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King's Law Journal 30, 356-362 Abstract Part political journalism, travel memoir, political theory, sociology, anthropology, and moral psychology, Michael Ignatieff’s The Ordinary Virtues defies easy de

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I work as a research assistant in the collaborative, art-based projectGhost Platform: Generating the "Complex Image" of Data, Labour, and Logistics,a projectwhich aims to illuminate the hidden human r

Dr Simone Abram, Department of Anthropology, Durham University ABSTRACT Within the broad term 'democratic state' there is a messy set of imagined virtues, vices and possibilities. In this paper, I consi

Welcome to a seminar with Thomas Hylland Eriksen about the future of the nation. Main speaker:Thomas Hylland Eriksen, anthropologist and writer at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of O Lisa Pelling, Chief Analys at Arena Idé, and Peter Aronsson, PhD in history, Linneaus University. Göran Rosenberg.

With intensified globalization of markets, the restructuring of provisions of welfare services and accumulation of private capital, opportunities for corporate influence in politics have multiplied. IWelcome to a seminar where some of the authors present and discuss the contents of the book.When: Friday December 15th, at 16.00 –18.00 including a mingleWhere: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in StockholmSpeakers:Christina Garsten, Professor of Social Anthropology, SCOREAdrienne Sörbom, Associate Professor of Sociology, SCOREAnna Tyllström, PhD in Business Studies, Institute for Futures StudiesStefan Svallfors, Professor in Sociology, Institute for Futures StudiesLiv Fries, PhD Management, Senior Advisor at Decigo The book will not be for sale at the seminar, but a flyer offering discount will be distributed.

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Christina Garsten, Principal of SCAS and Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm and Uppsala Un

Games and Cultures, doi.org/10.1177/1555412018800650  Abstract Unpredictable social dynamics can dominate social outcomes even in carefully designed societies like online multiplayer games. According to

Overheating. Understanding accelerated change. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. ABSTRACTThe contemporary world is … too full? Too intense? All of the above, and more. Ours is a world of high-speed modernity where exponential growth can be found in domains as different as the number of cellphones in Africa and the number of international tourist arrivals. The fossil fuel revolution two centuries ago led to the contemporary ‘overheated’ world of exponential growth. The main dilemma of this overheated world is the insight that what was the salvation for humanity for two hundred years, namely fossil fuels, has rapidly become our damnation owing to climate change. This lecture outlines the parameters of ‘overheating’ and describes the main global challenges for our century.

Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. ABSTRACT Eight people now own as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who constitute the poorer 50% of humanity. How did we g