Iza Kavedžija
Biographic Data
| ID | 119549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iza Kavedžija |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iza |
| FAMILY NAME | Kavedžija |
| SIGNATURE | KAVEDŽIJA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5265-2380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond the contemporary: Crafting practices and visions of the future in Japan
How can we capture the future as an ethnographic category in Japan? This special issue brings together ethnographic explorations of how the future is imagined, anticipated and coaxed into being at different levels of society by a broad range of actors: from governments and policy makers, to local heritage groups, to individuals with food allergies. The contributions highlight the ways in which concerns and hopes for the future form the temporal h…
Silence as Presence: Affective Spaces of Silence and Care
Giving voice' can be an empowering metaphor for the process of creating space for another's perspective, allowing for their experience to be noted and attended to. Yet it is also a metaphor that relies on a particular form of articulation. Voice and narrative share many of the same strengths and limitations: for some, they are powerful tools of sense making and communication; but for others they can elude important forms of experience and fail to…
Well-Being Within and Beyond the Body: Toward Careful Planetary Engagements
Discourses of well-being can direct attention beyond individual bodies, toward mental health and wider social relationships. Paradoxically, these discourses are also applied in contexts where living well is understood in terms of individual responsibility and agency, entangled with the neoliberal optimization of health. Anthropologists have recently argued that it is now crucial to move beyond the conceptualization of well-being as pertaining pri…
Introduction. The Ends of Life: Time and Meaning in Later Years
Portfolio: Ends of Life': An Interview with Sarah Lamb
An Attitude of Gratitude: Older Japanese in the Hopeful Present
In this article I explore ideas of the good and meaningful life in older age, based on ethnographic research with older Japanese in the city of Osaka. Some of my interlocutors and friends in the field spoke about the approaching end of their life. When speaking about the time remaining, many expressed their sense that the future 'will somehow turn out [all right]' (nantonaku). This statement of quiet hope acknowledged change and encapsulated a de…
“I move my hand and then I see it”: Sensing and knowing with young artists in Japan
When asked to reflect on their own creative practice, contemporary artists in Osaka would frequently invoke images of movement. In lieu of a preformed mental image or plan, they would emphasise the processual and emergent nature of creating a work of art and the importance of moving one's body, likening the gradual and meandering nature of their understanding to a “path.” At the same time, they would often compare their own lives to a path, albei…
Learning discomfort
If learning is to be understood as a process of enskilment which is multidimensional, social and embodied (Ingold 2002: 37), it also includes the affective dimensions of experience. I would like to argue that becoming enskiled in the kind of learning done in the context of higher education, particularly anthropology, requires a certain familiarization with a sensation of frustration or challenge. In this article I explore how the process of enski…
Poetry First Prize (tie)
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from American Anthropological Association via the DOI in this record
Of manners and hedgehogs: Building closeness by maintaining distance
This paper explores how the Japanese inhabitants of a densely populated urban neighbourhood negotiate proximity and distance in their social relationships. Based on ethnography of a community salon in the city of Osaka, the paper explores how topics and styles of conversation, modes of interaction between salon‐goers, are constituted with respect to a pervasive concern for manners and for the emotions of others. Focusing on the importance of ‘for…
Introduction: Reorienting Hopes
This is the final version of the article. Available from De Gruyter via the DOI in this record
The Age of Decline? Anxieties about Ageing in Japan
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record
Frail, Independent, involved? Care and the Category of the Elderly in Japan
This article examines how the category of the elderly in Japan is constructed through diverse forms of care, understood as moral practices intrinsic to peoples' senses of self. It offers an analysis of a range of informal as well as institutional configurations of care in the Japanese urban context, highlighting the complexity as well as the overlapping nature of these diverse arrangements. It also explores ethnographically how older people exper…
The good life in balance: Insights from aging Japan
This is the final version of the article. Available from HAU Society for Ethnographic Theory via the DOI in this record
Values of happiness
How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. The modern conception of happiness as private good feeling is the result of a long sequence of changes in dominant conceptions of the ends of life and of humanity's place in the cosmos. This invites reflection on how the very vagueness of happiness can account for its powerful claim to render diverse values commensurable. In arguing for the importance …
Values of happiness
How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. The modern conception of happiness as private good feeling is the result of a long sequence of changes in dominant conceptions of the ends of life and of humanity's place in the cosmos. This invites reflection on how the very vagueness of happiness can account for its powerful claim to render diverse values commensurable. In arguing for the importance …
The Age of Decline? Anxieties about Ageing in Japan
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record
Introduction: Reorienting Hopes
This is the final version of the article. Available from De Gruyter via the DOI in this record
The good life in balance: Insights from aging Japan
This is the final version of the article. Available from HAU Society for Ethnographic Theory via the DOI in this record
Frail, Independent, involved? Care and the Category of the Elderly in Japan
This article examines how the category of the elderly in Japan is constructed through diverse forms of care, understood as moral practices intrinsic to peoples' senses of self. It offers an analysis of a range of informal as well as institutional configurations of care in the Japanese urban context, highlighting the complexity as well as the overlapping nature of these diverse arrangements. It also explores ethnographically how older people exper…
An Attitude of Gratitude: Older Japanese in the Hopeful Present
In this article I explore ideas of the good and meaningful life in older age, based on ethnographic research with older Japanese in the city of Osaka. Some of my interlocutors and friends in the field spoke about the approaching end of their life. When speaking about the time remaining, many expressed their sense that the future 'will somehow turn out [all right]' (nantonaku). This statement of quiet hope acknowledged change and encapsulated a de…
Introduction. The Ends of Life: Time and Meaning in Later Years
Frail, Independent, involved? Care and the Category of the Elderly in Japan
This article examines how the category of the elderly in Japan is constructed through diverse forms of care, understood as moral practices intrinsic to peoples' senses of self. It offers an analysis of a range of informal as well as institutional configurations of care in the Japanese urban context, highlighting the complexity as well as the overlapping nature of these diverse arrangements. It also explores ethnographically how older people exper…
The good life in balance: Insights from aging Japan
This is the final version of the article. Available from HAU Society for Ethnographic Theory via the DOI in this record
Values of happiness
How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. The modern conception of happiness as private good feeling is the result of a long sequence of changes in dominant conceptions of the ends of life and of humanity's place in the cosmos. This invites reflection on how the very vagueness of happiness can account for its powerful claim to render diverse values commensurable. In arguing for the importance …
Introduction: Reorienting Hopes
This is the final version of the article. Available from De Gruyter via the DOI in this record
The Age of Decline? Anxieties about Ageing in Japan
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record
Of manners and hedgehogs: Building closeness by maintaining distance
This paper explores how the Japanese inhabitants of a densely populated urban neighbourhood negotiate proximity and distance in their social relationships. Based on ethnography of a community salon in the city of Osaka, the paper explores how topics and styles of conversation, modes of interaction between salon‐goers, are constituted with respect to a pervasive concern for manners and for the emotions of others. Focusing on the importance of ‘for…
“I move my hand and then I see it”: Sensing and knowing with young artists in Japan
When asked to reflect on their own creative practice, contemporary artists in Osaka would frequently invoke images of movement. In lieu of a preformed mental image or plan, they would emphasise the processual and emergent nature of creating a work of art and the importance of moving one's body, likening the gradual and meandering nature of their understanding to a “path.” At the same time, they would often compare their own lives to a path, albei…
Learning discomfort
If learning is to be understood as a process of enskilment which is multidimensional, social and embodied (Ingold 2002: 37), it also includes the affective dimensions of experience. I would like to argue that becoming enskiled in the kind of learning done in the context of higher education, particularly anthropology, requires a certain familiarization with a sensation of frustration or challenge. In this article I explore how the process of enski…
Poetry First Prize (tie)
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from American Anthropological Association via the DOI in this record
Introduction. The Ends of Life: Time and Meaning in Later Years
Portfolio: Ends of Life': An Interview with Sarah Lamb
An Attitude of Gratitude: Older Japanese in the Hopeful Present
In this article I explore ideas of the good and meaningful life in older age, based on ethnographic research with older Japanese in the city of Osaka. Some of my interlocutors and friends in the field spoke about the approaching end of their life. When speaking about the time remaining, many expressed their sense that the future 'will somehow turn out [all right]' (nantonaku). This statement of quiet hope acknowledged change and encapsulated a de…
Well-Being Within and Beyond the Body: Toward Careful Planetary Engagements
Discourses of well-being can direct attention beyond individual bodies, toward mental health and wider social relationships. Paradoxically, these discourses are also applied in contexts where living well is understood in terms of individual responsibility and agency, entangled with the neoliberal optimization of health. Anthropologists have recently argued that it is now crucial to move beyond the conceptualization of well-being as pertaining pri…
Silence as Presence: Affective Spaces of Silence and Care
Giving voice' can be an empowering metaphor for the process of creating space for another's perspective, allowing for their experience to be noted and attended to. Yet it is also a metaphor that relies on a particular form of articulation. Voice and narrative share many of the same strengths and limitations: for some, they are powerful tools of sense making and communication; but for others they can elude important forms of experience and fail to…
Beyond the contemporary: Crafting practices and visions of the future in Japan
How can we capture the future as an ethnographic category in Japan? This special issue brings together ethnographic explorations of how the future is imagined, anticipated and coaxed into being at different levels of society by a broad range of actors: from governments and policy makers, to local heritage groups, to individuals with food allergies. The contributions highlight the ways in which concerns and hopes for the future form the temporal h…
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