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Constructing the Achievement State

10 April 2026
Chihab El Khachab (2026)
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What Is Immigration Policy For?

31 March 2026
Madeleine Sumption (2026)
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Immunity on Trial

03 March 2026
Miriam Driessen (2026)
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Divination, Oracles & Omens

14 February 2025
Michelle Aroney & David Zeitlyn 2024
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The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India

12 February 2025
Alpa Shah (2024)
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Inheritance, The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

21 June 2024
Harvey Whitehouse (2024)
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Understanding Obesity

25 January 2024
Stanley Ulijaszek (2024)
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The Work of Repair: Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa (Thinking from Elsewhere)

01 December 2023
Thomas Cousins (2023)
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White Eagle, Black Eagle: Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands

01 June 2023
Robert Parkin (2023)
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Global Art in Local Art Worlds: Changing Hierarchies of Value

31 December 2022
Edited By Oscar Salemink, Amélia Siegel Corrêa, Jens Sejrup, Vibe Nielsen (2022)