominate in socially heterogeneous contexts. Despite its multiple stratifications ...
A Rise in Humanity
(2021)
The ePaper presents A Rise in Humanity, the opening lecture of the academic year 2021–2022 delivered by Felwine Sarr at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In his lecture, Mr Sarr ...
The Straits Chinese Between Empires
(2022)
This ePaper investigates the Straits Chinese community and their positioning relative to the British Empire and the Chinese Empire around 1900. It studies their responses to and interactions with the transition from a world ...
Putting the Ontological Back into Ontological Security
(2021)
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War of the Words
(2025)
This study focuses on the way societies influence historical memory of conflict within their borders through the formal education system. It posits that the narratives constructed within educational materials have the ...
Dominant by Accident
(2025)
The 1970s was a decisive decade in monetary history as the switch to floating exchange rates made central bankers weighty actors in economic policymaking. This paper will show that this rise in power was not pronounced by ...
Transitional Justice between Consolidated Democracies
(2025)
This theoretical study examines the Korean ‘comfort women’ dispute and its impact on diplomatic relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea to explore how the pool of transitional justice can be exploited for diplomatic ...
Exploring the overshadowed streams of the Red Cross Movement
(2023)
This ePaper explores the endeavours and motivations of the leading figures of the Japanese Red Cross Society, which forms the streams of the Red Cross Movement that get overshadowed in the Eurocentric narrative of its ...
Femmes en mouvement
(2004)
Du grain à moudre
(2011)
Quel genre d’homme ?
(2000)
Tant qu’on a la santé
(1999)
La microfinance au Bénin
(2011)
Melting Landscapes
(2024)
This paper constitutes a comprehensive exploration of alpine glaciers. It is an anthropological inquiry delving into the socio-cultural dimensions of glacial retreat and melt, as part of the broader phenomena of environmental ...
The Making of Good Work and Good People
(2024)
This ePaper critically examines community health schemes in India through the lens of one of the largest cadres of community health workers in the world, the Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHAs. Focusing on in-depth ...
Development Actors and their Indigenous Other
(2024)
Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of development projects articulated towards the ‘empowerment’ of so-called beneficiaries, particularly in contexts affecting indigenous peoples’ livelihoods. This shift is ...
Where Goes the Neighbourhood?
(2023)
This paper explores the intersection of urban restructuring and refugee resettlement. Centring around a case study of Buffalo, New York (NY), USA, it adds to the small but growing number of studies on resettlement in ...
Back Then It Was Culture, Now It Is Animal Torture
(2023)
Interrogating responses and reactions and the atmosphere of fear that my presence instigated, this paper critically examines human-elephant relations in Kerala amidst the bigger debates on animal rights, the emergence of ...
Seeking Asylum in Japan: Oral Tales of a Contemporary Other
(2023)
This ePaper is a historically informed analysis of the experiences of asylum seekers in Japan. It engages in ethnographic research through the first-hand accounts of 37 asylum seekers, adapted from interviews conducted by ...