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About Rine Vieth
Dr. Rine Vieth is an anthropologist interested in questions of law and society, with a geographic focus on the UK, Europe, and MENA regions. Dr. Vieth has a background in Islamic law, anthropology, history, and Russian studies, and has experience as a qualitative, archival, and legal researcher. Their current doctoral project considered how the UK asylum system assesses claims of belief.Dr. Rine Vieth holds a PhD in Anthropology at McGill University, where they studied how asylum tribunals in the UK consider claims on the basis of belief.
Their research interests include state governance, human rights, bureaucracy, and religion, with a particular emphasis on how people understand and experience law.
NBN Episodes hosted by Rine:
May 3, 2023
Testimony
Content note: This episode contains discussions of violence, including rape and mutilation Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes t…
April 3, 2023
The Memory Seeker
The Memory Seeker is a novel that, drawing upon Professor Ronald Niezen's background in researching human rights, takes on the experiences of war viol…
February 23, 2023
The Proof
In a world awash in “fake news,” where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across the c…
February 22, 2023
Ethical Encounters
An exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory, Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in …
January 16, 2023
Atmospheres of Violence
Content note: This episode contains discussions of suicide, as well as allusions to graphic anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Black violence Advances in LGBTQ rig…
August 30, 2022
The Invisibility Bargain
With much existing research on migration focusing on the Global North—like Europe and the US—Pugh’s The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and …
June 20, 2022
A History of False Hope
Lori Allen’s A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (Stanford UP, 2020) is a deep engagement with Palestinian political histo…
June 17, 2022
Incarceration without Conviction
Mikaela Rabinowitz’s Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice (Routledge, 2021) …
April 27, 2022
Fight Like Hell
American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights …
April 26, 2022
Banning Transgender Conversion Practices
NB: This interview contains explicit language. In Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (U British Columbia Press, 20…
October 28, 2021
Limits of Supranational Justice
Dilek Kurban’s Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict (Cambridge UP, 2020) considers the Eu…
October 8, 2021
Court of Injustice
J.C. Salyer’s Court of Injustice: Law Without Recognition in U.S. Immigration (Stanford UP, 2020) is an important look at the histories and processes …