Stephen C Lubkemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 218895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen C Lubkemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lubkemann |
| SIGNATURE | LUBKEMANN S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
The Meanings of the Move
In this article I draw comparatively on ethnographic material from my work with war-affected populations from postcolonial Mozambique and diasporan Liberia to argue for a fundamental shift in the conceptualization and study of displacement. I argue first for a need to shift from an emphasis on physical mobility as the sine qua non of "displacement," to an empirical investigation of the less-than-self-evident relationship between physical mobility…
Neither State Nor Custom – Just Naked Power: The Consequences of Ideals-Oriented Rule of Law Policy-Making in Liberia
In this article we provide an empirically grounded critique of the internationallydriven 'Rule of Law' policy approach in post-conflict Liberia by highlighting the consequences of policy-makers difficulties in coming to terms with the realities of legal pluralism. Informed by a 'progressive' intent to establish a single formal justice system for all Liberians, this approach has promoted policies that ignore or seek to constrain customary justice …
From Circular Migrants in the Mines to Transnational Polygynists in the Townships: A Century of Transformation in Central Mozambican Male Migration Regimes (1900‐1999)
This article tracks the most significant transformations in the international migration regime between central Mozambique and South Africa throughout the twentieth century as the product of complex and continuous interactions between the broader political‐economic environment and local forms of gendered and inter‐generational social struggle. A century of perspective brings into resolution the complex linkages between forms of migrancy such as la…
Diasporicity and Its Discontents: Generation and Fragmented Historicity in the Liberian Transnational Field
In this article I draw on a long history of successive transatlantic “displacements” and “returns” that have shaped and reshaped Liberian diasporan identities. Proposing that diasporicity is above all an identity discourse, the first part of this article documents and compares dramatic differences in that discourse across historical generations while also examining arguments about this form of identity and social differences in subscription to it…
Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential
For some time in diaspora studies, attention to remittances has overshadowed the growing impact of emigrant groups both within the social and political arenas in their homelands and with regard to fundamental economic development. The authors of Diasporas and Development redress this imbalance, focusing on three core issues: the responses of diasporas to homeland conflicts, strategies for mobilizing effective homeland investment, and the positive…
Involuntary Immobility: On a Theoretical Invisibility in Forced Migration Studies
Journal Article Involuntary Immobility: On a Theoretical Invisibility in Forced Migration Studies Get access Stephen C. Lubkemann Stephen C. Lubkemann Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University, 2110 G Street, NW, Washington DC 20052, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 454-475, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen043…
Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War
Migratory Coping in Wartime Mozambique: An Anthropology of Violence and Displacement in 'Fragmented Wars
Current frameworks for analyzing conflict in developing nations usually focus on the agendas of national-level parties to conflicts. This article draws heavily on the author's own ethnographic work in central Mozambique to demonstrate how political alignment during the Mozambican civil conflict (1977-92) was regarded by local actors as a tool for engaging in family- and community-level political struggles. Comparing findings from his own work in …
"Warscape Ethnography in West Africa and the Anthropology of "Events
This article introduces some of the challenges of doing ethnography in contexts such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-places where violence and the certainty of uncertainty have become the backdrop for social interaction. It also considers the potential contributions to anthropological theory of such an undertaking. In particular it outlines a fundamental re-orientation towards the concept of "the event." Drawing contrasts with conventional a…
Diasporas and Their Discontents: Return without Homecoming in the Forging of Liberian and African-American Identity
The Price of Liberty is an engaging and thoroughly researched account of how just over 2,000 North Carolinian blacks left for Africa between1820 and 1893 and of the role they played in the establis
Tragedy and Triumph: Mozambique Refugees in Southern Africa 1977-2000
Where To Be An Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-Spiritual Worlds Among Displaced Mozambicans
This paper examines the effect of spiritual beliefs and local religious institutions on displaced Mozambicans' strategies for reconstituting ‘social worlds’ (Marx 1990) which incorporate ancestral spirits. It examines how wartime violence was perceived to affect these ‘socio‐spiritual worlds’ and how wartime social change infused post‐conflict resettlement choices with specific ‘socio‐spiritual dilemmas’. It adapts Hirschman's (1970) classic typo…
Argument across the Portuguese-Speaking World: A Discursive Approach to Diaspora
Argument across the Portuguese-Speaking World:A Discursive Approach to Diaspora Andrea Klimt (bio) and Stephen Lubkemann (bio) Andrea Klimt University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Stephen Lubkemann George Washington University Andrea Klimt Andrea Klimt is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and at the Center for Portuguese Studies in the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. She is the author of num…
The Moral Economy of Portuguese Postcolonial Return
The Moral Economy of Portuguese Postcolonial Return Stephen C. Lubkemann (bio) Stephen C. Lubkemann George Washington University Stephen C. Lubkemann Stephen C. Lubkemann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University and was until recently a postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropological Demography at Brown University's Thomas J. Watson Institute. He is the author of several articles, including "The Transformation of Transnationa…
The Transformation of Transnationality among Mozambican Migrants in South Africa
ResumeCet article explore l’emergence d’une communaute immigrante transnationale reliant la region Machaze du Mozambique avec les communes du Vaal en Afrique du sud. Depuis le debut du siecle, Machaze compte sur l’immigration. Mais, la guerre civile au Mozambique a radicalement altere la structure et les implications de la migration Machazienne ainsi que les strategies de mariage. Pendant la guerre et depuis, la polygamie transnationale est deven…
Involuntary Immobility: On a Theoretical Invisibility in Forced Migration Studies
Journal Article Involuntary Immobility: On a Theoretical Invisibility in Forced Migration Studies Get access Stephen C. Lubkemann Stephen C. Lubkemann Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University, 2110 G Street, NW, Washington DC 20052, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 454-475, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen043…
Migratory Coping in Wartime Mozambique: An Anthropology of Violence and Displacement in 'Fragmented Wars
Current frameworks for analyzing conflict in developing nations usually focus on the agendas of national-level parties to conflicts. This article draws heavily on the author's own ethnographic work in central Mozambique to demonstrate how political alignment during the Mozambican civil conflict (1977-92) was regarded by local actors as a tool for engaging in family- and community-level political struggles. Comparing findings from his own work in …
"Warscape Ethnography in West Africa and the Anthropology of "Events
This article introduces some of the challenges of doing ethnography in contexts such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-places where violence and the certainty of uncertainty have become the backdrop for social interaction. It also considers the potential contributions to anthropological theory of such an undertaking. In particular it outlines a fundamental re-orientation towards the concept of "the event." Drawing contrasts with conventional a…
The Transformation of Transnationality among Mozambican Migrants in South Africa
ResumeCet article explore l’emergence d’une communaute immigrante transnationale reliant la region Machaze du Mozambique avec les communes du Vaal en Afrique du sud. Depuis le debut du siecle, Machaze compte sur l’immigration. Mais, la guerre civile au Mozambique a radicalement altere la structure et les implications de la migration Machazienne ainsi que les strategies de mariage. Pendant la guerre et depuis, la polygamie transnationale est deven…
Argument across the Portuguese-Speaking World: A Discursive Approach to Diaspora
Argument across the Portuguese-Speaking World:A Discursive Approach to Diaspora Andrea Klimt (bio) and Stephen Lubkemann (bio) Andrea Klimt University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Stephen Lubkemann George Washington University Andrea Klimt Andrea Klimt is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and at the Center for Portuguese Studies in the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. She is the author of num…
The Moral Economy of Portuguese Postcolonial Return
The Moral Economy of Portuguese Postcolonial Return Stephen C. Lubkemann (bio) Stephen C. Lubkemann George Washington University Stephen C. Lubkemann Stephen C. Lubkemann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University and was until recently a postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropological Demography at Brown University's Thomas J. Watson Institute. He is the author of several articles, including "The Transformation of Transnationa…
Where To Be An Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-Spiritual Worlds Among Displaced Mozambicans
This paper examines the effect of spiritual beliefs and local religious institutions on displaced Mozambicans' strategies for reconstituting ‘social worlds’ (Marx 1990) which incorporate ancestral spirits. It examines how wartime violence was perceived to affect these ‘socio‐spiritual worlds’ and how wartime social change infused post‐conflict resettlement choices with specific ‘socio‐spiritual dilemmas’. It adapts Hirschman's (1970) classic typo…
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
The Meanings of the Move
In this article I draw comparatively on ethnographic material from my work with war-affected populations from postcolonial Mozambique and diasporan Liberia to argue for a fundamental shift in the conceptualization and study of displacement. I argue first for a need to shift from an emphasis on physical mobility as the sine qua non of "displacement," to an empirical investigation of the less-than-self-evident relationship between physical mobility…
Diasporicity and Its Discontents: Generation and Fragmented Historicity in the Liberian Transnational Field
In this article I draw on a long history of successive transatlantic “displacements” and “returns” that have shaped and reshaped Liberian diasporan identities. Proposing that diasporicity is above all an identity discourse, the first part of this article documents and compares dramatic differences in that discourse across historical generations while also examining arguments about this form of identity and social differences in subscription to it…
Diasporas and Their Discontents: Return without Homecoming in the Forging of Liberian and African-American Identity
The Price of Liberty is an engaging and thoroughly researched account of how just over 2,000 North Carolinian blacks left for Africa between1820 and 1893 and of the role they played in the establis
The Transformation of Transnationality among Mozambican Migrants in South Africa
ResumeCet article explore l’emergence d’une communaute immigrante transnationale reliant la region Machaze du Mozambique avec les communes du Vaal en Afrique du sud. Depuis le debut du siecle, Machaze compte sur l’immigration. Mais, la guerre civile au Mozambique a radicalement altere la structure et les implications de la migration Machazienne ainsi que les strategies de mariage. Pendant la guerre et depuis, la polygamie transnationale est deven…
Where To Be An Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-Spiritual Worlds Among Displaced Mozambicans
This paper examines the effect of spiritual beliefs and local religious institutions on displaced Mozambicans' strategies for reconstituting ‘social worlds’ (Marx 1990) which incorporate ancestral spirits. It examines how wartime violence was perceived to affect these ‘socio‐spiritual worlds’ and how wartime social change infused post‐conflict resettlement choices with specific ‘socio‐spiritual dilemmas’. It adapts Hirschman's (1970) classic typo…
Argument across the Portuguese-Speaking World: A Discursive Approach to Diaspora
Argument across the Portuguese-Speaking World:A Discursive Approach to Diaspora Andrea Klimt (bio) and Stephen Lubkemann (bio) Andrea Klimt University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Stephen Lubkemann George Washington University Andrea Klimt Andrea Klimt is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and at the Center for Portuguese Studies in the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. She is the author of num…
The Moral Economy of Portuguese Postcolonial Return
The Moral Economy of Portuguese Postcolonial Return Stephen C. Lubkemann (bio) Stephen C. Lubkemann George Washington University Stephen C. Lubkemann Stephen C. Lubkemann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University and was until recently a postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropological Demography at Brown University's Thomas J. Watson Institute. He is the author of several articles, including "The Transformation of Transnationa…
Tragedy and Triumph: Mozambique Refugees in Southern Africa 1977-2000
Diasporas and Their Discontents: Return without Homecoming in the Forging of Liberian and African-American Identity
The Price of Liberty is an engaging and thoroughly researched account of how just over 2,000 North Carolinian blacks left for Africa between1820 and 1893 and of the role they played in the establis
Migratory Coping in Wartime Mozambique: An Anthropology of Violence and Displacement in 'Fragmented Wars
Current frameworks for analyzing conflict in developing nations usually focus on the agendas of national-level parties to conflicts. This article draws heavily on the author's own ethnographic work in central Mozambique to demonstrate how political alignment during the Mozambican civil conflict (1977-92) was regarded by local actors as a tool for engaging in family- and community-level political struggles. Comparing findings from his own work in …
"Warscape Ethnography in West Africa and the Anthropology of "Events
This article introduces some of the challenges of doing ethnography in contexts such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-places where violence and the certainty of uncertainty have become the backdrop for social interaction. It also considers the potential contributions to anthropological theory of such an undertaking. In particular it outlines a fundamental re-orientation towards the concept of "the event." Drawing contrasts with conventional a…
Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War
Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential
For some time in diaspora studies, attention to remittances has overshadowed the growing impact of emigrant groups both within the social and political arenas in their homelands and with regard to fundamental economic development. The authors of Diasporas and Development redress this imbalance, focusing on three core issues: the responses of diasporas to homeland conflicts, strategies for mobilizing effective homeland investment, and the positive…
Involuntary Immobility: On a Theoretical Invisibility in Forced Migration Studies
Journal Article Involuntary Immobility: On a Theoretical Invisibility in Forced Migration Studies Get access Stephen C. Lubkemann Stephen C. Lubkemann Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University, 2110 G Street, NW, Washington DC 20052, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 454-475, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen043…
From Circular Migrants in the Mines to Transnational Polygynists in the Townships: A Century of Transformation in Central Mozambican Male Migration Regimes (1900‐1999)
This article tracks the most significant transformations in the international migration regime between central Mozambique and South Africa throughout the twentieth century as the product of complex and continuous interactions between the broader political‐economic environment and local forms of gendered and inter‐generational social struggle. A century of perspective brings into resolution the complex linkages between forms of migrancy such as la…
Diasporicity and Its Discontents: Generation and Fragmented Historicity in the Liberian Transnational Field
In this article I draw on a long history of successive transatlantic “displacements” and “returns” that have shaped and reshaped Liberian diasporan identities. Proposing that diasporicity is above all an identity discourse, the first part of this article documents and compares dramatic differences in that discourse across historical generations while also examining arguments about this form of identity and social differences in subscription to it…
Neither State Nor Custom – Just Naked Power: The Consequences of Ideals-Oriented Rule of Law Policy-Making in Liberia
In this article we provide an empirically grounded critique of the internationallydriven 'Rule of Law' policy approach in post-conflict Liberia by highlighting the consequences of policy-makers difficulties in coming to terms with the realities of legal pluralism. Informed by a 'progressive' intent to establish a single formal justice system for all Liberians, this approach has promoted policies that ignore or seek to constrain customary justice …
The Meanings of the Move
In this article I draw comparatively on ethnographic material from my work with war-affected populations from postcolonial Mozambique and diasporan Liberia to argue for a fundamental shift in the conceptualization and study of displacement. I argue first for a need to shift from an emphasis on physical mobility as the sine qua non of "displacement," to an empirical investigation of the less-than-self-evident relationship between physical mobility…
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works)