A5031920626- Philippine History and Culture
- Balkans: History, Politics, Society
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Diversity and Impact of Dance
- Human Rights and Development
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- European and International Law Studies
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Sex work and related issues
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- World Trade Organization Law
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- History and advancements in chemistry
University of Sussex
2001-2020
University of Chicago
2020
Institute for Social Anthropology
2020
Stanford University
2020
Middle East Institute
2020
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2020
University of Illinois Chicago
2020
Australian National University
2016
University of Oxford
2016
Swansea University
1991
Based on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece, The Last Word explores women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse social practices: improvised antiphonic laments, divinatory dreaming, the care tending olive trees dead, inscription emotions senses a landscape persons, things, places. These practices compose empowering poetics periphery. C. Nadia Seremetakis liberates analysis gender from reductive binary models pioneers alternative perspective self-reflexive native...
Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, reputation. Here Jane Cowan explores how the politics of gender is articulated through body at these culturally central, yet until now ethnographically neglected, celebrations in a class-divided northern town. Portraying dance-event as both highly structured dynamic arena, she approaches human not only sign be deciphered but site...
Building on a critical, theoretical approach outlined in Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (Cowan et al. 2001a), I posit rights processes as complex contradictory: Both enabling constraining, they produce new subjectivities social relations entail unintended consequences. To encourage interdisciplinary engagement these themes, explore selected texts that consider the relationship between culture rights, addressing two literatures: (1) debates culture, recognition context of...
This paper explores the politics of monitoring at Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a new United Nations human rights mechanism which aims to promote universal approach and equal treatment when reviewing each country's situation. To what extent are these laudable realised, realisable, given entrenched representations West Rest as well geopolitical economic inequalities both historically in present? Based on ethnographic fieldwork UN 2010–11, final year UPR's first cycle, we explore how were...
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of British Referendum on leaving or remaining in EU was remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything forever, until it no more (Yurchak 2006).In Yurchak describes feeling many people Russia when Soviet Union broke up: came as a complete shock because they thought would never happen; but once had happened, not really surprise at all.The United Kingdom has tempestuous relationship with European Economic...
Bureaucracies, whether national or international, have rarely been conceived as ‘utopian’ sites. On the contrary, classic representations tend to describe bureaucratic formations ‘rationality machines’, administrations homogeneous black boxes and bureaucrats individuals working ‘without hatred passion’ implement a broader vision of which they remain largely ignorant. The idea for this special issue emerged out feeling unease with such renderings which, although providing important elements...
ABSTRACT The momentous transition from empire to nation‐state in the early 20th century entailed a challenge for European states produce “national” subjects–citizens. Scholars examining how diverse populations were incorporated into national projects have typically taken nation‐state's territorial boundaries as analytical and rarely considered nation‐building comparatively or investigated creation of subjects an international practice. Taking case League Nation's supervision Greco–Bulgarian...
The peace treaties following the Great War dictated that certain nation-states accept, as price of international recognition, agreements to protect rights their minority populations. Responsibility `guarantee' and `supervise' fell a novel untried institution, League Nations. It established `minority petition procedure', an unprecedented innovation within relations initiated transnational claims-making. Focusing on supervision pertaining Macedonian region, I examine how Minorities Section...
This article addresses an arresting conjuncture: the fact that international community's involvement in states' affairs frequently coalesces around a state's management of internal difference. I outline striking parallels ways relations between supranational bodies, some European states, and their minorities were reconfigured two post-imperial moments: decade following Great War present period post-socialist transformation. In both periods bodies developed regimes supervision whose rationale...