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A través de este artículo, estableceremos un estudio comparado sobre las figuras de las rumberas y las ficheras, en el contexto de los correspondientes films en los que fueron protagonistas, para dar a entender las diferencias y... more

A través de este artículo, estableceremos un estudio comparado sobre las figuras de las rumberas y las ficheras, en el contexto de los correspondientes films en los que fueron protagonistas, para dar a entender las diferencias y continuidades que estos personajes han ofrecido al cine mexicano a lo largo de las décadas. Para ello también analizaremos cómo funcionan los rasgos genéricos de ambas vertientes en dos películas prototípicas de aquellas épocas, Víctimas del pecado (Emilio Fernández, 1951) y Bellas de noche (Las ficheras) (Miguel M. Delgado, 1975), realizadas bajo la égida de la familia de productores Calderón. De ese modo, evidenciaremos que más allá de las distancias existentes entre ambas clases de films existe un eje que atraviesa la historia del cine mexicano en pos de la descripción de los espacios escabrosos del arrabal y el cabaret, en donde la estigmatización aleccionadora va cediendo lugar progresivamente a una mirada más naturalizada y superficial sobre los tópicos en ellas desplegados.

This book aims to provide academics, policymakers, NGOs and the media in Cuba, Latin America and North America, with a better understanding of the changes in Cuban civil society since the collapse of the Soviet Union and their... more

This book aims to provide academics, policymakers, NGOs and the media in Cuba, Latin America and North America, with a better understanding of the changes in Cuban civil society since the collapse of the Soviet Union and their implications in the areas of research, academic and literary production, and public policy. It presents and assesses critically the changes that have taken place in Cuban society, economy, politics, and culture as Cuba emerges from the crisis of the 1990s. This volume also aspires to contribute in a meaningful way to the political debate in the United States and to the dialogue between the United States and Cuba. It brings together contrasting perspectives marked by occasionally opposing views from both within and outside the island. It is the result of a seminar held in the Dominican Republic in December 2003 under the auspices of the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, with the generous contribution of The Ford Foundation.

Bezieht man sich auf die etymologische Bedeutung des Wortes Rückkehr, drückt diese aus, dass eine Person sich erneut an einen Ort begibt, an dem diese bereits zuvor gewesen ist. Dieses wörtliche Verständnis von Rückkehr intendiert keine... more

Bezieht man sich auf die etymologische Bedeutung des Wortes Rückkehr, drückt diese aus, dass eine Person sich erneut an einen Ort begibt, an dem diese bereits zuvor gewesen ist. Dieses wörtliche Verständnis von Rückkehr intendiert keine Definition eines Ortes als Ur-sprung, noch macht es Aussagen über den Zeitraum des zukünftigen Aufenthaltes an diesem.
Dem entgegen wird in der politischen Migrations- und Entwicklungsdebatte seit den 1960er Jahren die Rückkehr in das Herkunftsland explizit dem moralisch-aufgeladenen Motiv der Heimkehr subsumiert und Rückkehr mit dem Endpunkt der Migration gleichgesetzt. Mit die-ser Form erfolgreicher Rückkehr wird eine erneute Migration als Fall des Scheiterns deklariert.
Das eindimensionale ‚Gehen- und Zurückkommen‘-Verständnis, verliert in einer globalisierten und Welt immer mehr seiner empirischen Grundlage. Bei der Erschließung des Phänomens Rückkehr, welches durch hybride Remigrationsprozesse charakterisiert ist, sollten die klassisch verwendeten Migrations- und Integrationstheorien erweitert und Rückkehr als individueller Prozess aufgefasst werden.
Der Sozialen Arbeit, deren zentrale Aufgabe es ist, Individuen und Gruppen in ihrer Lebensgestaltung und der Erfüllung ihrer Bedürfnisse zu unterstützen, wird in dem Themenfeld der Rückkehr eine zentrale, wenn bislang nicht thematisierte, Rolle zuteil. Diese vermag unter einer transnationalen Perspektive Remigration nicht mehr mit einem Reintegrationsfokus in den nationalstaatlichen Herkunftskontext als erstrebtes Endziel, sondern als Teil eines zirkulären Systems sozialer Netzwerke und als Dimension von Transmigration zu fassen. In dem Konzept der TransREmigration werden die verschiedenen Bewegungsdynamiken zur Kenntnis genommen, und bislang verborgene transnationale Muster in Rückkehrprozessen sichtbar.
Die vorliegende Beitragssammlung thematisiert den konzeptionellen und analytischen Zu-sammenhang von Rückkehr und Sozialer Arbeit. Im Fokus steht eine empirische Studie, die ghanaische TransREmigrantInnen aus Deutschland, deren soziale Transfers, persönliche Netzwerke sowie deren transnationale Handlungs-, Denk- und Wissensmuster beleuchtet. Die hierbei eingenommene transnationale Perspektive fungiert als Gegenentwurf zum neoliberalen Entwicklungsbegriff und konstituiert ein subjektives Entwicklungs- und Erfolgs-Verständnis welches die Bedürfnisse der AkteurInnen, ihre Alltagswelten sowie ihre Muster einer transnationalen Agency prononciert.

In the context of ever-increasing globalization, transnational systems of support have emerged in response to the needs of transnational families, labour forces, and the communities within which they are located. This volume will be the... more

In the context of ever-increasing globalization, transnational systems of support have emerged in response to the needs of transnational families, labour forces, and the communities within which they are located. This volume will be the first to systematically address transnational support research from a theoretical and empirical perspective, making the concept of transnationality part of the core knowledge structure of social work.

The Israeli art field has been negotiating with the definition of Israeli-ness since its beginnings and more even today, as “transnationalism” has become not only a lived daily experience among migrants or an ideological approach toward... more

The Israeli art field has been negotiating with the definition of Israeli-ness since its beginnings and more even today, as “transnationalism” has become not only a lived daily experience among migrants or an ideological approach toward identity but also a challenge to the Zionist-Hebrew identity that is imposed on “repatriated” Jews. Young artists who reached Israel from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) as children in the 1990s not only retained their mother tongue but also developed a hyphenated first-generation immigrant identity and a transnational state of mind that have found artistic expression in projects and exhibitions in recent years, such as Odessa–Tel Aviv (2017), Dreamland Never Found (2017), Pravda (2018), and others. Nicolas Bourriaud’s botanical metaphor of the radicant, which insinuates successive or even “simultaneous en-rooting”, seems to be close to the 1.5-generation experience. Following the transnational perspective and the intersectional approach (the “inter” being of ethnicity, gender, and class), the article examines, among others, photographic works of three women artists: Angelika Sher (born 1969 in Vilnius, Lithuania), Vera Vladimirsky (born 1984 in Kharkiv, Ukraine), and Sarah Kaminker (born 1987 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine). All three reached Israel in the 1990s, attended Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and currently live and work in Tel Aviv or (in Kaminker’s case) Haifa. The Zionist-oriented Israeli-ness of the Israeli art field is questioned in their works. Regardless of the different and peculiar themes and approaches that characterize each of these artists, their oeuvres touch on the senses of radicantity, strangeness, and displacement and show that, in the globalization discourse and routine transnational moving around, anonymous, generic, or hybrid likenesses become characteristics of what is called “home,” “national identity,” or “promised land.” Therefore, it seems that under the influence of this young generation, the local field of art is moving toward a re-framing of its Israeli national identity. View Full-Text
Keywords: transnationality; radicantity; Israeli art; FSU 1.5-generation immigration; women artists; intersectional theory; contemporary photography

Scholars of international relations generally consider that under conditions of violent conflict and war, smuggling and trans-border crime are likely to thrive. In contrast, this book argues that in fact it is globalisation and peaceful... more

Scholars of international relations generally consider that under conditions of violent conflict and war, smuggling and trans-border crime are likely to thrive. In contrast, this book argues that in fact it is globalisation and peaceful borders that have enabled transnational illicit flows conducted by violent non-state actors, including transnational criminal organizations, drug trafficking organizations, and terrorist cells, who exploit the looseness and demilitarization of borderlands. Empirically, the book draws on case studies from the Americas, compared with other regions of the world experiencing similar phenomena, including the European Union and Southeast Europe (the Western Balkans), Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia. To explain the phenomenon in itself, the authors examine the type of peaceful borders and regimes involved in each case; how strong each country is in the governance of their borderlands; their political willingness to control their peaceful borders; and the prevailing socio-economic conditions across the borderlands.

No weakening, but rather an expansion, of statehood can be observed in the contemporary world. This does not, on the other hand, imply that extensive forms of constitutional ordering do not exist outside the realm of states. Instead, the... more

No weakening, but rather an expansion, of statehood can be observed in the contemporary world. This does not, on the other hand, imply that extensive forms of constitutional ordering do not exist outside the realm of states. Instead, the evolution of world society has been characterized by a protracted dual movement where the expansion and densification of statehood and autonomous forms of transnational ordering gradually emerged in a mutually constitutive fashion. One implication of this is that neither the concept of the state nor the concept of nonstate transnational entities is adequately capable of delineating the object of constitutional analysis. Instead, the concept of normative orders has been introduced as an overarching category capable of identifying the contexts within which constitutional ordering emerges.
Subsequently, a distinction between the internal and external dimensions of the law of normative orders has been introduced, specifying them as respectively oriented towards establishing internal condensation of a given normative order and external compatibility between different normative orders. With this background, a framework for the analysis of constitutional frameworks of normative orders is developed. The central element is a distinction among three dimensions: First, a constitution implies a coupling between a constitutional object, in the form of a hierarchical organization of a given normative order capable of reproducing an autonomous source of authority, and a concordant legal framework. Second, constitutionalization implies a coupling between an internal reconstruction of an external constitutional subject within the constitutional object, and the register of legal rights, establishing a framework for exchanges between the constitutional object and the wider world as represented by the constitutional subject. Third, constitutionalism denotes the institutionalization of a double function, in the form of a principle-based and legally fortified striving toward universal inclusion, providing a sense of direction in time through an articulated form of constitutional consciousness.
The insights developed are briefly illustrated by the case of the global Fairtrade Certification System.

Studies of diaspora typically inquire after culturally homogenous populations driven from their homelands and living as subalterns in their new environs. In this paper, we look at such an exiled population living not at the periphery, but... more

Studies of diaspora typically inquire after culturally homogenous populations driven from their homelands and living as subalterns in their new environs. In this paper, we look at such an exiled population living not at the periphery, but in the upper rungs of its host society, and as such is able to impose its ancestral language, literature of nostalgia, and exilic world view upon its host population. We show how mainland refugees of the Chinese Civil War entering Taiwan between 1945 and 1949 have managed, for some 40 years, to import an exoglossic linguistic standard, set literary trends born of nostalgic longing, define a culture of pan-Chinese nationalism, and impose an imaginary geography of historical China upon the local population. We further illustrate how this nostalgia-tinged interpretation of Chinese history and culture has shaped a generation of Western views of China and imparted a literary and cultural legacy far beyond expectations generated by the diaspora's small numbers. Finally, as travel bans are lifted and counter-diasporic movement made possible since the 1980s, we show how contact with reality spells the death knell for diasporic identity and vitality, which, among Taiwan's third-generation mainland diaspora, are now little more than a historical curiosity and cultural commodity with which to look back in wonder. The year 1949 marks an abrupt turning point in Chinese cultural history, a point at which the deca-dent material culture of old capitalist China parted ways with the austere idealism of Marxist China-and it was Marxism that carried the day, over the greater part of the Chinese mainland at least, leaving the remnant of the Nationalist old guard scurrying for cover on a small island off the East China Sea, an island known to the world as Taiwan. It soon became clear that this mainland influx, numbering close to a million and including much of China's elite business, military, and intellectual class, was arriving not merely to seek

KEY WORDS: Cosmopolitanism, Elite, Ishumar, Mobility, Nomads, Sahara, Transnationality, Tuareg The Tuareg traditional lifeways of nomadism and pastoralism have been facing vigorous challenges during recent decades. But the Tuareg are... more

As an introduction to the volume, this chapter explores recent developments relating to the study and practice of biography across nations and cultures, discussing key issues in the humanities that have significant implications for... more

As an introduction to the volume, this chapter explores recent developments relating to the study and practice of biography across nations and cultures, discussing key issues in the humanities that have significant implications for writing the lives of writers, musicians and visual artists. These include the the resurgence in scholarly interest in artists’ biographies; the rise of biofiction, and the ways in which it is distinguished from biography; the death, and return, of the Author; and the prominence that transnationality has assumed in studies of life writing, challenging the traditional framework of the nation-state. It also outlines the aims and scope of the volume, and concludes with a one-paragraph summary of each of its chapters in turn.

With increasing frequency, Administrative Law is being used to tackle legal phenomena that can be referred to as ‘transnational’. This label is used is because these phenomena are not fully apprehensible for state Administrative Law. In... more

With increasing frequency, Administrative Law is being used to tackle legal phenomena that can be referred to as ‘transnational’. This label is used is because these phenomena are not fully apprehensible for state Administrative Law. In this study, we attempt to analyse these legal phenomena from the perspective of the territoriality principle. Our aim is to show the effects of the incompatibility of phenomena inherent to globalisation with the paradigm of territoriality in Administrative Law and its statutory conception as a State Law. The study begins with a discussion of the transcendence of the territoriality principle in the General Theory of State and in Legal Theory. In this first section, we analyse the relevance of territory as the basis and limits of public power, and in relations with other legal systems. We then go on to look at the legal phenomena highlighted by the current context of legal fragmentation and pluralism, in order to demonstrate a legal reality that invalidates the territoriality principle’s ability to explain our legal system. It is clear that Administrative Law is overcoming the territorial paradigm and, as a result, we must look into the consequences of this transforming legal context. The study will show how the ‘deterritorialisation’ of Law has direct implications, not only on the relations between legal systems, but also on the summa divisio and on the authoritarian vis traditionally characteristic of Administrative Law. These transformations open the door to an Administrative Law that is not exclusive to the state and is based on dynamic relations between legal systems.

This article examines how the politics of Apartheid manifested themselves in networks that connected South Africa and the Netherlands. It analyses the transfer of narratives, images, ideas and political practices within a transnational... more

This article examines how the politics of Apartheid manifested themselves in networks that connected South Africa and the Netherlands. It analyses the transfer of narratives, images, ideas and political practices within a transnational kinship network, as well as through networks of political activists in both countries and worldwide. The footage a Dutch documentary maker shot during the 1980s, especially his focus on his well-established, ‘white’ relatives from South Africa and their encounters with ‘black’ compatriots, is used to trace these transnational dynamics. His material reveals the various narratives and markers of whiteness by which his relatives presented their privileged position in Apartheid South Africa as ‘normal’, while interviews with the filmmaker and some of his relatives in South Africa and the Netherlands some 25 years later give insights in how their performances were reshaped and received as ‘abnormal’ within the Dutch political context at the time. The post-apartheid memory work involved, show how the political and moral dilemmas are still felt to this day.

Mobility is nothing new, neither for Africa, nor for the Sahara. Mobility, as an umbrella term encompassing all types of movement ranging from nomadism, travel, and trade, to tourism, refugeeism, and migration, is fundamental to... more

Art and literature existed long before the nation. Yet, when the nation conquered European political thought and cultural practice in the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, art and literature in their modern shape soon... more

Art and literature existed long before the nation. Yet, when the nation conquered European political thought and cultural practice in the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, art and literature in their modern shape soon became inextricably bound to the nation. Moreover, as in Herder and Hegel, art and literature became the sublime manifestations of the nation, with national poets serving as the ultimate spokespeople of the nation, national painters creating icons of national virtue and national history and architects refurnishing the proclaimed national habitat in an assumedly national style. As interand transnationality were obvious features of the historical avant-garde, acknowledged in the common labelling of the avant-garde as ‘international’ or ‘European’, it is often presented as a development which ran against the national grain. The avant-garde indeed possessed an international structure as a transnational network of artists from many different countries. In p...

This paper seeks to explore the folk aesthetics of the springtime Bihu festival of Assam. The concept of Rasa, a significant part of the classical aesthetics found in Bharatmuni’s Natyashastra, has been outlined and illustrated through... more

This paper seeks to explore the folk aesthetics of the springtime Bihu festival of Assam. The concept of Rasa, a significant part of the classical aesthetics found in Bharatmuni’s Natyashastra, has been outlined and illustrated through the Bihu songsthe dancing, the gestures as well as the overall ethos of the festival. A major aspect of the paper is the dialectics that form between the folk and the classical canon; an effort has been made to understand the juxtaposition of the two as well as the formation of the classical from the folk. Bihu as a celebration of eros, romance and fertility forms the core of the argument; adi-rasa and shringar-rasa form the primary essence of this celebration and this paper. This folk festival is undergoing rapid modernisation which has brought the dance form onto the urban stage that has led to the metamorphosis of the otherwise agricultural nomenclature of Bihu into a more ‘sanitised’ version of the same. [

In societies characterized by globalization and increasing mobility, social workers are more often confronted with transmigrants: people who move multiple times, combine complex migration trajectories, and whose social lives are shaped in... more

In societies characterized by globalization and increasing mobility,
social workers are more often confronted with transmigrants: people
who move multiple times, combine complex migration trajectories,
and whose social lives are shaped in various sites. The growing
complexity of these mobile clients’ needs calls for a paradigm shift in
social work. Social workers can no longer suffice with locally grounded,
one-nation state solutions to their transnational clients’ problems, but
will need to cross borders both literally and figuratively. Concepts of
international and transnational social work have been formulated to
reflect the challenges posed by globalization and increasing mobility,
remain however still underdeveloped, and the concrete shapes
transnational social work practice remain as yet under-researched.
Based on a qualitative research on social work with transmigrants,
this paper describes emerging practices of transnational social work in
Belgium. We argue that transnational social work is as much an attitude
as an actual practice, as the development of a transnational awareness
serves as an important precondition for recognizing transmigrants’
welfare needs. The realization of the much-needed paradigm shift
calls, however, for a firm incorporation of this awareness on all levels
of social work practice and in its still locally directed policy frames.

Der vorliegende Beitrag beleuchtet religiöse Bezüge von Migrant_innen im transnationalen Kontext und legt dabei den Fokus auf religiöse Institutionen im Ankunftsland. Anhand zweier empirischer Forschungsbeispiele, die einerseits eine... more

Der vorliegende Beitrag beleuchtet religiöse Bezüge von Migrant_innen im transnationalen Kontext und legt dabei den Fokus auf religiöse Institutionen im Ankunftsland. Anhand zweier empirischer Forschungsbeispiele, die einerseits eine römisch-katholische Organisation in Singapur und andererseits eine christliche Religionsgemeinschaft im Kontext Deutschlands betrachten, werden soziale Unterstützungsfunktionen religiöser Strukturen für Migrant_innen näher beleuchtet. Zudem wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit die Institutionen durch ihre Unterstützungsangebote, gemäß ihrem Anspruch, die Abwesenheit von Familie zu ersetzen vermögen.

The Polish western borderland, especially the ‘twin towns’ Zgorzelec- Görlitz, Gubin-Guben and Słubice-Frankfurt, constitute laboratories of European integration, which is described in the relevant literature (Schultz 2009, Jańczak 2013,... more

The Polish western borderland, especially the ‘twin towns’ Zgorzelec-
Görlitz, Gubin-Guben and Słubice-Frankfurt, constitute laboratories of
European integration, which is described in the relevant literature (Schultz 2009, Jańczak 2013, Stokłosa 2015). By making such an assumption one can inquire about the processes and phenomena that appear within their frames, being described and treated by the Polish researchers in the categories of transborderness or social borderland: to what extent are they identical with the processes and phenomena observable and described in the literature of the west as horizontal Europeanisation and transnationality? A general juxtaposition of the selected conceptions that we put forward below is intended to help to draw conclusions with a question like that and at the same time to encourage the search for common areas and the pointing out of impassable differences within these conceptions.

Research on Finnish television history has so far emphasized Western influences. However, the Finnish television environment was also shaped in many ways by contacts with socialist television cultures. This article analyses the first... more

Research on Finnish television history has so far emphasized Western influences. However, the Finnish television environment was also shaped in many ways by contacts with socialist television cultures. This article analyses the first volume of the television magazine Katso to trace the various transnational relations, which shaped the early Finnish television environment and to discuss the cultural meanings of socialist television in this environment. Nearly every issue of Katso in 1960 discusses television in a transnational context. Transnational themes fall into four categories: (1) learning about television in other countries; (2) the Eurovision and Nordvision networks; (3) watching television across national borders (Swedish and Tallinn television but also television across surprising distances); and (4) visions of world television. Katso’s understanding of television emphasizes the literal meaning of television: to see far. The magazine sets no clear limits to what television could do in terms of overcoming physical distance and ideological borders. The magazine avoids overt politics in discussing television from both the West and the East and represents television broadcasting from Tallinn as a potential source of popular television for Finnish audiences.

Based on interviews conducted in Amman and Damascus in 2008-2009 with a number of self-defined Iraqi “intellectuals” (muthaqqafin) who spent their formative years at the University of Baghdad in the 1990s, this paper explores their... more

Based on interviews conducted in Amman and Damascus in 2008-2009 with a number of self-defined Iraqi “intellectuals” (muthaqqafin) who spent their formative years at the University of Baghdad in the 1990s, this paper explores their participation, within alternative intellectual circles, to the production of a highly conceptual counter-hegemonic discourse that did not translate, at the time, into any direct form of political opposition. They had to defer the time, space and realm of their involvement with Iraqi politics. In the post-Ba'thist era these former “alternative intellectuals” are engaged in a transnational field of Iraqi civil society activism from safe bases in Amman or Damascus. The conditions and practicalities of their current involvement and the the link that they consciously make between their past experiences and their present praxes engages with issues of memory and identity in an era of diaspora and national reconstruction.

The focus topic on “Transnational Return? Family Constellations, Expectations, and Negotiations in Remigration” focuses on the meaning of family systems in remigration and the impacts remigration has on family systems. Return processes... more

The focus topic on “Transnational Return? Family Constellations, Expectations, and Negotiations in Remigration” focuses on the meaning of family systems in remigration and the impacts remigration has on family systems. Return processes are characterized by and constructed through hybrid and highly individual as well as familiar remigration decisions, including transnational patterns. Therefore, remigration is increasingly a transnational return. The issue addresses in five articles the reciprocal relationship between remigration and family, the significance of family, the different family constellations and expectations, and highlights the manners, negotiation patterns, and (transnational) social practices of the actors involved.

O mundo atual é um mundo que compartilha diversas crises simultâneas. Aliada a uma crise ambiental cada vez mais preocupante, boa parte do planeta continua sofrendo com uma crise econômica e, desde 2008, também com uma crise financeira. O... more

O mundo atual é um mundo que compartilha diversas crises simultâneas. Aliada a uma crise ambiental cada vez mais preocupante, boa parte do planeta continua sofrendo com uma crise econômica e, desde 2008, também com uma crise financeira. O fator comum em cada uma das crises é a globalização, processo que extrapola o econômico e atinge praticamente todos os segmentos da vida das pessoas. A fragilidade e incapacidade do Estado nacional para lidar com estas crises de âmbito planetário tornam-se cada vez mais evidente. O objetivo do presente artigo é analisar a posição limitada do Estado contemporâneo frente às crises de âmbito planetário e, a partir dessa análise, identificar as alternativas de nova configuração estatal no tratamento das crises, em particular a crise ambiental global, e, dessa forma, fazer frente às demandas planetárias. O método utilizado para desenvolvimento da pesquisa foi o indutivo e sua operacionalização se deu pelas técnicas das categorias básicas, conceitos oper...

A study of the poet as mediator in Brazilian Romanticism with a focus on Alvares de Azevedo.

The focus topic on “Transnational Return? Family Constellations, Expectations and Negotiations in Remigration” focusses on the meaning of family systems in remigration and the impacts remigration has on family systems. Return processes... more

The focus topic on “Transnational Return? Family Constellations, Expectations and Negotiations in Remigration” focusses on the meaning of family systems in remigration and the impacts remigration has on family systems. Return processes are characterized by and constructed through hybrid and highly individual as well as familiar remigration decisions, including transnational patterns. Therefore remigration is more often a transnational return. The issue addresses in five articles the reciprocal relationship between remigration and family, the significance of family, the different family constellations and expectations, and highlights the manners, negotiation patterns and (transnational) social practices of the actors involved

Perche l’antropologia europea e ancora un concetto controverso? In questo commento, propongo di individuare l’antropologia europea a partire dalla sua epistemologia, con la quale si intende principalmente la riflessivita della disciplina,... more

Perche l’antropologia europea e ancora un concetto controverso? In questo commento, propongo di individuare l’antropologia europea a partire dalla sua epistemologia, con la quale si intende principalmente la riflessivita della disciplina, e a partire dal suo contesto transnazionale che esige non solo la comunicazione oltre i confini nazionali, ma anche parita negli scambi tra antropologi europei. Sostengo, inoltre, che l’antropologia europea si fondi su un orizzonte comune di significato che e condiviso dagli antropologi europei. In tal senso, concludo che affrontare la “controversia” attorno all’antropologia europea implichi impegnarsi in ulteriori controversie.