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Books
2021 Remitting, Restoring, and Building Contemporary Albania. [Co-edited with Nataša Gregorić Bon] Palgrave Macmillan.
2020 Tales from Albarado: Pyramid Firms, Value and Social Transformation in Postsocialist Albania. Cornell University Press.
- Recipient of the Stavri Skëndi Book Prize
2018 Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Inclusion and Design. [Co-edited with Bill Maurer and Ivan Small] New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. (The Human Economy Series, Eds. Keith Hart and John Sharp). (In Press)
Peer Reviewed Articles
2019 “The Magic of Pyramid Firms: Political Cosmologies, Credibility and Collapsed Finance in Albania” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. 84(2): 179-200
2018 “Corruption, Right On! Hidden Cameras, Satire and Intimacies of Anti-corruption.” Current Anthropology. 59 (S18): S105-S116
2017 “Pyramid Firms and Value Transformation in Postsocialist Albania.” Ethnologie Française. 2017/2.
2011 “Tales from Albarado: The Materiality of Pyramid Schemes in Postsocialist Albania” Cultural Anthropology. 26(1): 84-110.
Book Chapters
2022 (With Matthew Rosen) “Tirana Visible and Invisible.” In Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination. Edited by Benjamin Linder. Palgrave MacMillan.
2021 “Temporalities of Concrete in a Postcommunist City. In Remitting, Building, and Restoring the Contemporary Albania. Palgrave Macmillan.
2021 (With Nataša Gregoriç Bon) “Introduction: Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania.” In Remitting, Building, and Restoring the Contemporary Albania. Palgrave Macmillan.
2018 (with Ivan Small) “Introduction: Money and Finance at the Margins.” In Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Inclusion and Design. Eds. Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan Small. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (The Human Economy Series, Eds. Keith Hart and John Sharp).
2018 “Corruption Indicators in the Local Legal/Political Landscape: Reflections from Albania. In Handbook on Global Governance by Indicators. Eds. Nehal Bhuta, Deborah Valentina Malito and Gaby Umbach. Palgrave Macmillan.
2015 “Indicators, Global Expertise, and a Local Political Drama: Producing and Deploying Corruption Perception Surveys in Albania.” The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law. Eds. Sally Engle Merry, Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, and Benedict Kingsbury. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
2012 “Alternative Publics: Unofficial Marginal Practices in Communist Albania’’ In Albania: Family, Society and Culture in the 20th Century. Eds. Andrea Hemming, Gentiana Kera, Enriketa Papa. LIT Verlag.
Editor Reviewed Articles
2022 (with Matthew Canfield) “Book Reviews Editorial: Emerging Themes in Political and Legal Anthropology.” PoLAR: Journal of Political and Legal Anthropology. (45)2: 304-310
2016 “Shtëpi Evropjane për një të ardhme më të mirë.” (European homes for a better future) Përpjekja Vol 34 (1)
2009 “Passport Troubles: Social Tactics and Places of Informal Transactions in Postosocialist Albania” Anthropology of East Europe Review. 27(2): 157-175
2008 “Pikëpyetje Antropologjike Mbi Korrupsionin” (Anthropological Questions on Corruption) Polis 6: Korrupsioni në Shqipëri (Corruption in Albania) European Univ. of Tirana. 6: 4-14
Book reviews
2022 Review of The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles by Charles Piot (with Kodjo Nicolas Batema), 2019. Durham, London: Duke University Press. Anthropological Notebooks.
2017 Book Review of Anthropology and Economy by Stephen Gudeman. Current Anthropology 58 (6) (In Press)
2014 “Materialities, Politics, and Affects of Socialist and Postsocialist Homes.” Review of Politics in Color and Concrete: Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary. By Krisztina Fehérváry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Current Anthropology. Vol 55(6): 832-833
2002 Book Review of Elsie, Robert. A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology and Folk Culture. In Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 8:3 Frank Cass & Co. 2002