Emma Crewe
@emmacrewe.bsky.social
Anthropologist researcher of Parliaments at SOAS University of London. Chair, Study of Parliament Group. Posting about anthropolitics
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Check out this review of our own Sanjay Srivastava's 'Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-national Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home':
"The prolific scholar offers unparalleled insight into the growth and shaping of Indian cities."
Read in full here:
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"The prolific scholar offers unparalleled insight into the growth and shaping of Indian cities."
Read in full here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Check out this review of our own Sanjay Srivastava's 'Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-national Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home':
"The prolific scholar offers unparalleled insight into the growth and shaping of Indian cities."
Read in full here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"The prolific scholar offers unparalleled insight into the growth and shaping of Indian cities."
Read in full here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The SOAS Food Forum continues this Monday with Professor Hanna Garth (Princeton University):
‘The Los Angeles Food Justice Movement as Placemaking or Problematic Inclusion’
📅 13:15-14:45, 10 November
📍 Room R301
See the full line-up of talks below 👇
‘The Los Angeles Food Justice Movement as Placemaking or Problematic Inclusion’
📅 13:15-14:45, 10 November
📍 Room R301
See the full line-up of talks below 👇
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The SOAS Food Forum continues this Monday with Professor Hanna Garth (Princeton University):
‘The Los Angeles Food Justice Movement as Placemaking or Problematic Inclusion’
📅 13:15-14:45, 10 November
📍 Room R301
See the full line-up of talks below 👇
‘The Los Angeles Food Justice Movement as Placemaking or Problematic Inclusion’
📅 13:15-14:45, 10 November
📍 Room R301
See the full line-up of talks below 👇
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How do alliances survive in times of polarised politics?
Our own @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson explore this question in an article for State Politics & Policy Quarterly blending ethnography and network analysis.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Our own @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson explore this question in an article for State Politics & Policy Quarterly blending ethnography and network analysis.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives | State Politics & Policy Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives
cambridge.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
How do alliances survive in times of polarised politics?
Our own @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson explore this question in an article for State Politics & Policy Quarterly blending ethnography and network analysis.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Our own @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson explore this question in an article for State Politics & Policy Quarterly blending ethnography and network analysis.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Very special, small exhibition 👇 plus follow SOAS’s Dept of Anthropology and Sociology for events, new books, research funding…
Discover South Omo through the eyes of its people.
“Learning from South Omo” showcases community-led research from Ethiopia’s agro-pastoralists. On now at SOAS Gallery, London.
Free entry.
Curated by @richaxe.bsky.social, Hannah Bennet and Mercy Mulugeta
🔗 soas.ac.uk/event/learning-south-omo
“Learning from South Omo” showcases community-led research from Ethiopia’s agro-pastoralists. On now at SOAS Gallery, London.
Free entry.
Curated by @richaxe.bsky.social, Hannah Bennet and Mercy Mulugeta
🔗 soas.ac.uk/event/learning-south-omo
soas.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Very special, small exhibition 👇 plus follow SOAS’s Dept of Anthropology and Sociology for events, new books, research funding…
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Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young that features in the @soasgallery.bsky.social exhibition Learning from South Omo youtu.be/lMA8pJOuxDY?... @soasanthro.bsky.social
Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young
YouTube video by SOAS University of London
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young that features in the @soasgallery.bsky.social exhibition Learning from South Omo youtu.be/lMA8pJOuxDY?... @soasanthro.bsky.social
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Today we started the installation of Learning from South Omo at @soasgallery.bsky.social. Opens 14 October 2025 to 13 December 2025 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @soasanthro.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Today we started the installation of Learning from South Omo at @soasgallery.bsky.social. Opens 14 October 2025 to 13 December 2025 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @soasanthro.bsky.social
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📌What does it mean to ‘return’?
Join the SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies for a two-day workshop on the concept and practices of return.
📅 17 Oct, 5:30pm, DLT, SOAS
📅 18 Oct, 1pm, SOAS Bar
🔗 Details & registration: shorturl.at/ScRNW
@naomihossain.bsky.social @terminalias.bsky.social
Join the SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies for a two-day workshop on the concept and practices of return.
📅 17 Oct, 5:30pm, DLT, SOAS
📅 18 Oct, 1pm, SOAS Bar
🔗 Details & registration: shorturl.at/ScRNW
@naomihossain.bsky.social @terminalias.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
📌What does it mean to ‘return’?
Join the SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies for a two-day workshop on the concept and practices of return.
📅 17 Oct, 5:30pm, DLT, SOAS
📅 18 Oct, 1pm, SOAS Bar
🔗 Details & registration: shorturl.at/ScRNW
@naomihossain.bsky.social @terminalias.bsky.social
Join the SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies for a two-day workshop on the concept and practices of return.
📅 17 Oct, 5:30pm, DLT, SOAS
📅 18 Oct, 1pm, SOAS Bar
🔗 Details & registration: shorturl.at/ScRNW
@naomihossain.bsky.social @terminalias.bsky.social
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📣Our weekly departmental research seminar lineup is now live!
This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).
Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood.
Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.
This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).
Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood.
Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.
September 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
📣Our weekly departmental research seminar lineup is now live!
This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).
Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood.
Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.
This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA).
Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood.
Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r... If interested in physics, time, space, threat of war, ethics…. then have a listen 👇
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September 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r... If interested in physics, time, space, threat of war, ethics…. then have a listen 👇
This is an amazing line up for our @soasanthro.bsky.social dept research seminar series, Wed 3-5pm, organised by Bhrigu Singh and Neil Armstrong.
September 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is an amazing line up for our @soasanthro.bsky.social dept research seminar series, Wed 3-5pm, organised by Bhrigu Singh and Neil Armstrong.
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Learning from South Omo - exhibition at the Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, Addis Ababa youtu.be/00fuNry4sV8?... @soasuni.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social
Learning from South Omo: Exhibition at Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, July 2025
YouTube video by SOAS University of London
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Learning from South Omo - exhibition at the Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, Addis Ababa youtu.be/00fuNry4sV8?... @soasuni.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social
This is about how #Txlege departs from common perception. Bipartisan lawmaking thrives but is under threat. Prof Taylor-Robinson (a pol sci) and I (an anthropologist) offer a unique take. @scottbraddock.bsky.social won’t be surprised, cos his knowledge runs very deep, but others might be. Free👇
#OpenAccess from State Politics & Policy Quarterly -
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/46IRNJ7
- @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
#FirstView
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/46IRNJ7
- @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
#FirstView
September 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is about how #Txlege departs from common perception. Bipartisan lawmaking thrives but is under threat. Prof Taylor-Robinson (a pol sci) and I (an anthropologist) offer a unique take. @scottbraddock.bsky.social won’t be surprised, cos his knowledge runs very deep, but others might be. Free👇
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#OpenAccess from State Politics & Policy Quarterly -
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/46IRNJ7
- @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
#FirstView
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/46IRNJ7
- @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
#FirstView
September 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
#OpenAccess from State Politics & Policy Quarterly -
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/46IRNJ7
- @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
#FirstView
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives - https://cup.org/46IRNJ7
- @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
#FirstView
Are we losing the capacity to collaborate in political world? Probably. But not so in academic world. See here for three new articles about research collaborations in Texas, Ethiopia and Brazil: www.emmacrewe.com
EMMA CREWE
www.emmacrewe.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Are we losing the capacity to collaborate in political world? Probably. But not so in academic world. See here for three new articles about research collaborations in Texas, Ethiopia and Brazil: www.emmacrewe.com
Lewis Goodall is doing here what journalists should, asking us (and esp politicians) to think about what’s coming down the track. This is now urgent: the regulation of AI podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Special Report: Will the AI revolution end politics as we know it?
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 19/09/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Lewis Goodall is doing here what journalists should, asking us (and esp politicians) to think about what’s coming down the track. This is now urgent: the regulation of AI podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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A huge thank you to Professor Sir John Curtice for delivering last night’s Michael Ryle Lecture on the theme of “Can Britain’s Two Party System Survive?” 👏
September 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A huge thank you to Professor Sir John Curtice for delivering last night’s Michael Ryle Lecture on the theme of “Can Britain’s Two Party System Survive?” 👏
Being a university dept manager is fun when you feel appreciated. My reply to a brilliant but risky idea 👇
September 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Being a university dept manager is fun when you feel appreciated. My reply to a brilliant but risky idea 👇
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Amnesty International UK Vigil for Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza – speech by Wael Al-Dahdouh on Wednesday 10th September 2025 at 5.30 (Wael will be speaking at 6pm for ten minutes) WHERE: Richmond House (opposite Downing St), Whitehall, London
www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
Vigil for Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza – featuring speech by Wael Al-Dahdouh
Over 240 candles will be lit - each one honouring a Palestinian journalist killed in the Gaza genocide
www.amnesty.org.uk
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Amnesty International UK Vigil for Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza – speech by Wael Al-Dahdouh on Wednesday 10th September 2025 at 5.30 (Wael will be speaking at 6pm for ten minutes) WHERE: Richmond House (opposite Downing St), Whitehall, London
www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
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The NACCH 2025 International Academic Conference on Newah Cultural Heritage convenes 6 Sept (online) & 13–14 Sept (in person). With 31 papers from 18 countries, scholars, community leaders and activists will examine continuity, change & global significance of Newah culture. More info here: nacch.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The NACCH 2025 International Academic Conference on Newah Cultural Heritage convenes 6 Sept (online) & 13–14 Sept (in person). With 31 papers from 18 countries, scholars, community leaders and activists will examine continuity, change & global significance of Newah culture. More info here: nacch.org
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Award-winning screenwriter and story
consultant James Moran offers an innovative
five-session course at @soasanthro.bsky.social, drawing on exceptional storytelling such as Pixar animation, Iranian
cinema, and Chekhov. I have heard amazing things about James and his courses so really recommend this.
consultant James Moran offers an innovative
five-session course at @soasanthro.bsky.social, drawing on exceptional storytelling such as Pixar animation, Iranian
cinema, and Chekhov. I have heard amazing things about James and his courses so really recommend this.
July 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Award-winning screenwriter and story
consultant James Moran offers an innovative
five-session course at @soasanthro.bsky.social, drawing on exceptional storytelling such as Pixar animation, Iranian
cinema, and Chekhov. I have heard amazing things about James and his courses so really recommend this.
consultant James Moran offers an innovative
five-session course at @soasanthro.bsky.social, drawing on exceptional storytelling such as Pixar animation, Iranian
cinema, and Chekhov. I have heard amazing things about James and his courses so really recommend this.
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This September, I'll be running a short course on creative ethnographic writing at SOAS. We'll learn narrative techniques from HBO dramas, international cinema and Russian literature! Sign up & details: academicstorytelling.substack.com/p/new-short-... @soasanthro.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This September, I'll be running a short course on creative ethnographic writing at SOAS. We'll learn narrative techniques from HBO dramas, international cinema and Russian literature! Sign up & details: academicstorytelling.substack.com/p/new-short-... @soasanthro.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
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Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here:
drive.google.com/file/d/12srA...
Deadline is 21 July.
drive.google.com/file/d/12srA...
Deadline is 21 July.
2_ Fully Funded PhDs SOAS ENG.pdf
drive.google.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here:
drive.google.com/file/d/12srA...
Deadline is 21 July.
drive.google.com/file/d/12srA...
Deadline is 21 July.
Exciting job as a Programme Manager working for the wonderful Marloes Janson (in SOAS anthro dept) on a fab new research programme about the nexus between religion and sport in 4 African countries. Should have experience of partnerships in Africa: vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/740734
Project Manager at SOAS
Apply now for Project Manager, Bloomsbury, Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom at SOAS
vacancies.soas.ac.uk
July 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Exciting job as a Programme Manager working for the wonderful Marloes Janson (in SOAS anthro dept) on a fab new research programme about the nexus between religion and sport in 4 African countries. Should have experience of partnerships in Africa: vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/740734
Award-winning screenwriter and story
consultant James Moran offers an innovative
five-session course at @soasanthro.bsky.social, drawing on exceptional storytelling such as Pixar animation, Iranian
cinema, and Chekhov. I have heard amazing things about James and his courses so really recommend this.
consultant James Moran offers an innovative
five-session course at @soasanthro.bsky.social, drawing on exceptional storytelling such as Pixar animation, Iranian
cinema, and Chekhov. I have heard amazing things about James and his courses so really recommend this.
July 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Award-winning screenwriter and story
consultant James Moran offers an innovative
five-session course at @soasanthro.bsky.social, drawing on exceptional storytelling such as Pixar animation, Iranian
cinema, and Chekhov. I have heard amazing things about James and his courses so really recommend this.
consultant James Moran offers an innovative
five-session course at @soasanthro.bsky.social, drawing on exceptional storytelling such as Pixar animation, Iranian
cinema, and Chekhov. I have heard amazing things about James and his courses so really recommend this.
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We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…
July 14, 2025 at 5:10 AM
We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…