Matthew Carey

About

Carey is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Previously, he has been a Visiting Professor at Collège de France in Paris and a Teaching Fellow at University College in London. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Carey’s primary research area revolves around Tachelhit-Berber speaking communities in Southern Morocco, principally the Central High Atlas mountains. His thematic research interests include: questions of political organisation, institutionality and anarchism, subjectivity, intimacy and emotions in the Moroccan High Atlas, and how lying and mistrust gives rise to particular social forms and practices. 

Selected publications

  • Carey, M. and Halkes, A. (2019) ‘What is the plural of Apocalypse? An essay on the ends of time.’ [‘L’apocalypse au pluriel.’] Terrain 71: 6-25.