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Antonádia Borges Antonádia Borges has a PhD in Anthropology (University of Brasília, 2003). She is Professor at the Department of Anthropology in the same University, where she coordinates a laboratory on anthropological theory. Her investigations touch different themes around land distribution and public policies: political events, social movements, state bureaucracy and state coercion. From researches done in Brazil, she recently shifted her field to South Africa – namely to the region of Kwazulu-Natal – where the main subject of investigation concerns land restitution processes. She has published several articles on her ethnographic experiences and the monographic study “Tempo de Brasilia: etnografando lugares-eventos da política”(2004). Antónia Lima Antónia Pedroso de Lima (MA in Urban Anthropology from Barcelona University - Tarragona, 1991; Ph.D.in anthropology from ISCTE - University of Lisbon, 2001) is Professor at the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE since 1989, and Vice-Director of the Research Centre in Social Anthropology (CEAS/ISCTE). Specialist on kinship theory and contemporary family relations she has published numerous papers on Portuguese urban family, focusing both on working class neighbourhoods of Lisbon and on the Portuguese economic elite. Author of Grandes famílias Grandes empresas. Ensaio antropológico sobre uma elite de Lisboa. (D. Quixote, 2003), co‑editor with João Pina‑Cabral of Elites: Choice, Leadership and Succession (Berg 2002) and with Ramón Sarró Terrenos metropolitanos: desafios para a antropologia Lisboa: Edições ICS (2006). Her present research projects are on family and relatedness, gender, power, aging and emotions. Carolyn Rouse Carolyn Rouse (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and teaches in the Center for African-American Studies at Princeton University. She has done extensive fieldwork with African American converts to Sunni Islam, medical anthropology research around sickle cell disease and healthcare disparities, and is currently focused on a longitudinal film project in four corners of Africa and the African Diaspora. In addition, she has produced, directed, and/or edited a number of documentaries including Chicks in White Satin (1994), a film about a lesbian wedding; and Purification to Prozac: Treating Mental Illness in Bali (1998). She is the author of Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam (2004), and is completing Uncertain Suffering: Racial Healthcare Disparities and the Politics of Sickle Cell Disease and Televised Redemption: Race, Religion and Media with Marla Frederick and John Jackson. Catarina Fróis Catarina Frois is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. Her fieldwork was carried out among 12 Step associations in Lisbon (Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous and Families Anonymous) focusing on issues such as stigma, addiction, ritual, identity and anonymity. Her latest publication is: “Identification and anonymity: two sides of the same coin” (2006) in Re/defining the Matrix ed. by Bartels, Schultze & Stopińska, Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main. Her main interests for research are: cultural aspects of anonymity, privacy, surveillance and identification technologies. She is currently a Foundation for Science and Technology fellow. Chiara Pussetti Chiara Pussetti (Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, University of Torino, 2003) is presently senior associate researcher, of the Social Anthropology Research Center (CEAS, ISCTE) of Lisbon with a post-doctoral grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the island of Bubaque, Arquipelago of Bijagós, Guinea Bissau, since 1993, focussing on the social construction of the person as well as on the local discourses on emotion and affliction. In 2003 she has started a new research project in a Portuguese Psychiatryc Hospital, investigating the emotional experience of displacement and the strategies of suffering and cure of African immigrants. She is the author of “Poetica delle emozioni. I Bijagó di Bubaque” (2005); “A patologização da diversidade. Uma reflexão antropológica sobre a noção de culture-bound syndrome” (2006, Etnografica); “Vento, tempesta e incendio: i pericoli della perdita del controllo tra i Bijagó, Guinea Bissau” (2005, Emozioni, ed. Chiara Pussetti). Cihan Tugal Cihan Tugal studies religion and politics. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a poor district of Istanbul. He received his PhD from Michigan in 2003. He was then a Mellon post-doctoral fellow in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Northwestern University (2003-2005). Since 2005 he has taught sociology at UC Berkeley. He is currently working on a book on the metamorphosis of Islamism in Turkey from a transformatory, authoritarian, social justice-oriented project to a neo-liberal, pro-democratic, conservative movement. Clara Saraiva Clara Saraiva is a senior researcher at the Lisbon Institute for Scientific Tropical Research (Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical) and a professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was an invited Professor at Brown University (USA) and has carried out field work in Guinea-Bissau on funerary rituals and religion among the Pepel, and on issues of transnational religion among migrants from Guinea-Bissau in Lisbon. Cristiana Bastos School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London dm21(at)soas.ac.uk David Mosse is a Social Anthropologist at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. My research combines an interest in the anthropology of development, environmental history and natural resources management, and South Asian society and popular religion. One of my current research projects concerns the ethnography of aid, international development and global governance (e.g. The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development Pluto, 2005, Development Brokers and Translators: The Ethnography of Aid and Organisations, Kumarian 2006. both ed with David Lewis). This project follows on from my study of British aid policy and project practice focused on rural livelihoods development in western India (Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice, 2005). A second on-going project concerns the politics of religious identity, and uses long-term historical and ethnographic research to examine the changing relationship between Christianity and predominantly Hindu south Indian society (The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Popular Christianity and society in South India, in preparation). This has also led me to further study of contemporary Dalit movements and the everyday politics of caste in south India. I have continuing interest in environmental history, water resources management and state-community relations (The Rule of Water: Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India, Oxford UP 2003), and in practical and policy issues surrounding participatory or community-driven development and labour migration (in western India). My concern is especially with the socially subordinated Dalits and adivasis. Over the last 20 years I have combined academic anthropology with development practice. I worked as a social development adviser for DFID, as Regional Representative for Oxfam in south India, and as a rural development consultant. Emília Marques Emília Margarida Marques (Centro de Estudos de Etnologia Portuguesa – Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Erik Bahre Erik Bähre is an economic anthropologist specialised in South Africa. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork, mostly among Xhosa migrants living in the townships and squatter settlements of Cape Town. His Ph.D. at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam (2003), was an ethnography on how, faced with violence, economic insecurity, and volatile relations, Xhosa migrants in Cape Town, establish burial societies and credit groups. It examines the urban poor’s day-to-day struggles over money in post-apartheid South Africa. His current research at AMIDSt, University of Amsterdam is on insurances in South Africa that target ‘the bottom of the market’. What are the effects of insurance policies on other financial arrangements, as well as the ability to cope with risk? He is the author of Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township (2007) and published in, among others, Current Anthropology, African Studies, Ethnography, and Journal of Religion in Africa. Isabelle Coutant Isabelle Coutant est sociologue. Ses principales recherches, reposant sur des enquêtes ethnographiques menées essentiellement à Paris et en région parisienne, se sont concentrées sur les effets de la précarisation des classes populaires et se sont progressivement orientées sur les relations que ces catégories entretiennent avec diverses institutions (justice, travail social, psychiatrie). Après l’obtention de son doctorat en 2003, elle a enseigné pendant trois ans au département de sciences sociales de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) avant d’être recrutée comme chargée de recherches au CNRS en 2006. Elle est l’auteur de Politiques du squat. Scènes de la vie d’un quartier populaire (2000) et de Délit de jeunesse. La justice face aux quartiers (2005). Javier Auyero Javier Auyero is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook. His areas of specialization are political ethnography, collective action, urban poverty, and Latin American studies. He moved from his native Argentina to New York in 1992, and he received his PhD from The New School for Social Research in 1997. In the year 2000, he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of Poor People’s Politics (2000, NECLAS best book prize), Contentious Lives (2003), and Routine Politics and Collective Violence. The Gray Zone of State Power (forthcoming). He is the current editor of Qualitative Sociology. Jean-Yves Durand Jean-Yves Durand is assistant professor of anthropology at the Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal), and a member of CEAS (Centro de Estudos em Antropologia Social, Lisbon) and IDEMEC (Institut d’Ethnologie Méditerranéenne et Comparative, Aix-en-Provence). Through fieldwork in southern France, northern Portugal and New England, his research has focussed on the uses of various types of “knowledges” (water-dowsing, ethnobotany and, more recently, immunology). He aims at linking up this field of inquiry with that of cultural heritage, around the issues raised by an analysis of the social status of crafts and of “folk knowledge”. Besides this two-sided main area of investigation, he keeps an interest in the anthropology of the Mediterranean region and in the subject-matter of anthropology and/of translation. João Leal [short CV not available] José Virgílio Pereira Virgílio Borges Pereira (PhD in sociology, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2002) is a sociologist who has been studying the processes of social class formation in northwestern Portugal's industrial region of vale do Ave and in the city of Porto. He is Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto and Researcher of the Instituto de Sociologia of the same faculty. Since 2003, he also teaches in the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto. He is the author of Os vincados padrões do tecido social (Afrontamento, 1999) and of Classes e culturas de classe das famílias portuenses (Afrontamento, 2005). He is also co-author of Estudantes do ensino superior no Porto. Representações e práticas culturais (Afrontamento, 2001) and co-editor of Pierre Bourdieu. A teoria da prática e a construção da sociologia em Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007). Joseph Masco Joseph P. Masco (PhD, UC San Diego 1999) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College investigates the politics of everyday life in the nuclear age and in post-Cold War America. His book The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2006) explores how the end of the Cold War challenged concepts of security and risk for the diverse communities working in and neighboring Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. His theoretical interests include science and technology studies, the anthropology of the national security state, the expressive culture of the Cold War, political ecology, exchange, and social theory. topJuliana Prates Santana Juliana Prates Santana é Psicóloga e possui o Mestrado em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento. Nesse momento está a realizar o Doutoramento em Sociologia da Infância no Instituto de Estudos da Criança, na Universidade do Minho, possuindo uma bolsa de estudos da Kellogg’s Foudation. As suas investigações abordam, entre outras questões, a problemática das crianças em situação de rua e a relação que essas estabelecem com a rua, com a família e com as instituições de atendimento a elas destinadas. No âmbito do Doutoramento, realizou uma etnografia em uma instituição de atendimento a crianças em situação de rua na cidade de Salvador, no Brasil, buscando compreender o cotidiano dessas crianças e suas trajetórias de vida. É autora dos textos: Os adolescentes em situação de rua e as instituições de atendimento: Utilizações e reconhecimento de objetivos (2005); É fácil tirar a criança da rua, o difícil é tirar a rua da criança (2005). Karin Knorr-Cetina Karin Knorr Cetina is a Professor of Sociology and teaches at the University of Chicago and at the University of Constance, Germany. Most of her work is based on ethnographies conducted in complex expert settings in Western societies—for example, she conducted so called “laboratory studies” in high energy physics (CERN, the European Laboratory of Partical Physics in Geneva) and in various Molecular Biology Settings, and she studied global financial markets on the trading floors of large investment banks and private banks in Zurich, New York, London and Sidney. Her recent publications include “Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge” (1999 (2003) Harvard University Press), which received two prices, and “The Sociology of Financial Markets” (edited with Alex Preda), Oxford University Press 2005. She is currently working on a book on the Global Microstructures of Financial Markets. Karin Knorr Cetina is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, she was president of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and she is currently chair of the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association. Loïc Wacquant Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. A MacArthur Foundation Fellow, he has published numerous works on comparative urban marginality, embodiment, the penal state, ethnoracial domination, and social theory translated in a dozen languages. His recent books include Body and Soul: Notebooks of An Apprentice Boxer (2004), The Mystery of Ministry: Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics (2005), Das Janusgesicht des Ghettos und andere Essays (2006), and Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (2007). He is a co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography and was a regular contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique from 1996 to 2004. Luís Almeida Vasconcelos Luís Almeida Vasconcelos é antropólogo. No âmbito do seu doutoramento, tem levado a cabo trabalho investigação sobre o movimento de música electrónica de dança, mais particularmente sobre o Trance. Tem igualmente como objecto de interesse os usos de substâncias psicoactivas, aos quais se tem dedicado nos últimos dez anos. É autor de Heroína: Lisboa como Território Psicotrópico nos Anos Noventa, editado em 2003 pela Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. Luís Baptista Luís Fernandes Luís Fernandes é professor associado da Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto. Tem dedicado os seus trabalhos de investigação à expressão do fenómeno droga em contexto urbano. A evolução deste fenómeno conduziu-o à pesquisa sobre o sentimento de insegurança, a violência urbana, a marginalidade e a exclusão social. Ao longo da década de 90 estudou, através do método etnográfico, o universo dos bairros sociais portuenses, que a comunicação social dizia serem o principal topos das drogas. É co-fundador do Observatório Permanente de Segurança do Porto (1996), membro da Comissão Científica do Doutoramento em Antropologia Urbana do ISCTE, membro do Conselho Científico da SOMA – Associação Anti-proibicionista Portuguesa e colaborador da Cânhamo – Revista de Cultura Canábica.Últimas investigações realizadas (2003-2005): participação no projecto europeu DAILY DOSE de comparação de políticas e de práticas em torno do acesso/adesão de consumidores de drogas infectados com VIH aos tratamentos antiretrovirais; participação no projecto europeu RESOLAT de caracterização das práticas de intervenção em Redução de Riscos e Minimização de Danos; consultor externo do projecto europeu IN EXTREMIS dirigido a grupos em situação de exclusão social nas grandes urbes. Principais publicações: O sítio das drogas (1998), Ed. Notícias; Consumos problemáticos de drogas em populações ocultas (2003), Instituto da Droga e da Toxicodependência (co-autoria com Maria Carmo Carvalho). Manuela Ivone Cunha Manuela Ivone P. da Cunha is an anthropologist and teaches at the University of Minho (Portugal). She is a member of NEA, CEAS (Portugal) and of IDEMEC (France). She did extensive fieldwork in a psychiatric hospital and in a major women's prison. Her research focuses on informal economies and the structure of drug markets, prisons and total institutions, namely the present reconfiguration of prison daily life, and she is now developping a research project on “Vaccination. Society and the Administration of the Body. She has published Malhas que a reclusão tece. Questões de identidade numa prisão feminina (Lisbon, CEJ, 1994), and Entre o Bairro e a Prisão: Tráfico e Trajectos Lisbon, (Fim de Século, 2002). The latter book was distinguished with a prize for the social sciences. Other main publications include (ed.) Aquém e Além da Prisão. Cruzamentos e Perspectivas (Lisbon, Noventa Graus, forthcoming) and the coordination of an Etnográfica issue: Formalidade e Informalidade, (November, vol. 10, nº 2, 2006). Marcelo Rosa Marcelo Rosa (Ph.D. in Sociology - IUPERJ, Rio de Janeiro) is professor at the Department of Sociology, Universidade Federal Fluminense - Rio de Janeiro. Since he has concluded his PhD on social movements, State and land struggles, he is doing a comparative research about the Brazilian and South African landless movements. The comparative perspective is the background to discuss his main interest area: the contemporary role of the State in southern societies.Among his publications are: Individuo e sociedade na transição para o capitalismo: o possivel dialogo entre Norbert e Florestan Fernandes. Novos Estudos Cebrap, 2004; and As novas faces do sindicalismo rural brasileiro: a reforma agraria e as tradições sindicais na Zona da Mata de Pernambuco, Dados, 2004. Margarida Moz Margarida Moz is a PhD student in Anthropology at ISCTE, Lisbon. Her field of research has always been amongst gay and lesbian communities. Her Masters’ dissertation Uma Lisboa Diferente: leitura antropológica da relação entre a Associação ILGA-Portugal e a Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (2001), focused on the relationship between the City Council in Lisbon and the biggest Gay and Lesbian Association in Portugal. Her PhD research aims to understand the family ties within gay and lesbian families through the lives of their children. She is currently a Research Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Maria Cardeira da Silva Maria Cardeira da Silva is an anthropologist interested in Arabic and Islamic contexts, and in Anthropology of Tourism. She has conducted intensive ethnographic fieldwork in the medina of Salé, and more recently and briefly in Aljadida and Azzamor (Morocco) and in Ouadane (Mauritania). Since 1986 she has taught anthropology of Islamic contexts, Anthropology of Tourism and Anthropology of Human Rights at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is the author of Um Islão Prático. (A Practical Islam: women daily performances in urban Moroccan context) 1999, Celta, and editor of Outros Destinos (Other Destinations. New sites for tourists, new fields for Anthropology) 2005, Livros Horizonte. Maria do Mar Pereira Maria do Mar Pereira is a sociologist currently preparing her PhD in Gender at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She considers that it is crucial (and extremely interesting!) to use ethnography to gain a deeper understanding of the multiple ways in which gender is negotiated in everyday life and to problematise the dynamic and performative character of these processes. Thus in 2006, as part of her graduate dissertation in Sociology at ISCTE (Portugal), she conducted an ethnographic study of the negotiation of gender and power among teenagers in a school in Lisbon. Her current research project combines ethnographic and non-ethnographic methods to analyse the status of gender studies in the social sciences in Portugal. She has also collaborated in research projects on masculinities and fatherhood, and representations of gender in the media, and she maintains an active involvement in feminist movements, having coordinated a number of awareness raising projects focused on gender (in)equality and aimed at young people. Mario Small Mario Luis Small is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Small’s research has focused on urban poverty, inequality and culture, and migration from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. His work has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Theory and Society,and Social Science Quarterly. His recent book, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio (2004, University of Chicago Press), examines social capital in a Boston housing complex inhabited primarily by Puerto Rican immigrants and questions the idea that neighborhood poverty has the same consequences for people regardless of city context. The book received the C. Wright Mills Award for Best Book from the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, among other citations. Small is currently working on the distribution of for-profit and non-profit establishments across neighborhoods, and on the mechanisms by which childcare centers and other neighborhood organizations shape the social networks and research-accessing strategies of the poor. Megan Comfort Megan Comfort is a sociologist at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received her PhD in 2003 from the London School of Economics and Political Science and was awarded the University of London’s Robert MacKenzie Prize for her dissertation. For her doctoral research, she conducted ethnographic field work in the visitor waiting area at San Quentin State Prison and interviewed fifty women with incarcerated husbands or boyfriends to analyze how the incarceration of a partner infiltrates and systematically distorts women’s personal, domestic and social worlds. Her book, Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. Since 2002, she has been collaborating with colleagues at UCSF to design, implement, and evaluate a multi-component HIV-prevention intervention for women visiting men at San Quentin. Her next project integrates qualitative and quantitative methods and will involve both members of heterosexual couples living in Oakland, California, in which the man was recently released from prison. Michael Herzfeld Michael Herzfeld is Professor of Anthropology and Curator of European Ethnology in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, where he currently teaches. He was editor of American Ethnologist during 1994-98 and has also served as Associate Editor of Journal of Modern Greek Studies; he serves on numerous editorial boards and is currently co-editor of the “Materializing Culture” series with Berg as well as of “New Anthropologies of Europe” with Indiana University Press. He is the author of Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece (1982), The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, Anthropology through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe (1987), A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town (1991), The Social Production of Indifference: The Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy (1992), Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State (1997/ 2005), and Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis (1997), and Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society (2001). He has recently published a new book on apprenticeship in Greece and globally, titled The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value (University of Chicago Press, 2004); he is also now conducting new research in Italy and Thailand on gentrification and the management of the past as well as the social effects of historic conservation. Miguel Chaves Miguel Chaves é sociólogo de formação. Foi bolseiro de investigação da FCT e Investigador Júnior Associado do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. Actualmente, é docente da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e investigador do Centro de Estudos: Fórum Sociológico do departamento de sociologia da mesma faculdade. Ao longo da década de 90 desenvolveu estudos sobre comunidades urbanas excluídas, nomeadamente num conhecido bairro de Lisboa fortemente penetrado pelo narcotráfico. Esse estudo culminou com a publicação de um livro intitulado Da Gandaia ao Narcotráfico: Marginalidade Económica e Dominação Simbólica em Lisboa (1999) e com a escrita de vários artigos sobre estas temáticas. A partir dessa data desenvolveu estudos de cariz etnográfico sobre o consumo de novas drogas sintéticas, tendo também estado envolvido em projectos de natureza quantitativa sobre o consumo de drogas. É o caso do primeiro inquérito geral sobre os consumos de drogas realizado em Portugal. Actualmente desenvolve investigações centradas no universo das novas classes médias, mais concretamente sobre os valores, os estilos de vida e a inserção profissional de jovens profissionais (jovens advogados). É esse o tema da sua tese de doutoramento. Miguel Vale de Almeida Miguel Vale de Almeida was born in Lisbon in 1960. He is Professor of Anthropology at ISCTE-Lisbon and Senior Researcher at CEAS/ISCTE, where he is the Editor-in-chief of Etnográfica. He did fieldwork in Portugal, Brazil, and Spain. He has published several books, two of which in English: The Hegemonic Male. Masculinity in a Portuguese Town, and An Earth-Colored Sea. 'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World. He was an op-ed writer in the main Portuguese newspaper, keeps a blog, has published two books of fiction, and is a political activist, especially in the area of LGBT rights. Nina Eliasoph Nina Eliasoph’s work has asked, in various contexts, how people create organizations that make some kinds of relationships easier to maintain than others, some kinds of conversation easier to conduct than others—and how the situations allow people to ignore what does not fit their group’s style of action. Her first book, Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life (Cambridge UP, 1998; won several prizes; Éviter le politique, forthcoming, Économia) is an ethnographic study of volunteer groups, activist groups and a country-western dance club, which asks how people did—or did not—talk politics in these settings that theorists consider “civic.” She just finished (!) a second book manuscript that is based on 5 years’ of participant observation with US “youth civic engagement projects.” In both projects, the question has been how people create situations, “footings,” in relation to larger social patterns. She currently is an Associate Professor of Sociology (jointly appointed in Communications) at the University of Southern California. Before that, she taught at the University of Wisconsin in sociology, and held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, and at Princeton University. Her Ph. D. is from the University of California-Berkeley. Pedro Vasconcelos [short CV not available] Philippe Bourgois Philippe Bourgois is professor of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California since 1998. His main research interests are medical anthropology (HIV, drug use, homelessness violence, and social inequality), ethnicity and immigration (Latino immigrants in USA). he is conducting participant-observation field work among homeless heroin injectors and crack smokers in San Francisco, as well as on undocumented day labourers and former guerrilla fighters from El Salvador in the San Francisco Mission District. After his Phd in Anthropology (1985, Stanford University) he undertook post-doctoral research on African and North African immigrants in Paris (1986, École Normale Supérieure). Recently he edited Violence in War and Peace (2004, with co-editor Nancy Scheper-Hughes). He is the author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (1995, for which he received several awards). He just finished the book Righteous Dopefiend (co-authored with Jeff Schonberg). Ramon Sarró [short CV not available] Rayna Rapp Rayna Rapp, a medical anthropologist at New York University, is the author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (Routledge, 1999). The book is particularly concerned with how women of diverse racial/ethnic, class, religious, and national backgrounds interpret medical information about prenatal testing, what they understand disabilities to be, and which ones might be worth an abortion. The mutual and changing co-construction of biomedicine and family life lie at the heart of this fieldwork-based project. Her more recent work has moved in two related directions: with a research team, she has examined how new genetic knowledge is made when a gene is found, querying the contributions of bench scientists, clinician/physicians, and patients and their families. Along with her colleague, Faye Ginsburg, she is beginning fieldwork and ethnographic analysis of the cultural meaning of the "epidemic" in learning disabilities in the USA. Here, too, sociocultural diversity in diagnosis, services, and educational outcomes is a central focus; a concern with media as a site of social activism, science as an authoritative social discourse, and cultural familiarity with disabilities all lie at the heart of this project, as well. Thus: science, media, kinship, and education become categories of cultural production, social experience, and anthropological scrutiny in this ethnographic endeavor. Susana de Matos Viegas Susana de Matos Viegas is Full-time Researcher in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. She has been Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Coimbra-Portugal, between 2003 and 2006, where she teached since 1989. She did academic fieldwork among the Tupinambá Indians who live in the Atlantic coast region of Brazil (south of Bahia) between 1997 and 2000. Since 2003 she is the scientific coordinator and author of the anthropological research and Report for the Identification of the Indigenous Land of the Tupinambá Indians of Olivença, as a UNESCO Consultant and coordinator of the technical group of the Brazilian government department for indigenous affairs, National Indian Foundation (FUNAI). She has participated as researcher in several international projects in Portugal and Brazil. She has widely published about Identity, personhood, kinship, south-Amerindian socialities and indigenous territory. Susana Durão Susana Durão doutorou-se em Antropologia pelo Instituto de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa em 2006 (ISCTE, Lisboa), com a tese: “Patrulha e Proximidade. Uma Etnografia da Polícia em Lisboa”, tendo feito trabalho de campo etnográfico em esquadras e acompanhado os polícias no seu trabalho de rua. Leccionou em algumas instituições universitárias, entre as quais o ISCTE, mas tem centrado a sua actividade na investigação científica. Participou em vários projectos no âmbito do Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social (onde é um dos membros da Direcção) e no Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia. Actualmente desenvolve o projecto de pós-doutoramento sobre formas de negociação e respostas à violência urbana no Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) e no Centre d’Études Africaines da EHESS-CNRS (2007-2009), com bolsa de estudo da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Além de diversos artigos, é autora de Oficinas e Tipógrafos, Culturas e Quotidianos do Trabalho (D. Quixote, 2003) e organizou números temáticos de revistas académicas, ‘Antropologia e Organizações’, Etnográfica, VIII (1), com Graça Cordeiro (2004) e ‘Trabalho, Profissões e Empresas / Dossier Vidro’, Arquivos da Memória (8/9), com E. Margarida Marques (2000). As principais áreas de interesse são a antropologia das organizações, trabalho e profissões; estudos urbanos; estudos policiais, do crime e violência; teorias críticas da segurança. Susana Narotzky Susana Narotzky is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona, in Spain. Her research has focussed on issues of work and the construction of moral contexts of responsibility in the production of informal economic processes in Europe. Narotzky tries to underline the need for a historical framework in order to understand present day tensions, struggles and cultural constructs. She has done fieldwork in Catalonia, Valencia (Spain) and Lombardia (Italy). Among her recent publications are [with Gavin Smith] Immediate Struggles: People, Power and Place in Rural Spain (2006); "The Production of Knowledge and the Production of Hegemony: Anthropological Theory and Political Struggles in Spain" in Escobar, A. & G. Lins Ribeiro (Eds) (2006) World anthropologies: Disciplinary transformations in Systems of Power; [with Smith, G.] "Movers and Fixers: Historical Forms of Exploitation and the Marketing of a Regional Economy in Spain", Smart, A. & Smart, J. (eds.) (2005) Petty Capitalists and Globalization. Flexibility, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development "The Political Economy of Affects: Community, Friendship and Family in the Organization of a Spanish Economic Region" in Procoli, A. (ed.) (2004) Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe among others. Sylvie Fainzang Sylvie Fainzang is a French medical anthropologist, Director of research in the Inserm (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale / Cermes). After working in West Africa where she led her first researchs for her PHD (1984), she decided working in France on various issues regarding perceptions of illness and of the body, with the same inclination for ethnographic methodology as she used in Africa. She obtained a ‘Habilitation to Direct Researches’ in the EHESS in Paris in 1997 and is presently a member of the National Committee of the Cnrs (in anthropology). Her recent interests are for social and cultural behaviours towards health and illness, consumption of medicines, norms and deviances in the field of health, information of patient, and lying among doctors and patients. She is author of: - "L'intérieur des choses". Maladie, divination et reproduction sociale chez les Bisa du Burkina" (1986); - La femme de mon mari. Etude ethnologique du mariage polygamique en Afrique et en France (1989); - Pour une anthropologie de la maladie en France. Un regard africaniste (1989), translated under the title: Of Malady and Misery. An Africanist Perspective of Illness in Europe (2000); - Ethnologie des anciens alcooliques. La liberté ou la mort (1996); - Médicaments, Religions et Sociétés. Le patient face à l'ordonnance et à l'autorité médicale (2001); - La relation médecins-malades : information et mensonge (2006). Vincent Dubois Vincent Dubois, sociologist and political scientist, was born in 1966. He is Professor at the Institute for Political Studies in Strasbourg, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (Paris). He belongs to the Groupe de sociologie politique européenne (UMR PRISME, CNRS, Strasbourg) and is associate member of the Centre de sociologie européenne founded by Pierre Bourdieu (EHESS, CNRS, Collège de France, Paris). He is also editor of the scientific journal Sociétés contemporaines (Presses de Sciences Po, Paris), and member of the associate editorial board of the Actes de la recherché en sciences sociales. Vincent Planel Vincent Planel is a PhD student and a teaching assistant in Anthropology at the University of Aix-Marseille, France. He works currently on an ethnographic approach to sociohistorical tranformations in the province of Taez, Yemen, through the study of urban masculine sociability. Since 2003 he has focused on various urban objects, such as the neighbourhood politics of young urban jobless and the segregation of rural migrants in the urban space. His focus has broadened recently to masculinity studies, the theme of “hustling” and the problem of distrust in a society experiencing unprecedented conditions of social mixity combined with strict gender segregation. His interests also include epistemology and problems in the anthropology of science, such as the role of “intuition” in physics. He was a student at Paris X – Nanterre University (anthropology) and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (physics and social sciences). |
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