Lejla Voloder
Biographic Data
| ID | 110542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lejla Voloder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lejla |
| FAMILY NAME | Voloder |
| SIGNATURE | VOLODER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3522-6678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Abstraction and assimilation
Education and Learning in Studies of Nationalism
Scholars of nationalism have pointed to the importance of educational institutions for the dissemination of national identities and associated sentimental attachments, yet how nationalism is learned within these educational institutions has received little attention. This article takes as its focus two foundational texts on nationalism, Benedict Anderson's (1983) Imagined Communities and Eugen Weber's (1976) Peasants into Frenchmen, in order to i…
Passive learning for successful nationalism
This paper discusses the assumptions of learning inherent in many studies of nationalism with particular focus on Benedict Anderson’s Imagined communities. After outlining the position that educational institutions played in Anderson’s argument, I establish how Anderson assumed learning took place within these educational institutions. I propose that Anderson’s argument rests on the assumption of human passivity as the basis from which learning t…
WhenIzbjeglicaandMuhadžirare Not Refugees
The interchanging of a word from one language to a seeming equivalent in another language is a practice that is underpinned by a universalist conceptualisation of the world. This method of translation is adopted by online services such as Google Translate, is common practice in bilingual dictionaries such as in English/Bosnian print dictionaries and has been adopted in numerous publications published in the English language that report on researc…
Comparing Coffee Cultures
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article presents a comparative discussion of the cultural meanings of coffee consumption for Bosnian language speakers settled in Australia and Türkiye. Whilst a number of scholars have argued for the cultural significance of coffee drinking among “Bosnians”, to avoid the pitfalls of methodological nationalism and of serviceable translation practices, this article prioritizes the meanings that interlocutors…
Insider Research on Migration and Mobility
Contents: Introduction: insiderness in migration and mobility research: conceptual considerations, Lejla Voloder Part I Dimensions of Insiderness: Negotiating aboriginal participation in research: dilemmas and opportunities, Michele Lobo Cosmopolitan engagement in researching race relations in New Zealand, Farisa Fozdar In the tide between being an insider and outsider: experiences from research on international student mobility in Germany, Basak…
The value of culturedness
In this paper we investigate how the values of respect and dignity inform the ways migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary in Australia locate themselves in relation to local, national and transnational identities. Drawing upon ethnographic insights, we discuss how the concept of culturedness is implicated in these migrant claims for dignified belonging. Determinants of culturedness are informed by influential narratives of ‘East versus …
The “Mainstreaming” of Halal
The expansion of halal commodities globally reveals how Muslims are an object of increasing commercial interest. In Australia, despite a hostile political context, the recognition of Muslims as consumers, captured by the growing availability of halal goods, is providing alternate modalities of belonging. Drawing on fieldwork from Melbourne, Australia, this paper illustrates the ways halal consumption works to produce local, national and global or…
Insider Research Method
Secular citizenship and Muslim belonging in Turkey
In recent years, academic critique has worked toward exposing the underlying ethno-religious biases in official formulations of secular citizenship in Turkey. While such studies have highlighted the contradictions and inconsistencies that emerge in these grand narratives of national belonging, they have tended to privilege statist determinants of the bounds of nationhood. In this article, I offer an intervention into this discussion by exploring …
Intimacy and Italian Migration
Autoethnographic Challenges
Anthropologists working at ‘home’ or in realms of the familiar often share a considerable sense of connection with participants. In these contexts, the researcher's potential position as an ‘insider’ offers particular opportunities for utilising self as a key resource. Through my own fieldwork at ‘home’ in Melbourne as an ‘insider’ among Bosnian migrants, I was confronted with the challenge of using my self to understand others' experiences. In t…
Insider Research on Migration and Mobility
Contents: Introduction: insiderness in migration and mobility research: conceptual considerations, Lejla Voloder Part I Dimensions of Insiderness: Negotiating aboriginal participation in research: dilemmas and opportunities, Michele Lobo Cosmopolitan engagement in researching race relations in New Zealand, Farisa Fozdar In the tide between being an insider and outsider: experiences from research on international student mobility in Germany, Basak…
Autoethnographic Challenges
Anthropologists working at ‘home’ or in realms of the familiar often share a considerable sense of connection with participants. In these contexts, the researcher's potential position as an ‘insider’ offers particular opportunities for utilising self as a key resource. Through my own fieldwork at ‘home’ in Melbourne as an ‘insider’ among Bosnian migrants, I was confronted with the challenge of using my self to understand others' experiences. In t…
The “Mainstreaming” of Halal
The expansion of halal commodities globally reveals how Muslims are an object of increasing commercial interest. In Australia, despite a hostile political context, the recognition of Muslims as consumers, captured by the growing availability of halal goods, is providing alternate modalities of belonging. Drawing on fieldwork from Melbourne, Australia, this paper illustrates the ways halal consumption works to produce local, national and global or…
Secular citizenship and Muslim belonging in Turkey
In recent years, academic critique has worked toward exposing the underlying ethno-religious biases in official formulations of secular citizenship in Turkey. While such studies have highlighted the contradictions and inconsistencies that emerge in these grand narratives of national belonging, they have tended to privilege statist determinants of the bounds of nationhood. In this article, I offer an intervention into this discussion by exploring …
Passive learning for successful nationalism
This paper discusses the assumptions of learning inherent in many studies of nationalism with particular focus on Benedict Anderson’s Imagined communities. After outlining the position that educational institutions played in Anderson’s argument, I establish how Anderson assumed learning took place within these educational institutions. I propose that Anderson’s argument rests on the assumption of human passivity as the basis from which learning t…
Autoethnographic Challenges
Anthropologists working at ‘home’ or in realms of the familiar often share a considerable sense of connection with participants. In these contexts, the researcher's potential position as an ‘insider’ offers particular opportunities for utilising self as a key resource. Through my own fieldwork at ‘home’ in Melbourne as an ‘insider’ among Bosnian migrants, I was confronted with the challenge of using my self to understand others' experiences. In t…
Intimacy and Italian Migration
Secular citizenship and Muslim belonging in Turkey
In recent years, academic critique has worked toward exposing the underlying ethno-religious biases in official formulations of secular citizenship in Turkey. While such studies have highlighted the contradictions and inconsistencies that emerge in these grand narratives of national belonging, they have tended to privilege statist determinants of the bounds of nationhood. In this article, I offer an intervention into this discussion by exploring …
Insider Research Method
The “Mainstreaming” of Halal
The expansion of halal commodities globally reveals how Muslims are an object of increasing commercial interest. In Australia, despite a hostile political context, the recognition of Muslims as consumers, captured by the growing availability of halal goods, is providing alternate modalities of belonging. Drawing on fieldwork from Melbourne, Australia, this paper illustrates the ways halal consumption works to produce local, national and global or…
Insider Research on Migration and Mobility
Contents: Introduction: insiderness in migration and mobility research: conceptual considerations, Lejla Voloder Part I Dimensions of Insiderness: Negotiating aboriginal participation in research: dilemmas and opportunities, Michele Lobo Cosmopolitan engagement in researching race relations in New Zealand, Farisa Fozdar In the tide between being an insider and outsider: experiences from research on international student mobility in Germany, Basak…
The value of culturedness
In this paper we investigate how the values of respect and dignity inform the ways migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary in Australia locate themselves in relation to local, national and transnational identities. Drawing upon ethnographic insights, we discuss how the concept of culturedness is implicated in these migrant claims for dignified belonging. Determinants of culturedness are informed by influential narratives of ‘East versus …
Comparing Coffee Cultures
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article presents a comparative discussion of the cultural meanings of coffee consumption for Bosnian language speakers settled in Australia and Türkiye. Whilst a number of scholars have argued for the cultural significance of coffee drinking among “Bosnians”, to avoid the pitfalls of methodological nationalism and of serviceable translation practices, this article prioritizes the meanings that interlocutors…
WhenIzbjeglicaandMuhadžirare Not Refugees
The interchanging of a word from one language to a seeming equivalent in another language is a practice that is underpinned by a universalist conceptualisation of the world. This method of translation is adopted by online services such as Google Translate, is common practice in bilingual dictionaries such as in English/Bosnian print dictionaries and has been adopted in numerous publications published in the English language that report on researc…
Abstraction and assimilation
Education and Learning in Studies of Nationalism
Scholars of nationalism have pointed to the importance of educational institutions for the dissemination of national identities and associated sentimental attachments, yet how nationalism is learned within these educational institutions has received little attention. This article takes as its focus two foundational texts on nationalism, Benedict Anderson's (1983) Imagined Communities and Eugen Weber's (1976) Peasants into Frenchmen, in order to i…
Passive learning for successful nationalism
This paper discusses the assumptions of learning inherent in many studies of nationalism with particular focus on Benedict Anderson’s Imagined communities. After outlining the position that educational institutions played in Anderson’s argument, I establish how Anderson assumed learning took place within these educational institutions. I propose that Anderson’s argument rests on the assumption of human passivity as the basis from which learning t…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Bosnian (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works)