Political Anthropology
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Social scientists commonly know that time is a social construct and a tool for governing by those holding power. Yet, how exactly is time used for governing? This article examines how timescape (embodiment of approaches to time) works in... more
The book charts the attempts of Islam's largest missionary movement, the Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), to build Europe's biggest mosque in London – the so-called Mega Mosque. The book follows TJ from its founding in India in 1926, to its... more
The authors suggest to view the origins of Islam against the background of the 6th century AD Arabian socio-ecological crisis whose model is specified in the paper through the study of climatological, seismological, volcanological and... more
Mediante las voces y experiencias de campesinos quechuas de las comunidades de Ocros y Huancapi (Ayacucho), Los silencios de la guerra. Memoria y conflicto armado, hurga en los rastros de los años de violencia que enlutaron al Perú a... more
There are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the twenty-first century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of our bodies to the aerial... more
Modern Devlet Antropolojisi, bu dönem dört modül halinde işlenecek. Birinci modülde, siyasal antropoloji ve devlet olgusunun genel olarak disiplinde yer edinme serüveni üzerine okumalar yapacağız. İkinci modülde, ilkinde bahsi geçen bazı... more
VITA Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment With photographs by Torben Eskerod Updated Blurb (2013) Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities—places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the... more
In the paper, we express some doubts about one of the assumptions of Robert Carneiro’s model on state (and chiefdom) formation, namely the role of circumscription. In our opinion, the main flaw of Carneiro’s original theory of state... more
El poder encanta y la antropología no ha sido inmune a sus efectos cautivantes. A lo largo de su historia esta disciplina ha brindado relatos pormenorizados de las múltiples expresiones del poder en diferentes sociedades y culturas. Pero... more
Highlighting the events of Egyptian Revolution 2011, various massmedia tried to explain what had caused the riots. Most explanations followed the same pattern, blaming economic stagnation, poverty, inequality, corruption and... more
We believe that one of the most important recent findings in the study of the long-term dynamic social processes was the discovery of the political-demographic cycles as a basic feature of complex agrarian systems' dynamics.
Following the neoliberal restructuration of the Turkish welfare and banking systems in the 2000s, many veterans of Turkey’s Kurdish war faced debt enforcement due to failed payments for prosthetic limbs. Veterans responded to debt... more
Powerful historical artefacts vitalize their potential agencies in specific historical moments and cause fractures in our perspectives. In this thesis, I argue that objects' power can be examined by looking at their supernatural,... more
"Aux frontières de l’achevé, de l’établi, de l’ordonné, du centre et du dominant, se trouvent le précaire, l’instable, le désordre, la périphérie et le dominé : une relation dynamique voire conflictuelle existe entre ces deux réalités,... more
Given the prominence of Muslim veils—in particular the hijab and full-face veil—in public discourse concerning the place of Muslims in Western society, we examined their impact on non-Muslims’ responses at both explicit and implicit... more
Wayne Vucinic Book Prize 2007, "for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences." Endorsement by Slavoj Zizek: "Alexei Yurchak's Everything... more
Under Turkey’s neoconservative government, the Directorate of Religious Affairs deploys state-employed religious functionaries to provide Sunni Muslim citizens with advice and guidance on family life. By inculcating government-sanctioned... more
Yep, fuck it. Neoliberalism sucks. We don't need it.
The chapter focuses on the rhetoric and logic of this ‘wall-building’ accross the Western world over year 2015-2016, in an effort to understand the emergence of these walls and its relation to the contemporary epochal crisis. It explores... more
Le registre de la « dignité » fait aujourd’hui partie des revendications des mouvements sociaux contemporains à travers le monde, à côté des revendications liées à des questions matérielles ou des questions de droits, qu’il s’agisse du... more
Highlights: - Quelles sont les dynamiques de pouvoir dans une institution supposée posséder le monopole de la violence légitime ? Quelles relations et perceptions entretiennent les militaires vis-à-vis du pouvoir politique ? - S’il est... more
Capítulo do livro "Reflexividad y alteridad I. Estudios de caso en Mexico y Brasil"
The theme of politics and religion, its relationship and consequences, is perhaps one of the most popular topics in both public and scholarly discourse today. The factors that led to this state of affairs are not the subject o f my... more
Where does art stand in the context of contemporary democracy, how does it "speak out" and shape democracy? How do pro-democratic manifestations arise in the sphere of art, how is democracy used and what games are played with the... more
Slightly earlier version of chapter 7, 'Political graffiti', of my 'Expressing identities in the Basque arena', Oxford: James Currey, 2006, pp.151-61
Abstract: This article addresses the ‘touch-event’ as a mediated affective encounter that pivots around a tension between intimacy and distance, seduction and sovereignty, investment and withdrawal. Through a rereading of the Pauline... more
Ponencia en Seminario Memoria, conflicto y coexistencia: Interculturalidad y descolonization en América Latina y el mundo, Santiago, Chile, 16 diciembre, 2015. Aunque la Guerra del Pacifico terminó en 1883, Bolivianos, Peruanos, y... more
... a typical naive set of assumptions about "group oriented" cultures it that the participants within them are basically altruistic, self-effacing, self-sacrificing and sociable. A society of such individuals should exhibit the very best... more
Ponència presentada a les Jornades Locals de Son Sardina, Sa Garriga i Son Espanyol, dia 24 de novembre del 2018.
This article concerns public health policies for the Indigenous peoples of Brazil, focusing on relations of violence observed by the authors during their research. We draw attention to different types of violence through an analysis that... more
In this article, I attend to two forms of hearings (or nonhearings) in two distinctive courtsof law, both involving the persecution of Iranian dissidents in the 1980s. Drawing on myethnographic and archival research, inside and outside of... more
Irish Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 18, Issue 2, 2015
https://www.cairn.info/revue-monde-commun-2019-1-page-28.htm Toute l’anthropologie, aussi ouverte, large et interdisciplinaire soit-elle, partage un commun : l’enquête de terrain la plus minutieuse, l’implication personnelle la plus... more
The purpose of the article is to browse selected artistic works and activities that fit within the logic of contemporary critical and engaged art, and to indicate the implications resulting from the established critical and engaged... more