by Gabriella Elgenius | Dec 5, 2024 | blog
Gabriella Elgenius remembers the remarkable Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, who passed away on November 27, 2024, at the age of 62. I first met Thomas at the London School of Economics when he was giving a lecture...
by Natividad Gutiérrez Chong | Jun 23, 2022 | blog
The first time I was in a “real” autonomy was in 1983, in an autonomous demarcation in the province of Yunnan, in the People’s Republic of China. That experience made me aware of the possibility that non-dominant peoples – ethnic minorities as...
by Sam Pryke | Jun 17, 2022 | blog
It is possible to find coverage of most things and nationalism in academic journals. For example: obscure sports (lacrosse) (Robidoux, 2022), wildflowers (Dahl, 1998), style of hats (Akturk, 2017) and food: gastronationalism (De Soucey, 2010) – literally, nationalism...
by David Landon Cole | Jun 8, 2022 | blog
I was very sad to hear that my friend, Dr Shane Nagle, who served for several years as ASEN’s conference secretary, passed away in April at the age of only 35 after being diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2021. Shane and I met when I was a masters’ student...
by Michael Hechter | May 31, 2022 | blog
Everybody knows that the United States is a highly polarized country, divided into blue states and red. Blue states tend to favor minority voting, abortion rights, mask mandates, climate mitigation, gay and transgender rights, Medicare expansion, gun controls, a...
