Country of residence

Slovakia

Brief introduction

Lecturer, Institute of Social Anthropology, Comenius University, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences

Education

PhD in social anthropology/ethnology, 2006, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg/Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Academic profile

I am interested in social movements and how they depend on social transformations. I undertook one year long fieldwork in Przemysl, South-East Poland in 2003-2004. Since 2009 I am head of Slovak consortium partner of MEDEA – Models and their Effects on Development paths: an Ethnographic and comparative Approach to knowledge transmission and livelihood strategies, collaborative project no. 225670 of the EU 7^th Framework Program (www.medeasteelproject.org). My major interest in this project is political mobilisation of steel workers and ethnic cohabitation and mobilisation with regard to factory work processes after socialism. I am doing fieldwork in Kosice – Saca, an industrial town with a large Roma minority. I publish in leading domestic journals and daily press on topic related to tolerance, ethnicity and nationalism (including Roma). I am editor-in-chief of leading intellectual journal in Slovakia OS – obcianska spolocnost (civil society). Since 1997 I have been collaborating with Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava, the leading think-tank in Slovakia. Currently we are working on a project dealing with autochtonous sources of tolerance and cohabitation in Slovakia and Central and Eastern Europe. I teach classes on ethnicity and nationalism, political and economic anthropology.

Publications

• 2007. Nation and Religion: The Politics of Commemoration in South-east Poland. Műnster: Lit (vol. 14, Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia).
• 2008. ‘Europeanization and post-peasant populism in Eastern Europe’, Europe-Asia Studies, 60:5, 757–771.
• 2009. ‘Scale and Ethnicity in Southeast Poland: Tourism in the European Periphery’, Etnográfica 13(2): 373-393

Keywords

Politics, economy, social movements, ethnicity, nationalism

Contact

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