COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do
they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one …

This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and
engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the …

This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of
doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind …

In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take
part in a conversation about the interfaces between anthropology and STS (science and …

Cet article se propose de reconsidérer l'histoire et l'état actuel de la comparaison en
anthropologie, en établissant une distinction entre deux heuristiques comparatives: la …

In this article, we study the use of curricula vitae (CV) for competitive funding decisions in
science. The typically sober administrative style of academic résumés evokes the …

This essay discusses the complex relation between the knowledges and practices of the
researcher and his/her informants in terms of lateral concepts. The starting point is that it is …

Inspired by Marilyn Strathern's fractal analyses, this article develops the notions of domain
and scale making as a way of conceiving the Mekong uncommons. Juxtaposing the …

Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and fisheries management in
northern Japan have been profoundly shaped by how people within and beyond Japan …