Workshop Recap, EMIC Update, New Members and Book Recommendations

Workshops We had two very interesting workshops in 2018. The first, in Oxford, was on the topic of New Directions in Ethnographic Data Collection, Mining, Analysis and...

The Power of Hijacking the Human Imagination

Weaponized Identities: Mankind’s Ultimate Tool of Destruction? by BRUCE WHITE We humans have made weapons from many things over countless millennia. Weapons have been...

Fulfilling the Potential and Mitigating the Risks of Ethnographic-Led Interventions

The OICD and The Social Sciences Division, Oxford University, are pleased to announce a co-hosted workshop described below. (pdf version) Fulfilling the Potential and...

Aga Khan – OICD Workshop Concludes with Many Talking Points

Can Identities Positively Transform Societies? Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and Solutions Thank you to all those who contributed to this workshop. A summary of...

What to do with the Knowledge that Identities are Manmade?

By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White The popularity of books such as Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari periodically thrust a key finding of...

Constructing Identities that Oppose Constructions

OICD Intern Cristina Cusenza takes on one of the big themes in identity and cultural development: how can we diminish the power of dangerous and divisive singular identities...

OICD Goals and Mission Objects 2017-2020

The OICD defines its goals and mission objects every two years. These are the mission objects that the OICD proposes to concentrate on until 2020. Comments from OICD members...

Keeping it Plural: The Dangers of “Singular Identities”

By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen makes clear his argument for the importance of maintaining multiple identities in his...

« Older Articles