Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Lay metrology and metroscoping: Toward the study of lay units
(SAGE Publications, 4 August 2023)This exploratory paper provides groundwork toward a tentative framework for exploring how lay measures and units - what is here called ‘lay metrology’ - intersect with formal metrology, and its various mediations. The paper ... -
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism
(SAGE Publications, 22 July 2023)What is the global social context for the insertion of kleptocratic elites into the putatively liberal international order? Drawing on cases from our work on Eurasia and Africa, we sketch a concept of ‘transnational uncivil ... -
Republicanism as bad religion: The “cult” of Trump in contemporary American politics
(Equinox Publishing, 23 February 2023)Since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, it has become commonplace for his opponents to refer to him as a “cult leader.” The apparent fanaticism of his supporters inspires both awe and fear in observers. His ... -
Varieties of incorporation: beyond the blind man's cane
(Springer, 20 September 2023)The main topic of this chapter is the experience of incorporating objects into the sense of self, specifically in the sense of being a bodily or corporeal self. It has long been observed that using tools can lead to ... -
Ethnic and regional inequalities in Russian military fatalities in Ukraine: Preliminary findings from crowdsourced data
(Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 8 June 2023)Objective: This paper investigates ethnic and regional disparities in fatality rates in the Russian military in 2022‒2023 during the war in Ukraine. Methods: The analysis uses a new crowdsourced dataset comprising the ...