Samuel Sami Everett
Biographic Data
| ID | 349695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Sami Everett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel Sami |
| FAMILY NAME | Everett |
| SIGNATURE | EVERETT S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7268-2651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Medical Mediterraneanisms? End‐of‐life care and the mètre cube in Marseille
This article examines the concept of ‘medical Mediterraneanisms’ through the case of a chapel‐cum‐multifaith space featuring artist Michelangelo Pistoletto's mètre cube de l'infini in Marseille's Paoli‐Calmettes Institute for cancer care. The installation materializes tensions between secularism and pluralistic religious practice in end‐of‐life settings within France's Republican framework. Drawing on ethnographic observations, testimonies and vi…
End of life – Introduction
This special issue introduces six ethnographic contributions on end‐of‐life care, emerging from a workshop on Ethnographies of Endings held at Durham University in 2024. Drawing on fieldwork in Britain, France, South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and India, the articles examine how institutional frameworks, clinical, bureaucratic and visual, encounter forms of human particularity they cannot accommodate. The introduction situates the collection withi…
Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State: Introduction
Using an interdisciplinary perspective at the intersections of anthropology, Jewish Studies, and critical academic scholarship of heritage, this special issue presents ethnographic examples to explore the relationship between minority groups and the state through the prism of representations of Jewish cultural heritage in the European public sphere. On an empirical level, the articles focus on personal, community-led, and wider public discussions…
North African Jewish Heritage, Interrupted Transmission, and Return
This article examines contemporary curatorial practices in France as contested sites where North African Sephardic Jewish cultural heritage intersects with broader questions of memory, transmission, and return. It is based on an ethnographic analysis of four case studies: an academic meeting in Cassis in 2019, two exhibitions at the Palais de la Porte Dorée and the Institut du Monde Arabe in 2022, the grassroots Dalâla festival in Paris in 2023, …
Off and on stage interactions: Muslim-Jewish encounter in urban Europe
Drawing on ethnographic and interview-based research in six cities (Berlin and Frankfurt in Germany, London and Manchester in the UK and Paris and Strasbourg in France), this article explores intercultural, interethnic and interreligious encounter as exemplified by Jewish-Muslim interaction. We look at three sites across the cities: “staged” encounters which take place in formal interfaith and municipal settings, and “unstaged” encounters in publ…
Maimonides in Marseille: Mediating Judeoarab difference in Mediterranean France
In this article, I challenge dominant secular republican approaches to religious difference ( laïcité ) in contemporary France by digitally and physically examining how traditionalist Jewish and Muslim communities in Marseille draw on Maimonides’ medieval, often virtually refracted philosophy, to create alternative modes of intercommunal engagement. These communities resist the privatization of religious identification demanded by laïcité through…
Introduction: Beyond public reason
This introduction situates the special issue within longstanding debates on liberal public reason, tracing its Enlightenment roots through Habermas and Rawls to contemporary political dilemmas. It highlights how anthropology has revealed the exclusions embedded in public reason's universalist claims, particularly for those marginalized by culture, race, gender, class, or religion. We argue that liberal public reason has become both a hegemonic ph…
Peripheral traditionalism: Judeoislamic self-help in Marseille's northern districts
Through the synagogue-cum-community space of St-X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban-invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self-help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over the state and organized religion, post migrant North African life and shared experience in these …
Curating Commonality: Multimodal Materialities of Intercommunal Northern African Heritage
This paper delineates multimodal materialities of intercommunal curation. I center the case of curating commonality of northern African (Maghrebi) Judeo-Islamic encounters and interactions across generations through plural Maghrebi Jewish narratives, and in the changing shape of museum curation culture. Algeria is central to historiographies of French imperial pluralism and their post-imperial metropolitan reconfigurations. For context, I introdu…
Comme un village méditerranéen: Postcolonial North African Jewish de- and re-racialization in Sarcelles
Built from nothing on the Parisian periphery in the 1950s, the neighbourhood known as Les Flanades in Sarcelles is perhaps the single largest North African Jewish urban space in France. Though heavily policed since 2000, Les Flanades had been free from violence. However, on 20 July 2014, violence erupted close to the central synagogue (known as la grande syna’) during a banned pro-Palestinian march. The violence pitted protestors and residents ag…
Introduction: Decolonizing the metropolis
Debates over borders and belonging in the post-imperial age have focused on the nation-state, with identifications and rights situated in a national sphere of citizenship.The unsettledness of contemporary European societies that has developed not only against, but also through colonial and imperial endeavours reveals the incapacity of national framings to fully make sense of plurality, including both the structural constraints on and the agency o…
Zouj: On the Importance of the Vernacular and the Idea of Transmission
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 13 (2022): Jews and Muslims in Europe. Between Discourse and Experience
From an intergroup conflict perspective, this paper studies cross perceptions and patterns of sociability between Jews and Muslims in a French suburban multicultural context, the town of Sarcelles (Val d’Oise), where violent anti-Semitic riots took place in July 2014. Drawing on a sample representative of the town’s adult population from an experimental telephone survey conducted in January 2019, we show that everyday relations between Jews and M…
Zouj. Interactions judéo-musulmanes dans la culture populaire humoristique maghrébine
C’est dans le contexte d’une réflexion autour de la coproduction de la culture populaire judéo-musulmane du nord de l’Afrique que j’ai entamé une étude d’anthropologie culturelle nommée « Zouj » (deux ou paire en arabe maghrébin ou darija) en parcourant cent ans de culture populaire et humoristique et en suivant des « paires » d’acteurs, de chanteurs et de spécialistes du stand-up juifs et musulmans et judéo-musulmans du Maghreb ou originaires du…
Algeria and France: Historical & Experiential Layers of a Footballing Relationship
This article examines the trajectories of Algerian-French belonging as they are exhibited within the world of playing and supporting football. I begin by tracing a broad history of football in France and Algeria and delineating the role of colonialism in the establishment of football associations and in the establishment of the Algerian Front de Libération National (FLN) national team. Engaging more directly in the trajectories themselves, I disc…
Une Ambiance Diaspora: Continuity and Change in Parisian Maghrebi Imaginaries
This article is an investigation of ethno-commercial exchanges and interactions between Jews and Muslims of North African heritage that takes account of their cross-cultural antecedents and continuities. The ethnographic focus is a telecommunications company called M-Switch located in the Parisian neighborhood of le Sentier, the trajectory of which is part of a broader cultural and economic shift observable in the neighborhood from industry to ne…
Interfaith Dialogue and Faith-Based Social Activism in a State of Emergency: Laïcité and the Crisis of Religion in France
The Algerian Works of Hélène Cixous: At the Triple Intersection of European, North African and Religious Nationalisms
The theme ‘Jewish conditions and theories of nationalism’, relating particularly to the twentieth century, can be connected to Hélène Cixous the thinker, through her childhood experiences in Algeria during the Second World War. Thereafter, she would spend 10 years in a country on the verge of what some have termed a ‘civil war’ between ‘European’ inhabitants, settled multiple generations previously, and an increasingly angry, marginalised, and di…
Where the burdens lie: Positioning French Muslim-Jewish relations (from the outside?)
Belleville library today The Bibliothèque de Couronnes, renamed Bibliothèque Neguib Mahfouz in 2014 after the famous Cairene writer, can be found on the corner of rue de Couronnes and rue Julien Lacroix, two central axes of a neighbourhood called Belleville in the 20th arrondissement in the North East of Paris. Commensurate to its size and scale, the library’s collection has a significant Arabic language and literature focus, reflecting the Maghr…
Controversial Emphases: The Training of Secondary School Teachers
Controversial Emphases: The Training of Secondary School Teachers." The Journal of Higher Education, 15(2), p. 113
Community Backgrounds of Education
Interfaith Dialogue and Faith-Based Social Activism in a State of Emergency: Laïcité and the Crisis of Religion in France
Une Ambiance Diaspora: Continuity and Change in Parisian Maghrebi Imaginaries
This article is an investigation of ethno-commercial exchanges and interactions between Jews and Muslims of North African heritage that takes account of their cross-cultural antecedents and continuities. The ethnographic focus is a telecommunications company called M-Switch located in the Parisian neighborhood of le Sentier, the trajectory of which is part of a broader cultural and economic shift observable in the neighborhood from industry to ne…
Off and on stage interactions: Muslim-Jewish encounter in urban Europe
Drawing on ethnographic and interview-based research in six cities (Berlin and Frankfurt in Germany, London and Manchester in the UK and Paris and Strasbourg in France), this article explores intercultural, interethnic and interreligious encounter as exemplified by Jewish-Muslim interaction. We look at three sites across the cities: “staged” encounters which take place in formal interfaith and municipal settings, and “unstaged” encounters in publ…
Peripheral traditionalism: Judeoislamic self-help in Marseille's northern districts
Through the synagogue-cum-community space of St-X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban-invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self-help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over the state and organized religion, post migrant North African life and shared experience in these …
Introduction: Decolonizing the metropolis
Debates over borders and belonging in the post-imperial age have focused on the nation-state, with identifications and rights situated in a national sphere of citizenship.The unsettledness of contemporary European societies that has developed not only against, but also through colonial and imperial endeavours reveals the incapacity of national framings to fully make sense of plurality, including both the structural constraints on and the agency o…
The Algerian Works of Hélène Cixous: At the Triple Intersection of European, North African and Religious Nationalisms
The theme ‘Jewish conditions and theories of nationalism’, relating particularly to the twentieth century, can be connected to Hélène Cixous the thinker, through her childhood experiences in Algeria during the Second World War. Thereafter, she would spend 10 years in a country on the verge of what some have termed a ‘civil war’ between ‘European’ inhabitants, settled multiple generations previously, and an increasingly angry, marginalised, and di…
Comme un village méditerranéen: Postcolonial North African Jewish de- and re-racialization in Sarcelles
Built from nothing on the Parisian periphery in the 1950s, the neighbourhood known as Les Flanades in Sarcelles is perhaps the single largest North African Jewish urban space in France. Though heavily policed since 2000, Les Flanades had been free from violence. However, on 20 July 2014, violence erupted close to the central synagogue (known as la grande syna’) during a banned pro-Palestinian march. The violence pitted protestors and residents ag…
Community Backgrounds of Education
Controversial Emphases: The Training of Secondary School Teachers
Controversial Emphases: The Training of Secondary School Teachers." The Journal of Higher Education, 15(2), p. 113
Where the burdens lie: Positioning French Muslim-Jewish relations (from the outside?)
Belleville library today The Bibliothèque de Couronnes, renamed Bibliothèque Neguib Mahfouz in 2014 after the famous Cairene writer, can be found on the corner of rue de Couronnes and rue Julien Lacroix, two central axes of a neighbourhood called Belleville in the 20th arrondissement in the North East of Paris. Commensurate to its size and scale, the library’s collection has a significant Arabic language and literature focus, reflecting the Maghr…
The Algerian Works of Hélène Cixous: At the Triple Intersection of European, North African and Religious Nationalisms
The theme ‘Jewish conditions and theories of nationalism’, relating particularly to the twentieth century, can be connected to Hélène Cixous the thinker, through her childhood experiences in Algeria during the Second World War. Thereafter, she would spend 10 years in a country on the verge of what some have termed a ‘civil war’ between ‘European’ inhabitants, settled multiple generations previously, and an increasingly angry, marginalised, and di…
Interfaith Dialogue and Faith-Based Social Activism in a State of Emergency: Laïcité and the Crisis of Religion in France
Une Ambiance Diaspora: Continuity and Change in Parisian Maghrebi Imaginaries
This article is an investigation of ethno-commercial exchanges and interactions between Jews and Muslims of North African heritage that takes account of their cross-cultural antecedents and continuities. The ethnographic focus is a telecommunications company called M-Switch located in the Parisian neighborhood of le Sentier, the trajectory of which is part of a broader cultural and economic shift observable in the neighborhood from industry to ne…
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 13 (2022): Jews and Muslims in Europe. Between Discourse and Experience
From an intergroup conflict perspective, this paper studies cross perceptions and patterns of sociability between Jews and Muslims in a French suburban multicultural context, the town of Sarcelles (Val d’Oise), where violent anti-Semitic riots took place in July 2014. Drawing on a sample representative of the town’s adult population from an experimental telephone survey conducted in January 2019, we show that everyday relations between Jews and M…
Zouj. Interactions judéo-musulmanes dans la culture populaire humoristique maghrébine
C’est dans le contexte d’une réflexion autour de la coproduction de la culture populaire judéo-musulmane du nord de l’Afrique que j’ai entamé une étude d’anthropologie culturelle nommée « Zouj » (deux ou paire en arabe maghrébin ou darija) en parcourant cent ans de culture populaire et humoristique et en suivant des « paires » d’acteurs, de chanteurs et de spécialistes du stand-up juifs et musulmans et judéo-musulmans du Maghreb ou originaires du…
Algeria and France: Historical & Experiential Layers of a Footballing Relationship
This article examines the trajectories of Algerian-French belonging as they are exhibited within the world of playing and supporting football. I begin by tracing a broad history of football in France and Algeria and delineating the role of colonialism in the establishment of football associations and in the establishment of the Algerian Front de Libération National (FLN) national team. Engaging more directly in the trajectories themselves, I disc…
Comme un village méditerranéen: Postcolonial North African Jewish de- and re-racialization in Sarcelles
Built from nothing on the Parisian periphery in the 1950s, the neighbourhood known as Les Flanades in Sarcelles is perhaps the single largest North African Jewish urban space in France. Though heavily policed since 2000, Les Flanades had been free from violence. However, on 20 July 2014, violence erupted close to the central synagogue (known as la grande syna’) during a banned pro-Palestinian march. The violence pitted protestors and residents ag…
Introduction: Decolonizing the metropolis
Debates over borders and belonging in the post-imperial age have focused on the nation-state, with identifications and rights situated in a national sphere of citizenship.The unsettledness of contemporary European societies that has developed not only against, but also through colonial and imperial endeavours reveals the incapacity of national framings to fully make sense of plurality, including both the structural constraints on and the agency o…
Zouj: On the Importance of the Vernacular and the Idea of Transmission
Curating Commonality: Multimodal Materialities of Intercommunal Northern African Heritage
This paper delineates multimodal materialities of intercommunal curation. I center the case of curating commonality of northern African (Maghrebi) Judeo-Islamic encounters and interactions across generations through plural Maghrebi Jewish narratives, and in the changing shape of museum curation culture. Algeria is central to historiographies of French imperial pluralism and their post-imperial metropolitan reconfigurations. For context, I introdu…
Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State: Introduction
Using an interdisciplinary perspective at the intersections of anthropology, Jewish Studies, and critical academic scholarship of heritage, this special issue presents ethnographic examples to explore the relationship between minority groups and the state through the prism of representations of Jewish cultural heritage in the European public sphere. On an empirical level, the articles focus on personal, community-led, and wider public discussions…
North African Jewish Heritage, Interrupted Transmission, and Return
This article examines contemporary curatorial practices in France as contested sites where North African Sephardic Jewish cultural heritage intersects with broader questions of memory, transmission, and return. It is based on an ethnographic analysis of four case studies: an academic meeting in Cassis in 2019, two exhibitions at the Palais de la Porte Dorée and the Institut du Monde Arabe in 2022, the grassroots Dalâla festival in Paris in 2023, …
Off and on stage interactions: Muslim-Jewish encounter in urban Europe
Drawing on ethnographic and interview-based research in six cities (Berlin and Frankfurt in Germany, London and Manchester in the UK and Paris and Strasbourg in France), this article explores intercultural, interethnic and interreligious encounter as exemplified by Jewish-Muslim interaction. We look at three sites across the cities: “staged” encounters which take place in formal interfaith and municipal settings, and “unstaged” encounters in publ…
Maimonides in Marseille: Mediating Judeoarab difference in Mediterranean France
In this article, I challenge dominant secular republican approaches to religious difference ( laïcité ) in contemporary France by digitally and physically examining how traditionalist Jewish and Muslim communities in Marseille draw on Maimonides’ medieval, often virtually refracted philosophy, to create alternative modes of intercommunal engagement. These communities resist the privatization of religious identification demanded by laïcité through…
Introduction: Beyond public reason
This introduction situates the special issue within longstanding debates on liberal public reason, tracing its Enlightenment roots through Habermas and Rawls to contemporary political dilemmas. It highlights how anthropology has revealed the exclusions embedded in public reason's universalist claims, particularly for those marginalized by culture, race, gender, class, or religion. We argue that liberal public reason has become both a hegemonic ph…
Peripheral traditionalism: Judeoislamic self-help in Marseille's northern districts
Through the synagogue-cum-community space of St-X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban-invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self-help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over the state and organized religion, post migrant North African life and shared experience in these …
Medical Mediterraneanisms? End‐of‐life care and the mètre cube in Marseille
This article examines the concept of ‘medical Mediterraneanisms’ through the case of a chapel‐cum‐multifaith space featuring artist Michelangelo Pistoletto's mètre cube de l'infini in Marseille's Paoli‐Calmettes Institute for cancer care. The installation materializes tensions between secularism and pluralistic religious practice in end‐of‐life settings within France's Republican framework. Drawing on ethnographic observations, testimonies and vi…
End of life – Introduction
This special issue introduces six ethnographic contributions on end‐of‐life care, emerging from a workshop on Ethnographies of Endings held at Durham University in 2024. Drawing on fieldwork in Britain, France, South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and India, the articles examine how institutional frameworks, clinical, bureaucratic and visual, encounter forms of human particularity they cannot accommodate. The introduction situates the collection withi…
Sociology (11 works) · Judaism (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (7 works) · North African History and Literature (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works)