Harald Wydra is a university lecturer in

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...

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University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

and a

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of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. His general research interests include

political anthropology Political anthropology is the comparative study of politics in a broad range of historical, social, and cultural settings. History of political anthropology Origins Political anthropology has its roots in the 19th century. At that time, thinkers ...

, symbolic politics,

politics of memory Politics of memory is the organisation of collective memory by political agents; the political means by which events are remembered and recorded, or discarded. Eventually, politics of memory may determine the way history is written and passed on, he ...

, and methodological approaches to the understanding of uncertainty in politics. He is a founding editor-in-chief of the

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''International Political Anthropology''. Wydra is the author of the 2007 book ''Communism and the Emergence of Democracy'' and edited ''Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality'' (Berghahn, Oxford, 2013) with Agnes Horvath and

Bjorn Thomassen Bjorn (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, and German), Bjørn (Danish, Faroese and Norwegian), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Scandinavian male given name, or less oft ...

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at the St. Catharine's College website {{DEFAULTSORT:Wydra, Harald Living people British anthropologists Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Year of birth missing (living people)