Heath Cabot
Biographic Data
| ID | 79208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heath Cabot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heath |
| FAMILY NAME | Cabot |
| SIGNATURE | CABOT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5705-7660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 432 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mobilizing Documents
This co‐authored essay builds on a growing anthropological literature that engages critically and creatively with idealized official and popular ideas about documents of/in migration regimes. Documents are often championed as a common and unquestionable good in transnational migration but they are intrinsically tied to inequalities and exclusions. As such they can be the source of hope for migrants, but are frequently also the source of violence,…
NAT Forum
Engaged Anthropology in Norway and Beyond
Feminized labour as public reason in Greek social solidarity clinics and pharmacies
Drawing on fieldwork in social solidarity clinics and pharmacies in Greece, this article considers citizens' initiatives that emerged to redistribute crucial resources under economic crisis and state austerity. Activists and scholars regularly described these interventions as resistance, creativity, or revolution, insisting that solidarity must be politicized. Such framings emphasized conscious, overt, programmatic action, grounded on an assumed …
Struggles for academic freedom (part 1)
In the first of two interviews on the issue of academic freedom, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed Hayal Akarsu, president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, and Heath Cabot, president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, about the restrictions faced by scholars and students in Europe and beyond. In a wide-ranging discussion, Akarsu and Cabot consider historical cycles of repression, surveilla…
Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford
This article features a long-term refugee in Greece who decided to return to his home country in the face of severe illness. I ask what his illness and treatment in Greece, and ultimately his return to Sudan, reveal about protection regimes: as he sought care, respite from pain, and a good—or at least dignified—death. His return enabled him to be among family again, in once-familiar places, and to be laid to rest among ancestors. Yet rather than …
Crisis as method
This article calls for a deeper consideration of crisis as a method, as spearheaded by anthropologists trained in the Manchester School, including Max Gluckman, who followed extended case studies to track 'crisis over time'. This approach examines how certain occurrences trigger reflection and deliberation beyond the event and activate critique of interlocutors and anthropologists, reinserting questions of ethics and morality. I argue that crisis…
Introduction
We introduce this special issue, which re-examines the fluctuating fortunes of the Mediterranean in anthropology and ask what it offers for contemporary anthropological explorations. We locate the Mediterranean within the history of anthropological (and more broadly, ethnographic) development of core ideas and methodologies concerning personhood, narrative, and culture making. Our approach to the study of the Mediterranean focuses less on why ant…
Le déplacement, l’humanitarisme et le business de l’anthropologie
Les métaphores de submersion et de « flux » sont souvent appliquées dans la sphère publique aux phénomènes de déplacement et de migration, mais il y aussi des « vagues » et des « marées » d’acteurs humanitaires, de « bénévoles » et de chercheurs qui se concentrent maintenant sur les réfugiés. Les interventions humanitaires, sécuritaires et anthropologiques dans la « crise des réfugiés » européenne de 2015-2016 s’inscrivent souvent dans une logiqu…
The European Refugee Crisis and Humanitarian Citizenship in Greece
Greece has been at the epicentre of two overlapping 'humanitarian crises:' the economic crisis and the crisis of refugees. Since 2011, as austerity policies have hamstrung the Greek state's capacity to meet the basic needs of citizens, long-term residents, and new arrivals alike, formal and informal humanitarian initiatives have sought to provide for diverse beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the 'refugee crisis' has opened up a booming humanitarian marke…
The business of anthropology and the European refugee regime
Metaphors of flooding and “flows” are often applied in the public sphere to the phenomena of displacement and migration, but there are also “waves” and “tides” of humanitarian actors, “voluntourists,” and researchers now focused on refugees. Humanitarian, security, and anthropological interventions in the European “refugee crisis” of 2015–16 often operate according to a shared logic of urgency and crisis. Key problems and pitfalls in current anth…
Borderlands
Reviewed by: Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition by Michel Agier Heath Cabot Michel Agier, Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition. Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 2016. 208 pp. Michel Agier's Borderlands, originally published in French in 2013, is now available in English (translation by Michael Fernbach). With this new edition, following on the heels of what has been dubbed the "Euro…
Editors' Introduction In Good Faith
Editors' Intro
Philiaandphagia
Comment on Borneman, John, and Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. 2017. "The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany's refugee crisis." Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (3): 105-135
Editor's Introduction
Refugee Voices
This article considers the parallels between ethnographic work and refugee advocacy to show how these knowledge forms seek and yet fail to represent "refugee voices." The predicaments of refugees in Greece have recently captured the attention of the world owing to Greece's crucial position in the 2015 "European refugee crisis," but Greece has long been on the frontlines of refugee reception in the EU. Based on ethnographic research conducted betw…
Contagious' solidarity
In response to growing numbers of people unable to access national healthcare, networks of 'social solidarity' clinics/pharmacies have emerged throughout Greece. These clinics/pharmacies redistribute donated medicines, and they provide care through networks of volunteers. They thus seek to respond to the growing 'contagion' of austerity in Greece with what some describe as 'contagious' solidarity. Discourses regarding social health also permeate …
The Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
On the Doorstep of Europe
On the Doorstep of Europe examines the way asylum seekers, bureaucrats, and service providers in Greece attempt to navigate the dilemmas of governance, ethics, knowledge, and sociability that emerge through this legal process
The social aesthetics of eligibility
On the porous EU border of Greece, where both fiscal and migration management are said to be in a state of crisis, NGOs figure crucially in the provision of legal and social aid to asylum applicants. I explore the dialogical engagements underpinning the determination of client eligibility at one such NGO in Athens. As workers and aid candidates coproduce "pictures" of lives eligible for protection, profound uncertainties and indeterminacies emerg…
Chapter 7 Borders of (In)visibility in the Greek Aegean
The Greek Aegean islands of Crete and Lesvos are widely known as prime destinations where tourists come to enjoy the sea, sand, and sun. Yet as geopolitical borderlands of not just Greece but the European Union (EU), they are also crucial points of destination and arrival for both economic and asylum-related migrations. Just as Greece has commanded the spotlight in anxieties and debates regarding the European market (as of 2012), these islands at…
Guerrilla Auditors
The Governance of Things
Some anthropological examinations of documents have emphasized their role as regulatory technologies that enact control and legibility over both citizens and "aliens." This article shows, however, that documentary practices and forms both reinforce and undermine attempts to make persons governable. My analysis centers on the "pink card," the identity document issued to asylum seekers in Greece, which in 2010 was the European country with the high…
Judges and Law Reform
The business of anthropology and the European refugee regime
Metaphors of flooding and “flows” are often applied in the public sphere to the phenomena of displacement and migration, but there are also “waves” and “tides” of humanitarian actors, “voluntourists,” and researchers now focused on refugees. Humanitarian, security, and anthropological interventions in the European “refugee crisis” of 2015–16 often operate according to a shared logic of urgency and crisis. Key problems and pitfalls in current anth…
The Governance of Things
Some anthropological examinations of documents have emphasized their role as regulatory technologies that enact control and legibility over both citizens and "aliens." This article shows, however, that documentary practices and forms both reinforce and undermine attempts to make persons governable. My analysis centers on the "pink card," the identity document issued to asylum seekers in Greece, which in 2010 was the European country with the high…
The social aesthetics of eligibility
On the porous EU border of Greece, where both fiscal and migration management are said to be in a state of crisis, NGOs figure crucially in the provision of legal and social aid to asylum applicants. I explore the dialogical engagements underpinning the determination of client eligibility at one such NGO in Athens. As workers and aid candidates coproduce "pictures" of lives eligible for protection, profound uncertainties and indeterminacies emerg…
The European Refugee Crisis and Humanitarian Citizenship in Greece
Greece has been at the epicentre of two overlapping 'humanitarian crises:' the economic crisis and the crisis of refugees. Since 2011, as austerity policies have hamstrung the Greek state's capacity to meet the basic needs of citizens, long-term residents, and new arrivals alike, formal and informal humanitarian initiatives have sought to provide for diverse beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the 'refugee crisis' has opened up a booming humanitarian marke…
Contagious' solidarity
In response to growing numbers of people unable to access national healthcare, networks of 'social solidarity' clinics/pharmacies have emerged throughout Greece. These clinics/pharmacies redistribute donated medicines, and they provide care through networks of volunteers. They thus seek to respond to the growing 'contagion' of austerity in Greece with what some describe as 'contagious' solidarity. Discourses regarding social health also permeate …
Refugee Voices
This article considers the parallels between ethnographic work and refugee advocacy to show how these knowledge forms seek and yet fail to represent "refugee voices." The predicaments of refugees in Greece have recently captured the attention of the world owing to Greece's crucial position in the 2015 "European refugee crisis," but Greece has long been on the frontlines of refugee reception in the EU. Based on ethnographic research conducted betw…
Philiaandphagia
Comment on Borneman, John, and Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. 2017. "The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany's refugee crisis." Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (3): 105-135
Introduction
We introduce this special issue, which re-examines the fluctuating fortunes of the Mediterranean in anthropology and ask what it offers for contemporary anthropological explorations. We locate the Mediterranean within the history of anthropological (and more broadly, ethnographic) development of core ideas and methodologies concerning personhood, narrative, and culture making. Our approach to the study of the Mediterranean focuses less on why ant…
Crisis as method
This article calls for a deeper consideration of crisis as a method, as spearheaded by anthropologists trained in the Manchester School, including Max Gluckman, who followed extended case studies to track 'crisis over time'. This approach examines how certain occurrences trigger reflection and deliberation beyond the event and activate critique of interlocutors and anthropologists, reinserting questions of ethics and morality. I argue that crisis…
Feminized labour as public reason in Greek social solidarity clinics and pharmacies
Drawing on fieldwork in social solidarity clinics and pharmacies in Greece, this article considers citizens' initiatives that emerged to redistribute crucial resources under economic crisis and state austerity. Activists and scholars regularly described these interventions as resistance, creativity, or revolution, insisting that solidarity must be politicized. Such framings emphasized conscious, overt, programmatic action, grounded on an assumed …
Borderlands
Reviewed by: Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition by Michel Agier Heath Cabot Michel Agier, Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition. Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 2016. 208 pp. Michel Agier's Borderlands, originally published in French in 2013, is now available in English (translation by Michael Fernbach). With this new edition, following on the heels of what has been dubbed the "Euro…
Editors' Introduction In Good Faith
Judges and Law Reform
Chapter 7 Borders of (In)visibility in the Greek Aegean
The Greek Aegean islands of Crete and Lesvos are widely known as prime destinations where tourists come to enjoy the sea, sand, and sun. Yet as geopolitical borderlands of not just Greece but the European Union (EU), they are also crucial points of destination and arrival for both economic and asylum-related migrations. Just as Greece has commanded the spotlight in anxieties and debates regarding the European market (as of 2012), these islands at…
Guerrilla Auditors
The Governance of Things
Some anthropological examinations of documents have emphasized their role as regulatory technologies that enact control and legibility over both citizens and "aliens." This article shows, however, that documentary practices and forms both reinforce and undermine attempts to make persons governable. My analysis centers on the "pink card," the identity document issued to asylum seekers in Greece, which in 2010 was the European country with the high…
The social aesthetics of eligibility
On the porous EU border of Greece, where both fiscal and migration management are said to be in a state of crisis, NGOs figure crucially in the provision of legal and social aid to asylum applicants. I explore the dialogical engagements underpinning the determination of client eligibility at one such NGO in Athens. As workers and aid candidates coproduce "pictures" of lives eligible for protection, profound uncertainties and indeterminacies emerg…
On the Doorstep of Europe
On the Doorstep of Europe examines the way asylum seekers, bureaucrats, and service providers in Greece attempt to navigate the dilemmas of governance, ethics, knowledge, and sociability that emerge through this legal process
Editor's Introduction
Refugee Voices
This article considers the parallels between ethnographic work and refugee advocacy to show how these knowledge forms seek and yet fail to represent "refugee voices." The predicaments of refugees in Greece have recently captured the attention of the world owing to Greece's crucial position in the 2015 "European refugee crisis," but Greece has long been on the frontlines of refugee reception in the EU. Based on ethnographic research conducted betw…
Contagious' solidarity
In response to growing numbers of people unable to access national healthcare, networks of 'social solidarity' clinics/pharmacies have emerged throughout Greece. These clinics/pharmacies redistribute donated medicines, and they provide care through networks of volunteers. They thus seek to respond to the growing 'contagion' of austerity in Greece with what some describe as 'contagious' solidarity. Discourses regarding social health also permeate …
The Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
Philiaandphagia
Comment on Borneman, John, and Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. 2017. "The concept of Stimmung: From indifference to xenophobia in Germany's refugee crisis." Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (3): 105-135
Borderlands
Reviewed by: Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition by Michel Agier Heath Cabot Michel Agier, Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition. Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 2016. 208 pp. Michel Agier's Borderlands, originally published in French in 2013, is now available in English (translation by Michael Fernbach). With this new edition, following on the heels of what has been dubbed the "Euro…
Editors' Introduction In Good Faith
Editors' Intro
Le déplacement, l’humanitarisme et le business de l’anthropologie
Les métaphores de submersion et de « flux » sont souvent appliquées dans la sphère publique aux phénomènes de déplacement et de migration, mais il y aussi des « vagues » et des « marées » d’acteurs humanitaires, de « bénévoles » et de chercheurs qui se concentrent maintenant sur les réfugiés. Les interventions humanitaires, sécuritaires et anthropologiques dans la « crise des réfugiés » européenne de 2015-2016 s’inscrivent souvent dans une logiqu…
The European Refugee Crisis and Humanitarian Citizenship in Greece
Greece has been at the epicentre of two overlapping 'humanitarian crises:' the economic crisis and the crisis of refugees. Since 2011, as austerity policies have hamstrung the Greek state's capacity to meet the basic needs of citizens, long-term residents, and new arrivals alike, formal and informal humanitarian initiatives have sought to provide for diverse beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the 'refugee crisis' has opened up a booming humanitarian marke…
The business of anthropology and the European refugee regime
Metaphors of flooding and “flows” are often applied in the public sphere to the phenomena of displacement and migration, but there are also “waves” and “tides” of humanitarian actors, “voluntourists,” and researchers now focused on refugees. Humanitarian, security, and anthropological interventions in the European “refugee crisis” of 2015–16 often operate according to a shared logic of urgency and crisis. Key problems and pitfalls in current anth…
Introduction
We introduce this special issue, which re-examines the fluctuating fortunes of the Mediterranean in anthropology and ask what it offers for contemporary anthropological explorations. We locate the Mediterranean within the history of anthropological (and more broadly, ethnographic) development of core ideas and methodologies concerning personhood, narrative, and culture making. Our approach to the study of the Mediterranean focuses less on why ant…
Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford
This article features a long-term refugee in Greece who decided to return to his home country in the face of severe illness. I ask what his illness and treatment in Greece, and ultimately his return to Sudan, reveal about protection regimes: as he sought care, respite from pain, and a good—or at least dignified—death. His return enabled him to be among family again, in once-familiar places, and to be laid to rest among ancestors. Yet rather than …
Crisis as method
This article calls for a deeper consideration of crisis as a method, as spearheaded by anthropologists trained in the Manchester School, including Max Gluckman, who followed extended case studies to track 'crisis over time'. This approach examines how certain occurrences trigger reflection and deliberation beyond the event and activate critique of interlocutors and anthropologists, reinserting questions of ethics and morality. I argue that crisis…
NAT Forum
Engaged Anthropology in Norway and Beyond
Feminized labour as public reason in Greek social solidarity clinics and pharmacies
Drawing on fieldwork in social solidarity clinics and pharmacies in Greece, this article considers citizens' initiatives that emerged to redistribute crucial resources under economic crisis and state austerity. Activists and scholars regularly described these interventions as resistance, creativity, or revolution, insisting that solidarity must be politicized. Such framings emphasized conscious, overt, programmatic action, grounded on an assumed …
Struggles for academic freedom (part 1)
In the first of two interviews on the issue of academic freedom, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed Hayal Akarsu, president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, and Heath Cabot, president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, about the restrictions faced by scholars and students in Europe and beyond. In a wide-ranging discussion, Akarsu and Cabot consider historical cycles of repression, surveilla…
Mobilizing Documents
This co‐authored essay builds on a growing anthropological literature that engages critically and creatively with idealized official and popular ideas about documents of/in migration regimes. Documents are often championed as a common and unquestionable good in transnational migration but they are intrinsically tied to inequalities and exclusions. As such they can be the source of hope for migrants, but are frequently also the source of violence,…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Refugee (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)