Paolo Heywood

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I am a social anthropologist specialising in European political movements and the philosophy of anthropology. I am the author of books about LGBTQ activism in Italy (https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HeywoodAfter), neo-Fascism and nostalgia for Mussolini (https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778285/burying-mussolini/) and the historical relationship between anthropology and Ludwig Wittgenstein (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/life-of-form/6289D5E43347EE149EA3F743EF6043C4).

Experience

  • –present
    Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
  • 2020–present
    Associate professor, Durham University

Education

  • 2015 
    University of Cambridge, PhD, Social Anthropology
  • 2011 
    University of Cambridge, MPhil in Social Anthropology
  • 2010 
    University of Cambridge, MA (Cantab) in Social Anthropology

Publications

  • 2018
    After Difference: Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory, Berghahn Books
  • 2018
    Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory, Current Anthropology
  • 2015
    Equivocal locations: being ‘red’ in ‘Red Bologna’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
  • 2015
    Agreeing to disagree: LGBTQ activism and the Church in Italy, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
  • 2015
    Freedom in the code: the anthropology of (double) morality, Anthropological Theory
  • 2012
    Anthropology and what there is: reflections on ‘ontology’., The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology

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