CaSt outreach event
18 November 2024
University of Vienna, Austria
Relations, Boundaries, Measurements: New Publications of the Care and State research network (hybrid event)
18 November 2024 | 5 pm (UTC+1)
University of Vienna
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
NIG, 4F, HS-A & online
The acronym CaSt stands for Care and State. The group’s research is characterised by a relational approach to the state and an interest in the (re-)production of significant relations and difference through care. This event presents recent publications: two books on the anthropology of the state and a special issue on the co-production of politics and kinship.
André Thiemann. 2024. The Politics of Relations: How Self-Government, Infrastructures, and Care Transform the State in Serbia. New York: Berghahn.
Christof Lammer. 2024. Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China. New York: Berghahn.
Christof Lammer & Tatjana Tehlen, eds. 2021. Measuring Kinship: Gradual Belonging and Thresholds of Exclusion. Special Issue of Social Analysis 65(4).
Discussants:
Ivan Rajković (Vienna)
Klāvs Sedlenieks (Riga)
Staffan Müller-Wille (Cambridge)
–> Join online via Zoom:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63717024879?pwd=c6A5fH5yB2TE28Bn8ubjfR9YJWNGeJ.1
Meeting-ID: 637 1702 4879 | Passcode: 232342
Keynote Lecture
23-27 September 2024
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Rajković will give a keynote lecture with the title “How to Inherit a Mountain: Balkanscapes Between Extractivism and Eco-Revival” at this year’s SIEF Summer School organized by the Department of Ethnology of Cultural Anthropology (University of Zagreb). The SIEF Summer School 2024 explores how and why postscapes matter; as a lived experience, a historical or temporal condition and as a conceptual tool or a way of knowing: What comes after post-? What is left of post-, as a concept? Why is it still important to think in terms of diverse postscapes?
Book presentation
— hybrid event —
30 April 2024, 5:00 pm
Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin (GER)
Tatjana Thelen and Sana Chavoshian (ZMO) join a discussion of Hilal Alkan’s new book “Welfare as Gift: Local Charity, Politics of Redistribution, and Religion in Turkey”.
Based on an ethnography of charitable organizations in contemporary Turkey, this monograph examines the ways in which the redistributive task of poverty alleviation and welfare provision has been taken over by gift networks. It offers an in-depth analysis of the relationships between donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries, as well as an exploration of the historical institutional framework and religious imaginary that inform these organizations. Through this account it traces the expansion of the Turkish welfare regime and its transformation towards a neoliberal populism.