Introduction Through the standardisation of styles, the study of past models, and the theorisation of gesture, from medieval times to present, the “classical tradition” of…

Introduction The sacred landscape of Inner Asia is constituted, among other elements, by holy cairns called oboo. Built on the top of mountains and hills…

Introduction Can traditional cultural practices thrive if they are commercialised? Or should the state protect them from “the market”? This debate has been at the…

Cultural Values in the Making: Governing through Intangible Heritage Integral to the emergence of any modern state, the preservation of the traces of national past…

After several weeks of conducting interviews with smallholders and entrepreneurial farmers in Gansu Province in September and October 2016, I encountered an agrarian entrepreneur producing…

The globalisation of agricultural production and food systems has brought fundamental changes to agrarian economies around the world. While providing cheap and plentiful food for…

It is a great pleasure for us to see that the notion of a “multiplication of labour,” originally elaborated in our book Border as Method…