The Politics, Culture and Identity research brings cultural and historical analysis to bear on transnational and international issues. Drawing in particular on anthropological methods and theories, projects seek to illuminate the complex interactions between global, state-level and local forces and agents that characterize the contemporary world. Themes of particular interest include the politics of identity in borderlands, cultures of foreign aid, and new modes of global and transnational solidarity, hierarchy and protest. The research area has broad geographical range, examining new forms of connectedness between Europe, Asia and North and South America. Our projects are interdisciplinary and multi-national, involving personnel from different disciplines, institutions and countries.
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Current Projects
- Muabet - Local Dimensions of Democracy-building in Southeast Europe
- Terrorist Transformations: IMRO and the Politics of Violence
- Car Cultures and their Contradictions
Recent Projects
- Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the Shatter-Zone of Empires Since 1848 (For more information, see the Borderlands website.)
- US Military Bases and Global Response
- Census and the Construction of Identity: Emerging Lines of Ethnic Conflict in Russia
- The Ending of War: Arguments and Strategies of Global Peace Movements
- Census and the Construction of Identity Projects
- Census and the Construction of Identity: Census and Identity in the Former Soviet Union
- Mediterranean Identities Project
- Census and the Construction of Identity: Census in the Former British Colonial World
- War Epiphanies: When Iraq Veterans Break Ranks
- Conduct and Discipline in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Culture, Political Economy and Gender
