Just released and timely with the #RutoMustGo protests. I discuss how actors deploy violence with impunity to assert and negotiate sovereignty. I use the idea of a permissive space to interrogate how citizens negotiate their impunity within and beyond the criminal justice system.
🚨 My first solo-authored PhD article is out in @BASeditors! I delve into the gritty details of cross-sector partnerships for refugees and show that business-humanitarian “sweet spots” are more than ideals - they are about asymmetrical power and priorities @diisdk @CBDScbs
Want to know more about #gold as a commodity, an object of consumption, a store of wealth, and a financial asset – and get key insights into how value and wealth are entangled?
Lotte Thomsen, Karen P.Y. Lai, Stefano Ponte, 2023 https://t.co/9MdNLQqPgK
We made it to the front page of a Danish Newspaper!📰
"Ikal Ang'elei has a fear. It began when she saw oil projects spring up in northern Kenya, driving indigenous people away from places where they have lived for generations. And since then, the fear has grown greater." 1/2
My book with @UZPress is here!! It is a decade-long project #ethnography, tracing the social and political life of a major conservation intervention across scales, from #BINGO head office in DC, to field sites in #Cambodia. Blurb here: https://t.co/5mWLXUQfT5
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