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It Begins and Ends with an Image Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Paolo S. H. Favero
A three-act session of storytelling, this visual essay explores the connection between photographs (and images at large) and death. A piece of authobiography, it follows the intimate journey of the author accompanying his father’s departure first and his own grief later. The article positions photographs as objects that are more than mere representations. They are living things that accompany us during
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Ground-Level Travel for a Non-Flying Baltic States Anthropologist from Northern Ireland Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Gareth E. Hamilton
This auto-ethnographic/biographical account deals with the experiences that a non-flying Northern-Ireland-born anthropologist living in the Baltic States has of mobility, infrastructure and connectedness, in particular with reference to academic and personal life. The article considers the movements which a career as an academic anthropologist requires, as well as the difficulties and intricacies that
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Towards Critical Analytical Auto-Ethnography Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Marta Kempny
This article discusses the usefulness of critical analytical auto-ethnography in studying migrant (im)mobilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas the auto-ethnographic genre has boomed during COVID-19 times, the authors of auto-ethnographic texts usually focus on their own experiences of the pandemic, engaging in an evocative style of writing. Following an overview of autoethnographic
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Being There While Not Being There Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Laura K. McAdam-Otto,Sarah Nimführ
Multi-sited research has become a quality criterion for ethnographic research. This applies especially to studies on forced migration. Here, a site is often equated with a state, where researchers are usually required to be physically present. In this article, however, we ask: Must multi-sited research necessarily be multi-national? Do researchers have to be physically present at all sites? By discussing
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Stuck in the Colonial Past? Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Samantha S. Sithole,Marianna Fernandes,Olivier Hymas,Kavita Sharma,Gretchen Walters
This contribution challenges representations of landscapes and communities within zoos in Europe that may amplify colonial narratives of local people through a racialised and often static lens. Instead of a holistic portrayal of the relationship between humans and nature that the EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria) stipulates within its guidelines, some European zoos continue to perpetuate
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Looking for a Space to Breathe Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Elisabetta Campagni
This contribution explores two projects that have addressed urban toponymy by building counter-narratives that challenge dominant historical narratives. It does so through audio-visual materials and draws on biographies as well as intimate gazes. The first section explores the Rome-based Tezeta collective’s Harnet Streets project, where memories and family histories of subjects belonging to the Eritrean
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An Obstacle to Decolonising Europe Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Jordan Kiper
While the central aim of decolonisation is undoing colonial legacies, a major obstacle is white nationalism. A new wave of transnational anti-globalist, Islamophobic, and white-grievance tropes have hybridised with local political ideologies of right-wing politics and authoritarian populists in Europe and the United States. Here, I review the cultural characteristics of this new wave of white nationalism
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Decolonising Arts and Culture in Belgium Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Axel Mudahemuka Gossiaux
This contribution gives insight into the decolonisation of thought by presenting Black Out, a transmedia initiative located in the city of Liège in Belgium. Black Out is a project designed for promoting black music and culture and fighting against racism, principally through information technology and social media. I highlight how Black Out may participate in efforts for decolonising arts and culture
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Crossing Borders and Building Walls in Right-Wing Uses of the Past Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-03-01 David Farrell-Banks
Right-wing populist, nationalist and extremist groups frequently make discursive use of the past to support their political agenda. This contribution briefly examines the use of the 1683 Siege of Vienna in political discourses. It shows how certain parts of European heritage are mobilised globally to present a singular view of European identity as white and Christian. This identity is constructed in
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Bridges or Walls? Or Bridges are Walls? Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Elaine McIlwraith
This Forum contribution considers the idea of bridges and walls. It compares two cultural programmes in Granada, Andalusia, that use the concepts of ‘dialogue’ and ‘tolerance’ along with the idea of a bridge between Spain and Europe, and the Arab-Islamic world. Ethnographic data suggest that the idea of bridges and walls are not always mutually exclusive. The former can incorporate subtleties that
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The Neighbourhood as Home Away from Home? Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Aurora Massa,Paolo Boccagni
Home, as a special attachment to (and appropriation over) place, can also be cultivated in the public urban space, under certain conditions that we explore through a case study in Rinkeby, Stockholm. This article analyses various forms of homemaking in the public among the Somali-Swedes who live there. It shows how, in the case of vulnerable immigrants, a neighbourhood feels like home insofar as it
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Building Bridges over Troubled Waters Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Seamus Montgomery
This Forum contribution presents fragmented accounts of historical narratives collected while conducting ethnographic fieldwork among civil servants in and around the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. It focuses on the roles that heritage-making practices play in articulating European identity and belonging within these institutional spaces. In the ongoing debates over ‘bridges’ and ‘walls’
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Cultural Heritage Across European Borders Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Philip McDermott,Sara McDowell
Does cultural heritage create either bridges of engagement or walls of division within and beyond Europe? To capture these diverse interpretations, we provide some initial discussion on the concept of heritage and how this relates to identity, memory and the past. In order to introduce the various studies that comprise the forum, we identify a series of collective themes explored by our contributors
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Cross-Border Cultural Cooperation in European Border Regions Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Giada Laganà,Timothy J. White
The growing interaction between local cultures and international organisations suggests the need for peacebuilders to act strategically when trying to overcome cultural differences and build trust in societies long divided by bloody conflicts. This task is more difficult because the mental barriers that divide people and cultures are exacerbated by borders and walls. Through an analysis of the evolving
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Heritage, Reconciliation and Cross-Border Cooperation in Cyprus Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Amy Reid
Cultural heritage in Cyprus has been a contentious issue throughout the island’s tumultuous history. The official partition of the island in 1974, after years of conflict between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities, has resulted in the destruction and neglect of heritage sites on both sides of the Cypriot ‘border’. However, in recent years there has been an increase in organisations that aim
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Between Boundary-Work and Cosmopolitan Aspirations Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Damián Omar Martínez
This article presents a historical genealogy of EASA and European anthropology. Performing a heuristic exercise of ethnographic epoché, it critically examines European anthropologists’ writings on European anthropology and EASA as they appear in different statements and accounts, especially in the Association’s newsletters and reports of its conferences, understanding these documents as praxeologically
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Problematising Boundaries and ‘Hierarchies of Knowledge’ within European Anthropologies Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Alessandro Testa
Is European anthropology the product of a colonialist plot to gain intellectual hegemony? Was the epistemic posture of its main representatives in the past one of crypto-imperialism aimed at – and based upon – power, in the attempt to climb up the ‘hierarchy of knowledge’ and subjugate from its peak minor traditions of study? How can we think about the genealogy of Euro-anthropology (and its future
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Problems Don’t Care about Disciplinary Boundaries Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Regina F. Bendix
Interdisciplinary collaboration is a sensible approach for addressing complex problems. However, academic training and the resulting disciplinary habitus (and competition) often leave such collaborative skills woefully underdeveloped. This contribution outlines how ethnographic sensibilities and skills may contribute to overcoming borders between disciplinary practitioners and enhancing self-awareness
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European Anthropology as a Fortuitous Accident? Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Čarna Brković
Under what conditions does European anthropology emerge today as an intellectual project? European anthropology takes shape only provisionally, as a fractured, heterogeneous and uneven field, for the duration of time-limited research projects and meetings with Europe-wide participation. In the currently dominant socio-economic conditions of academic life, European anthropology as an intellectual project
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Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Frida Hastrup,Marianne Elisabeth Lien
This article outlines the thematic section’s main anthropological interventions and introduces the inherently ambiguous notion of welfare frontiers, implying allegedly benign practices of resource development. Through ethnographic analyses from Iceland, Norway, and Greenland, it shows that Nordic Arctic landscapes become resourceful through careful crafting, entangled with practices and ideals of nation-building
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A Piece of Greenland? Making Marketable and Artisan Gemstones Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Nathalia Brichet
This article explores the emergence of a Greenlandic mineral resource landscape against the background of the current establishment of an industrial ruby mine in Greenland. Anthropological fieldwork combined with a close reading of scientific reports, articles, and geological assessments about Greenlandic gemstones show a recurrent feature, namely that Greenlandic minerals get scaled and valued in
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Icelandic Resource Landscapes and the State Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2020-03-01 James Maguire
This paper offers an ethnographic perspective on the relationship between resource landscapes and the state in Iceland during a period of financial experimentation. In particular, it analyses a shift from the production of thermal water for local use to the production of electricity for the global aluminium market. This shift, the paper argues, is not merely a technocratic exercise in further resource
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Natural Resources and their Units Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Frida Hastrup
Dating back to medieval times, fruit cultivation in Hardanger in western Norway is rooted in what is portrayed as a perfect microclimate naturally yielding the best apples in the world. However, the viability of the comparatively minute Norwegian fruit trade is continuously threatened by competition from outside, spurring all kinds of initiatives and policies to make it sustainable. The Norwegian fruit
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Dreams of Prosperity – Enactments of Growth Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Marianne Elisabeth Lien
An old tractor serves as an ethnographic entry point to shifting articulations of resources in coastal Finnmark, North Norway. Idle since the 1970s, the tractor is a relic of agricultural dreams, turned to rubble as novel layers of the Varanger landscape are conjured as resourceful. Farming in Finnmark was a geopolitical strategy to secure national borders and to expand a post-war welfare state, it
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Two Generations of New Basques Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Hanna Lantto
Following the Spanish transition to democracy and the subsequent Basque revitalisation, a new label emerged to describe euskaldun berriak, ‘new Basques’. This label distinguished them from traditional speakers of the minority language. This forum piece describes the profiles of two new Basque speakers who represent different generations of new Basque speakerhood, reflecting the rapid changes in the
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Linguistic Identites in Post-Conflict Societies Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Freya Stancombe-Taylor
This article assesses the identity politics of language in post-conflict Northern Ireland, where language debates at a political level have been encased in questions of identity. However, despite the continued existence of ethnocentric narratives around language, opportunities have emerged for individuals to cross linguistic barriers and challenge the perspective that certain languages ‘belong’ to
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Germany's Linguistic 'Others' and the Racism Taboo Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Liesa Rühlmann,Sarah McMonagle
This article highlights issues of Othering and linguicism and identifies the challenges of undoing taboos of race and racism in popular and academic discourses in Germany. We discuss the prospect of introducing critical race theory to expose these issues that we see as especially urgent, as Germany remains host to very large numbers of international migrants. A monolingual and monocultural idea of
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Language and a Continent in Flux Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Philip McDermott,Sarah McMonagle
This article introduces the present forum edition on linguistic identities in twenty-first-century Europe. We consider how discourses of inclusion and exclusion, embedded in discourses of the nation, continue to be relevant in understanding and interpreting the social, cultural and political status of (minority) languages and their speakers. In order to introduce the various studies that comprise this
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Translating the Bottom-Up Frame Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Oliver Müller,Ove Sutter,Sina Wohlgemuth
The paper follows the different moments of translation when LEADER, the EU development programme for rural areas, is put into practice on the local level. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered during several field observations and semistructured interviews from two LEADER regions in Germany, we analyse how the interpretive repertoire of LEADER’s bottom-up approach is actualised, appropriated and negotiated
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Racial and Social Prejudice in the Colonial Empire Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Patrícia Ferraz de Matos
This article analyses the issue of miscegenation in Portugal, which is directly associated with the context of its colonial empire, from late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The analysis considers sources from both literary and scientific fields. Subsequently, aspects such as interracial marriage, degeneration and segregation as well as the changes brought about by the end of World War II and
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Português Língua não Materna and Linguistic Misrecognition in Portugal's Schools Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Nikolett Szelei
Although European educational policies seemingly promote multilingualism, many countries continue to grapple with developing educational responses that recognise students’ complex linguistic identities. This discussion piece reflects on questions relating to multilingualism that have occurred within the Portuguese education system.
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Review Essay: Waiting Cultures, Temporal Marginality, and the Politics of Stillness Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Francisco Martinez,Eva-Maria Walther,Anita Agostini,José Muñoz-Albaladejo,Máiréad Nic Craith,Agata Rejowska,Tobias Köllner
Andreas Bandak and Manpreet Janeja (eds) (2018), Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty (London: Bloomsbury), 232 pp., €90.46. ISBN 9781474280280.Liene Ozoliņa (2019), Politics of Waiting: Workfare, Post-Soviet Austerity and the Ethics of Freedom (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 160 pp., £80. ISBN 9781526126252.Giulia Evolvi (2018), Blogging My Religion: Secular, Muslim, and
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Is There No Honour among the Maltese? Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Jean-Paul Baldacchino
The ‘honour-shame syndrome’ is an anthropological model originally developed in the sixties to describe Mediterranean cultural unity. The model came under heavy criticism, producing a veritable ‘anti-Mediterraneanist’ backlash. There is, however, a renewed interest in the regional paradigm. This article attempts an analysis of concepts of ‘honour’ in Malta, contextualising it within the broader ethnographic
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A Note of Appreciation for Ullrich Kockel Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Gabriela Kiliánová
The success of an academic journal depends on many factors. Let us, however, only mention two of them: its high-quality editing and its continuity. The Anthropological Journal of European Cultures is prosperous because it fulfils both of these criteria. This means it has been published periodically, nonstop for nearly three decades under the supervision of editors with significant dedication to the
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Geopolitical Transition of the European Body in Ukraine Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Nadzeya Husakouskaya
The article studies the emergence of the transgender phenomenon within LGB activism in contemporary Ukraine in relation to an ongoing geopolitical process of Europeanisation, which involves negotiations over the country’s belonging to Europe. The article is based on PhD research (2013–2018) and has borrowed from governmentality studies and also from literature about the Europeanisation process. It
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Women’s Uprising in Poland Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Jennifer Ramme
In 2016 a legislative proposal introducing an abortion ban resulted in female mass mobilisations. The protests went along with frequent claims of Polish as well as European belonging. Next to this, creative appropriations of patriotic symbols related to national movements, fights and uprisings for independence and their transformation into a sign of female bodily sovereignty could be observed all over
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“Stop it, f*ggot!” Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Victor Trofimov
In this article I examine the negotiations of national and sexual belonging of a Romanian gay sex worker in Berlin in the contemporary geosexual context defined by binarism between ‘modern’, ‘liberal’ and ‘tolerant’ Western Europe and its ‘traditionalist’ and ‘homophobic’ East European Other. I analyse how, by means of an overt display of his own homosexuality, the sex worker symbolically distances
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Bodies That Cannot Listen Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Livia Jiménez Sedano
This is a brief reflection on the consequences of the commodification of dance cultures from the former colonised world and the ways they are consumed in Europe. Inspired from ten years of fieldwork, the ethnic structuring of postcolonial dance floors in European cities proves an empirical basis to start this line of thought. Instead of promoting respect and interest in the dance forms and the cultural
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Wind of Change Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Tanel Rander
What remains of the Soviet identity for those who grew up in an empire that started in the Baltic sea and ended in Kamchatka? What kind of post-Soviet cultural combos have been produced afterwards? Was it bizarre to listen to Led Zeppelin and Nirvana while being targeted with nuclear missiles from the West? In a retrospective way and engaging with the collective memory of his home country, Estonia
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The Relational Ethics of ‘Never . . . Too Much’ Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Jelena Tošić
This article explores how a specific pattern of relational ethics– referred to as ‘never . . . too much’ – figures as a way of copingwith intimate uncertainties in close relationships. The concept ofrelational ethics refers to the historically embedded ways in whichpeople live and cultivate ethical values through relations and, assuch, also represents an ethnographically grounded conceptual contributionto
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The Ultimate Argument Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Veronika Siegl
This article explores how the notion of happiness is employed in order to obscure the moral ambiguity and intimate uncertainties of commercial surrogacy. My ethnographic data elucidate the ways in which surrogacy agents and other intermediaries operating in Russia and Ukraine evoke happiness. I discuss three forms of their affective labour: a discourse of fear and hope, the attempt to make surrogacy
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Intimate Uncertainties Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Sabine Strasser, Luisa Piart
For this special issue we are bringing together six ethnographic cases of intimate uncertainties that are situated within different regimes of reproduction, healthcare and borders in and beyond Europe. These ethnographic inquiries exemplify unprecedented settings of moral ir/responsibility shaping the intimate on different scales and in various sites of power (agencies, clinics, borderlands). These
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The Intimate Uncertainties of Kidney Care Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Ciara Kierans
Today the social and material situations of sick bodies are increasingly and intimately bound up with the variable moral economies of national healthcare systems in uncertain and contrastive ways. I approach these ‘intimate uncertainties’ comparatively and methodologically by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on transplant medicine in Mexico in order to interrogate European healthcare, specifically
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Lethal Borders and the Translocal Politics of ‘Ordinary People’ Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Gerhild Perl
How are politics generated by grief actually lived, and how do they endure? By exploring long-term repercussions of Europe’s lethal borders, I show what shape shared grief takes in the minute encoun- ters between ‘ordinary people’ across borders and how alternative politics are lived as a vivid critique of the moral economy of the EU border regime. Therefore, I explore intimate uncertainties that arise
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How Monotony Transforms into Dichotomy Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Sufian Zhemukhov
A nuanced reading of the current situation in the North Caucasus reveals two main trends that articulate in confrontation with Russian nationalism. First, in the eastern part of the region, particularly in Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia, a shift from nationalism to Islam has taken place, and the ties between religion and political machine are strong and visible. Second, and by contrast, in the
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Islam and Ethnicity in Russia Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Lili Di Puppo,Jesko Schmoller
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The Unfolding of the Tulip Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Jesko Schmoller
In Tatarstan in the 1990s and early 2000s, a switch took place from an identity primarily based on ethnicity, to an identity more strongly informed by religious belonging. This happened in official political and scholarly Islamic discourse as well as in everyday Muslim life, and is linked to different variants of Tatar nationalism.
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Shari’a and ‘traditional Tatar Islam’ Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Rozaliya Garipova
Like all the elites of post-Soviet Muslim countries, the political elite and religious officials in Russia have been in the search of a moderate and strictly national Islamic identity, to keep the Muslim population of Russia separate from Arab or Turkish versions of Islam that could be politicised and thus had the potential to undermine the state structure. ‘Tatar traditional Islam’ emerged through
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Ethnic Muslims and the ‘Halal Movement’ in Tatarstan Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Matteo Benussi
The ‘halal movement’ is an orientation predominantly mobilised by urban youth and by the emerging urban middle class in Tatarstan. It articulates a cosmopolitan, universal Islamic discourse, explicitly separates ethnicity and Muslimness, and stages religion as an ethical issue, tied neither to a nation nor to a theological doctrine.
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The Serendipity of Anthropological Practice Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Francisco Martinez
Is fieldwork as anthropologists do it simply a method among others? This article disagrees, drawing on the concept of “serendipity” as introduced by German scholar Ina-Maria Greverus. Beyond the prescribed way of any method, anthropology’s specificity articulates as “discovery”, in this case: an unexpected discovery of remains of the Soviet past in Estonia, through the author’s family life.
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False Signposts and High Climbing Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01
In Russia, the division between a ‘folk’/‘ethnic’ and ‘doctrinal’ Islam is linked to the Soviet attempts to weaken scholarly religious knowledge. Today, similar to various regions of the Muslim world, certain Tatar Muslims with the madhhab system (Muslim schools of jurisprudence), engage in constructing a localised orthodoxy, an Islamic orthodoxy based on the universal foundations of Islam, while striving
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‘Environmental Orientations’ and the Anthropology of the Anthropocene Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Gisela Welz
In the 1970s, scholar Ina-Maria Greverus was a pioneer in opening German Volkskunde towards international horizons. Her concept of human-environment interaction as “territoriality”, inspired by US-american cultural ecology, is reconsidered as an anthropology of the Anthropocene avant la lettre.
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Pioneering Doktormutter Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Helena Wulff
The author reconsiders German scholar Ina-Maria Greverus as a committed feminist supporter of female doctoral students and early career academics. Greverus acted as an innovator especially in the r ...
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The Eurozone Crisis, Greece and European Integration Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Sally Raudon, Cris Shore
Around 2010, a shift in the EU-understanding of austerity took place – from a future-orientated vision based on concepts of solidarity, cohesion and subsidiarity, to a crisis-driven present shaped around the imperatives of immediate fiscal discipline and debt repayment. This has had contradictory effects, producing widespread divisions, disunity and rising nationalism across Europe on one hand, and
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Russia’s ‘Other Ummah’ Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Bruno De Cordier
Since the beginning of the Syrian War, ties between Russia and the Shia sphere are primarily examined in terms of geopolitics, while little attention is being paid to the indigenous as well as immigrant Shia populations in Russia itself. Since the incorporation, either by annexation or initial protectorate settlements, of the khanate of Astrakhan in 1556 as well as of the southern Caspian-Caucasian
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Ambiguous Attachments and Industrious Nostalgias Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Cristina Clopot
This article questions notions of belonging in the case of displaced communities’ descendants and discusses such groups’ efforts to preserve their heritage. It examines the instrumental use of nostalgia in heritage discourses that drive preservation efforts. The case study presented is focused on the Russian Old Believers in Romania. Their creativity in reforming heritage practices is considered in
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‘People-Place-Process’ and Attachment in the Museum Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Susannah Eckersley
Previous studies of place attachment have tended to focus on the positive (rather than negative) reasons why individuals associate themselves with a particular place, while studies on memory and identity have frequently been based on negative experiences of and in place. Drawing on interviews and focus groups, this article highlights how Germans and Poles with a history of forced migration have different
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The Gods of the Hunt Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Brian Campbell
How do stereotypes – as rhetorical, homogenising claims about the Self and Other – survive despite their users having personal experiences that contradict them? This article addresses this question by examining why the Christian and Muslim inhabitants of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta insist the ‘moro’ is a cunning, hostile antagonist, even when their interactions with Moroccans tend to be profitable
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The End of the European Honeymoon? Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Siobhan Kattago
With the rise of populism, European solidarity risks being eroded by a clash of solidarities based on nation and religion. Ranging from hospitality to hostility, ‘refugees welcome’ to ‘close the borders’, asylum seekers from Syria and other war-torn countries test the very ideas upon which the EU was founded: human rights, tolerance and the free movement of people. European solidarity is not only rooted
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Que reste-t-il de nos amours? Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Francisco Martínez
Is the 1989–1991 frame of understanding still relevant? Did history already throw away the empty bottles of the 1991 celebrations? Et que reste-t-il de nos amours? With this series of articles and a comment, we set out to explore the ways in which European societies, and Europe itself, differ from what had been hoped and designed in the years 1989–1991. The contributions included put the emphasis on