Sylvain Perdigon
Biographic Data
| ID | 192475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvain Perdigon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvain |
| FAMILY NAME | Perdigon |
| SIGNATURE | PERDIGON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beware the bad shepherd
Life on the cusp of form
This essay argues for making worldliness a question for anthropological inquiry, and a heuristic concept for exploring how life itself is unequally capacitated or disabled under current conditions of existence. I take worldliness in its widest sense to refer to the practical, material, semiotic entanglements by way of which human and other beings, upon "appearing" (Arendt) into the world, extend and anchor themselves in it. A form of life, on tha…
For Us It Is Otherwise
In this paper I seek to attend to the paradox of Palestinian refugee poverty in Lebanon, a poverty engineered and deliberately perpetuated through the play of recent state sovereignties, and incorporated in the material and bodily lifeworlds of a majority of Lebanon's Palestinians. This poverty is not effectuated in the recognizable form of a "political subject of poverty"-a "I, poor"-who would emerge in the interpretative act of establishing a s…
Two Ethnography in the Time of Martyrs
L'ethnographie à l'heure des martyrs Histoire, violence, souffrance dans la pratique anthropologique contemporaine
Réfléchissant à la violence de la vie quotidienne à laquelle les confronte leur pratique ethnographique, les anthropologues Talal Asad, Veena Das et Elizabeth Povinelli montrent que la douleur peut constituer une façon de vivre une relation. Cet article examine les raisons pour lesquelles cette attention à la dimension interlocutoire de la douleur conduit également ces auteurs à remettre en question l'idée d'un temps historique unique comme milie…
La science mise à nu (par ses ethnographes, même)
For Us It Is Otherwise
In this paper I seek to attend to the paradox of Palestinian refugee poverty in Lebanon, a poverty engineered and deliberately perpetuated through the play of recent state sovereignties, and incorporated in the material and bodily lifeworlds of a majority of Lebanon's Palestinians. This poverty is not effectuated in the recognizable form of a "political subject of poverty"-a "I, poor"-who would emerge in the interpretative act of establishing a s…
Life on the cusp of form
This essay argues for making worldliness a question for anthropological inquiry, and a heuristic concept for exploring how life itself is unequally capacitated or disabled under current conditions of existence. I take worldliness in its widest sense to refer to the practical, material, semiotic entanglements by way of which human and other beings, upon "appearing" (Arendt) into the world, extend and anchor themselves in it. A form of life, on tha…
L'ethnographie à l'heure des martyrs Histoire, violence, souffrance dans la pratique anthropologique contemporaine
Réfléchissant à la violence de la vie quotidienne à laquelle les confronte leur pratique ethnographique, les anthropologues Talal Asad, Veena Das et Elizabeth Povinelli montrent que la douleur peut constituer une façon de vivre une relation. Cet article examine les raisons pour lesquelles cette attention à la dimension interlocutoire de la douleur conduit également ces auteurs à remettre en question l'idée d'un temps historique unique comme milie…
La science mise à nu (par ses ethnographes, même)
La science mise à nu (par ses ethnographes, même)
L'ethnographie à l'heure des martyrs Histoire, violence, souffrance dans la pratique anthropologique contemporaine
Réfléchissant à la violence de la vie quotidienne à laquelle les confronte leur pratique ethnographique, les anthropologues Talal Asad, Veena Das et Elizabeth Povinelli montrent que la douleur peut constituer une façon de vivre une relation. Cet article examine les raisons pour lesquelles cette attention à la dimension interlocutoire de la douleur conduit également ces auteurs à remettre en question l'idée d'un temps historique unique comme milie…
Two Ethnography in the Time of Martyrs
For Us It Is Otherwise
In this paper I seek to attend to the paradox of Palestinian refugee poverty in Lebanon, a poverty engineered and deliberately perpetuated through the play of recent state sovereignties, and incorporated in the material and bodily lifeworlds of a majority of Lebanon's Palestinians. This poverty is not effectuated in the recognizable form of a "political subject of poverty"-a "I, poor"-who would emerge in the interpretative act of establishing a s…
Life on the cusp of form
This essay argues for making worldliness a question for anthropological inquiry, and a heuristic concept for exploring how life itself is unequally capacitated or disabled under current conditions of existence. I take worldliness in its widest sense to refer to the practical, material, semiotic entanglements by way of which human and other beings, upon "appearing" (Arendt) into the world, extend and anchor themselves in it. A form of life, on tha…
Beware the bad shepherd
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works)