A De Lauri
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 32901 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A De Lauri |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | De Lauri |
| FIRMA | DE LAURI A |
| AFILIACIONES | Chr. Michelsen Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1362-7377 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Anthropologie publique et citoyenneté concernée
On Speaking Out
Coda
When linked to the context of war, fun can be understood as an expression of both direct and indirect communication, a manner of public engagement as well as a 'ritual of inversion' in which the proprieties of structure (the declared mandate and rules of war) are lampooned and violated, yet the finalities of the project of war (dominion, control, violence, and so on) remain intact. The focus on fun is not meant to trivialise the suffering war pro…
Introduction to the special issue
In this text, we introduce the Special Issue 'War and Fun: Exploring the Plurality of Experiences and Emotional Articulations of Warfare and Soldiering' by highlighting the need to challenge, expand, and reorient public and scholarly debates in order to address the complex interplay of emotions, moralities and agency that characterise the human experience of war from the perspective of those who fight
Humanitarian contradictions
The Humanitarian Theater in the Mediterranean and the Threat of Violence in the Balkans
This article compares the Mediterranean and the Balkan routes of migration into the European Union, exploring the (in)visibility and (un)knowability of the management of European borderlands. It offers a historical overview of the hotspot approach in the Mediterranean, where securitarian concerns merged with humanitarian affects, making certain practices and subjectivities possible, but foreclosing others. Lampedusa, Italy, has been turned into a…
Commenti a ' Bronislaw Malinowski, l'antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo ' di Antonino Colajanni
Comments on “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” by Antonino Colajanni, with contributions by Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piasere, Daniela Salvucci, Ivan Severi, Barbara Sorgoni, Jaro Stacul, Giuseppe Tateo, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn, Pier Paolo Viazzo, with a response from the author
Public Anthropology in the Digital Era
The public anthropologist grapples with not one but many overlapping digital transformations, which influence how anthropologists access, produce, and disseminate knowledge. The digital turn reshapes the social fields with which the anthropologist engages; the political opportunities and risks arising from the engagement of the public anthropologist; and the methodological approach of the public anthropologist as they access, produce, and dissemi…
Armed governance
This article examines the genealogy and behavior of the CIA militias in Afghanistan against the backdrop of persistent armed governance whereby a plurality of actors competes over control and rule. The nonaccountable use of force by militias and their volatile alliances increase the extent of armed governance, exacerbating issues of human rights abuses and undermining the possibility of future claims for justice. We discuss the effects of recurre…
Covid-19, 'dugnad' and social control in Bergen and beyond
Public Anthropology in Changing Times
Public anthropology is a collective aspiration shaped by generally shared values and intentions within significant sections of social and cultural anthropology. The impetus behind the creation of the journal Public Anthropologist originates in this realm of ongoing discussions and actions inspired by the idea of pushing engagement and participation beyond academic borders. Given that the traditional triadic structure’s assessment standards and th…
Humanitarian militarism and the production of humanity
The limits and consequences of humanitarian military operations continue to be major issues in Western public debates on global security, democracy and human rights. This article focuses on the intersection of war and humanitarianism, situating the study of humanitarian militarism within a European context in which a reinvigorated proliferation of the military ethos coexists with ongoing transformations in European military culture and a resurgen…
The Taliban and the humanitarian soldier
Humanitarian wars are a primary means of globally affirming a specific model of humanity, built according to the cultural, moral, and economic standards of Western democracies. How are forms of humanity produced in the context of humanitarian war in Afghanistan? How are notions of freedom mobilized? How does the idea of a prospective humanity relate to the use of military force? In an attempt to reflect on the different configurations of freedom …
The Absence of Freedom
Central and South Asian brick kilns have long attracted the attention of both humanitarian agencies and scholars as sites of slavery-like forms of labor exploitation. They represent both an important case study for investigating the systems of dependence and debt-relationships that characterize Southern Asian capitalism, and a big challenge to creating sustainable, international standards for human labor. One aspect largely overlooked in the lite…
Law as an anti‐value
Anthropologists are chronologically only the latest to have adopted justice (and injustice) as an object of (critical) inquiry. Even among anthropologists, however, the radical critical cry that law is the instrument par excellence of control and repression, has today fallen out of fashion. Starting from the Afghan case, in this paper I reflect on law as a potential source of violence and as an anti‐value – in the sense of being in antithesis wit…
Boredom and crisis in the humanitarian realm (Respond to this article at http
‘Humanitarian boredom’ produces its own perspective on the world, providing a ‘point of entry’ to the observation of humanitarianism in practice. In this paper, while problematizing both a general understanding of boredom and a romantic idea of humanitarianism, the author focuses on boredom as experienced by humanitarian workers during crises in the humanitarian realm
Entre loi et coutumes
Le système juridique afghan est formé de pratiques coutumières, de principes de la shari’a, de lois promulguées par l'état, et de normes internationales. Cet arsenal législatif a généralement été étudié en prêtant une attention particulière à la coexistence et/ou à la confrontation entre systèmes de référence différents, mais en négligeant le plus souvent les interrelations créées par la fusion de pratiques, de valeurs et de modèles comportementa…
Corruption, Legal Modernisation and Judicial Practice in Afghanistan
11. I am grateful to anonymous ASR reviewers for insightful comments. An earlier preliminary version of this work appeared as ‘Afghanistan: Corruption and injustice in the judicial system’. Further research and fieldwork has been undertaken within the framework of activities of the Fernand Braudel International Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Paris) and Rechtskulturen Fellowship (Berlin). I discussed some of the ideas illustrated here in …
Terre, normes de propriété et litiges à Kaboul
Les conflits relatifs à la possession et à l’exploitation de la terre sont très courants en Afghanistan. Plusieurs facteurs y contribuent : à l’absence de cadastre et à la destruction de documents officiels s’ajoutent les migrations massives liées à la guerre. En partant de l’étude de cas ethnographiques, je propose dans cet article d’analyser les modalités de règlement des conflits liés à la propriété foncière. Je centrerai la réflexion sur les …
Between Law and Customs
The Afghan normative scenario is composed of customary practices, shari'a principles, laws promulgated by the state and international law. Studies on this arsenal tend to give special attention to the coexistence and/or clashing of different sources of law, but they usually overlook the interrelations that are created through the merging of values, norms and socially recognised customary practices. In particular, little attention has been given t…
Corruption, Legal Modernisation and Judicial Practice in Afghanistan
11. I am grateful to anonymous ASR reviewers for insightful comments. An earlier preliminary version of this work appeared as ‘Afghanistan: Corruption and injustice in the judicial system’. Further research and fieldwork has been undertaken within the framework of activities of the Fernand Braudel International Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Paris) and Rechtskulturen Fellowship (Berlin). I discussed some of the ideas illustrated here in …
The Humanitarian Theater in the Mediterranean and the Threat of Violence in the Balkans
This article compares the Mediterranean and the Balkan routes of migration into the European Union, exploring the (in)visibility and (un)knowability of the management of European borderlands. It offers a historical overview of the hotspot approach in the Mediterranean, where securitarian concerns merged with humanitarian affects, making certain practices and subjectivities possible, but foreclosing others. Lampedusa, Italy, has been turned into a…
On Speaking Out
Public Anthropology in the Digital Era
The public anthropologist grapples with not one but many overlapping digital transformations, which influence how anthropologists access, produce, and disseminate knowledge. The digital turn reshapes the social fields with which the anthropologist engages; the political opportunities and risks arising from the engagement of the public anthropologist; and the methodological approach of the public anthropologist as they access, produce, and dissemi…
Armed governance
This article examines the genealogy and behavior of the CIA militias in Afghanistan against the backdrop of persistent armed governance whereby a plurality of actors competes over control and rule. The nonaccountable use of force by militias and their volatile alliances increase the extent of armed governance, exacerbating issues of human rights abuses and undermining the possibility of future claims for justice. We discuss the effects of recurre…
Covid-19, 'dugnad' and social control in Bergen and beyond
The Taliban and the humanitarian soldier
Humanitarian wars are a primary means of globally affirming a specific model of humanity, built according to the cultural, moral, and economic standards of Western democracies. How are forms of humanity produced in the context of humanitarian war in Afghanistan? How are notions of freedom mobilized? How does the idea of a prospective humanity relate to the use of military force? In an attempt to reflect on the different configurations of freedom …
Boredom and crisis in the humanitarian realm (Respond to this article at http
‘Humanitarian boredom’ produces its own perspective on the world, providing a ‘point of entry’ to the observation of humanitarianism in practice. In this paper, while problematizing both a general understanding of boredom and a romantic idea of humanitarianism, the author focuses on boredom as experienced by humanitarian workers during crises in the humanitarian realm
Terre, normes de propriété et litiges à Kaboul
Les conflits relatifs à la possession et à l’exploitation de la terre sont très courants en Afghanistan. Plusieurs facteurs y contribuent : à l’absence de cadastre et à la destruction de documents officiels s’ajoutent les migrations massives liées à la guerre. En partant de l’étude de cas ethnographiques, je propose dans cet article d’analyser les modalités de règlement des conflits liés à la propriété foncière. Je centrerai la réflexion sur les …
Between Law and Customs
The Afghan normative scenario is composed of customary practices, shari'a principles, laws promulgated by the state and international law. Studies on this arsenal tend to give special attention to the coexistence and/or clashing of different sources of law, but they usually overlook the interrelations that are created through the merging of values, norms and socially recognised customary practices. In particular, little attention has been given t…
Entre loi et coutumes
Le système juridique afghan est formé de pratiques coutumières, de principes de la shari’a, de lois promulguées par l'état, et de normes internationales. Cet arsenal législatif a généralement été étudié en prêtant une attention particulière à la coexistence et/ou à la confrontation entre systèmes de référence différents, mais en négligeant le plus souvent les interrelations créées par la fusion de pratiques, de valeurs et de modèles comportementa…
Corruption, Legal Modernisation and Judicial Practice in Afghanistan
11. I am grateful to anonymous ASR reviewers for insightful comments. An earlier preliminary version of this work appeared as ‘Afghanistan: Corruption and injustice in the judicial system’. Further research and fieldwork has been undertaken within the framework of activities of the Fernand Braudel International Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Paris) and Rechtskulturen Fellowship (Berlin). I discussed some of the ideas illustrated here in …
Terre, normes de propriété et litiges à Kaboul
Les conflits relatifs à la possession et à l’exploitation de la terre sont très courants en Afghanistan. Plusieurs facteurs y contribuent : à l’absence de cadastre et à la destruction de documents officiels s’ajoutent les migrations massives liées à la guerre. En partant de l’étude de cas ethnographiques, je propose dans cet article d’analyser les modalités de règlement des conflits liés à la propriété foncière. Je centrerai la réflexion sur les …
Between Law and Customs
The Afghan normative scenario is composed of customary practices, shari'a principles, laws promulgated by the state and international law. Studies on this arsenal tend to give special attention to the coexistence and/or clashing of different sources of law, but they usually overlook the interrelations that are created through the merging of values, norms and socially recognised customary practices. In particular, little attention has been given t…
Law as an anti‐value
Anthropologists are chronologically only the latest to have adopted justice (and injustice) as an object of (critical) inquiry. Even among anthropologists, however, the radical critical cry that law is the instrument par excellence of control and repression, has today fallen out of fashion. Starting from the Afghan case, in this paper I reflect on law as a potential source of violence and as an anti‐value – in the sense of being in antithesis wit…
Boredom and crisis in the humanitarian realm (Respond to this article at http
‘Humanitarian boredom’ produces its own perspective on the world, providing a ‘point of entry’ to the observation of humanitarianism in practice. In this paper, while problematizing both a general understanding of boredom and a romantic idea of humanitarianism, the author focuses on boredom as experienced by humanitarian workers during crises in the humanitarian realm
The Absence of Freedom
Central and South Asian brick kilns have long attracted the attention of both humanitarian agencies and scholars as sites of slavery-like forms of labor exploitation. They represent both an important case study for investigating the systems of dependence and debt-relationships that characterize Southern Asian capitalism, and a big challenge to creating sustainable, international standards for human labor. One aspect largely overlooked in the lite…
Public Anthropology in Changing Times
Public anthropology is a collective aspiration shaped by generally shared values and intentions within significant sections of social and cultural anthropology. The impetus behind the creation of the journal Public Anthropologist originates in this realm of ongoing discussions and actions inspired by the idea of pushing engagement and participation beyond academic borders. Given that the traditional triadic structure’s assessment standards and th…
Humanitarian militarism and the production of humanity
The limits and consequences of humanitarian military operations continue to be major issues in Western public debates on global security, democracy and human rights. This article focuses on the intersection of war and humanitarianism, situating the study of humanitarian militarism within a European context in which a reinvigorated proliferation of the military ethos coexists with ongoing transformations in European military culture and a resurgen…
The Taliban and the humanitarian soldier
Humanitarian wars are a primary means of globally affirming a specific model of humanity, built according to the cultural, moral, and economic standards of Western democracies. How are forms of humanity produced in the context of humanitarian war in Afghanistan? How are notions of freedom mobilized? How does the idea of a prospective humanity relate to the use of military force? In an attempt to reflect on the different configurations of freedom …
Public Anthropology in the Digital Era
The public anthropologist grapples with not one but many overlapping digital transformations, which influence how anthropologists access, produce, and disseminate knowledge. The digital turn reshapes the social fields with which the anthropologist engages; the political opportunities and risks arising from the engagement of the public anthropologist; and the methodological approach of the public anthropologist as they access, produce, and dissemi…
Armed governance
This article examines the genealogy and behavior of the CIA militias in Afghanistan against the backdrop of persistent armed governance whereby a plurality of actors competes over control and rule. The nonaccountable use of force by militias and their volatile alliances increase the extent of armed governance, exacerbating issues of human rights abuses and undermining the possibility of future claims for justice. We discuss the effects of recurre…
Covid-19, 'dugnad' and social control in Bergen and beyond
Commenti a ' Bronislaw Malinowski, l'antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo ' di Antonino Colajanni
Comments on “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” by Antonino Colajanni, with contributions by Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piasere, Daniela Salvucci, Ivan Severi, Barbara Sorgoni, Jaro Stacul, Giuseppe Tateo, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn, Pier Paolo Viazzo, with a response from the author
The Humanitarian Theater in the Mediterranean and the Threat of Violence in the Balkans
This article compares the Mediterranean and the Balkan routes of migration into the European Union, exploring the (in)visibility and (un)knowability of the management of European borderlands. It offers a historical overview of the hotspot approach in the Mediterranean, where securitarian concerns merged with humanitarian affects, making certain practices and subjectivities possible, but foreclosing others. Lampedusa, Italy, has been turned into a…
Coda
When linked to the context of war, fun can be understood as an expression of both direct and indirect communication, a manner of public engagement as well as a 'ritual of inversion' in which the proprieties of structure (the declared mandate and rules of war) are lampooned and violated, yet the finalities of the project of war (dominion, control, violence, and so on) remain intact. The focus on fun is not meant to trivialise the suffering war pro…
Introduction to the special issue
In this text, we introduce the Special Issue 'War and Fun: Exploring the Plurality of Experiences and Emotional Articulations of Warfare and Soldiering' by highlighting the need to challenge, expand, and reorient public and scholarly debates in order to address the complex interplay of emotions, moralities and agency that characterise the human experience of war from the perspective of those who fight
Humanitarian contradictions
Anthropologie publique et citoyenneté concernée
On Speaking Out
Political science (17 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Turkey's Politics and Society (5 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (4 obras) · History (4 obras)