Harri Englund

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Harri Englund (born 1 November 1966) is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy and of Churchill College, Cambridge.[1] Englund studied anthropology at the University of Helsinki and the University of Manchester. After holding academic posts in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Finland, Englund moved to the University of Cambridge in 2004. He was promoted to professorship in 2014 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.[2] Englund's field research has taken place in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Finland.[3] His publications have addressed topics such as human rights, humanitarianism, and moral and political thought in the Chichewa language. He has also studied the racial and humanitarian politics of Christian missions in 19th-century Malawi.[4] In 2006, the Royal Anthropological Institute awarded the Amaury Talbot Prize to his book Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor.[5]

Books[edit]

  • Visions for Racial Equality: David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi.[6]
  • Gogo Breeze: Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech.[7]
  • Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio.[8]
  • Christianity and Public Culture in Africa.[9]
  • Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor.[10]
  • Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa.[11]
  • From War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland.[12]
  • A Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and Culture in the New Malawi.[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Search Results for Harri Englund". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  2. ^ "List of fellows of the British Academy elected in the 2010s", Wikipedia, 2019-11-17, retrieved 2020-05-07
  3. ^ "Professor Harri Englund, FBA — Department of Social Anthropology". www.socanth.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  4. ^ "Professor Harri Englund". The British Academy. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  5. ^ "Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology Past Recipients". www.therai.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  6. ^ Englund, Harri. Visions for Racial Equality: David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi. Cambridge. ISBN 9781316514009. OCLC 1263866223.
  7. ^ Englund, Harri. Gogo Breeze : Zambia's radio elder and the voices of free speech. Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-49909-3. OCLC 1015676199.
  8. ^ Englund, Harri (2011). Human rights and African airwaves : mediating equality on the Chichewa radio. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00543-4. OCLC 757756311.
  9. ^ Christianity and public culture in Africa. Englund, Harri. (1st pbk. printing ed.). Athens: Ohio University Press. 2012 [2011]. ISBN 978-0-8214-2022-5. OCLC 812023673.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ^ Englund, Harri (2006). Prisoners of freedom : human rights and the African poor. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24923-2. OCLC 62341482.
  11. ^ Rights and the politics of recognition in Africa. Englund, Harri., Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-, International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research. London: Zed Books. 2004. ISBN 1-84277-282-1. OCLC 51305872.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ^ Englund, Harri (2002). From war to peace on the Mozambique-Malawi borderland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute. ISBN 0-585-44387-4. OCLC 52273842.
  13. ^ A democracy of chameleons : politics and culture in the New Malawi. Englund, Harri. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 2002. ISBN 91-7106-499-0. OCLC 50841154.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)