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Professor Matei Candea is a social anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Department of Social Anthropology and King's College. His research explores ethics, epistemology, materiality, and political subjectivity, with regional focus on Europe and the Mediterranean. He leads the ERC-funded Risking Speech project, analyzing debates over freedom of speech in Europe, and has conducted fieldwork on Corsica, human-animal relations, and anthropological comparison.
- Current research on European free speech debates
- Methodological interest in comparative anthropology
- Teaching roles in undergraduate and postgraduate programs
Matei's recent publications cluster around free speech and comparative reasoning, including works on metapragmatic struggles, liberal speech frameworks, and ethical imaginaries. His scholarship bridges political anthropology and philosophical inquiry, with theoretical engagements on Bourdieu, Michel Serres, and the ethics of description. The Risking Speech project's findings inform his analysis of speech regulation and political subjectivity in contemporary Europe.
