Tobias Kelly is Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture and the Recognition of Cruelty. He is currently working on a project looking at the multiple histories of freedom of conscience.
Tobias Kelly
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Against Civility
Donald Trump and his global populist counterparts, such as Farage in England, Orbán in Hungary, or Duterte in the Philippines, gain popularity through rhetoric …
The Janus Face of Conscience
Throughout the summer of 1938, Paul Gruninger was in charge of policing a small section of the Swiss border. A captain in the canton of St. Gallen, his job was to prevent entry from Nazi-controlled Austria. Germany had annexed Austria a few months previously, and thousands of Jews were by now trying to flee, but […]
