Antonius C G M Robben
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonius C G M Robben |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonius C G M |
| FAMILY NAME | Robben |
| SIGNATURE | ROBBEN A C G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
La protomemoria militar a 50 años del golpe de Estado de 1976
The Argentine Armed Forces that staged a coup d’état on 24 March 1976 were convinced that they would be praised in the future for ending the country’s political violence, restoring democracy, rebuilding the market economy, and fostering a Western culture based on Christian values. They constructed a proto-memory to make the Argentine people remember the dictatorship exclusively for its political accomplishments and military victory over the guerr…
Sheltered silence: The subjectivity of hiding in Amsterdam during World War II
Special Section on Perpetrators in Argentina: Introduction
Introduction to the special section on Perpetrators in Argentina
War, Technology, Anthropology
Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. This concise volume of research and reflections from different regions across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, observes how anthropology…
Does the Unconscious Influence Our Ethnography? Psychoanalysis during Fieldwork in Argentina
Ethnographic fieldwork is an emotional research practice because of its intersubjective nature and empathic embrace of the actor's perspective. This intersubjectivity also involves the fieldworker's unconscious, which influences ethnographic encounters and anthropological interpretations. Two years of psychoanalysis in Argentina revealed the influence of the unconscious on my fieldwork about political violence and trauma through dream analyses an…
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
In Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies raise a comprehensive understanding of the discursive and visual mediation of migration and manifestations of belonging and citizenship. More insight into the convergence – but also the tensions – between the cultural and the …
The co-constitution of violent death: Bombs, civilian victims and material destruction in Rotterdam during the Second World War
Thousands of people died in Rotterdam during the Second World War in more than 300 German and Allied bombardments. Civil defence measures had been taken before the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 and these efforts were intensified during the country's occupation as Allied bombers attacked Rotterdam's port, factories, dry docks and oil terminals. Residential neighbourhoods were also hit through imprecise targeting and by misfired fl…
A Companion to the Anthropology of Death
A companion to the anthropology of death
Companion to the Anthropology of Death
Argentina Betrayed: Memory, Mourning, and Accountability
The ruthless military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 betrayed the country's people, presiding over massive disappearances of its citizenry and, in the process, destroying the state's trustworthiness as the guardian of safety and well-being. Desperate relatives risked their lives to find the disappeared, and one group of mothers defied the repressive regime with weekly protests at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. How do …
Ethnography
Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights
This remarkable book demonstrates through in-depth case studies from ten countries around the world how the forensic exhumation of mass graves is inextricably intertwined with grassroots initiatives, national political developments, international human rights advocacy, and transnational claims of transitional justice.
How to Scale Factional Divisions in Conflict Situations
In conducting fieldwork among perpetrators of state violence, it is a major methodological problem to gain access to competing factions within the research population. Ethnographers often succeed in finding access to at least one faction but this successful rapport might then immediately close off other factions that mistrust the ethnographer's politics, intentions, or alleged sympathies. The ethnographic challenge is to find intermediaries or sw…
The Survival and Resilience of Anthropology during Democratic and Dictatorial Times in Argentina
The Hostile Gaze: Night Vision and the Immediation of Nocturnal Combat in Vietnam and Iraq
Neue Kriege
Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War
Iraq at a Distance describes the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents. This provocative book is a bold attempt by five distinguished anthropologists to study an inaccessible war zone through ground-breaking comparisons with armed conflicts around the world
Chaos, mimesis and dehumanisation in Iraq: American counterinsurgency in the global War on Terror
This article examines how the military dimension of the global clash between the cellular system of nonstate networks and the vertebrate system of nation‐states, as formulated by Arjun Appadurai, was played out in counterinsurgency operations between US troops and Iraqi insurgents during the Iraq War between 2004 and 2006. It demonstrates how American forces embraced the insurgency's networked tactics when massive assault operations failed. Infor…
Commentary on Avruch: Group Dynamics in Social Reconciliation Processes During Transitional Justice
Anthropology and the Iraq war: An uncomfortable engagement
The Iraq war has preoccupied anthropologists. However, this has not materialized in panels dedicated to independent study of Iraq at annual conferences at our major professional associations. In the US, we have been predominantly preoccupied with the implications of intelligence gathering for our profession. The author considers some of the differences between our dealing with the Iraq war presently, and the successful campaigns against the Vietn…
Response to Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Whose Violence? Death in America - A California Triptych
Riding Along with Police
In the summer of 2008 I sent out a call to thirty former students from three semesters between 2000 and 2005, to reflect on what they learned from the “ride-alongs” with police, whether the project has changed their views on social order and the state, on the practice of law enforcement, and on the process of gathering knowledge about social life in general. Ten responded, and their ideas show that the experience of police ethnography had a consi…
Combat Motivation, Fear and Terror in Twentieth-century Argentinian Warfare
This article compares the combat motivation of Argentinian troops against guerrilla insurgents in a 1975-80 domestic counter-insurgency war with the performance of Argentinian soldiers against British forces in the 1982 Falklands war. The comparison reveals that the willingness to fire and fight differs from the desire to enter into war, and that combat motivation is not determined exclusively by mental preparedness, professional training and sup…
The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death; Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America
The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death. Timothy Taylor. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002. 353 pp. Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America. Lyman L. Johnson, ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. 354 pp
Fieldwork Under FireContemporary Studies of Violence and Culture: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival
This book contains chapters written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. The chapters combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of violence, the personal and professional problems that arise as troubles escalate, and…
Ethnographie Seduction, Transference, and Resistance in Dialogues about Terror and Violence in Argentina
Habits of the Home: Spatial Hegemony and the Structuration of House and Society in Brazil
This article examines the relation between spatial structure and social practice in a Brazilian fishing town. The sociospatial division of the Brazilian house into rooms with distinct social functions and role relationships helps to define the domestic practices of the family members and socializes them into a conception of social interaction that influences their economic and public practices outside the home. However, the hegemony of this domes…
Sons of the Sea Goddess: Economic Practice and Discursive Conflict in Brazil
The author examines the relationship between economy and society in a fishing community in north-east Brazil. He proposes that closer ethnographic and theoretical attention be paid to the renegotiation of economic practices
Anthropology and the Iraq war: An uncomfortable engagement
The Iraq war has preoccupied anthropologists. However, this has not materialized in panels dedicated to independent study of Iraq at annual conferences at our major professional associations. In the US, we have been predominantly preoccupied with the implications of intelligence gathering for our profession. The author considers some of the differences between our dealing with the Iraq war presently, and the successful campaigns against the Vietn…
Combat Motivation, Fear and Terror in Twentieth-century Argentinian Warfare
This article compares the combat motivation of Argentinian troops against guerrilla insurgents in a 1975-80 domestic counter-insurgency war with the performance of Argentinian soldiers against British forces in the 1982 Falklands war. The comparison reveals that the willingness to fire and fight differs from the desire to enter into war, and that combat motivation is not determined exclusively by mental preparedness, professional training and sup…
Does the Unconscious Influence Our Ethnography? Psychoanalysis during Fieldwork in Argentina
Ethnographic fieldwork is an emotional research practice because of its intersubjective nature and empathic embrace of the actor's perspective. This intersubjectivity also involves the fieldworker's unconscious, which influences ethnographic encounters and anthropological interpretations. Two years of psychoanalysis in Argentina revealed the influence of the unconscious on my fieldwork about political violence and trauma through dream analyses an…
Conflicting Discourses of Economy and Society in Coastal Brazil
L'A. analyse la maniere dont des discours contradictoires portant sur l'economie de peche bresilienne se reproduisent dans la pratique sous la forme de structures economiques differenciees. Ces structures sont mises en evidence lors des confrontations qui opposent les acteurs sociaux, par exemple, au sujet du partage des prises, de la mobilite sociale, ou encore de la relation entre les activites de peche et l'unite domestique. Des solutions de c…
War, Technology, Anthropology
Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. This concise volume of research and reflections from different regions across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, observes how anthropology…
The co-constitution of violent death: Bombs, civilian victims and material destruction in Rotterdam during the Second World War
Thousands of people died in Rotterdam during the Second World War in more than 300 German and Allied bombardments. Civil defence measures had been taken before the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 and these efforts were intensified during the country's occupation as Allied bombers attacked Rotterdam's port, factories, dry docks and oil terminals. Residential neighbourhoods were also hit through imprecise targeting and by misfired fl…
How to Scale Factional Divisions in Conflict Situations
In conducting fieldwork among perpetrators of state violence, it is a major methodological problem to gain access to competing factions within the research population. Ethnographers often succeed in finding access to at least one faction but this successful rapport might then immediately close off other factions that mistrust the ethnographer's politics, intentions, or alleged sympathies. The ethnographic challenge is to find intermediaries or sw…
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide. Alexander Laban Hinton, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 405 pp
Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival
Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of the personal and professional problems that arise as…
Stratification, Scale, and Ranking: Social Change in Two Brazilian Fishing Communities
Stratification, Scale, and Ranking: Social Change in Two Brazilian Fishing Communities
Entrepreneurs and Scale: Interactional and Institutional Constraints on the Growth of Small-Scale Enterprises in Brazil
Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Entrepreneurs and Scale: Interactional and Institutional Constraints on the Growth of Small-Scale Enterprises in Brazil, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Jul., 1984), pp. 125-138
Habits of the Home: Spatial Hegemony and the Structuration of House and Society in Brazil
This article examines the relation between spatial structure and social practice in a Brazilian fishing town. The sociospatial division of the Brazilian house into rooms with distinct social functions and role relationships helps to define the domestic practices of the family members and socializes them into a conception of social interaction that influences their economic and public practices outside the home. However, the hegemony of this domes…
Sons of the Sea Goddess: Economic Practice and Discursive Conflict in Brazil
The author examines the relationship between economy and society in a fishing community in north-east Brazil. He proposes that closer ethnographic and theoretical attention be paid to the renegotiation of economic practices
Conflicting Discourses of Economy and Society in Coastal Brazil
L'A. analyse la maniere dont des discours contradictoires portant sur l'economie de peche bresilienne se reproduisent dans la pratique sous la forme de structures economiques differenciees. Ces structures sont mises en evidence lors des confrontations qui opposent les acteurs sociaux, par exemple, au sujet du partage des prises, de la mobilite sociale, ou encore de la relation entre les activites de peche et l'unite domestique. Des solutions de c…
Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture
Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of violence, the personal and professional problems tha…
Fieldwork Under FireContemporary Studies of Violence and Culture: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival
This book contains chapters written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. The chapters combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of violence, the personal and professional problems that arise as troubles escalate, and…
Ethnographie Seduction, Transference, and Resistance in Dialogues about Terror and Violence in Argentina
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Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival
Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of the personal and professional problems that arise as…
Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam. KATHERINE PRATT EWING. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1997; 312 pp. Reviewed by ANTONIUS C.G.M. ROBBEN Utrecht University Arguing sainthood: Modernity, psychoanalysis, and Islam is an intriguing ethnography based on two years of fieldwork among Sufi teachers, religious mendicants, and middle-class Pakistani in the city of Lahore. Katherine Pratt Ewing draws creatively on the work of Fren…
For These Eyes
For These Eyes. 1997. 52 minutes, color. film by Gonzalo Arijón and Virginia Martinez. For more information, contact First Run/Icarus Films. 153 Waverly Place, New York. NY 10014
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide:Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide. Alexander Laban Hinton, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 405 pp
Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina
Anthropology at War? What Argentina's Dirty War Can Teach Us
Combat Motivation, Fear and Terror in Twentieth-century Argentinian Warfare
This article compares the combat motivation of Argentinian troops against guerrilla insurgents in a 1975-80 domestic counter-insurgency war with the performance of Argentinian soldiers against British forces in the 1982 Falklands war. The comparison reveals that the willingness to fire and fight differs from the desire to enter into war, and that combat motivation is not determined exclusively by mental preparedness, professional training and sup…
The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death; Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America
The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death. Timothy Taylor. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002. 353 pp. Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America. Lyman L. Johnson, ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. 354 pp
Response to Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Whose Violence? Death in America - A California Triptych
Riding Along with Police
In the summer of 2008 I sent out a call to thirty former students from three semesters between 2000 and 2005, to reflect on what they learned from the “ride-alongs” with police, whether the project has changed their views on social order and the state, on the practice of law enforcement, and on the process of gathering knowledge about social life in general. Ten responded, and their ideas show that the experience of police ethnography had a consi…
Anthropology and the Iraq war: An uncomfortable engagement
The Iraq war has preoccupied anthropologists. However, this has not materialized in panels dedicated to independent study of Iraq at annual conferences at our major professional associations. In the US, we have been predominantly preoccupied with the implications of intelligence gathering for our profession. The author considers some of the differences between our dealing with the Iraq war presently, and the successful campaigns against the Vietn…
Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War
Iraq at a Distance describes the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents. This provocative book is a bold attempt by five distinguished anthropologists to study an inaccessible war zone through ground-breaking comparisons with armed conflicts around the world
Chaos, mimesis and dehumanisation in Iraq: American counterinsurgency in the global War on Terror
This article examines how the military dimension of the global clash between the cellular system of nonstate networks and the vertebrate system of nation‐states, as formulated by Arjun Appadurai, was played out in counterinsurgency operations between US troops and Iraqi insurgents during the Iraq War between 2004 and 2006. It demonstrates how American forces embraced the insurgency's networked tactics when massive assault operations failed. Infor…
Commentary on Avruch: Group Dynamics in Social Reconciliation Processes During Transitional Justice
Neue Kriege
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