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Publication Borders of Bureaucracy: Crossborder Cooperation and its Challenges(2013-01-01) Mitterhofer, JohannaPublication Mobility and Language in Place: A Linguistic Landscape of Language Commodification(2012-01-01) Burdick, ChristaPublication "No Cops, No Journos, No Anthropologists": Fieldwork Challenges in Occupied Barcelona(2012-01-01) Helepololei, Justin AKPublication United in Difficulty: The European Union’s Use of Shared Problems as a Way to Encourage Unity(2012-01-01) Cleary, GraceSince the European Union's inception, it has invested considerable resources into cultural programs aimed at fostering a sense of shared European heritage. However, these efforts have always been balanced alongside the need to leave space for diversity within and across EU nations. In this paper, which highlights the findings of my MA thesis, I examine the European Capital of Culture (ECC), which I studied in Córdoba, Spain during the spring of 2011. I look at how European identity is being defined in a specific context, and in particular how the contest is refocusing on new forms of shared heritage by looking at common European problems and how cities are working to solve them. I argue that both unity and diversity are encouraged, but that initiatives such as the ECC delineate and construct the acceptable boundaries of shared cultural expressions and cultural difference. I argue that the EU's focus on the methods and attitudes for dealing with shared problems is becoming an important part of European identity; one that allows countries to maintain certain kinds of marketable difference, like food or music, while also encouraging a common outlook on handling problems. While shared history, religion, nationality and/or language once served to unify people within a country's borders, these characteristics no longer provide an adequate bond within the supranational EU. In shifting the contest’s unifying function to include common problems, the contest is drawing on shared European narratives and anxieties, and through the contest, the EU is monitoring how these 'challenges' are defined and dealt with.Publication From Artifact to Narrative: Viewing the Cypriot Past in the Cypriot Present(2012-01-01) Bierly, JillPublication Contemporary Flamenco between Heritage Tourism and Cultural Identity(2012-01-01) Chung, Seung hoPublication Activism and Ethnography in the Basque Anti-Fracking Movement(2015-01-01) Finley, EleanorWith growing concerns in Europe over energy independence and sustainability, hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has become a recent environmental controversy across Europe. While the wealthiest member states EU such as France and Germany have implemented bans or moratoriums, the pressure to drill concentrates on peripheral debt-burdened countries such as Ireland, Romania, and Spain. Starting in 2011, a globally-networked grassroots movement emerged in response to fracking exploratory permits across the Basque-Spanish border. In the spring and summer of 2015, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Gasteiz, in the Basque Country, just as it became a hub of transnational anti-fracking activism. Drawing on insights from the fields of political ecology and science studies, this paper begins to explore how communities positioned at the frontlines of climate and environmental conflict are beginning invent, circulate, and mobilize new interpretations of capitalism, progress, and society’s relationship with the natural world.Publication Antwerp’s Appetite for Congolese Hands(2016-01-01) Folsom, JennyPublication CARING OFF THE CLOCK: CAPE VERDEAN HOME CARE WORKERS IN LISBON, PORTUGAL(2016-01-01) Curington, CelestePublication Intangible Heritage and Social Change: A Romanian Example(2012-01-01) Rus, AlinIn this article we shall emphasize the nature of intangible heritage of a rural ritual based on a case study from a village located in the East of Romania. The ritual considered here is a sitting down event – a cultural form frequently practised in the respective community seven decades ago. This ritual is revived by the villagers with the support of the County Center for the Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture Iași and of the Local Mayor’s Office, by the active involvement of the local leaders. The thesis of this article is that in the practice of intangible heritage there are also other motivations apart from the remuneration incentive which should mobilize the members of a community to act together in view of the promotion of their intangible heritage. We will also argue that the criterion of authenticity of the ritual is fulfilled as long as this form of intangible heritage of the rural communities from today’s territory of Romania is reconstructed based on the representation from the collective memory of the community and is revitalized by the active involvement of a group of villagers from the locality. This assertion remains valid even when it is about a ritual which was no longer practiced in that community for almost seven decades. Thus, the practice of the respective ritual comes in agreement with the ideas stipulated in the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which underlies “the importance of the intangible cultural heritage as a mainspring of cultural diversity” and its important role in “enriching cultural diversity and human creativity.”Publication “Don’t Sell Your Neighbor” Class, Urban Politics, and Grassroots Mobilizations in Old Town Istanbul(2015-01-01) Topçu, BerraThe city has become the site of global movements and class struggles in the past decade. Since the Gezi uprising in the summer of 2013 in Istanbul, grassroots movements are emerging from the space of the neighborhood and the megacity in response to failures of urban governance at the level of metropolitan and local municipalities. Based on a five-month ethnographic study in a central district of Istanbul, I use participant-observation, semi-structured interviews, and media and document analysis to explore what common ground can be found in the context of: 1) official city assemblies of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality; 2) activist-led urban resistance assemblies; and 3) grassroots mobilizations in an urban poor neighborhood by the historic city walls. From Henri Lefebvre (2009) to David Harvey (2012), the “right to the city” framework needs to be reworked to ground the city and the grassroots (Castells 1983) as the emergent site of class struggles as well as class solidarities. Following Ida Susser and Stéphane Tonnelat’s (2013) typology of the three urban commons, this paper explores how ethnographically grounded accounts can be given from the specificity and generality of urban struggles, based on perspectives by expert and non-expert subjects, including residents, activists, reporters, planners, and officials. I argue for attending to the small-scale of the neighborhood and the large-scale of the megacity to build and make sense of urban social movements from the bottom-up.Publication Au Gamin de Paris: undoing civilization in a Paris bar(2015-01-01) Tebaldi, CatherinePublication Performing Place at Ancient Idalion, Cyprus: An Anthropological Perspective on the Lower City South Sanctuary Architecture(2013-01-01) Bartusewich, Rebecca MThe ancient site of the Lower City South sanctuary of Idalion is a site of place making and identity formation during the 1st millennium BCE of Cyprus. This archaeological site represents repetitive building patterns and persistent cultic activity that denote a cultural tradition that withstood the changes of administrative control in the Cypro-Classical and Hellenistic periods. Certain architectural elements, like altars and water features, are characteristic of a continued tradition at the ancient site and they are evidence of a recursive building practice that falls into templates of place making and identity formation as introduced by Bourdieu and Giddens. Identities are linked to place and architecture can represent both in the archaeological record. Idalion’s Lower City South sanctuary is proof of the relationship of these elements of social behavior.Publication Luso-London: Identity, Citizenship, and Belonging in ‘Post-National’ Europe(2013-01-01) Aragao, StephanieThis paper explores relations between Portuguese-speakers living in London. It takes the experience of Lusophones as a case study in illuminating how intragroup diversity is negotiated and transnational, multi-ethnic identities constructed and performed in everyday life. Through critical ethnography and interviewing, I provide an account of the varied experience of ‘belonging’ in Europe, for citizens and migrants who connect through similar language and cultural affinities and a shared, albeit contentious, history. By exploring daily rituals in workplaces, bars, cafes, and shops owned, operated, and patronized by Lusophones, I unpack postcolonial reconfigurations of citizens and migrants in their everyday experience of ‘open’ Europe and provide insight into the discursive processes of emergent and complex diasporic identities. The study found that while Portuguese and Brazilian individuals connect in daily ritual, often to consume similar goods and/or work together in similar roles, language ideology plays a central role in mediating interaction and relations remain superficial and often contentious. For Portuguese, narratives of their own ‘rightness’ – when it comes to stories of migration, doing business, and conducting everyday life – along with the privilege of European citizenship, are tropes employed to distinguish themselves from other Lusophones, especially Brazilians, with whom they are often compared to by other groups. Luso Africans share less connection in every day life with both Portuguese and Brazilians despite living in close proximity, and express more affinity with migrants from other African points of origin than fellow Lusophones. The study suggests that for Portuguese and Brazilians especially, language, identity politics and the citizen-migrant distinction play a central role in mitigating meaningful interaction around shared concern and social issues impacting both groups as ‘non-native’ to the UK. Furthermore, important questions of race – which since colonial times have been at the very core of determining social privilege - are sidestepped by the drawing of moral boundaries of ‘right versus wrong’ and the ‘European vs. non-European’.Publication Rewriting the Balkans: Memory, Historiography, and the Making of a European Citizenry(2012-01-01) Johnson, Dana NThis research explored the work of historians, history teachers, and NGO employees engaged in regional initiatives to mitigate the influence of enduring ethnocentric national histories in the Balkans. In conducting an ethnography of the development and dissemination of such initiatives in Serbia, I queried how “multiperspectivity” is understood as a pedagogical approach and a tool of reconciliation, how conflict and controversy are negotiated in developing alternative educational materials, and how the interests of civil society intersect with those of the state and supranational actors. My research sought to interrogate the field of power in which such attempts to innovate history education occur, and the values by which these efforts seek and gain acceptance or are marginalized.