Maple Razsa, Graduate Student in Anthropology, Harvard University

Maple Razsa is a documentary filmmaker and PhD candidate at Harvard University. He is co-founder of the organization, En Masse Films, a partnership committed to the ethnographic method and to political engagement. Maple has conducted research in the former Yugoslavia for the past decade and is currently writing his dissertation, based on work with anarchist youth in Zagreb, Croatia. His latest film, Bastards of Utopia, documents and complements a portion of this fieldwork.

Publications:

• "Video" essay in Shock and Awe: The War on Words. Eds. Tsing, Anna et al. New Pacific Press: Santa Cruz. 2004.

Online articles:

• "Balkan is Beautiful: Balkanism in the Political Discourse of Tudman's Croatia" East European Politics and Society (Volume 18, Number 4, 2004 Fall).
• "Activist stories: Culture and continuity in Black women's narratives of grassroots community work." In Frontiers, 1998.