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Amarasuriya, Harini, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic and Jonathan Spencer, Editors.
2020. The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press. Open Access.
![The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives.](../wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kelly-objector-371x500-1-150x150.png)
Amarasuriya, Harini, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, and Jonathan Spencer.
2020. Introduction: The Intimate life of Dissent. In The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives (edited by Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Jonathan Spencer). UCL Press. Open Access.
![The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives.](../wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kelly-objector-371x500-1-150x150.png)
Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina. 2020. “Futile Political Gestures“, a special debate series, Anthropological Theory Commons.
![The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives.](../wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kelly-objector-371x500-1-150x150.png)
Kelly, Tobias, ed. 2019. The Intimate Life of Dissent.
A Special Collection on the American Ethnologist Website.
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Kelly, Tobias. 2019. Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on the Intimate Life of Dissent.
In The Intimate Life of Dissent (edited by Tobias Kely), American Ethnologist Website.
![The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives.](../wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kelly-objector-371x500-1-150x150.png)
Kelly, Tobias, Sharika Thiranagama, and Carlos Forment. 2018.
Whose Civility? Anthropological Theory, 18(2-3), 153-174.
Open Access version >>
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Tobias Kelly and Sharika Thiranagama, 2019. Against Civility. In Public Books February 1, 2017.
Conscientious Objectors in Britain
![Peace Service Units pamphlet (held at Friends House), 1940s](../wp-content/uploads/2020/01/peace_service-150x150.jpg)
Kelly, Tobias. In Press. Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists in the Second World War.
Chatto and Windus.
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Kelly, Tobias. 2020. “Pacifist Futility”, a contribution to a special debate section on Futile Political Gestures, Anthropological Theory Commons.
![Peace Service Units pamphlet (held at Friends House), 1940s](../wp-content/uploads/2020/01/peace_service-150x150.jpg)
Kelly, Tobias. 2000. “Justice, Conscience and War in Imperial Britain” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 42(2).
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Kelly, Tobias. 2021. “Pacifist Utopias: Humanitarianism, Tragedy and Complicity in the Second World War”. Special issue in “Utopian Confluences” edited by Bjorn Bertelsen and Ruy Blanes, Social Anthropology.
![Peace Service Units pamphlet (held at Friends House), 1940s](../wp-content/uploads/2020/01/peace_service-150x150.jpg)
Kelly, Tobias. 2020. Dissenting Conscience: The Intimate Politics of Objection in Second World War Britain.
In The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives (edited by Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Jonathan Spencer). UCL Press. Open Access.
![Peace Service Units pamphlet (held at Friends House), 1940s](../wp-content/uploads/2020/01/peace_service-150x150.jpg)
Kelly, Tobias. 2019. Dissenting Conscience.
In The Intimate Life of Dissent (edited by Tobias Kely), American Ethnologist Website.
![Peace Service Units pamphlet (held at Friends House), 1940s](../wp-content/uploads/2020/01/peace_service-150x150.jpg)
Kelly, Tobias. 2018. Beyond Ethics: Conscience, Pacifism, and the Political in Wartime Britain.
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8(1-2), 114-128.
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Kelly, Tobias. 2018. Include Us Out.
Scottish Review of Books 2018.
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Kelly, Tobias. 2018. The Potential for Civility: Labour and Love among British pacifists in the Second World War.
Anthropological Theory, 18: 2-3: 198-216.
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![Peace Service Units pamphlet (held at Friends House), 1940s](../wp-content/uploads/2020/01/peace_service-150x150.jpg)
Kelly, Tobias. 2015. Citizenship, Cowardice and Freedom of Conscience: British Pacifists in the Second World War.
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 57(3), 694-722.
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A Site of Conscience: Monumental Names and Memory Activism in Moscow
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Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina. 2020. One is the Biggest Number. Estrangement, Intimacy, and Totalitarianism in Late Soviet Russia.
In The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives (edited by Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Jonathan Spencer). UCL Press. Open Access.
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Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina. 2020. “Futile Engagements” a contribution to a special debate section on Futile Political Gestures, Anthropological Theory Commons.
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Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina. (2019). One is the Biggest Number. Dissent as Estrangement from Totality.
In The Intimate Life of Dissent (edited by Tobias Kely), American Ethnologist Website.
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Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina. (2019). End of organised atheism. The genealogy of the law on freedom of conscience and its conceptual effects in Russia. History and Anthropology.
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Sri Lanka: Histories of Conscience and Dissent
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Amarasuriya, Harini and Jonathan Spencer. 2020. Intimate Commitments: Friends, Comrades and Family in the Life of one Sri Lankan Activist.
In The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives (edited by Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Jonathan Spencer). UCL Press. Open Access/
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Maunaguru, Sidharthan. 2020. Friends with Differences: Ethics, Rivalry in Politics and Ex-Tamil Sri Lankan Political Activists.
In The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives (edited by Harini Amarasuriya, Tobias Kelly, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Jonathan Spencer). UCL Press. Open Access.
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Amarasuriya, Harini. 2020. “The Politics of Environmental Movements in Sri Lanka”, Polity 8(1-2): 21-28.
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Amarasuriya, Harini and Jonathan Spencer. 2019. Tracing Conscience in a Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka, 1960s-2000s.
In The Intimate Life of Dissent (edited by Tobias Kelly), American Ethnologist Website.
![Lanka-Guardian](../wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Lanka-Guardian-150x150.jpg)
Maunaguru, Sidharthan. 2019. Being a Friend: Ethical Living in Politics.
In The Intimate Life of Dissent (edited by Tobias Kelly), American Ethnologist Website.
The Conscience of International Human Rights Human Rights
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Kelly, Tobias. 2018. A Divided Conscience: The Lost Convictions of Human Rights? Public Culture, 30(3), 367-392.
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Kelly, Tobias. 2018. The Ashers Case Raises Questions Over the Weight We Should Give to Deeply Held Convictions in Public Life.
Holyrood Magazine, 11 October 2018.