J K Cowan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 11188 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J K Cowan |
| NOMBRES | J K |
| APELLIDO | Cowan |
| FIRMA | COWAN J K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3782-0443 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 271 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The bureaucratisation of utopia
Bureaucracies, whether national or international, have rarely been conceived as ‘utopian’ sites. On the contrary, classic representations tend to describe bureaucratic formations as ‘rationality machines’, administrations as homogeneous black boxes and bureaucrats as individuals working ‘without hatred or passion’ to implement a broader vision of which they remain largely ignorant. The idea for this special issue emerged out of a feeling of uneas…
‘The feeling of pursuing an ideal’
Three decades before the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the international community – in its newly institutionalised guise as a League of Nations – was charged by its covenant to guarantee the rights and protections of a more limited number of people: those considered to be ‘persons belonging to minorities of race, religion or language’ in certain primarily east European states. The everyday work of ‘supervising’ t…
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Going Out for Coffee?
Brexit Referendum
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review
The Universal Periodic Review is an intriguing and ambitious development in human rights monitoring which breaks new ground by engaging all 193 members of the United Nations. This book provides the first sustained analysis of the Review and explains how the Review functions within the architecture of the United Nations. It draws on socio-legal scholarship and the insights of human rights practitioners with direct experience of the Review in order…
Between learning and schooling
This paper explores the politics of monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a new United Nations human rights monitoring mechanism which aims to promote a universal approach and equal treatment when reviewing each country’s human rights situation. To what extent are these laudable aims realised, and realisable, given entrenched representations of the West and the Rest as well as geopolitical and economic inequalities both historically …
Struggling over procedures and other interventions
Previous articleNext article FreeStruggling over procedures and other interventions A comment on David Graeber's "Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class"Jane K. COWANJane K. COWANUniversity of Sussex Search for more articles by this author University of SussexPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreBecaus…
Anthropology and History
Coincidences as connections
What makes our projects "anthropological"? What is that anthropological twist that we bring and what does it add to any given empirical or substantive field? These are the key questions that the editors of Focaal asked me to consider; intrinsically compelling, they hooked me into adding my own contribution to this Forum topic. The questions intrigue me because I see myself both as a keen advocate of certain ways of doing interdisciplinarity, and …
Fixing national subjects in the 1920s southern Balkans
The momentous transition from empire to nation-state in the early 20th century entailed a challenge for European states to produce "national" subjects-citizens. Scholars examining how diverse populations were incorporated into national projects have typically taken the nation-state's territorial boundaries as analytical boundaries and have rarely considered nation-building comparatively or investigated the creation of national subjects as an inte…
The Supervised State
This article addresses an arresting conjuncture: the fact that the international community's involvement in states' affairs frequently coalesces around a state's management of internal difference. I outline striking parallels in the ways relations between supranational bodies, some European states, and their minorities were reconfigured in two post-imperial moments: the decade following the Great War and the present period of post-socialist trans…
Human rights and gender violence
An Obligation to "Support Human Rights" Unconditionally Is Misguided Moralism
Culture and Rights after Culture and Rights
Building on a critical, theoretical approach outlined in Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (Cowan et al. 2001a), I posit rights processes as complex and contradictory: Both enabling and constraining, they produce new subjectivities and social relations and entail unintended consequences. To encourage interdisciplinary engagement on these themes, I explore selected texts that consider the relationship between culture and rights, add…
Who's Afraid of Violent Language
The peace treaties following the Great War dictated that certain nation-states accept, as the price of international recognition, agreements to protect the rights of their minority populations. Responsibility to `guarantee' and `supervise' the minority treaties fell to a novel and untried international institution, the League of Nations. It established the `minority petition procedure', an unprecedented innovation within international relations t…
Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity
Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography. E. NENI PANOURGIÁ. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xxvi + 242 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index
New Voices in the Nation
New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964. Janet Hart. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. xiii. 313 pp., photographs, references, index
Loring M. Danforth, The Macedonian conflict; ethnic nationalism in a transnational world. Princeton, NJ
(1997). The Macedonian conflict: ethnic nationalism in a transnational world. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 261-265
Alcohol, Gender and Culture
Sardinian Chronicles. Bernard Lortat-Jacob
Gendered Anthropology
Women, Men and Pre-Lenten Carnival in Northern Greece
My very first encounter with Sohos, a small market and agricultural town in the mountains northeast of Thessaloniki, a few days before the start of Lent in 1976, is recorded in a set of black-and-white photographs. Their harsh contrasts evoke the chill bleakness of late winter while the images tell a story of social marginality. To my eye, as a young female American university student exploring the central marketplace, men and youths were visible…
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
In Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece, Jane K. Cowan offers an ethnographic study of the interconnectedness of dance, ritual, gender, and politics in a rural Greek Macedonian community. Cowan explores how women's participation in public rituals, particularly through dance, shapes and reflects social relations, power dynamics, and local identities. She argues that women's ritual actions are not simply expressions of tradition but active…
Culture and Rights after Culture and Rights
Building on a critical, theoretical approach outlined in Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (Cowan et al. 2001a), I posit rights processes as complex and contradictory: Both enabling and constraining, they produce new subjectivities and social relations and entail unintended consequences. To encourage interdisciplinary engagement on these themes, I explore selected texts that consider the relationship between culture and rights, add…
Brexit Referendum
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Gendered Anthropology
Between learning and schooling
This paper explores the politics of monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a new United Nations human rights monitoring mechanism which aims to promote a universal approach and equal treatment when reviewing each country’s human rights situation. To what extent are these laudable aims realised, and realisable, given entrenched representations of the West and the Rest as well as geopolitical and economic inequalities both historically …
Fixing national subjects in the 1920s southern Balkans
The momentous transition from empire to nation-state in the early 20th century entailed a challenge for European states to produce "national" subjects-citizens. Scholars examining how diverse populations were incorporated into national projects have typically taken the nation-state's territorial boundaries as analytical boundaries and have rarely considered nation-building comparatively or investigated the creation of national subjects as an inte…
Who's Afraid of Violent Language
The peace treaties following the Great War dictated that certain nation-states accept, as the price of international recognition, agreements to protect the rights of their minority populations. Responsibility to `guarantee' and `supervise' the minority treaties fell to a novel and untried international institution, the League of Nations. It established the `minority petition procedure', an unprecedented innovation within international relations t…
Struggling over procedures and other interventions
Previous articleNext article FreeStruggling over procedures and other interventions A comment on David Graeber's "Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class"Jane K. COWANJane K. COWANUniversity of Sussex Search for more articles by this author University of SussexPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreBecaus…
An Obligation to "Support Human Rights" Unconditionally Is Misguided Moralism
New Voices in the Nation
New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964. Janet Hart. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. xiii. 313 pp., photographs, references, index
My Family and Me . 1986. A film by Colette Piault
Pericles in America . 1988. A film by John Cohen
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
In Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece, Jane K. Cowan offers an ethnographic study of the interconnectedness of dance, ritual, gender, and politics in a rural Greek Macedonian community. Cowan explores how women's participation in public rituals, particularly through dance, shapes and reflects social relations, power dynamics, and local identities. She argues that women's ritual actions are not simply expressions of tradition but active…
Chapter 8. Going Out for Coffee? Contesting the Grounds of Gendered Pleasures in Everyday Sociability
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. Here Jane Cowan explores how the politics of gender is articulated through the body at these culturally central, yet until now ethnographically neglected, celebrations in a class-divided northern Greek town. Portraying the dance-event as both a highly structured and dyna…
The Hidden Musicians
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
The Last Word
Based on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece, The Last Word explores women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse social practices: improvised antiphonic laments, divinatory dreaming, the care and tending of olive trees and the dead, and the inscription of emotions and the senses on a landscape of persons, things, and places. These practices compose the empowering poetics of the cultural periphery. C. Nadia Seremetakis…
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Women, Men and Pre-Lenten Carnival in Northern Greece
My very first encounter with Sohos, a small market and agricultural town in the mountains northeast of Thessaloniki, a few days before the start of Lent in 1976, is recorded in a set of black-and-white photographs. Their harsh contrasts evoke the chill bleakness of late winter while the images tell a story of social marginality. To my eye, as a young female American university student exploring the central marketplace, men and youths were visible…
Gendered Anthropology
Alcohol, Gender and Culture
Sardinian Chronicles. Bernard Lortat-Jacob
Loring M. Danforth, The Macedonian conflict; ethnic nationalism in a transnational world. Princeton, NJ
(1997). The Macedonian conflict: ethnic nationalism in a transnational world. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 261-265
Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity
Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography. E. NENI PANOURGIÁ. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xxvi + 242 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index
New Voices in the Nation
New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964. Janet Hart. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. xiii. 313 pp., photographs, references, index
Who's Afraid of Violent Language
The peace treaties following the Great War dictated that certain nation-states accept, as the price of international recognition, agreements to protect the rights of their minority populations. Responsibility to `guarantee' and `supervise' the minority treaties fell to a novel and untried international institution, the League of Nations. It established the `minority petition procedure', an unprecedented innovation within international relations t…
An Obligation to "Support Human Rights" Unconditionally Is Misguided Moralism
Culture and Rights after Culture and Rights
Building on a critical, theoretical approach outlined in Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (Cowan et al. 2001a), I posit rights processes as complex and contradictory: Both enabling and constraining, they produce new subjectivities and social relations and entail unintended consequences. To encourage interdisciplinary engagement on these themes, I explore selected texts that consider the relationship between culture and rights, add…
The Supervised State
This article addresses an arresting conjuncture: the fact that the international community's involvement in states' affairs frequently coalesces around a state's management of internal difference. I outline striking parallels in the ways relations between supranational bodies, some European states, and their minorities were reconfigured in two post-imperial moments: the decade following the Great War and the present period of post-socialist trans…
Human rights and gender violence
Fixing national subjects in the 1920s southern Balkans
The momentous transition from empire to nation-state in the early 20th century entailed a challenge for European states to produce "national" subjects-citizens. Scholars examining how diverse populations were incorporated into national projects have typically taken the nation-state's territorial boundaries as analytical boundaries and have rarely considered nation-building comparatively or investigated the creation of national subjects as an inte…
Coincidences as connections
What makes our projects "anthropological"? What is that anthropological twist that we bring and what does it add to any given empirical or substantive field? These are the key questions that the editors of Focaal asked me to consider; intrinsically compelling, they hooked me into adding my own contribution to this Forum topic. The questions intrigue me because I see myself both as a keen advocate of certain ways of doing interdisciplinarity, and …
Anthropology and History
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