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Publications

IMI strongly believes in the importance of open access research, and since 2006 we have produced an in-house working paper series that we make available without a paywall. Below you will find the full archive. To contribute to the series, read our submission guidelines.

IMI team members and fellows are also prolific scholars in their own right. Their words can be found in internationally recognised journals, edited volumes, standalone books, and myriad reports. We have brought together much of their work here as well. Not all is free to access through the links provided, but if you can't reach the material through your institution please contact us and we will try to help.

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IMI Working paper series

Against security: Protectionism and what's left of politics

Andersson R. and Dzenovska D., (2025), Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology

The 2022 Marilyn Strathern Lecture Security and Subversion in a Time of Monsters

Andersson R., (2024), Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 42, 114 - 135

WRECKONOMICS: WHY IT’S TIME TO END THE WAR ON EVERYTHING

Andersson R. and Keen D., (2023), 1 - 342

Border walls, irregular migration and the co-optation of the border security playbook

Andersson R., (2022), International Migration, 60, 226 - 230

THE BIOECONOMY AND THE BIRTH OF A “NEW ANTHROPOLOGY”

Andersson R., (2022), Cultural Anthropology, 37, 37 - 44

Bamako, Mali Danger and the Divided Geography of International Intervention

Andersson R., (2020), 25 - 52

Refugia: Radical solutions to mass displacement

Cohen R. and Van Hear NV., (2019), 1 - 135

Institutionalized Intervention: The ‘Bunker Politics’ of International Aid in Afghanistan

Weigand F. and Andersson R., (2019), Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 13, 503 - 523

The return of remoteness: insecurity, isolation and connectivity in the new world disorder

Saxer M. and Andersson R., (2019), Social Anthropology, 27, 140 - 155

The Timbuktu syndrome

Andersson R., (2019), Social Anthropology, 27, 304 - 319

Taking my time

Peebles J., (2019), Forced Migration Review

No Go World How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics

Andersson R., (2019)

Imagining Refugia: thinking outside the current refugee regime

Van Hear N., (2018), Migration and Society

Double games: Success, failure and the relocation of risk in fighting terror, drugs and migration

Keen D. and Andersson R., (2018), Political Geography, 67, 100 - 110

Profits and predation in the human bioeconomy

Andersson R., (2018), Public Culture, 30, 413 - 439

Diaspora and class -- class and diaspora

Van Hear N., (2018)

The price of impact: reflections on academic outreach amid the ‘refugee crisis’

Andersson R., (2018), Social Anthropology, 26, 222 - 237

Push-pull plus: reconsidering the drivers of migration

Van Hear N. et al, (2018), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44, 927 - 944

Who counts in crises? The new geopolitics of international migration and refugee governance

Allen W. et al, (2018), Geopolitics, 23, 217 - 243

Europe’s failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration

Andersson R., (2018), 123 - 141

Narrating history and anthropology: J.D.Y. Peel's 'the past in the present'

Pratten D., (2017), Religion and Society, 8, 10 - 14

Visions of Refugia: territorial and transnational solutions to mass displacement

Cohen R. and Van Hear N., (2017), Planning Theory and Practice, 18, 494 - 504

Currency and conflict in colonial Nigeria

Pratten D., (2017), 72 - 91

Diasporas and conflict: distance, contiguity and spheres of engagement

Van Hear N. and Cohen R., (2017), Oxford Development Studies, 45, 171 - 184

Policing boundaries: The cultural work of African policing

Pratten D., (2017), 193 - 198

From radar systems to rickety boats: Borderline ethnography in Europe’s ‘illegality industry’

Andersson R., (2017), 88 - 108

Here be dragons: Mapping an ethnography of global danger

Andersson R., (2016), Current Anthropology, 57, 707 - 731

Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropology

Green S. et al, (2016), Social Anthropology, 24, 478 - 502

Creole pioneers in the Nigerian provincial press

Pratten D., (2016), 75 - 101

Imagining an ideal husband: Marriage as a site of aspiration among pious Somali women in London

Liberatore G., (2016), Anthropological Quarterly, 89, 781 - 812

Hardwiring the frontier? The politics of security technology in Europe's 'fight against illegal migration'

Andersson R., (2016), SECURITY DIALOGUE, 47, 22 - 39

Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa: An Introduction

Cooper E. and Pratten D., (2015), 1 - 16

Intervention at Risk: The Vicious Cycle of Distance and Danger in Mali and Afghanistan

Andersson R. and Weigand F., (2015), JOURNAL OF INTERVENTION AND STATEBUILDING, 9, 519 - 541

Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa

Cooper E. and Pratten D., (2014)

Gendered educational trajectories and transnational marriage among West African students in France

Neveu Kringelbach H., (2014), Identities

Reconsidering Migration and Class

Van Hear N., (2014), International Migration Review, 48, 100 - 121

Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe

Andersson R., (2014), 1 - 361

Time and the Migrant Other: European Border Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality

Andersson R., (2014), AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 116, 795 - 809

Hunter and prey: Patrolling Clandestine Migration in the Euro-African Borderlands

Andersson R., (2014), ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 87, 119 - 149

The precariousness of prebendalism

Pratten D., (2013), 243 - 258

Retroversion, introversion, extraversion: three aspects of African anthropology

Pratten D., (2012)

Retroversion, Introversion, Extraversion: Three Aspects of African Anthropology

Pratten D., (2012), 340 - 365

The man-leopard murders: History and society in colonial Nigeria

Pratten D., (2010), 1 - 425

Bodies of power: Narratives of selfhood & security in Nigeria

Pratten D., (2010), 118 - 138

'The thief eats his shame': Practice and power in Nigerian vigilantism

Pratten D., (2008), Africa, 78, 64 - 83

Introduction the politics of protection: Perspectives on Vigilantism in Nigeria

Pratten D., (2008), Africa, 78, 1 - 15

Masking youth: Transformation and transgression in annang performance

Pratten D., (2008), African Arts, 41, 44 - 59

Global Vigilantes

Pratten D. and Sen A., (2008)

The man-leopard murders: History and society in Colonial Nigeria

Pratten D., (2007)

Introduction: Global vigilantes: perspectives on justice and violence

Pratten D. and Sen A., (2007), 1 - 21

The 'rugged life': Youth and violence in southern Nigeria

Pratten D., (2007), 84 - 104

Mystics and missionaries: Narratives of the spirit movement in Eastern Nigeria

Pratten D., (2007), Social Anthropology, 15, 47 - 70

Michel de Certeau: Ethnography and the challenge of plurality

Napolitano V. and Pratten D., (2007), Social Anthropology, 15, 1 - 12

Singing thieves: history and practice in Nigerian popular justice

Pratten D., (2007)

The district clerk and the 'man-leopard murders': Mediating law and authority in colonial Nigeria

Pratten D., (2006), 220 - 247

The politics of vigilance in southeastern Nigeria

Pratten D., (2006), Development and Change, 37, 707 - 734

Conversion, conquest and the Qua Iboe Mission

Pratten D., (2005), 413 - 437

The new frontiers of America

Andersson R., (2005), RACE & CLASS, 46, 28 - 38

Business and politics in São Tomé e Príncipe: From cocoa monoculture to petro-state

Frynas JG. et al, (2003), African Affairs, 102, 51 - 80

Return to the roots? Urban networks, rural development and power in Sudan

Pratten D., (2000)

More working papers

Other publications

Against security: Protectionism and what's left of politics

Andersson R. and Dzenovska D., (2025), Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology

The 2022 Marilyn Strathern Lecture Security and Subversion in a Time of Monsters

Andersson R., (2024), Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 42, 114 - 135

WRECKONOMICS: WHY IT’S TIME TO END THE WAR ON EVERYTHING

Andersson R. and Keen D., (2023), 1 - 342

Border walls, irregular migration and the co-optation of the border security playbook

Andersson R., (2022), International Migration, 60, 226 - 230

THE BIOECONOMY AND THE BIRTH OF A “NEW ANTHROPOLOGY”

Andersson R., (2022), Cultural Anthropology, 37, 37 - 44

Bamako, Mali Danger and the Divided Geography of International Intervention

Andersson R., (2020), 25 - 52

Refugia: Radical solutions to mass displacement

Cohen R. and Van Hear NV., (2019), 1 - 135

Institutionalized Intervention: The ‘Bunker Politics’ of International Aid in Afghanistan

Weigand F. and Andersson R., (2019), Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 13, 503 - 523

The return of remoteness: insecurity, isolation and connectivity in the new world disorder

Saxer M. and Andersson R., (2019), Social Anthropology, 27, 140 - 155

The Timbuktu syndrome

Andersson R., (2019), Social Anthropology, 27, 304 - 319

Taking my time

Peebles J., (2019), Forced Migration Review

No Go World How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics

Andersson R., (2019)

Imagining Refugia: thinking outside the current refugee regime

Van Hear N., (2018), Migration and Society

Double games: Success, failure and the relocation of risk in fighting terror, drugs and migration

Keen D. and Andersson R., (2018), Political Geography, 67, 100 - 110

Profits and predation in the human bioeconomy

Andersson R., (2018), Public Culture, 30, 413 - 439

Diaspora and class -- class and diaspora

Van Hear N., (2018)

The price of impact: reflections on academic outreach amid the ‘refugee crisis’

Andersson R., (2018), Social Anthropology, 26, 222 - 237

Push-pull plus: reconsidering the drivers of migration

Van Hear N. et al, (2018), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44, 927 - 944

Who counts in crises? The new geopolitics of international migration and refugee governance

Allen W. et al, (2018), Geopolitics, 23, 217 - 243

Europe’s failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration

Andersson R., (2018), 123 - 141

Narrating history and anthropology: J.D.Y. Peel's 'the past in the present'

Pratten D., (2017), Religion and Society, 8, 10 - 14

Visions of Refugia: territorial and transnational solutions to mass displacement

Cohen R. and Van Hear N., (2017), Planning Theory and Practice, 18, 494 - 504

Currency and conflict in colonial Nigeria

Pratten D., (2017), 72 - 91

Diasporas and conflict: distance, contiguity and spheres of engagement

Van Hear N. and Cohen R., (2017), Oxford Development Studies, 45, 171 - 184

Policing boundaries: The cultural work of African policing

Pratten D., (2017), 193 - 198

From radar systems to rickety boats: Borderline ethnography in Europe’s ‘illegality industry’

Andersson R., (2017), 88 - 108

Here be dragons: Mapping an ethnography of global danger

Andersson R., (2016), Current Anthropology, 57, 707 - 731

Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropology

Green S. et al, (2016), Social Anthropology, 24, 478 - 502

Creole pioneers in the Nigerian provincial press

Pratten D., (2016), 75 - 101

Imagining an ideal husband: Marriage as a site of aspiration among pious Somali women in London

Liberatore G., (2016), Anthropological Quarterly, 89, 781 - 812

Hardwiring the frontier? The politics of security technology in Europe's 'fight against illegal migration'

Andersson R., (2016), SECURITY DIALOGUE, 47, 22 - 39

Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa: An Introduction

Cooper E. and Pratten D., (2015), 1 - 16

Intervention at Risk: The Vicious Cycle of Distance and Danger in Mali and Afghanistan

Andersson R. and Weigand F., (2015), JOURNAL OF INTERVENTION AND STATEBUILDING, 9, 519 - 541

Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa

Cooper E. and Pratten D., (2014)

Gendered educational trajectories and transnational marriage among West African students in France

Neveu Kringelbach H., (2014), Identities

Reconsidering Migration and Class

Van Hear N., (2014), International Migration Review, 48, 100 - 121

Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe

Andersson R., (2014), 1 - 361

Time and the Migrant Other: European Border Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality

Andersson R., (2014), AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 116, 795 - 809

Hunter and prey: Patrolling Clandestine Migration in the Euro-African Borderlands

Andersson R., (2014), ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 87, 119 - 149

The precariousness of prebendalism

Pratten D., (2013), 243 - 258

Retroversion, introversion, extraversion: three aspects of African anthropology

Pratten D., (2012)

Retroversion, Introversion, Extraversion: Three Aspects of African Anthropology

Pratten D., (2012), 340 - 365

The man-leopard murders: History and society in colonial Nigeria

Pratten D., (2010), 1 - 425

Bodies of power: Narratives of selfhood & security in Nigeria

Pratten D., (2010), 118 - 138

'The thief eats his shame': Practice and power in Nigerian vigilantism

Pratten D., (2008), Africa, 78, 64 - 83

Introduction the politics of protection: Perspectives on Vigilantism in Nigeria

Pratten D., (2008), Africa, 78, 1 - 15

Masking youth: Transformation and transgression in annang performance

Pratten D., (2008), African Arts, 41, 44 - 59

Global Vigilantes

Pratten D. and Sen A., (2008)

The man-leopard murders: History and society in Colonial Nigeria

Pratten D., (2007)

Introduction: Global vigilantes: perspectives on justice and violence

Pratten D. and Sen A., (2007), 1 - 21

The 'rugged life': Youth and violence in southern Nigeria

Pratten D., (2007), 84 - 104

Mystics and missionaries: Narratives of the spirit movement in Eastern Nigeria

Pratten D., (2007), Social Anthropology, 15, 47 - 70

Michel de Certeau: Ethnography and the challenge of plurality

Napolitano V. and Pratten D., (2007), Social Anthropology, 15, 1 - 12

Singing thieves: history and practice in Nigerian popular justice

Pratten D., (2007)

The district clerk and the 'man-leopard murders': Mediating law and authority in colonial Nigeria

Pratten D., (2006), 220 - 247

The politics of vigilance in southeastern Nigeria

Pratten D., (2006), Development and Change, 37, 707 - 734

Conversion, conquest and the Qua Iboe Mission

Pratten D., (2005), 413 - 437

The new frontiers of America

Andersson R., (2005), RACE & CLASS, 46, 28 - 38

Business and politics in São Tomé e Príncipe: From cocoa monoculture to petro-state

Frynas JG. et al, (2003), African Affairs, 102, 51 - 80

Return to the roots? Urban networks, rural development and power in Sudan

Pratten D., (2000)