Articles

 

Peer reviewed articles & Book chapters

Stein F. (forthcoming 2024) ‘Against collaboration: The research ethics of studying management’. The anthropology of management. ed. James Carrier.

Stein F., Storeng, K., de Bengy Puyvallée A. 2023 ‘Global Health Nonsense (German Translation)’. Gesundheit braucht Politik - Zeitschrift für eine soziale Medizin no. 2/2023: 20-23 (ed.) Karen Spannenkrebs. https://gbp.vdaeae.de/images/GbP_23_2-Gobale_Gesundheit-kurz.pdf [PDF]

Stein F., Storeng, K., de Bengy Puyvallée A. 2022 ‘Global Health Nonsense’. The British Medical Journal 379:o2932 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o2932 [PDF]

Storeng, K., Stein F., de Bengy Puyvallée A. 2021 ‘COVAX and the many meanings of sharing.’ BMJ Global Health. 6:e007763. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007763

Storeng, K., de Bengy Puyvallée, Stein F. 2021. ‘COVAX and the rise of “super public private partnerships” for global health’. Global Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1987502

Stein, F. 2021. ‘Risky business: COVAX’s financialized approach to vaccine equity.’ Globalization and Health. 17:110 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00763-8 [nominated for the 2022 Chr. Michelsen prize for outstanding development research, and recommended by the Bretton Woods Project]

Tichenor, Marlee, Janelle Winters, Katerini T. Storeng, Jesse Bump, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Martin Gorsky, Mark Hellowel, Patrick Kadama, Katherine Kenny, Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Francisco Songane, Alexis Walker, Ryan Whitacre, Sumegha Asthana, Genevie Fernandez, Felix Stein and Devi Sridhar (2021) ‘Interrogating the World Bank’s Role in Global Health Knowledge Production, Governance and Finance.’ Globalization and Health. 17:110 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00761-w [PDF]

Stein, F. 2020. ‘Blinded by the slide: Ignorance and the commodification of expertise’. Critique of Anthropology. 4(4) https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X20959409 [PDF]

Stein, Felix, Meghan Perry, Geoffrey Banda, Mark Woolhouse, and Francisca Mutapi 2020 "Oxygen Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa to Fight Covid-19." BMJ Global Health. 5:e002786. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002786 [PDF]

Stein, F. 2020 ‘Compassion and Sacrifice during COVID-19’. Somatosphere. [PDF]

Stein, F. & D. Sridhar 2019 ‘Back to the future? Health and the World Bank’s Human Capital Index’. The British Medical Journal. 367: 15706. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5706

Stein F. 2019 'Research directions on states and markets'. In Research Agenda in Economic Anthropology (ed) J. Carrier: 25-39. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK. [PDF]

Stein, F. 2018 'Selling speed - management consultants, acceleration and temporal angst'. PolAR - The Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 40(S1): 103-1017. [PDF]

Stein, F. & D. Sridhar. 2018 'The financialisation of global health'. Wellcome Open Research 3(17): 1-4.

Stein, F. 2018 'Boundary work – power and liminality in management consulting'. In New Directions in Elite Studies. (eds) Korsnes Olaf, Johan Heilbron, Felix Bühlmann and Mike Savage: 280-296. Routledge: London. [PDF]

Stein, F. 2017 'Anthropology’s “impact” – a comment on audit and the unmeasurable nature of critique'. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(1): 10-29. [PDF]

Stein, F. & D. Sridhar 2017 'Health as ‘global public good’: Creating a market for pandemic risk?' The British Medical Journal. 358: j3397. [PDF]

Eriksen, T. H. and F. Stein 2017 'Anthropology as counter-culture: an interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen.Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23(1): 233-238. [PDF]

Stein, F. 2016 '"Anthropology needs to go mainstream" - An interview with Gillian Tett'. Anthropology Today 32(6): 27-29. [PDF]

Helfrich, S. and F. Stein 2011 'Was sind Gemeingüter? [What are common goods?]'. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 61: 9-15. [PDF]

 

Book reviews

Stein, F. 2023 ‘McNeill, Desmond. Fetishism and the theory of value: reassessing Marx in the 21st century. xix, 322 pp., bibliogr. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. £79.50 (ebook)'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13894

Stein, F. 2019 ‘Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies. Verónica Gago. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017, 288 pp., $25.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-8223-6912-7.’ Journal of Anthropological Research. 75(3): 426-428 [PDF]

Stein, F. 2017 'Stephen Gudeman, Anthropology and Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 233, 2016.’ The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 35(1): 147-148. [PDF]

Stein, F. 2016 'James, Deborah. 2015. Money from nothing. Indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univer- sity Press. 304pp. Pb.: US$25.95. ISBN: 9780804792677.’ Social Anthropology 24(1): 123-124. [PDF]

Policy Reports

Storeng, K., de Bengy Puyvallée, A., Stein, F. 2021. ‘What Norway should ask of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the COVID-19 Pandemic’. Center for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. [PDF]

TIBA COVID-19 Pandemic Response Unit. 2020 ‘A Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in TIBA countries, A case for Development of Multidimensional Strategies for Resource Challenged Countries’ (Provided research input).

TIBA COVID-19 Pandemic Response Unit. 2020 ‘Data sources for national COVID-19 responses in WHO Africa Region’ [Oversaw the production of the section entitled ‘Brief summary of COVID-19 testing data in the WHO Africa region’]. Produced for WHO Regional Office for Africa. [PDF]

Stein, F., M. Perry, G. Banda, M. Woolhouse, F. Mutapi. 2020. ‘Oxygen provision in Sub-Saharan Africa to fight COVID-19’. Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) Bulletin. 1-9. Produced for WHO Regional Office for Africa.

 

Selected public writing 

de Bengy Puyvallée A., K. Storeng, F. Stein 2023 ‘ACT Today for future vaccine sharing’. The Collective Blog. Centre for Development and the Environment.

Stein, F. 2021 ‘Vaccine prices may become a political powder keg’. The Loop: European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Political Science Blog .

Stein, F. 2020 ‘We can’t generalise - or can we?’. Newsletter of the Society of Economic Anthropology. [PDF]

Stein, F. 2018 ‘Editing Wikipedia as part of teaching public health?.’ Global Health Governance Blog, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. [PDF]

Stein, F. 2018 'UK universities under siege'. PoLAR: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Review (Online at: https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/2018/03/13/uk-universities-under-siege/).

Stein, F. 2018 ‘Human Capital and Global Health.’ Global Health Governance Blog, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. [PDF]

Stark, F. 2018 'Die Welt ist nie so profitabel wie sie sein könnte [The world is never as profitable as it could be]'. Tonic: Das Magazin für * (Online at: https://www.tonic-magazin.de/artikel/unternehmensberatung-consulting-powerpoint-kapitalismus).

Stein, F. 2017 ‘The World Bank’s new pandemic insurance: A wise use of donor money?’ Global Health Governance Blog, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. [PDF]

Stein, F. 2017 'So, what is the World Bank's business model?'. Global Health Governance Blog, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. [PDF]

Stein, F. 2017 'On the equal validity of methods in Global Health research'. Global Health Governance Blog, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. [PDF]

Stein, F & D. Sridhar 2017 'The World Bank reinvents itself - And puts poverty reduction at riskThe Conversation. June 2017. [PDF]

Stein, F. 2017 '“Post-truth” and the social sciences'. Global Health Governance Blog, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. (Reprint in PoLAR: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Review). [PDF]

Stein, F. 2016 'Anthropology, Brexit and Xenophobia in Europe'. PoLAR: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Review (Online at: https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/2016/06/28/anthropology-brexit-and-xenophobia-in-europe/) (reprint in Allegralab). [PDF]