ERIS New article on JISB: Drug Smuggling and the Stability of Fragile States. The Diverging Trajectories of Mali and Niger What is the impact of smuggling on political ordering and stability in fragile states? The article I’ve been working on with @franxstrax for the past two years is now out in @JISBjournal, focusing on #Mali and #Niger. Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ ⋙
Culture Epidemiology of coronavirus as a psychosocial disease The coronavirus seems unstoppable. Science (with capital S) has dealt with the coronavirus mainly from a clinical and infectious point of view. In line with the standards of biomedical knowledge, ⋙
Debate Robot fighting: Libya and the wars of the future Intervening at the ISPI Med forum in Rome on December 7, 2019, the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Libya, Ghassane Salame, said that the current conflict in Libya ⋙
Field Visual impressions from a field trip to Niger In november 2018 Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari conducted field research in Niger, spending three weeks between the capital Niamey and Agadez, ‘la belle du desert’. Without any ambition to ⋙
USA Just another brick in the (Great American) Wall The construction of a Great American Wall on the border with Mexico is still seen as a pressing necessity by large sectors of the U.S. administration and electorate. Why ⋙
election Niger's Game of Thrones The high stakes of the 2016 presidential elections. “Me against my brother; but me and my brother against our cousin; me, my brother and my cousin against our neighbours; and ⋙
Arab Spring Finding Another Tunisia Field notes from the social protests in Kasserine. Despite the imaginaries projected by mainstream media, the new wave of protests unfolding in Tunisia has little to do with political Islam. ⋙
borders Fieldnotes from the Frontiers of Ebola A reflection on humanitarian practice between conspiracy theories and sloppy controls. For irresponsible that it may sound, facing prevention measures in Mali, I must confess that I actually find what ⋙
biopolitics Timbuktu: Don't Kill It, Just Wear It Out! The desert, the ethnic mosaic, biopolitics and neo-patrimonialism on the screen. Presented at the Cannes Film Festival, the film Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako offers fertile ground for a sharper understanding ⋙
geopolitics Lessons learnt from the 55th ISA Convention, Toronto 2014, part 2 A neophyte ventures into academic socialization (continues). Having somehow sharpened my understanding of some key dynamics that permeate international social-scientific gatherings, over my last few days in Toronto I paid ⋙
ISA 2014 Lessons learnt from the 55th ISA Convention, Toronto 2014 A neophyte ventures into academic socialisation. Reasonable people cross the oceans to meet their love, to make business, to go on holiday. Reasonable people, if they really have to cross ⋙
