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Antonio De Lauri is an Italian social and cultural anthropologist at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway.[1] He obtained his PhD in "Human Sciences: Anthropology of the Contemporary" from the University of Milan-Bicocca in 2010. In November 2023, De Lauri was elected President of the International Humanitarian Studies Association.[2]
Research
editDe Lauri has conducted ethnographic research in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Europe, and is the author of several publications on issues related to war and post-war, soldiers, humanitarianism, human rights, injustice, judicial practice and borders. He is a regular contributor to public debates on politics and culture in Afghanistan.[3][4]
In 2020, De Lauri received a five-year European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant for the research project “War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience”, which investigates the experience of war from the perspective of those who fight.[5]
Editorship
editDe Lauri is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the international peer review journal Public Anthropologist and is the founding General Editor of Berghahn Books' series Humanitarianism and Security.
Selected publications
editDe Lauri, A. 2020 (ed.) Humanitarianism: Keywords. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-43114-0.
De Lauri, A., & Suhrke, A. (2021) Armed governance: The case of the CIA-supported Afghan militias, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 32(3), 490-508, DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2020.1777618.
De Lauri, A. (2019). Humanitarian militarism and the production of humanity, Social Anthropology, 27(1), DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12507
De Lauri, A. (2019). The Taliban and the humanitarian soldier: Configurations of freedom and humanity in Afghanistan, Anuac, 8(1), pp. 31-57. DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-3623.
De Lauri, A. (2017). The absence of freedom: Debt, bondage and desire among Pakistani brick kiln workers. Journal of Global Slavery 2(1-2).
De Lauri, A. (2013) Corruption, legal modernisation and judicial practice in Afghanistan. Asian Studies Review, 37(4), 527-545, DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2013.832112.