Antonio Maria Pusceddu
University of Barcelona, Departament of Social Anthropology, Department Member
- University of Barcelona, Antropologia cultural, historia d'America i Africa, Department Memberadd
- Anthropology, Antonio Gramsci, Visual Anthropology, Mining History, Historical Materialism, De-industrialization (Anthropology), and 44 moreNeoliberalism (Anthropology), Anthropology of Mining, Anthropology of Borders, Anthropology of Development, Modern Greece, Border Studies, Ottoman Studies, Albanian Studies, History of Anthropology, Migration Studies, Comparative Religion, Transnationalism, Ambiguous Sanctuaries, Folk Religion, Economic Anthropology, Borderlands Studies, European Islam, Postsocialism, Greek Historiography, Postcommunist studies, Ethnicity, Coal Mining, Cultural Memory, History and Memory, Greek Civil War, Public Memory, Necropolitics, Death and Dying, Mourning and Remembrance, Pilgrimage, Islam in Europe, Muslims in Europe, Bektashi Studies, Sufism, Bektashism, Islam in the Balkans, Post-Socialism, Mediterranean Studies, Islamic Studies, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Neoliberalism, Neoliberalization of the state, Island Studies, Ethnography, Anthropology of Religion, Meridionalismo, and Neo-Gramscianismedit
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
This piece examines the position of workfare scheme recipients in the municipal administration of a southern Italian city. Looking at the interplay between different regulatory frameworks – from administrative to labour and welfare... more
This piece examines the position of workfare scheme recipients in the municipal administration of a southern Italian city. Looking at the interplay between different regulatory frameworks – from administrative to labour and welfare reforms – in a particular locale, I emphasize the analytical relevance of the formal-informal linkage in understanding the production of spheres of informality and negotiation within a bureaucracy.
Review article: Sharryn Kasmir, August Carbonella, eds, Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2014, pp. 298; Fulvia D’Aloisio, Simone Ghezzi, eds, Antropologia della crisi: Prospettive... more
Review article: Sharryn Kasmir, August Carbonella, eds, Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2014, pp. 298; Fulvia D’Aloisio, Simone Ghezzi, eds, Antropologia della crisi: Prospettive etnografiche sulle trasformazioni del lavoro e dell’impresa in Italia, Torino, L’Harmattan Italia, 2016, pp. 242.
Tavola rotonda con Rossella Ragazzi, Felice Tiragallo, Carlo Maxia, Paolo Piquereddu, Salvatore Pinna, Francesco Bachis; a cura di F. Tiragallo
The aim of this article is to provide a discussion on the Mediterranean as a helpful framework for comparison. In order to illustrate what kind of comparison we have been thinking of, we will be dealing with two case studies that... more
The aim of this article is to provide a discussion on the Mediterranean as a helpful framework for comparison. In order to illustrate what kind of comparison we have been
thinking of, we will be dealing with two case studies that investigate the relationship between mobility and religious identities. The first case study focuses on mobility across
Greek and Albanian border regions, whereas the second investigates migration from rural areas of Morocco to rural areas of central Sardinia (Italy). The theoretical ground in
which the research is situated merges approaches on migration to southern Europe (Grillo and Pratt 2002, Cesari 2002), approaches on borderlands, and reflections on boundaries as analytical tools (Donnan and Wilson 1999), and finally focuses on the social meaning of religious identity.
thinking of, we will be dealing with two case studies that investigate the relationship between mobility and religious identities. The first case study focuses on mobility across
Greek and Albanian border regions, whereas the second investigates migration from rural areas of Morocco to rural areas of central Sardinia (Italy). The theoretical ground in
which the research is situated merges approaches on migration to southern Europe (Grillo and Pratt 2002, Cesari 2002), approaches on borderlands, and reflections on boundaries as analytical tools (Donnan and Wilson 1999), and finally focuses on the social meaning of religious identity.
Research Interests:
The paper presents a general overview of an ongoing research on representations of multi-religious Epirote society in local textual narratives. Aim of the paper is to explore the interplay between the Greek nationalistic script of... more
The paper presents a general overview of an ongoing research on representations of multi-religious Epirote society in local textual narratives. Aim of the paper is to explore the interplay between the Greek nationalistic script of anti-Muslim discourses and the local narratives of the Ottoman past. The focus is on the objectification of local memories in textual narratives and how this process has been affected by the diglossic relationships between oral and written Greek, which favoured a textual re-elaboration of local memories through the lens of dominant national narratives.It is argued that the analysis of ‘marginal texts’ in ‘marginal contexts’ can provide a useful ground to reflect on the complexities implied in the reshaping of the Ottoman past and the multi-religious character of Ottoman Balkan society, caught in between the imperatives of national narratives and the selective processes of local memories.
Research Interests:
Antonio Maria Pusceddu SCRIVERE I CONFINI. APPUNTI SU STORIA E IDENTITÀ NAZIONALE NELLA GRECIA SETTENTRIONALE 0. Le note che seguono raccolgono alcune delle osservazioni for-mulate durante una prima fase di ricerca sul terreno ( 1), e... more
Antonio Maria Pusceddu SCRIVERE I CONFINI. APPUNTI SU STORIA E IDENTITÀ NAZIONALE NELLA GRECIA SETTENTRIONALE 0. Le note che seguono raccolgono alcune delle osservazioni for-mulate durante una prima fase di ricerca sul terreno ( 1), e sono lega-te ad una serie ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Border Studies, Albanian Studies, Balkan Studies, Anthropology of Pilgrimage, Pilgrimage, and 13 moreModern Greece, Migration Studies, Muslims in Europe, Anthropology of Borders, Muslim-Christian Relation, Antonio Gramsci, Borders and Frontiers, Western Balkans, Bektashi Studies, Borders and Borderlands, Sufism, Bektashism, Islam in the Balkans, Sufi movements in Balkans, and Critical MusliIm Studies
book chapter in Β. Νιτσιάκος, Π. Ποτηρόπουλος (eds), Ανθρωπολογία και Λαογραφία. Μια συμβολή στο διάλογο, Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης [in Greek: “The study of popular culture: The Italian case”, in V. Nitsiakos, P. Potiropoulos (eds),... more
book chapter in Β. Νιτσιάκος, Π. Ποτηρόπουλος (eds), Ανθρωπολογία και Λαογραφία. Μια συμβολή στο διάλογο, Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης [in Greek: “The study of popular culture: The Italian case”, in V. Nitsiakos, P. Potiropoulos (eds), Anthopology and Folklore: A contribution to the dialogue].
Introduzione a "Oltre Adriatico e ritorno. Percorsi antropologici tra Italia e Sudest Europa", Roma, Meltemi, pp. 7-56
Research Interests:
In Gabriella Da Re (ed.), Per un’antropologia dei saperi. Pratiche e dialoghi con la natura in Sardegna, Firenze, Olschki, 2015, pp. 245-279.
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Anthropology, Ethnography, Transnationalism, Moroccan Studies, Albanian Studies, and 11 moreMigration, Symbolic Boundaries, Morocco, Migration Studies, Transnational migration, Anthropology of Borders, Migration (Anthropology), Role of Religion in migration, Albania, Borders and Frontiers, and Borders and Borderlands
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Sociology, Middle East Studies, Ethnography, and 15 moreSocial and Cultural Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Anthropology of space, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Mediterranean Studies, European Union, Contested Spaces (Anthropology of space), Spain (Mediterranean Studies), Modern Greece, Syria, Middle East Politics, Contentious Politics, Charles Tilly, and Ethnicity and National Identity
Paper presented at the workshop "Reciprocity, solidarity, debt: anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives on exchange relations" (joint workshop of the research projects “Grassroots Economics” and “The debt”), Faculty... more
Paper presented at the workshop "Reciprocity, solidarity, debt: anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives on exchange relations" (joint workshop of the research projects “Grassroots Economics” and “The debt”), Faculty of Economy and Business, University of Barcelona, 13 February 2018.
Paper presented at the workshop "Ten Years of Crisis: The Ethnography of Austerity" (joint workshop of the projects “Care as sustainability in crisis situations”, “Household survival in crisis: austerity and relatedness in Greece and... more
Paper presented at the workshop "Ten Years of Crisis: The Ethnography of Austerity" (joint workshop of the projects “Care as sustainability in crisis situations”, “Household survival in crisis: austerity and relatedness in Greece and Portugal”, “Grassroots Economics: Meaning, Project and Practice in the Pursuit of Livelihood”), ISCTE – University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 10-12 January 2018
Paper presented at the 116th Annual Meeting of the AAA – American Anthropological Association; panel: "Surviving Austerity in Europe: Autonomy and dependencies between entrepreneurship and solidarity", Washington (USA), 29 November – 3... more
Paper presented at the 116th Annual Meeting of the AAA – American Anthropological Association; panel: "Surviving Austerity in Europe: Autonomy and dependencies between entrepreneurship and solidarity", Washington (USA), 29 November – 3 December 2017
(co-authored with Giacomo Loperfido), 116th Annual Meeting of the AAA, panel: ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ revisited: Putting core-periphery relations in context, Washington (USA), 29 November – 3 December;
Paper presented at the workshop "Capitalism for anthropologists", University of Bergen (Norway), 25-28 June, 2017
Paper presented at the international conference "Capitalist development in hostile environment: 30 years later," University of Calabria & John Hopkins University, Cosenza (Italy) 6-8 June 2017
Paper presented at the 13th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, University of London, London, 10-13 November 2016
Paper presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the AAA – American Anthropological Association, "Familiar & Strange"; invited session: "Has the crisis become 'organic'? Breakdown of expectations and the transformation of the political",... more
Paper presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the AAA – American Anthropological Association, "Familiar & Strange"; invited session: "Has the crisis become 'organic'? Breakdown of expectations and the transformation of the political", Denver (USA), 18-22 November 2015;
Paper presented at the 14th EASA Conference Anthropological legacies and human futures, panel: Value(s) of labour in austerity-era Europe, Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and Department of Sociology and Social... more
Paper presented at the 14th EASA Conference Anthropological legacies and human futures, panel: Value(s) of labour in austerity-era Europe, Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), 20-23 July, 2016
Paper presented at the International Conference "Lieux saints en Méditerranée: entre partage et partition", MuCEM/IDEMEC/IMéRA, MuCEM – Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, 3-5 June 2015;
Talk at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (PhD seminars), 17th February 2017