Katerina Hatzikidi
Biographic Data
| ID | 206972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katerina Hatzikidi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katerina |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatzikidi |
| SIGNATURE | HATZIKIDI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2211-0262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
(Dis)Connections: Ethnographic Insights into Contentious Belonging in Palestine and Brazil
This article seeks to contribute to the anthropological discourse on belonging by conducting a comparative ethnographic analysis of quilombola land struggles in Brazil and the experiences within the Al-Am’ari Palestinian refugee camp in Palestine. By juxtaposing these two contexts, the article analyzes how belonging is generated, challenged, and reconfigured across distinct yet structurally analogous histories of colonial domination and disposses…
“Eu não vou me vitimizar”. Sofrimento, superação e construção de caráter entre conservadores brasileiros
Em contraste com a tendência de boa parte da literatura sobre vitimização de equiparar o discurso antivítima à despolitização ou de reduzi-lo à ênfase na responsabilidade individual, este artigo propõe que o discurso conservador antivítima, elemento central da Nova Direita no Brasil e em outros lugares, não constitui uma mera rejeição da vitimização. Há, argumenta-se, mais em jogo do que as análises existentes têm revelado até agora. Com base em …
And Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Free’. Evangelical Christianity and the Heuristic Notion of Dissolution
Gore Capitalism and Necropolitics in Brazil's Malgovernance of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive human suffering just as much as it heightened pre-existing socio-economic and political issues. Brazil, where over 700,000 people perished, offers one of the starkest cases as Black and Indigenous lives were particularly neglected through a hands-off approach. While commonly characterized as mismanagement, we argue that the Bolsonaro administration's strategy instead represents a case of malgovernance-where de…
Populism and Conspiracy Theory: Case Studies and Theoretical Perspectives
In Richard Hofstadter’s seminal essay on the paranoid style in American politics, he writes, “A distorted style is . . . a possible signal that may alert us to a distorted judgment, just as in art an ugly style is a cue to fundamental defects of taste” (1964, 6). Hofstadter’s reference to art is merely a brief aside intended to give colour to his claim that alarmist and conspiracist sentiments must be read as a sign of impoverished thinking and u…
The ambiguous other. Engaging with far right and other uncomfortable subjectivities
This article explores anthropological hesitation in engaging with "abject" or otherwise "uncomfortable" subjectivities, identifying some of the main concerns and challenges behind it. In doing so, the discussion focuses on far-right subjectivities and on the reasons behind the relative lack of ethnographic studies thereof. Among other things, it is argued that the far-right other does not fit current anthropological orthodoxy in terms of ethnogra…
Por uma antropologia da democracia - e de seus desafios
Quais as especificidades de uma reflexão antropológica sobre a política em contextos democráticos? Com essa pergunta em mente, visamos apresentar o debate existente e propor novos caminhos relevantes para a pesquisa sobre a democracia, enfatizando algumas arenas recentes de disputa. Essas arenas colocam desafios tanto para a democracia em si quanto para pesquisadoras que se dedicam ao tema. Assim, abordamos o caráter alegadamente democratizante d…
Chapter 4. Defending What Is Ours: Asserting Land Rights through ‘Popular’ Catholicism in a Brazilian Quilombo
Introduction to: A Meteoric Rise to Power? Ethnographic Insights on Brazil's Conservative Turn
From the street protests of 2013 to President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and her replacement by Michel Temer, to the imprisonment of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the rise to power of former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's political landscape has shifted rapidly, confronted with realities considered unimaginable only a few years earlier. The ongoing political, social and economic crises in Brazil were the empirical contex…
Cultural and language rights of minorities and indigenous peoples
This article introduces the special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights on the cultural and linguistic rights of minorities and indigenous peoples. The right to cultural life is at the core of all human identities but indigenous peoples and minorities have particular rights to protect their collective identities, which are more easily eroded by dominant culture(s) or due to harmful practices such as involuntary assimilation. The co…
Cultural mediators and the protection of ethnic minority cultural rights: Reflecting on successes and challenges around quilombo heritage in Brazil
This article discusses the protection of quilombo land and cultural rights in Brazil, through an examination of pottery production in a quilombo community in Maranhão state. Quilombos are village communities with a legally protected status that is similar to that of indigenous peoples in Brazil. In this article, the focus is placed on the production and management of ‘quilombo heritage’ by the potters and the different cultural mediators involved…
The Worst Is Not over Yet: The Lives and Deaths of the ‘Self’ and ‘Others’ in Brazil's Response to the Covid ‐19 Pandemic
This paper focuses on the politics of life and death in Bolsonaro's Brazil during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It is argued that while this administration, and the president himself, have long supported violence against individuals and social groups they did not see as fully human, their response to the pandemic marked a public transition from valuing certain kinds of lives as opposed to others, to a general contempt for human lives. The paper explores…
Cultural and language rights of minorities and indigenous peoples
This article introduces the special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights on the cultural and linguistic rights of minorities and indigenous peoples. The right to cultural life is at the core of all human identities but indigenous peoples and minorities have particular rights to protect their collective identities, which are more easily eroded by dominant culture(s) or due to harmful practices such as involuntary assimilation. The co…
The ambiguous other. Engaging with far right and other uncomfortable subjectivities
This article explores anthropological hesitation in engaging with "abject" or otherwise "uncomfortable" subjectivities, identifying some of the main concerns and challenges behind it. In doing so, the discussion focuses on far-right subjectivities and on the reasons behind the relative lack of ethnographic studies thereof. Among other things, it is argued that the far-right other does not fit current anthropological orthodoxy in terms of ethnogra…
The Worst Is Not over Yet: The Lives and Deaths of the ‘Self’ and ‘Others’ in Brazil's Response to the Covid ‐19 Pandemic
This paper focuses on the politics of life and death in Bolsonaro's Brazil during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It is argued that while this administration, and the president himself, have long supported violence against individuals and social groups they did not see as fully human, their response to the pandemic marked a public transition from valuing certain kinds of lives as opposed to others, to a general contempt for human lives. The paper explores…
Introduction to: A Meteoric Rise to Power? Ethnographic Insights on Brazil's Conservative Turn
From the street protests of 2013 to President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and her replacement by Michel Temer, to the imprisonment of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the rise to power of former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's political landscape has shifted rapidly, confronted with realities considered unimaginable only a few years earlier. The ongoing political, social and economic crises in Brazil were the empirical contex…
Cultural mediators and the protection of ethnic minority cultural rights: Reflecting on successes and challenges around quilombo heritage in Brazil
This article discusses the protection of quilombo land and cultural rights in Brazil, through an examination of pottery production in a quilombo community in Maranhão state. Quilombos are village communities with a legally protected status that is similar to that of indigenous peoples in Brazil. In this article, the focus is placed on the production and management of ‘quilombo heritage’ by the potters and the different cultural mediators involved…
The Worst Is Not over Yet: The Lives and Deaths of the ‘Self’ and ‘Others’ in Brazil's Response to the Covid ‐19 Pandemic
This paper focuses on the politics of life and death in Bolsonaro's Brazil during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It is argued that while this administration, and the president himself, have long supported violence against individuals and social groups they did not see as fully human, their response to the pandemic marked a public transition from valuing certain kinds of lives as opposed to others, to a general contempt for human lives. The paper explores…
Cultural and language rights of minorities and indigenous peoples
This article introduces the special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights on the cultural and linguistic rights of minorities and indigenous peoples. The right to cultural life is at the core of all human identities but indigenous peoples and minorities have particular rights to protect their collective identities, which are more easily eroded by dominant culture(s) or due to harmful practices such as involuntary assimilation. The co…
Chapter 4. Defending What Is Ours: Asserting Land Rights through ‘Popular’ Catholicism in a Brazilian Quilombo
Introduction to: A Meteoric Rise to Power? Ethnographic Insights on Brazil's Conservative Turn
From the street protests of 2013 to President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and her replacement by Michel Temer, to the imprisonment of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the rise to power of former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's political landscape has shifted rapidly, confronted with realities considered unimaginable only a few years earlier. The ongoing political, social and economic crises in Brazil were the empirical contex…
Por uma antropologia da democracia - e de seus desafios
Quais as especificidades de uma reflexão antropológica sobre a política em contextos democráticos? Com essa pergunta em mente, visamos apresentar o debate existente e propor novos caminhos relevantes para a pesquisa sobre a democracia, enfatizando algumas arenas recentes de disputa. Essas arenas colocam desafios tanto para a democracia em si quanto para pesquisadoras que se dedicam ao tema. Assim, abordamos o caráter alegadamente democratizante d…
Populism and Conspiracy Theory: Case Studies and Theoretical Perspectives
In Richard Hofstadter’s seminal essay on the paranoid style in American politics, he writes, “A distorted style is . . . a possible signal that may alert us to a distorted judgment, just as in art an ugly style is a cue to fundamental defects of taste” (1964, 6). Hofstadter’s reference to art is merely a brief aside intended to give colour to his claim that alarmist and conspiracist sentiments must be read as a sign of impoverished thinking and u…
The ambiguous other. Engaging with far right and other uncomfortable subjectivities
This article explores anthropological hesitation in engaging with "abject" or otherwise "uncomfortable" subjectivities, identifying some of the main concerns and challenges behind it. In doing so, the discussion focuses on far-right subjectivities and on the reasons behind the relative lack of ethnographic studies thereof. Among other things, it is argued that the far-right other does not fit current anthropological orthodoxy in terms of ethnogra…
And Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Free’. Evangelical Christianity and the Heuristic Notion of Dissolution
Gore Capitalism and Necropolitics in Brazil's Malgovernance of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive human suffering just as much as it heightened pre-existing socio-economic and political issues. Brazil, where over 700,000 people perished, offers one of the starkest cases as Black and Indigenous lives were particularly neglected through a hands-off approach. While commonly characterized as mismanagement, we argue that the Bolsonaro administration's strategy instead represents a case of malgovernance-where de…
(Dis)Connections: Ethnographic Insights into Contentious Belonging in Palestine and Brazil
This article seeks to contribute to the anthropological discourse on belonging by conducting a comparative ethnographic analysis of quilombola land struggles in Brazil and the experiences within the Al-Am’ari Palestinian refugee camp in Palestine. By juxtaposing these two contexts, the article analyzes how belonging is generated, challenged, and reconfigured across distinct yet structurally analogous histories of colonial domination and disposses…
“Eu não vou me vitimizar”. Sofrimento, superação e construção de caráter entre conservadores brasileiros
Em contraste com a tendência de boa parte da literatura sobre vitimização de equiparar o discurso antivítima à despolitização ou de reduzi-lo à ênfase na responsabilidade individual, este artigo propõe que o discurso conservador antivítima, elemento central da Nova Direita no Brasil e em outros lugares, não constitui uma mera rejeição da vitimização. Há, argumenta-se, mais em jogo do que as análises existentes têm revelado até agora. Com base em …
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