Anthropology of Crime
and Criminalisation
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) network
Online book presentation by the author Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Death of a Traveller: An Experiment in Investigating and Writing November 15th, 2021 02:30 PM CET time (please check your current timezone here) Book edited by Polity Press. Co-Conveners: Martijn Oosterbaan (Utrecht University), Davide Casciano (University of Bologna) and Lene Swetzer (Graduate Institute of Geneva). The book presentation will be held online on November 15th, 2021, from 02:30 PM CET (8.30 AM EST). The event will be held on the software platform Zoom, online. No recording will be stored after the…
March 30, 2022, 2-5.30 PM CET (3-6.30 PM EET) Given the ongoing war in Ukraine, and the crisis unfolding in the region and beyond, this workshop wants to be in the first place a platform for discussion and reflection on how our knowledge and experience could help understand current events and future challenges, as citizens and as academics. Literature on the Soviet Gulag has an established tradition in academia and beyond (Barnes 2011, Hardy 2016, Klevniuk 2004, Solzhenitsyn 1973, Shalamov 1978). Research on prison systems in communist successor countries has also developed steadily (Pallot 2005, Piacentini & Katz 2017, Piacentini…
An AnthroCrime & VICES Hybrid Workshop 🗓10 December 2026,🕐 14:00-18:00 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam Room MF-D146 (Atrium) or Online PLEASE REGISTER HERE The Anthropology of Crime and Criminalisation (AnthroCrime) Network is delighted to relaunch with a timely and engaging workshop that brings together leading scholars, practitioners, students, and community members to reflect on one of the most pressing questions in contemporary justice and social policy: Whose knowledge counts when addressing crime, violence, and social harm? Across the world, people with lived experience of criminalisation, incarceration, gang involvement, migration control, and social…