EASA, 2006: EASA06: Europe and the world
Bristol, UK, 18/09/2006 – 21/09/2006
Workshops
Are some people more displaced than others? The case of Greek and Turkish Cypriot refugees Hidden Injuries of Displacement: a Greek Cypriot case study The cultural construction of exile for Sudanese refugees in Uganda 'Illegal' immigrants and the Swedish media The reception of irregular migrants in Greece: views from a Greek-Turkish border island 'Refugees threatened with deportation' and postmodern church asylum in Germany Legal plurality or social limbo? Property rights of Kosovar refugees/returnees in a local and Europe context Vernacularising international refugee law in Malta Our families, our conflict: co-authored auto-ethnography in Israel/Palestine Stories and cosmologies: anthropology as comparative metaphysics Communicating is more than words: a multimodal and interactive perspective in the making of ethnographic texts Ethnographic writing under changing fieldwork circumstances: from community to association to individuals' life experiences Writing 'expert reports' for the British immigration courts Beyond scale and teleology in the Black Atlantic Gilroy on the beach: on the Black Atlantic, the 'Brown Atlantic', and postcolonial Portugal Down by law: the Black Atlantic & its vicissitudes in the era of Thomas and Scalia Their modernity matters too: exploring the Black Atlantic of the working poor Fetish power of commodities structured by a transatlantic dialectic of race Divining the past: a critical reassessment of the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots Transnational networks in Orisha worship and the making of a religious 'Black Atlantic' Irregular workers or ethnic kin? The moral economy of post-nineties labour migration from Bulgaria to Turkey Diaspora goes online: 'Cape Verdean Americans' in the lead? Generation of difference: strategies of migration amongst the descendants of forcibly displaced Chagos islanders Home as a diaspora space: the practices of making homes and keeping houses among migrant domestic workers in Naples Migrants and refugees of the Somali 'Bantu' community in diaspora between Africa and America New Poles in London: work-related experiences and negotiation Pastoral power and sacred realms in the Italian state migration regulation project Public challenges and politics of identity of the transnational returnees in post-Communist Lithuania Transference or transformation? Traditional and transmuted gender roles European governance, minority politics and the concept of people Symbolic roots of EU legitimation: a religious founding narrative for Europe? Civil society as identity politics: conceptual legacies and European belonging Hospitality beyond borders The two-horned dilemma of the Siamese solution: a case study of the first agricultural twinning project in the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management European unification as a regime of governance Eurocrats at work: towards a postnational European community? 'Traces of Congo': challenges in developing a Nordic travelling exhibition on our forgotten contribution to the colonisation of the Congo (DRC) African material culture at the Austrian Museum für Völkerkunde: revealing multiple histories and representations of objects Assembling the canon of 'African art': the Hutchings acquisitions of West African sculpture at the World Museum Liverpool Engaging with complexity: museums and the diversity of the European colonial encounter Material punctum: Congolese objects in Swedish sceneries The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum of Bristol: contesting historical representations from a postcolonial location. The Exhibition 'Namibia − Germany: A shared/divided history. Resistance, violence, memory' (Cologne, Berlin 2004/2005) '…the medicine is finished': traces of Euro-African modernity in the remains of state medical science and disease control in Kenya Malaria and malariology: the Portuguese experience (1900-1958) 'Wandering madness': local mental care in Port Gentil (Gabon) Narrowing and expansion of the use of Chinese Medicine in two European countries - Italy and France Of rumps and pumps, or, where did the clysters go: notes on an anthropology and history of European and non-European medicine Regulatory frustrations: how the evaluation of reproductive materials hampers human embryonic stem cell research in Japan The construction of drug quality: a comparative study of the pharmaceutical industry in the European and Indian contexts How Big Pharma's 'global corporate citizenship' is translated in India Innovation goulash: techno-medicine, nationalism, colonialism, and the market in magnetic resonance imaging development in the UK, India, and the US International knowledge relations: the case of bioethics Eurocentric interpretations of art versus multicultural practices German postcolonial history as a point of self-reflection Unthinking eurocentrism, colonialism and anthropology Moslem women of the 'Orient': submission, subversion or alternative understanding? Irish education and the postcolonial predicament The relevance of a non-colonial view on science and knowledge for an open perspective on the worldOnly papers that have been accepted by workshop convenors will be shown here.
Celebrating transgression: an introduction Insider or outsider: reflecting research with Muslim feminists in Senegal Knowledge through change and rule breaking in the field Fraternising with the enemy or betraying friends? Devils and deities: ethnography, science and the humanity of otherness Illegalised migrants as transgressive beings? Notes on researching migrant 'illegality' in Israel Soiled work and the artefact The fractured gaze: art works as feed back loops Participation, imagination, and mimesis: Jean Rouch's transgression of anthropological scholarship through his practice of visualised fieldwork The return of the Rabelaisian body: grotesque transgressions as cultural critique in the cinematographic imaginations of Imamura, Miike and Lauzon A sensual route of healing: triggering embodiment in the Greek 'evil eye' Milk, juniper and the drum The healer's piano: politics of senses and feelings in Western Music Therapy practices Senses and emotions in 'family constellation therapy according to Bert Hellinger' Tactile diagnostics for investigating visceral states of the body: how an interest in emotion transformed medicine in early Han China Physical meanings in sensory magic The healing stench: Sulphurous hydrotherapy and the ways of countermedicalisation. Sensing sensors, living in illness and dwelling on IT Psychiatric care and experiences of healing in Denmark Mental healing from chado, tea ceremony Pain, guilt and gratitude: sensory deprivation and emotions in Naikan 'Is it all in the head?': participant observation and the study of pain Africanistic experiments on the periphery of Europe Other bodies: FGM in a migratory context Education and tolerance in contemporary Tanzania: the ethno-racial and religious aspects Traditional culture and the conception of nation in contemporary Tanzanian cities The politics of charity: Ghanaian NGOs and political culture in Ghana Changing conflicts and conflict resolution in the northern region of Ghana Forest, land and power: the 'real' life of Okomu forest reserve in Edo State, Southern Nigeria Diaspora, cyberspace, and dissent: the public sphere in the shadow of violence Biopolitics and the developmental state in Eritrea Introduction: anthropology and the particularities of island cultures Tourism or terrorism: negotiating European desires and discourses of democracy in Fiji Decentring Sounds from the European ultra-periphery Europe and the Sakalava (Madagascar) Home and away: being Comorian in Ngazidja and Zanzibar Santería 'from Cuba into the world': the dynamics of transnational religious activity Trans-Caribbean identity in New York City: the de- and reconstruction of insular identity (ties) in the diaspora Perceptions of purity and insularity in the context of globalisation The social construction of competence: an ethnography of a clinical encounter in a Delhi slum Continuities and discontinuities in Chinese medical practice in Edinburgh The challenge of authenticity: exploring the role of language and identity in conducting an ethnographic study of Chinese medicine (TCM) provision and use in Chinese-community based settings in the UK Care itineraries of cancer patients in the centre of France (Auvergne) Transforming Traditions Chinese religions and history in the conceptualization of diaspora Interrogating Gypsy diaspora Inside out: 'the English' in north-west Wales (De)creolizing diaspora? The Creole struggle for (em)placement in multicultural Mauritius Italian worldwide emigration and the diaspora paradigm: a critical reassessment The making of 'diasporas' in post-socialist Russia Bolivian urban folkmusic and diasporic communities Diaspora nationalism as a gendered discourse: the Circassian diaspora in Turkey Interrogating childhood and diaspora Re-imagining the 'imagined community': the case study of the post-1991 Serbian Interrogating diaspora and the case of a 'new emerging' Jewish diaspora Beyond exile: agency and public in the Swedish-Chilean diasporisation The idea of a Quaker anthropology The role of serendipity and memory in experiencing fields and designing texts Auto-ethnic ethnography, or 'one is not born an Ashkenazi' Being 'part of the story' in Macedonia Gardening in time: memory and moral community in American horticulture Dualing memories: twinship and the disembodiment of identity Remembrance and the ethnography of children's sports Getting feminised: doing fieldwork among rural women in Croatia Whose story is this? Some reflections on the 'enchantments' of village life 'Playing the native card?' The anthropologist as informant in eastern Germany Ethnographic amnesia and the archaeology of memory: on remembering and forgetting in writing and fieldwork Studying through The secret lives of policy networks: narratives of political authority and the New Law of Social Security in Mexico An agora of policy worlds? Reconceptualising university reform The materialization of fiscal theory: practice and effects in the National Health Service in Wales Evidence-based policy? State-commissioned migration research and the relations of academic migration knowledge production in the UK Beyond accountability: the role of flexing groups in derailing democracy Migrants practices of citizenship and policy change in Europe 'Many nice people': policy, community and subjectivity in Estonia Civis economicus? Transformers of social policy in the nexus of statecraft and marketmaking. The Swedish welfare state revisited The case of Scanzano, Italy: when policy provokes resistance Integration policy and ethnic associations Thatched roofs and Thatcherism: the application of neo-liberalism in a Pacific state American local Thatcherism and the homeless crisis The challenges of 'super diversity' Multiculturalism from below: transversal crossings and working class cosmopolitans Social networks and membership identities: everyday diversity in a small town in Switzerland Positively diverse: theoretical and methodological implications of multiple belongings as researched through a liberal Jewish community in contemporary urban Germany De-localising class and transnationalising superdiversity: Polish migrants in London From diversity to sociality: migrant club scenes and the search for community in urban spaces The trials and tribulations of mosque-building in London: Ahmadiyya Muslims in the UK Diversity and social security in municipal housing: challenges for politics and anthropological research Complicity and the construction of common ground: a Kreuzberg neighbourhood initiative and the impact of ethnographic practices Begging as urban economic practice: beggars in St. Petersburg Kings of the city: bicycle messengers Ethnographies of capitalism, class, and identity: perspectives on Eastern Europe Loss, continuity and change in the postsocialist Lithuanian countryside Transforming identities: the case of a rural Bulgarian business at the threshold of EU entry Polish farmers in the EU: a case study from eastern Poland Tales from the clinic: economic failure and psychological vulnerability Facing west: multinational identities in the age of integration Changing economies and changing challenges: an anthropological approach to the utilisation of emerging European Markets The enterprising self: career and life strategies of economic elites in Lithuania What do we mean by 'media practices'? Finding our subject: media practice, structure and communication 'Speaking of practice': knowledge, fear, and music in an Ojibwa community The power of news: anthropology and the observation of local news-making practices Foreign correspondents/ foreign news production Media anthropological reflections on the writing of history in the case of the Danish Muhammad cartoons Internet and changing media practices in West Africa. The online nomads of cyberia Game pleasures and media practices Anthropology at the movies The third space of television viewers Negotiating the threshold of difference: multiculturalism and other national things in Latvia Multiculturalism and national identity in an emerging polity Culture, gender and migration in the Spanish Basque Country Multi- or inter-culturalism? An ethnography of political discourse in an Italian town 'Culture' and power in the Spanish enclave of Melilla: the ethnicisation of politics in 'The City of Four Cultures' Multiculturalism, democracy and 'refounding' Bolivia: Ayllus, sindicatos and the Constituent Assembly Symbolic discourses and discursive symbols: multiculturalism, culture and national identity in Brazil and Germany Culture non grata: a Swedish example of a concept in distress Hegemonic rhetoric and counter-narratives. the multicultural discourse in Bologna, Italy The culture concept and the peace process in Ireland From the label to ideology: secular/secularism, Muslim identities, Jahiliyya and the ideology of justice Secularism as a problem for Muslims living in Europe Muslims, religious equality and secularism Islam: the exceptional case? Muslims, Europe and secularisation: an overview and assessment The religious and secular in Muslim self-narratives The rhetoric of secularism among first-generation Muslim migrants in Dundee Muslim identities, criminology and criminal justice Muslimas. On 'headscarf affairs', Muslim female agency and the politics of nationbuilding The Muslim presence in Greece: an exploration of the issues Agency, oppression and protection 'The best interest of the child': a slogan with universal pretensions that meets local resistance The threat of Sámi reindeer herders to the Norwegian state Bureaucracy and ethnic practices in Israel Beyond the permitted Indian? Bolivia and Guatemala in an era of neoliberal developmentalism Fighting for security in insecure places Embodied identity across the life course: mobilising continuity and change. The transformations and continuities of student travel The community of Westerners in Varanasi: lifestyle of change, community of continuity Keeping things in place: some perspectives on movement and stasis Creeping changes and careful observation: the Montserrat Volcano Observatory and its competing public interests Internet and the change of what? Complexities and flexibilities among teleworkers in a Danish village Paradoxes of continuity and change: Cuba's children of the revolution Continuity and change in a Caribbean migrants' network A matter of practice: change and continuity in the lives of Iraqi women in Copenhagen ‘Stuck in a moment and you can’t get out of it’: modernity, self-simultaneity and the ‘end of all things' 'Tradition in disguise': struggles over continuity and change in urban Tanzania Who and what is the public space for? A case study from the old centre of Palma (Majorca): streets, shops and landscapes Slow Cities: transnational interventions and the constitution of urban sites The urban space as political space: territorialisation processes in two forms of 'local participation' Occupying public space: the street as political metaphor Women's Design Service, London: 20 years of materialising the environment Mapping unauthorised citizens in New Delhi (Why) anthropology, as written by the authors of Peace and Violence Anthropological analyses of the militaries of the industrialized world Being 'experts': conflict studies at Halle and their involvement in peace processes Considering war experiences Peace and conflict studies in anthropology Contesting legitimacy: media publics and security policy in multi-ethnic Britain Vanishing trust: the story of the Bijlmer housing estate Responses to insecurity: cultural identity as a key dimension of human security Insecure state, insecure citizens: the case of Turkey Risk, security and the outsider: debating the limits of loyalty and belonging Socio-cultural security concerns and mate selection in an agrarian community Healing, risk and justice in northern Uganda Immunisation: consent and dissent Culture as a continuation of war by other means The act of remembering and forgetting: traumatic memories and medical pluralism in Chile 'And when I see you, kids…': performing testimony on Israeli youth voyages to Poland In a ruined country: the memory of war destruction in rural Argonne (France) Memories of violence and the arts of living Rape and remembrance in Guadeloupe Making sense of a shipwreck: state memorialism versus popular politics in Senegal Memories of slavery and ritual performance: reflections on Palo Monte Mayombe in contemporary Cuba Demystifying memories: the politics of cultural heritage in post-socialist Guinea Two temporalities: violent disruption in historical and familial transmission Violating the body suffering from medically unexplained symptoms: the power of family practice and the Danish social welfare system Enduring and containing: medical anthropology challenging anthropological theory Negotiating the ambiguity: fibromyalgia in different clinical arenas Body, health care and state welfare systems: new perceptions of back pain and the social process of recovery Experience, meaning and transformation: MUS patients' experience of Danish healing rituals Antipathy, intolerance and ritual prohibitions The symptom language of Gulf War Syndrome Tamil refugee's illnesses: somatization or 'expressive signs' of social experiences? When does collaboration become undue influence? Ethical dilemmas in an ethnographic study of health policy-makers Ethnological research of (traditional) medicine in South-Eastern Europe Cancer, the bogeyman and me: reflexivity and emotion in 'end of life' research Blurred boundaries: conventional and applied research From Jacob Sarmento to William Withering: Enlightenment theories in the folk narratives of water spa healing in contemporary Portugal 'Going native' in anthropological health research… Is it that wrong? Reflections on the relation between secular law and popular religion in China A loosely wired globality: alternative currencies and alternative modernities in eastern Indonesia Secularism, Islam and everyday challenges in the lives of university students: a case study from Amman, Jordan Refracted Christianity: reflections on a Swedish case Old Colony Mennonites and the superabundance of the sacred The local and the global in perceptions of health care and illness in Cyprus Immigrant Latin American Women on the Verge of an <i>Ataque de Nervios</i> Global politics and the attribution of meaning to diseases: Cold War rhetoric and Zimbabwean AIDS conspiracy theories Identities in crisis and suicide in Quebec Global medical 'initiations' versus local medical 'exitiations' in Hungary Possession and stigmata in Hungary: where medicine and media meet Border biopolitics, sovereignty and the political Between exclusion and belonging: ontology, potentiality and life at the threshold of sovereignty Grib and Bcud: genealogies of biopolitics among Tibetan communities in south-west China Metaphorical warfare and the biopolitics of cancer in the US Mourning the Other: bare life, sovereign power and the biopolitical nomos of the empire Sovereignty as a palimpsest: Ottoman officialdom as an affective relic in Northern Cyprus The contrasted patterns of spirit worship and possession in Iceland and Faroe Islands Spelling out change: transforming witchcraft past and present Spirits on the move: religious practices in Vietnamese communities across the borders Spirit economy and Mami Wata rituals in the Bight of Benin Citizenship-building in an Italian town: migrants, locals and Victor Turner Lithuanian law on citizenship: culture and ethnicity Uncertain citizenship: the case of Moldova An approach to citizenship in postcolonial societies Citizen-consumer in the quasi-commercial state 'Are you a real Christian?' Stereotypes, distrust and distinction strategies between 'new' and 'old' Protestants in Barcelona 'We believed in God, we just didn't know who He was'; defining faith among Portuguese and Spanish Pentecostal Gypsies Torn between Christianity and neo-paganism: menstrual rituals in contemporary Spain and France The Virgin Mary in Lebanon: a shared worship Perspectives on prayer and symbolisation in an Irish Catholic community Sicilian Mafia: from local system to global Evil 'Between Europe and the menacing Islam: defending Europe on the borders from the Turks': a representation of identity in religious-political context - an example from Serbia Reclaiming the (Swiss) nation for God: the politics of Charismatic prophetism Charity and salvation in the Eastern Churches: an ethnography of faith-based charities in Hungary and Greece Peripheries of Eastern Christianity: the Greek Catholics of Western Ukraine Administrating knowledge as a global public good Anthropology as public knowledge: lessons from undergraduates Interdisciplinarity in a political setting Making health and wealth in the bioeconomy: innovation, knowledge, and public good Deliberating democratically and public knowledges Legal anthropological perspective on human rights and the war on terror Basque social movements on trial: on the slippery line between civil disobedience and terrorism. From Edgware Road to Brixton on 7/7: anthropological observations on the discourse of 'madness' in relation to 'the war on terror' 'Endogenous development' and socialism in the Bolivarian Revolution (Venezuela) Contradictions and paradoxes of revolutionary life in rural Nepal Becoming a Naxalite in rural Bihar: class struggle and its contradictions The ordinary revolutionaries' universe in Nepal as described in their written production Shozoloza: ambiguous revolution and disparate ideologies on the South African frontier The catharsis of going out into the street: experiencing the 1989 Romanian Revolution The 'little' violences of revolutionary life: women and Naxalbari Ties we choose: activism, friendship and masculinity within a revolutionary movement and beyond Everyday life in the bush: abducted women experiencing war with the RUF rebels in Sierra Leone The appearance of radical identity politics in rural south India The horror of the mob: from revolutionary 'Young Lions' to ambivalent protectors of democracy The gender of the goat, and other insurgent events in Nepal Towards a comparative study of ritual and mimetic kinship Servants or kin? The ambiguities of informal child fostering in coastal Ecuador The new 'best man' in Moldova: godparenthood reconceptualised Ties of milk and the grammar of closeness in Muslim contexts The modernity of milk kinship: Islamic legal reactions to new reproductive technology Adoptive affinities: reconstructing fosterage and clientage in Eurasia and beyond The brothers of the king: kinship, state and history in Northern Laos Dimension 'pactuelle' et parentés électives, tribu des Aït Khebbach (Sud-Est marocain) Launching the 'spectacle' in Istanbul: physical restructuring, symbolic economy and art festivals 'Intermundia 2006': political uses of a multicultural festa in Rome Localizing identites: how festivals in urban spaces produce we-groups Divergent re-orientalisations: ghetto-spectacles in WorldCity Berlin The business of art: art spectacles in the contemporary metropolitan order The European Union under construction: programmes as political technologies Imagining the Mediterranean 'We don't need Europe, but Europe needs us': the mobilisation of local reserves against globalisation in contemporary Croatia Rachel's Tomb and the Walls of Bethlehem Sa Gerreria: a shadowy neighbourhood. Ethnography of a place built upon de-memory Filming memory Moderators on Dutch Moroccan websites New mediators and e-governance in a Kuala Lumpur suburb, 1999-2005 'Digital Integration of Immigrants': localising and personalizing German ICT-policy Global trends in religion: terrorism, tourism, migration and the reaffirmation of Hindu identity in Bali Cultural solutions to religious conflicts? The reconciliation process in the Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia Local ethos or alternative globalisation? The discourse on community in Thailand Fallen from grace, stuck in place: shifting cross-border hierarchies in Serbia The Balkans and Europe – an uneasy relationship: Macedonia, identities and bodies 'It's a good time to be Hungarian': geopolitical temporalities and Economic Nationalization in Post-Mečiar Slovakia Asymmetries of gender and generation at a post-Soviet borderland Pensions and social tensions in Dhermi/Drimades of the Himara area, Southern Albania Eating, milking and clogging things up: on the uses and values of money on the Greek-Albanian border Global environmentalism through the looking glass Discourses of empowerment through cultural equity and participation: from Europe to Africa and back Between Europe and Africa: discourses of identity and independence among Sahrawi migrants in the Canary Islands Effects of the media on female gender after the change of regime in Hungarian society We become what we read 'Challenges and memories': global connection and the spreading of knowledge about globalisation within anthropological research Towards a common (in)security identity in an enlarged Europe: the case of German-Polish border police cooperation 'From the Soviets to the Europeans?' European integration in Narva on the Estonian-Russian border Paysages et itinéraires dans la politique culturelle de l'Union Européenne Journalistic metaphors in understanding Turkey-European Union relations Love of Europe in Polish media narratives Constructions in and of Berlin: plans, empty spaces, and contested futures 'Teotihuamart': Mexican futurities evoked by past and present power mongers 'A heritage for the future': building and imagining a Portuguese horizon of expectations Global environmental ideoscapes, blighted cityscapes: city, island and environment in Jamaica and Curaçao Representation, futurities, and a colonial frontier: on the mediation of landscapes of power in the Ecuadorian Oriente Southeast Asia's green renaissance, and other self-Orientalist futures Where angels rest: space and time in Dublin's cemetery landscape 'Welcome to the slave market': signboards and the re-creation of a historical landscape in Ghana Landscapes already spoken for: on the compartmentalisation of memory and ecology in the Netherlands Ambivalent flexibilities: anthropological explorations and perspectives 'The situation needs balance, balance': flexible cosmopolitans and the reconfiguration of morality and kinship in post-apartheid Namibia Kosovo Albanian migration: legal and illegal forms of flexibility Introduction: local knowledge in and for development Creative action and local knowledge in development anthropology The politically dangerous process of development of the Tikmũ'ũm-Maxakali school: education and shamanism like an 'otherness-trip' with an indigenous Brazilian group Struggling for better days: the work of a Brazilian NGO with the indigenous peoples of northwestern Brazil Indigenous knowledge, savings and the market: the case of microfinance and banking in Bosnia and Herzegovina Competing representations of managing the commons: case study from Romania What is the future for local knowledge? Welfare policy, grassroots bureaucrats, and organisational complexity: The Norwegian welfare state seen from within 'They're just making it harder and harder': agency, productivity and personhood in welfare applications Practising welfare: analysing connections between welfare and homeliness at a children's home in Denmark The cultural construction of well-being: seeking healing in Bangladesh Negotiating well-being in old age in India Being elderly at the age of 40: perspectives from Austria Bring up to fare well: a discussion of childcare institutions as sites of enculturation Welfare, outreach and the boundary of inequality: encounters in Cardiff's city centre Reflexive anthropology and social activism: is there a difference between 'doing good' and 'doing good research'? Wittgenstein and the ethical reflexivity of anthropological discourse Fieldwork in the mirror cabinet: investigating management by culture concepts in a human resource department Ritualisation and the reflexive critique of scientism Perfect praxis in Aikido Reflexivity, native anthropology, interloper anthropology Reflexivity and ethical awareness Revisiting reflexivity: autobiographical ethnographic writing and home anthropology From 'expat brats' to 'third culture kids': white ideology and identity in the context of re-migration from Africa to Europe What's new with the 'been-to's'? Educational return migrants in Ghana Symbolic return to homeland - the case of resettled Lemkos Identity dilemmas and identity strategies among Greek returnees from Poland A French minority in Poland? Globalisation, child vulnerability and ideas of proper parenthood: two cases from the Norwegian media scene Participation practices of native and immigrant families in institutional care services for children in Barcelona 'Education: whose responsibility is it?' Immigrant childcare between state programmes and family expectations Childcare transference and relational continuity: Mestizo relatedness and the public rationale of kinship in Quito, Ecuador Schooling, fosterage and child care: the case of the Baatombu in Northern Benin Aspects of childcare in Romania 'Parents today': teacher discourses about socialising responsibilities in two Swedish schools 'The teachers left the kids alone': discourse and conflict between teachers and parents in eastern Germany after unification Choice and politics in the 'Russian' bride market: exploring post-socialist feminisms and femininities in Eastern Ukraine Intervening gender When East meets West: the discursive practice of feminist and gay/lesbian activism in contemporary Poland 'Power of silence': alternative spirituality and women's identities in Poland Compulsory motherhood? Mothering discourses in the times of 'moral revolution in Poland' 'Return' to the West: changing masculinity in post-Soviet Latvia Proper sexuality, proper citizens: teaching 'the facts' and 'the rules' of HIV prevention in the creation of new citizenship Predecessors and pilgrims: lesbian history-making and the ambiguities of belonging in post-socialist Hungary Making gender matter: forms of protest or 'Feminizm jest trendy': strategies of women's NGOs and informal networks in Warsaw, Poland Elasticity and entitlements: adolescent migrants' view on intergenerational care in rural Burkina Faso Child migration and care in life stories Children's social experiences in the diverse migration patterns to Catalonia, Spain Displaced care: children facing and shaping the migration project of their mothers Informal child circulation of Russian children in transnational adoption The child in Western discourses: reflections on gender Spontaneous shrines and the public ritualesque Ephemeral memorials as performative practice: an ethnographic approach to the Theo van Gogh memorial site Performing monuments of commemoration: arenas of political resentment in Dutch society Writing sites: shrines from 9/11, New York 2001 Collecting and interpreting a national tragedy: the Smithsonian and September 11 'We all were in those trains': social cohesion and the performance of grief in the aftermath of the March 11th terrorist attacks in Madrid Public behaviours as scintillating signals for communication The memorialisation of traumatic death around mass grave exhumations in contemporary Spain 'Tragedy Cromagnon': metamorphosis and coexistence of two shrines, the popular and the official Contesting the memory of "the shooters" at Columbine High School Mourning John Paul II in the streets of Polish cities as enacting communitas The girl in Kúagerði, or, how grief paves the way, literally The politisation of road trauma in Portugal: from oblivion to remembrance 'Returning Europeans'? Changing patterns of neighbourhood on the EU's new eastern and south-eastern borders Europe in Croatia: heterogeneity and hybridization Post-socialism as a form of Orientalism: building of a new Europe Invisible foreigners: transnational migrations between Argentina and Europe Transmigration and cultural transfers: the case of Lithuanian migrants Building Europe by dwelling on the ethnic frontier? Some thoughts 'Barakatia' Lisbon: Bengali Muslims and the making of the world economy Counting as economic acting 'Formal or informal miracle': Mauritian economic globalisation in the 20th century Constructing and deconstructing legality: industrial practices and politics of economy in an industrial district of south Italy The capitalism spirit in a local economy? Informal trade in Mandlakazi (southern Mozambique) Staging formality: commerce and state in Katanga (DRC) 'God's messengers on the earth': informal and formal roles of custom brokers in Russia The informal economy within the realm of tourism: the phenomenon of jineterismo in Cuba Formal and informal care in Catalonia: old women's perception of their duties and rights as regards care Non-monetary exchange networks and 'free shops' in Berlin: 'heterodox' consumption and the hybridisation of everyday economies Networks and informality in a formal world: financial elites in global economies Neither commodities nor gifts: informal dealings and uncertainty in the Romanian health care services Tunnelling and transformation: representing certainty and uncertainty in Post-socialist change Census and sensibilities in Sarajevo: but what are you really? A day at the park? The migrant domestic workers in Turkey on their days off Negotiating uncertainty: home-making among Irish-Romanians in Dublin Scottish land reform and the idea of 'outdoors' The poetics of place Land and sea: ecological representations in Kuna Yala (Panama) Living in the coffee-forest: interrelations of lifescape and landscape among the Totonac of Mexico Landscape, risk, reputation and memory in industrial Ludwigshafen The moral geography of the US/Mexico border Landscape and resistance: transformation of Saami common land from dwelling to political landscape (Neo-)colonial encounters: new migration – old practices? The case of migrant domestic workers in Portugal From cultural diversity to mental illness: colonial legacies in psychiatric settings Youth and the ambiguities of global modernity: the experience of marginality in the Archipelago of the Bijagós (Guinea Bissau) Colonial boundaries in contemporary Africa: the Bakassi Peninsular in Nigeria-Cameroon border relations Nationalist ideologies and folk-anthropologies: colonial legacies and their transformation in the Ivory Coast Who is indigenous in Altai? The legacy of Soviet ethnic categories in contemporary Siberia Authenticity, appropriation and innovation in the circulation of danced knowledge Negotiating changes in the context of Odissi dance in India 'A mi cielo': Japanese flamenco students in Sevilla, Spain Religious dogma or political agenda? Bharatanatyam and its re-emergence in Tamil temples In search of a new femininity: Oriental dance in Stockholm Local dance and global setting or global dance and local setting? Ethnography of a Yemenite night club in Israel From village to festival: an example of the construction of canons of correct performance Shinbuyo: new dance as cultural form created on the Euro-Asia cultural interface Senegalese dancers, Europe and the global market Dance and the survival of a social world: 'ancient', transformed and new performances among Uduk refugees Ethnographies of non-state governance: findings and conjectures Governance without government: local processes of socio-economic regulation in eastern DRC Governing the African 'borderlands': business and conflict in a Congolese border town Governance in the hinterland of Africa's weak states: toward a theory of the mediated state Recurrent violence and changing forms of governance in a West African frontier zone Images of Europe and of (Ancient) Greece: ideas of originality and aboriginality in the West The image and the idea of Europe and the building of Romanian cultural identity The local and the global: in search of European identity in the Czech local community Image of Europe as inverse reflection: review of comments of modern Russian intellectuals on publications in European mass media The image of Europe among Russian political and intellectual elites Ethnographic studies of voting among the Austronesian Paiwan in Taiwan Capturing democratic standards: the 2005 Somaliland parliamentary elections between plural authorities and claims for recognition Voting in Bengal (India) villages Technology, power, and resistance: the ethnography of recent balloting in Venezuela Secret ballot and clientelistic practices on the MInho border: comparison of two ethnographic cases - Galiza and Northern Portugal Apprehending 'culture', rationalising voting: Conservative Party electioneering and the political machine Locality, identities and social space in a Pyrenean valley Technological impact on social identity The ghetto and the world: young rappers in Dakar between local identities and global languages Paradoxes of globalisation: pastoral migrations in the contemporary world Gender and identity formation in a mobile world Muslim and orthodox spaces of childhood in Greece 'Heaven on earth': religious place-making through the claim of 'internationalism' in an African-initiated Pentecostal Church in Berlin - Germany Emplaced in scrap yards, transit sheds and wasteland: migrant churches in north-east London Transnational sensibilities in European emplacement: Ghanaian Pentecostal negotiations of the public domain in the Netherlands The emigrated saint: a Sicilian cult in Germany as duplication of sacred space in the diaspora Replaced and redefined: a local Andalusian Virgin Mary in the Flemish town of Vilvoorde Snack bar spirits: religious practices of Vietnamese migrants in Berlin Identity construction, negotiation and strategies: the transnational religious community of Sikh migrants in Reggio Emilia (Italy) Going rural and urban at the same time: reflections from the Roman Sikh context Skilled visions 'From the visual to the visible and back again': re-formations of the subject in Japanese Zen practice A Sense of Things Dance: more than a moving image? Reef Islands revisited: corporeality, sound, and ethnographic film The making of emotional landscapes: German World War II refugees and their changing relations to 'places of memory' Tibetan emotions and Indian influences: the shaping of sensibilities in the Tibetan diaspora Rishtas: adding emotion to strategy in understanding British Pakistani transnational marriages Towards a typology of transnational affect The 'housing' of memory and sentiment among displaced Serbs in the United States Mapping emotional attachments: Polish New Yorkers Emotional attachments in new ageing communities Desires, changes and uncertainties: retired European women on the Costa Blanca Stories of suitcases and rucksacks: changing values of material objects in the narratives of Polish post-communist immigrants to the United Kingdom From the Philippines to Denmark: strategies and tactics easing the transition Transnational migration and the role of the ethnic church: the case of the Bulgarian community in Chicago Enshrining Vietnamese versions of Irish-ness 'Down-to-earth men' in post-socialist transition: the Greek-Catholic ethic and the spirit of neoliberalism in a Transylvanian village A democratic peace-building Machiavellian liaisons: when equality meets caudillismo, and direct democracy meets the clientelist state… Transition from exile to diaspora: changes in Hungarian expatriate identity-discourses after 1989 The case of the oralman: the wrong kind of Kazakh? Moral trajectories: continuity and change in Crimea Transitions: the life course in context (session 2 of the workshop) Anthropologies of difference Where WAN goes? The World Anthropologies Network and its future Identity, power, human rights and development: an ontological discussion De-colonising ethnographic knowledge and practice: a dialogic encounter between the Latin American Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality Research Program and actor network theory Academic-intellectuals, world anthropologies and the insurrectional social movements/subjugated knowledges in Latin America Ethnos theory in Soviet ethnography, Russian anthropology Transnational English tyranny: the predicament of transversal anthropology (Re-)searching security in contemporary India In the right place at the right time? Some reflections on multi-sited fieldwork and the politics of place in Malayali transnational migration Caste and globalisation: real and imaginary places in global identities Can older methodological approaches be of any value for contemporary fieldwork in India? An exploration in the field of medical anthropology Water, for example: arguing for research that links India to the world Indica/Mistica/Mediatica: about contemporary European phantasms of India Applied anthropology and interdisciplinary action research: the case of the PETREA programme on agroforestry Missionaries, Mandarins and Microsoft: anthropology beyond the academy Piggy in the middle muck: an anthropologist in the midst of marvellous (yet modest) mayhem Universal rights, European laws and national practices Salvaging extremely well-preserved Roman mosaics: cultural property and 'Europe' Ethnographic insights from peasant lives in Istanbul The culturalisation of Europe: cultural practices and the position of culture in south-eastern Europe Europeanisation as biographisation: internationalised biographies and staged national belonging 'Europe': no longer 'somewhere else' 'Europe' and European identity in the narratives of Britons in rural France Andei Pelo Mundo Andei: historical antecedents for the internationalisation of Afro-Brazilian religions The internationalization of Vodou in Haiti? Sorcery and culture: forms of appropriation in African-American religions Ritual 'innovation' and conflict in Havana (Cuba): some effects of Afro-Cuban religions' transnationalisation on the local religious field African and Brazilian altars gathered in Lisbon Towards a new African American religion ? The Akan movement in the United States Franchising the spiritual: authenticity and performance in American Umbanda Afro-Brazilian Religions in Berlin - Practices of Intercultural Connectedness Umbandomblé or candombanda: ritual rearrangements in Parisian candomblé and umbanda Darwin and cousin marriage in England The quest for a family: kinship and relatedness in the age of assisted reproductive technology Naming invisible lines: relatedness and the constitution of the person in contemporary Iceland Kinship, welfare and the state: researching the connection in 20th and 21st century Europe The roles of kin: practical help, social contact and ritual Who is kin? Relatedness in a community that highly values self-reliance Kinship groups and the devolution of family businesses Kinship as shared experience: on relatedness and social survival in rural Namibia and elsewhere Improving the quality of decision-making for crises and disasters Multiple disasters and women-headed household's vulnerability: a missing element in governmental and non-governmental responses in Orissa, India Imece Evleri: a post-disaster housing recovery project in Duzce-Turkey Transforming crisis: what the world looks like in 2017 Ethnomathematics: deconstructing a paradox Has Japan put Europe in its place? The swing of the pendulum: radiesthesia, Europe and the world How to implement a 'moral biopolitics': a French experience of clinical ethics practice ? The (moral) sound of silence: acceptance of and resistance to genetics research in Southern Italy The morality of family planning in Brazil: between biopolitics and social inequalities Medical paternalism and the limits of biopolitics: how childhood confronts AIDS in Uruguay Implemented biopolitical choices and moral dilemmas: the case of Thalassaemia Food security as a moral dilemma: interest of the public vs. interest of the market A princess in South America Amalie Kozminova Marianne Schmidl (1890-1942) The rule of women in Croatian ethnology: Marijana Gušić between politics and profession Mediterranean Europe and its border-cities "Europeanized" border discourse and the Italian political rhetoric of exclusion The 'Europeanisation' project in the Ukraine Contesting identity: local practices and political discourse in contemporary Sicily Derogatory border practices in common law Borders and border-crossing challenging the spatial forms of identity Escape and intertext: looking for interpretation on the basis of experience from refugees' culture Re-establishing the dignity of a cosmopolitan city: contested perspectives on culture, rights and ethnicity Reconsidering PC'ness: discourse and social practice in the field of multiculturalism Public culture, Islam and the construction of multicultural societies in Belgium Claiming citizenship rights: modern notions of citizenship and the case of the Turkish Muslim minority in Greece The Hungarian minorities in Romania and Slovakia as framed by international organisations Conflicting labels, overlapping discourses and segregating policies: the case of Kosovo Roma refugees living in 'nomad camps' in Italy The hidden people: the different forms of identification in ancient and contemporary Albanian communities in southern Italy Odessa's cosmopolitanisms and the afterlives of empire Imagining the city: cosmopolitanist nostalgia in Istanbul The cosmopolitan Mediterranean: myth and reality Colonial photography and Cyprus: the case of John Thomson Colonial feminism revisited: tracing the methodological genealogies of 'the Muslim woman' Anthropology of Turkey: Scholars, Ethnographies and Representations The 'shawaya' of Northern Syria as a subject of European classification, ethnography and administration Fredrik Barth's basic data of the Middle East The Middle East in Sweden A breach into the formalist armour: cultural relativism and the rationality of science Coherence, change and agency in two religious and medical traditions of India Herbal knowledge in the Austrian Alps: trans-local knowledge and personal knowing Mathematics and culture Learning religion: on Xangô (Recife, Brazil) Reasoning in detective work: The multiplicity of 'Mind' Rethinking the 'social' at the borders of scientific discourse: can the social become non-secular? Identity construction among working-class youths in a context of linguistic and cultural diversity CREOLE: A joint MA project funded by the EC The quest for strategies to integrate e-learning into social anthropology: experiences from Austria The imagework method in teaching and learning social anthropology Culture in the periphery: anthropology and the shadow of Greek civilization Alliances and avoidance: British interactions with German-speaking anthropologists, 1935- 1950 Polish (anthropological) landing in England: Malinowski, Czaplicka, Obrębski, Gross, Waligórski We are all indigenous now: culture vs. nature in representations of the Balkans Competing universalisms: anthropology, cultural diversity and museums of the Other in France Cultural controversies: current Lithuania Rituals of democracy and development in Nepal Sacred cows and critics: what's in a controversy? What about white ppeople's history? Class, race and culture wars in 21st century Britain The 'culture wars' of managing land restitution Serving the volk? Apartheid and the Afrikaner anthropologists revisited Culture: the indigenous account British to global: plurality of paradigms in (social) anthropology and related disciplines The political thinking of Adam Kuper as deduced from 'The Chosen Primate' Transforming culture: the popular broker as mediator Culture as analytical category Biographical lessons: life stories, sex and culture in Bushbuckridge, South Africa Educated female immigrants seeking information about jobs in Finland Not yet ethnic: Bosnian frontier families in Sweden Migration's effect on young people's future: community research Spaces of Europe – places of homeland: Greek female migrant life stories in Denmark New battle for England? Confusion about hosts and guests: migrant workers in Mediterranean tourist destinations Gender pattern change in a Cameroonian diaspora community Social integration barriers in a transnational area: young second-generation Moroccans in Catalonia Conceptualising cultural change in modern Greece Chania as the new 'home': the transformation of local space into a transnational one Growing old in a transnational social field: making sense of cultural and social change between home and host communities Fateful legacies and the burdens of academic excellence: UK anthropology and the public sphere Trancending identities and othernesses: a challenge for public anthropology Popularising anthropology: the problems with 'culture' and 'ethnic groups' Norway: an anthropologist's paradise? Negotiating the traditions: the public roles of anthropology in Italy and Czechoslovakia in historical perspective Stereotypes and the changing image of anthropology in Brazil Transformation of the public image of anthropology: the case of Japan Cinema and self: the interpretation of a technology Cinema, time and consciousness Cinema and culture in early non-fiction film Montage and ethnicity: conversations in documenting culture Filmmaking as research tool: new options, new questions Visualising social and spatial relations through digital media Chronically ethnic: immigration, assimilation and genetic medicine Cross-cultural comparisons of sickle cell crisis management 'We have the technology': staff views and experiences of the genetic testing of cells, embryos and foetuses Appearance and essence, parts and wholes: gene medicine reaffirming the human Cultural and genetic factors in the anthropological interpretation of suicide How British Bangladeshi families understand genetic disorders: daktari problems and upri problems British Pakistanis and clinical genetics: diagnostic uncertainty and ambivalence Genetic disorders, consanguineous marriages and genetic counselling: knowledge, beliefs and challenges for Norwegian Pakistanis in an ongoing study in Norway The 'art' of secrecy: being HIV-positive African in Denmark Behavioural prevention towards HIV/AIDS among youngsters of Cape Verdian origin Migration, stress and resilience: how African migrants in Switzerland try to stay healthy Communitary intervention and access to health among African immigrants Health care strategies for Roma in a transitioning economy Exporting therapies: how Guinean therapists are making their way in a globalised market Transnational flows: their relevance within Ecuadorian migrant families' health care practices In the aftermath of war: women's social networks as a resource for the reintegration process in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina Producing and managing violence within kinship: an anthropological contribution to peace and conflict studies Analysing international conflict: cooperative behavior - the case of the Israeli-Lebanon Conflict Between punishment and abandonment: symbolic violence and American homelessness Tracing the body politic: border guards and the everyday violence of 'territorial integrity' in the Ferhgna valley The violence of the postcolonial state: sorcery, death squads and sovereignities in Mozambique Symbol and function in the violence of counterinsurgency: stories from Kashmir The ethnographic challenges of narratives of violence in a state context: an anthropologist's reflections on doing fieldwork in the intersection between antagonistic worlds Challenges in the field Contribution Contribution Contribution Post-socialism as a field of scientific enquiry Analysing international conflict- cooperative behaviour Blowing in the wind: anthropology and the new landscapes of energy Culture: A 'Playground' for Adults Divisions in society as indicators for analysing conflicting identities: the Bosnian case Ethnos theory in Soviet ethnography, Russian anthropology Israeli national identity and Israeliness in a West-Bank college in Israel/Palestine Licheń – a place of go(o)ds: local phenomenon or a sign of globalisation? Lived experience of work in the narratives of the immigrants Public grieving in the aftermath of the March 11th, 2004, attacks in Madrid: 'The Mourning Archive' Now you see me, now you don't: the hidden sites of South Asian performance art in British urban centres Waiting: asylum seekers in France The case of the former consular land: identity struggles among the Chinese in French Polynesia Immigrant population and ICT uses in Spain: findings from fieldwork in progress Mobility from and to Maramures (Romania) Identity, adaptation, and community-making among the Chilean diaspora in England Concept of home amongst overseas nurses working in the British National Health Service