Month: November 2021
Heritage, Its Border Bridges and Border Walls: One Side to the Same Coin

Heritage, Its Border Bridges and Border Walls: One Side to the Same Coin

by Elaine McIlwraith One of the recent issues of AJEC offers a special forum (McDermott & McDowell, 2021) addressing questions of the political, cultural, social and symbolic construction of borders and the strength of bridge and wall narratives in border space intergroup relationships with the rise of populist politics. My article, “Bridges or Walls? Or …

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Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen received an honorary doctorate from Charles University

Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen received an honorary doctorate from Charles University

Marek Jakoubek One of the most famous and influential social anthropologists of the last decades, professor of anthropology at the University of Oslo, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, received an honorary doctorate from the hands of the Rector of Charles University on 22 September 2021 in the Karolinum Auditorium. The initiative to award this honorary doctorate came …

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