The risk crucible: managing multiple insecurities in the western Sahel

"Affected by forces like poverty, political unrest, and food insecurity, Mali is just one example of a country where crisis and conflict have led to a variety of risks coexisting, with different consequences for all of the actors involved. Assessing, prioritizing and facing all these challenges is fundamental to the success of humanitarian and peacekeeping missions in some of the places that need it most.
Ruben Andersson was in London when conflict broke out in Mali. He had spent time in the West African nation for his PhD research and he watched from afar as the country’s stability fell apart. Seeing even vital humanitarian actions scaled back, for security reasons, he knew he had to return, armed with his knowledge of Mali and his anthropologist’s point of view."

IMPROVING OUTCOMES OF CRISIS AND CONFLICT, THANKS TO AN ETHNOGRAPHIC OUTLOOK

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"No Go World: How fear is redrawing our maps and infecting our politics"

This is the new book just published by Dr Ruben Andersson, anthropologist and Associate Professor at The University of Oxford. Supported by AXA in 2013, he's interviewed by the Sociologist Laurie Taylor for BBC's Thinking Allowed.

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ANDERSSON

Institution

London School of Economics and Political Science

Country

United Kingdom

Nationality

Swedish

Socio-economy & New Tech

Geopolitics

City resilience

Post-Doctoral Fellowship

United Kingdom

The price of bread as a measure of urban stability

Investigating the everyday discourses and practices around bread preparation Building on these observations, Dr. Katharina Graf aims to explore in... Read more