E Resnick
Biographic Data
| ID | 20708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Resnick |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Resnick |
| SIGNATURE | RESNICK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5251-5933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Absurdities of Indeterminacy: Swastikas and Playing with the Token-Type Relationship
Far-right political leaders, supporters, and regular Bulgarian citizens deploy swastikas in ways that play with the indeterminacy of the token-type relationship in strategic ways. As they highlight the swastika as a perpetually unstable token, they work to prevent it from being apprehended as an instantiation of a Nazi type. Such deployments rely on strategically mobilizing semiotic indeterminacy across different contexts. Tracing actors’ deploym…
Collectively cultivating the pleasures of interembodiment: Waste labor, nuclearity, and river love in Bulgaria
Sustaining Containability: Zero Waste and White Space
Environmental sustainability initiatives in Bulgaria generate new forms of racialization. Although institutionally framed as progressive in the name of "green" Europeanization, in practice these initiatives rely on undervalued and unrecognized racialized labor. By attending to the materiality of recycling bins in downtown Sofia and their physical openings-designed to keep hands out-I show how people engage with recycling-based sustainability regi…
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy: Strategies of racial disavowal in Bulgaria
Contemporary white supremacy often takes hold through strategies of racial disavowal. One strategy that political parties and regular citizens in Bulgaria use is what I call determined indeterminacy. Determined indeterminacy is a collective, institutionalized method of denying the ubiquitous systemic racism that undergirds social life. It allows people to naturalize white supremacy and render it adaptably persistent. This is the case especially i…
The Intimacy of Labor
This essay rethinks writing on "intimate labor" to ethnographically explore the intimacy of labor by attending to how Romani women waste workers in Bulgaria assert workplace friendships to lay claim to public space and cultivate life-sustaining solidarities. Under conditions of racialized and degrading labor, they play with their uniformed hypervisibility, catcall white men on city streets, and temporarily unsettle normative expectations of woman…
Contracts, Uniforms, and Questions of "Humanity" in the Waste Workplace
The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene
Recent anthropological attention to more-than-human life has neglected the importance of race and racialization in human responses to environmental change. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with waste management institutions and Romani waste laborers in urban Bulgaria, this article invokes the concept of the racialized Anthropocene to destabilize the unmarked whiteness upon which the turn to humans-as-a-species-anthropos-is founded. Habituation i…
Durable Remains: Glass Reuse, Material Citizenship and Precarity in EU-era Bulgaria
Bulgarian Roma living in the capital city of Sofia rely on glass for EU-era survival becauseof its role in food-jarring practices and its ability to be repeatedly used and reused withoutbreaking down. The durability of glass emerges as a salient material quality for ensuringa means of preservation in the face of everyday economic precarity. Glass's durability ismaterial and temporal: temporal in that it transcends political and economic upheavals…
Discarded Europe
How are time and materiality felt in periods of expectation, when change is awaited but never comes, at least not in the way anticipated? Disappointment may set in, but in the expanding European context in which I conducted research, something else occurs: sensory experiences of time and materiality intermingle and shape each other. These experiences of temporal-material relations, in a context of historical disorientation, are the basis of a new…
The Unintentional Activist: Questions of Action, Activism, and Accountability
The Unintentional Activist:Questions of Action, Activism, and Accountability Elana Resnick (bio) I have never considered myself an activist. My problem with the term does not stem from debates about whether ethnography should be an activist endeavor but rather from the implication that ethnography could be anything else. If we think of an "activist" as someone who actively engages in the field, we must ask: What differentiates an activist anthrop…
The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene
Recent anthropological attention to more-than-human life has neglected the importance of race and racialization in human responses to environmental change. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with waste management institutions and Romani waste laborers in urban Bulgaria, this article invokes the concept of the racialized Anthropocene to destabilize the unmarked whiteness upon which the turn to humans-as-a-species-anthropos-is founded. Habituation i…
Durable Remains: Glass Reuse, Material Citizenship and Precarity in EU-era Bulgaria
Bulgarian Roma living in the capital city of Sofia rely on glass for EU-era survival becauseof its role in food-jarring practices and its ability to be repeatedly used and reused withoutbreaking down. The durability of glass emerges as a salient material quality for ensuringa means of preservation in the face of everyday economic precarity. Glass's durability ismaterial and temporal: temporal in that it transcends political and economic upheavals…
Discarded Europe
How are time and materiality felt in periods of expectation, when change is awaited but never comes, at least not in the way anticipated? Disappointment may set in, but in the expanding European context in which I conducted research, something else occurs: sensory experiences of time and materiality intermingle and shape each other. These experiences of temporal-material relations, in a context of historical disorientation, are the basis of a new…
Sustaining Containability: Zero Waste and White Space
Environmental sustainability initiatives in Bulgaria generate new forms of racialization. Although institutionally framed as progressive in the name of "green" Europeanization, in practice these initiatives rely on undervalued and unrecognized racialized labor. By attending to the materiality of recycling bins in downtown Sofia and their physical openings-designed to keep hands out-I show how people engage with recycling-based sustainability regi…
The Intimacy of Labor
This essay rethinks writing on "intimate labor" to ethnographically explore the intimacy of labor by attending to how Romani women waste workers in Bulgaria assert workplace friendships to lay claim to public space and cultivate life-sustaining solidarities. Under conditions of racialized and degrading labor, they play with their uniformed hypervisibility, catcall white men on city streets, and temporarily unsettle normative expectations of woman…
Absurdities of Indeterminacy: Swastikas and Playing with the Token-Type Relationship
Far-right political leaders, supporters, and regular Bulgarian citizens deploy swastikas in ways that play with the indeterminacy of the token-type relationship in strategic ways. As they highlight the swastika as a perpetually unstable token, they work to prevent it from being apprehended as an instantiation of a Nazi type. Such deployments rely on strategically mobilizing semiotic indeterminacy across different contexts. Tracing actors’ deploym…
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy: Strategies of racial disavowal in Bulgaria
Contemporary white supremacy often takes hold through strategies of racial disavowal. One strategy that political parties and regular citizens in Bulgaria use is what I call determined indeterminacy. Determined indeterminacy is a collective, institutionalized method of denying the ubiquitous systemic racism that undergirds social life. It allows people to naturalize white supremacy and render it adaptably persistent. This is the case especially i…
The Unintentional Activist: Questions of Action, Activism, and Accountability
The Unintentional Activist:Questions of Action, Activism, and Accountability Elana Resnick (bio) I have never considered myself an activist. My problem with the term does not stem from debates about whether ethnography should be an activist endeavor but rather from the implication that ethnography could be anything else. If we think of an "activist" as someone who actively engages in the field, we must ask: What differentiates an activist anthrop…
The Unintentional Activist: Questions of Action, Activism, and Accountability
The Unintentional Activist:Questions of Action, Activism, and Accountability Elana Resnick (bio) I have never considered myself an activist. My problem with the term does not stem from debates about whether ethnography should be an activist endeavor but rather from the implication that ethnography could be anything else. If we think of an "activist" as someone who actively engages in the field, we must ask: What differentiates an activist anthrop…
Discarded Europe
How are time and materiality felt in periods of expectation, when change is awaited but never comes, at least not in the way anticipated? Disappointment may set in, but in the expanding European context in which I conducted research, something else occurs: sensory experiences of time and materiality intermingle and shape each other. These experiences of temporal-material relations, in a context of historical disorientation, are the basis of a new…
Durable Remains: Glass Reuse, Material Citizenship and Precarity in EU-era Bulgaria
Bulgarian Roma living in the capital city of Sofia rely on glass for EU-era survival becauseof its role in food-jarring practices and its ability to be repeatedly used and reused withoutbreaking down. The durability of glass emerges as a salient material quality for ensuringa means of preservation in the face of everyday economic precarity. Glass's durability ismaterial and temporal: temporal in that it transcends political and economic upheavals…
The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene
Recent anthropological attention to more-than-human life has neglected the importance of race and racialization in human responses to environmental change. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with waste management institutions and Romani waste laborers in urban Bulgaria, this article invokes the concept of the racialized Anthropocene to destabilize the unmarked whiteness upon which the turn to humans-as-a-species-anthropos-is founded. Habituation i…
The Intimacy of Labor
This essay rethinks writing on "intimate labor" to ethnographically explore the intimacy of labor by attending to how Romani women waste workers in Bulgaria assert workplace friendships to lay claim to public space and cultivate life-sustaining solidarities. Under conditions of racialized and degrading labor, they play with their uniformed hypervisibility, catcall white men on city streets, and temporarily unsettle normative expectations of woman…
Contracts, Uniforms, and Questions of "Humanity" in the Waste Workplace
Sustaining Containability: Zero Waste and White Space
Environmental sustainability initiatives in Bulgaria generate new forms of racialization. Although institutionally framed as progressive in the name of "green" Europeanization, in practice these initiatives rely on undervalued and unrecognized racialized labor. By attending to the materiality of recycling bins in downtown Sofia and their physical openings-designed to keep hands out-I show how people engage with recycling-based sustainability regi…
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy: Strategies of racial disavowal in Bulgaria
Contemporary white supremacy often takes hold through strategies of racial disavowal. One strategy that political parties and regular citizens in Bulgaria use is what I call determined indeterminacy. Determined indeterminacy is a collective, institutionalized method of denying the ubiquitous systemic racism that undergirds social life. It allows people to naturalize white supremacy and render it adaptably persistent. This is the case especially i…
Absurdities of Indeterminacy: Swastikas and Playing with the Token-Type Relationship
Far-right political leaders, supporters, and regular Bulgarian citizens deploy swastikas in ways that play with the indeterminacy of the token-type relationship in strategic ways. As they highlight the swastika as a perpetually unstable token, they work to prevent it from being apprehended as an instantiation of a Nazi type. Such deployments rely on strategically mobilizing semiotic indeterminacy across different contexts. Tracing actors’ deploym…
Collectively cultivating the pleasures of interembodiment: Waste labor, nuclearity, and river love in Bulgaria
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)