Lila Abu-Lughod's research interests are anthropology of the Arab world; gender and cultural forms from poetry to television soap operas; the politics and ethics of fieldwork, knowledge production, and representations; violence and memory in Palestine; and the geopolitics of feminism.
Economic geography with distinctive focus on retail & consumption: specifically retail globalisation & its host-economy impacts; & policy & practice engaged research on retail access.
Melissa Leach is the Executive Director of Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) and Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
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