Research Department 'Anthropology of Politics and Governance' Members of the Department Members of the Department Michiel Baas 1. Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility and the New Middle Class 2. CrAItivity: Towards an Anthropology of Artificial Intelligence more Hynek Becka Healing Self and Society: Alternative Political Vision and Conspiracy in the Czech Republic more Samiksha Bhan Making Time for Blood: Patient Communities and Infrastructure in the Care of Thalassemia in India more Lisa Björkman Political Communication Beyond “Truth and Lies”Material Mediations, Public Assembly, and the Theatrical Idiom of Political Speech in Mumbai more Arne Harms Intimate Activism: An Ethnography of Ethical Striving on a Wounded Planet more David Kananizadeh Composite Economies: Extractive Relations & Moral Agency in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Frontier more Jacqueline Knörr Current Research more Desirée Kumpf A Multispecies Ethnography of Rewilding Practices in Europe more Claudia Lang Mental Health in Your Pocket – Digitization and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health in India more Romm Lewkowicz Documenting the Undocumented: Experimenting Europe at the Biometric Migrant Archive more Jovan Maud Senior Scientific Editor more Hanna Nieber Constellations 4 Astronomy in Madagascar more Rishabh Raghavan Toxicities, Illegalities and Protest: A Landscape of Coal in South India more Ursula Rao Digitization and the Indian Bureaucracy more Mascha Schulz Enacting Secular Utopia via Hidden Transcripts: Bengali Cultural Activism, Communism, and Contentious Aspirations for a “Secular” Society more Michael Vine Affective Enclosures: Administration and Alienation in America’s Next Great City Julia Vorhölter Crazy Times – New (Dis)Orders and the Emergence of Psychotherapy in Uganda more Tyler Zoanni Reaping the Whirlwind: Making the Demographic Dividend in Africa more