Episode 8: In this episode Geoffrey Hughes (University of Exeter) talks about his work in the recent GLD working paper "Tribes without Sheikhs? Technological Change, Media Liberalization, and Authority in Networked Jordan." The discussion centres on the changing nature of authority due to the rapidly evolving media sector. Geoffrey Hughes is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter. His research and teaching focus on the politics of everyday life in the contemporary Middle East, with an emphasis on kinship, gender, Islam, and the state. He has spent over four years living and working in the region, including over two years conducting long-term ethnographic research in Jordan. He has published extensively on how people living in the Middle East work to re-imagine a range of globally circulating technologies for large-scale population management, from Facebook-mediated blood feuds to the information infrastructures of government Sharia Courts.
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