The articles, insights, musings and analyses posted here shine a light on how relationships between parliaments, politicians and people are configured in different places and spaces, across a range of contexts and cultures.
Modern parliamentary facilities enhance work of African legislatures
China has been donating parliament buildings to African countries that do not yet have purpose-built facilities of their own. However, to date the impact of these buildings on the ...
Beyond the numbers: Ethnographic insights on women as politicians
Based on fieldwork in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, Vidya Venkat argues that poll statistics do not fully capture the complexity of women’s participation in electoral contests. ...
Fiji 2022 elections: youths voting in the shadow of coups and authoritarianism
Jastinder Kaur reflects on the 2022 general election in Fiji, drawing on her research as a political anthropologist of Fiji politics, coups, and society. ...
Ethiopia and Eritrea’s apocalyptic campaign on the last Nilotic people in Northern Ethiopia: the Kunama
Mitiku Gabrehiwot Tesfaye writes about the Kunama, a group of people living in northwestern Tigray, Ethiopia, with whom he has been undertaking research since 2017. ...
Brazilian Legislatures after Covid-19: structural change or just conjunctural adaptation?
Professor Cristiane Brum Bernardes reflects on the role that digital platforms and social media have played in mediating the work of the Brazilian legislature in the context of the ...
Ethnicity, religion, and Diwali in Fiji
Dr Jastinder Kaur reflects on the politics of, and communication around, ethnicity and religion during Diwali in Fiji. Fiji is post-colonial archipelago in the South Pacific comprising indigenous Fijians ...