Alessandro Monsutti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Monsutti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Monsutti |
| SIGNATURE | MONSUTTI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Petite chronique citoyenne: Entre Anthropologie Critique Et Collaboration Artistique
BACZKO Adam, La guerre par le droit: Les tribunaux Taliban en Afghanistan
L’ouvrage d’Adam Baczko offre une vision originale et nécessaire de la société afghane, une société traversée par une série de conflits apparemment sans fin à cheval entre les xxe et xxie siècles. S’appuyant sur sa thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2018 à l’EHESS, l’auteur anticipe avec une singulière acuité les développements politiques et militaires de l’Afghanistan par son approche sociologique du droit en guerre civile. Quoique rédigé et publié a…
Suivre les personnes, suivre les conflits: Quelques réflexions ethnographiques à partir d'un terrain afghan
Waiting Games: Taming Chance among Afghans in Greece
This paper offers a contribution to the understanding of migration beyond its spatial dimension to include the multiple temporalities that are entailed. We rely on empirical material collected among young Afghan men in Greece to explore how they conceptualize and make sense of waiting in their own terms by proposing an ethnographic depiction of card and online games. We argue that card and online games are a way for our interlocutors to express s…
Thomas Faist and the Transnationalized Social Question
Migration and social diversity have been hot topics in the first decades of the twenty-first century, both in the social sciences and in public debates. What has been labelled as the European refug
Young Afghans at the doorsteps of Europe: The Difficult Art of Being a Successful Migrant
The aspirations and the decisions of young Afghan men at the south-eastern borders of the EU are structured by a moral economy of migration that has a twofold dimension. On the one hand, migration implies a social system of exchange and redistribution between young migrants and their relatives who stayed behind. It is underpinned by a code of conduct implying mutual obligations and collective responsibilities, by a system of values and solidarity…
Refugees
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Please check back later for the full article. Refugees are understood as forcefully displaced people who flee conflict in their country of origin in search of safety in another country. Their international legal status is defined by the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention complemented by the 1967 Protocol. To be recognized as a refugee, an …
Homo itinerans: La planète des Afghans
La société afghane a été marquée de façon durable par la guerre et l’exode d’une partie de sa population, mais également par la présence d’une myriade d’organisations non gouvernementales et de forces armées provenant de nombreux pays du globe. L’homo itinerans se décline ainsi de plusieurs façons. Aux déplacements des réfugiés, qui démasquent par leur mobilité la répartition inéquitable des ressources, correspond la circulation des experts, qui …
Mobility as a political act
This paper follows Thomas Faist's invitation to analyse the prominence that migration issues have acquired in European and North American political discourses and public perceptions. It situates mobility, beyond usual dichotomies between voluntary and forced migration, in the increasing global landscape of exclusion that characterizes today's world. It proposes as a working hypothesis that mobility can be seen as a testimony of the immorality of …
Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the Intervention by Noah Coburn
Reviewed by: Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the Intervention by Noah Coburn Alessandro Monsutti Noah Coburn, Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the Intervention. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 264 pp. After his studies of local politics in the community of potters of the town of Istalif, North of Kabul, and the internationally sponsored elections in Afghanistan (Coburn 2011, Coburn and Larson 2014), in Losing Afghanistan, Noah C…
Forced Migration in Broader Central Asia
This chapter examines one of the most emblematic recent cases of forced migration—protracted displacement in and from Afghanistan—along with complex cases of forced migration and statelessness caused by conflict and environmental stress in Central Asia. It begins with an overview of past, current, and future challenges confronting the region plagued by the ethnicization of public life and the proliferation of Islamist groups. It then considers th…
Landscapes of power: Local struggles and national stakes at the rural-urban fringe of Kabul, Afghanistan
This article shows the coexistence of the language of legal claims and the use of violence as constitutive modes of getting control over resources. Through the analysis of a specific case of land dispute east of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, we aim at revealing how local struggles are linked to broader geographies of power. Following important changes in the material conditions in Afghanistan, which have led to the expansion of the city and …
La terre du pouvoir, le pouvoir de la terre: Conflits fonciers et jeux politiques en Afghanistan
Cet article vise à montrer comment la légalité ne s’oppose pas de façon systématique au recours à la violence mais constitue deux manières de gagner et de maintenir l'accès à des ressources qui s’entremêlent et se renforcent mutuellement. À travers l’analyse d’un conflit foncier à la périphérie rurale de la capitale afghane, Kaboul, et l’observation des processus d’appropriation et de redistribution de terres au niveau local, nous mettrons en lum…
Anthropologizing Afghanistan: Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters
Afghanistan is a key region in and from which scholars can reflect on the potentials and challenges of anthropology. Structured chronologically and analytically, this review analyzes the persistence up to present day of the colonial image of an inward-looking society without, however, equating the current interplay of states and nonstate actors to the international context of the nineteenth century or the Cold War. The 1960s and 1970s were a prod…
La fabrique de la démocratie: ONG, fondations, think tanks et organisations internationales en action
Depuis la chute du mur de Berlin, les discours politiques et les valeurs qu'ils véhiculent n'ont plus le monopole de la promotion de la démocratie et de la bonne gouvernance. Des agences de coopération, des ONG, des fondations et des organisations internationales coproduisent des politiques publiques dans un certain nombre de pays en transition et qui sont en train de réformer leur système politique. Cet ouvrage réunit des études de cas concernan…
Fuzzy Sovereignty: Rural Reconstruction in Afghanistan, between Democracy Promotion and Power Games
This paper contributes to the study of new forms of transnational power constituted by the action of international and nongovernmental organizations, to which gravitate loose networks of activists variously promoting democracy, human rights, the empowerment of women, and environmental conservation. The paper's focus is impacts that the massive reconstruction effort is having on Afghan society, examined through a case study of The National Solidar…
Book Notes
Sisk, Timothy D, 2009.International Mediation in Civil Wars:Bargaining with Bullets. London: Routledge. xiþ253 pp.ISBN 9780415477055
Itinérances transnationales: Un éclairage sur les réseaux migratoires afghans
This article seeks to illustrate the virtues of taking a transnational approach by drawing upon the ethnography of the social networks that the Hazaras, a group originating in central Afghanistan, have created between their country of origin, Pakistan, Iran, North America and Australia. Several theories are advanced. The social life of the Hazaras is not structured by reference to a common place of residence but rather by effective ties of solida…
Afghan Migratory Strategies and the Three Solutions to the Refugee Problem
The present article proposes three main theses: the normality of movements and the prior existence of transnational networks in and around Afghanistan; the resilience and inventiveness of the Afghan population, especially illustrated by the remittance system; the relevance of migratory movements and of transnational networks for the reconstruction of the country and the stability of the region. In contrast to the migratory strategies developed by…
En suivant les réseaux de Kaboul à New York: Quelques réflexions méthodologiques sur la recherche ethnographique parmi les migrants
Ce texte se fonde sur une recherche menée parmi les Hazaras, une population originaire du centre de l’Afghanistan. Il expose comment s’articulent le cadre théorique et l’approche méthodologique d’une recherche portant sur de vastes réseaux migratoires qui se déploient entre l’Afghanistan, le Pakistan, l’Iran et, de façon croissante, l’Occident, en montrant comment des considérations générales sont mises en oeuvre concrètement sur un terrain éclat…
Migration as a Rite of Passage: Young Afghans Building Masculinity and Adulthood in Iran
Migration is part of the Afghan social and cultural landscape. In spite of the unprecedented wave of returns following the fall of the Taliban regime and the establishment of a government backed by the international community, multidirectional cross-border movements will not come to an end. This paper focuses on the case of Hazara male migrants moving between the mountains of Central Afghanistan and the cities of Iran. For many young men, migrati…
Cooperation, Remittances, and Kinship among the Hazaras
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Territoires, flux et représentations de l'exil afghan: Le cas des Hazaras et des Kaboulis
L’article porte sur les stratégies migratoires de deux populations bien différentes de l’Afghanistan : les Hazaras, minorité ethnique et religieuse, historiquement et économiquement marginale, et les classes moyennes et supérieures des centres urbains du pays, en particulier de la capitale, Kaboul. Toutes deux ont mis sur pied des stratégies d’insertion différentes selon leur pays d’accueil (Pakistan, Iran, pays occidentaux). Cet article examine …
Migration as a Rite of Passage: Young Afghans Building Masculinity and Adulthood in Iran
Migration is part of the Afghan social and cultural landscape. In spite of the unprecedented wave of returns following the fall of the Taliban regime and the establishment of a government backed by the international community, multidirectional cross-border movements will not come to an end. This paper focuses on the case of Hazara male migrants moving between the mountains of Central Afghanistan and the cities of Iran. For many young men, migrati…
Afghan Migratory Strategies and the Three Solutions to the Refugee Problem
The present article proposes three main theses: the normality of movements and the prior existence of transnational networks in and around Afghanistan; the resilience and inventiveness of the Afghan population, especially illustrated by the remittance system; the relevance of migratory movements and of transnational networks for the reconstruction of the country and the stability of the region. In contrast to the migratory strategies developed by…
Anthropologizing Afghanistan: Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters
Afghanistan is a key region in and from which scholars can reflect on the potentials and challenges of anthropology. Structured chronologically and analytically, this review analyzes the persistence up to present day of the colonial image of an inward-looking society without, however, equating the current interplay of states and nonstate actors to the international context of the nineteenth century or the Cold War. The 1960s and 1970s were a prod…
Mobility as a political act
This paper follows Thomas Faist's invitation to analyse the prominence that migration issues have acquired in European and North American political discourses and public perceptions. It situates mobility, beyond usual dichotomies between voluntary and forced migration, in the increasing global landscape of exclusion that characterizes today's world. It proposes as a working hypothesis that mobility can be seen as a testimony of the immorality of …
Cooperation, Remittances, and Kinship among the Hazaras
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Fuzzy Sovereignty: Rural Reconstruction in Afghanistan, between Democracy Promotion and Power Games
This paper contributes to the study of new forms of transnational power constituted by the action of international and nongovernmental organizations, to which gravitate loose networks of activists variously promoting democracy, human rights, the empowerment of women, and environmental conservation. The paper's focus is impacts that the massive reconstruction effort is having on Afghan society, examined through a case study of The National Solidar…
Young Afghans at the doorsteps of Europe: The Difficult Art of Being a Successful Migrant
The aspirations and the decisions of young Afghan men at the south-eastern borders of the EU are structured by a moral economy of migration that has a twofold dimension. On the one hand, migration implies a social system of exchange and redistribution between young migrants and their relatives who stayed behind. It is underpinned by a code of conduct implying mutual obligations and collective responsibilities, by a system of values and solidarity…
Landscapes of power: Local struggles and national stakes at the rural-urban fringe of Kabul, Afghanistan
This article shows the coexistence of the language of legal claims and the use of violence as constitutive modes of getting control over resources. Through the analysis of a specific case of land dispute east of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, we aim at revealing how local struggles are linked to broader geographies of power. Following important changes in the material conditions in Afghanistan, which have led to the expansion of the city and …
Itinérances transnationales: Un éclairage sur les réseaux migratoires afghans
This article seeks to illustrate the virtues of taking a transnational approach by drawing upon the ethnography of the social networks that the Hazaras, a group originating in central Afghanistan, have created between their country of origin, Pakistan, Iran, North America and Australia. Several theories are advanced. The social life of the Hazaras is not structured by reference to a common place of residence but rather by effective ties of solida…
La terre du pouvoir, le pouvoir de la terre: Conflits fonciers et jeux politiques en Afghanistan
Cet article vise à montrer comment la légalité ne s’oppose pas de façon systématique au recours à la violence mais constitue deux manières de gagner et de maintenir l'accès à des ressources qui s’entremêlent et se renforcent mutuellement. À travers l’analyse d’un conflit foncier à la périphérie rurale de la capitale afghane, Kaboul, et l’observation des processus d’appropriation et de redistribution de terres au niveau local, nous mettrons en lum…
Territoires, flux et représentations de l'exil afghan: Le cas des Hazaras et des Kaboulis
L’article porte sur les stratégies migratoires de deux populations bien différentes de l’Afghanistan : les Hazaras, minorité ethnique et religieuse, historiquement et économiquement marginale, et les classes moyennes et supérieures des centres urbains du pays, en particulier de la capitale, Kaboul. Toutes deux ont mis sur pied des stratégies d’insertion différentes selon leur pays d’accueil (Pakistan, Iran, pays occidentaux). Cet article examine …
Cooperation, Remittances, and Kinship among the Hazaras
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
En suivant les réseaux de Kaboul à New York: Quelques réflexions méthodologiques sur la recherche ethnographique parmi les migrants
Ce texte se fonde sur une recherche menée parmi les Hazaras, une population originaire du centre de l’Afghanistan. Il expose comment s’articulent le cadre théorique et l’approche méthodologique d’une recherche portant sur de vastes réseaux migratoires qui se déploient entre l’Afghanistan, le Pakistan, l’Iran et, de façon croissante, l’Occident, en montrant comment des considérations générales sont mises en oeuvre concrètement sur un terrain éclat…
Migration as a Rite of Passage: Young Afghans Building Masculinity and Adulthood in Iran
Migration is part of the Afghan social and cultural landscape. In spite of the unprecedented wave of returns following the fall of the Taliban regime and the establishment of a government backed by the international community, multidirectional cross-border movements will not come to an end. This paper focuses on the case of Hazara male migrants moving between the mountains of Central Afghanistan and the cities of Iran. For many young men, migrati…
Afghan Migratory Strategies and the Three Solutions to the Refugee Problem
The present article proposes three main theses: the normality of movements and the prior existence of transnational networks in and around Afghanistan; the resilience and inventiveness of the Afghan population, especially illustrated by the remittance system; the relevance of migratory movements and of transnational networks for the reconstruction of the country and the stability of the region. In contrast to the migratory strategies developed by…
Itinérances transnationales: Un éclairage sur les réseaux migratoires afghans
This article seeks to illustrate the virtues of taking a transnational approach by drawing upon the ethnography of the social networks that the Hazaras, a group originating in central Afghanistan, have created between their country of origin, Pakistan, Iran, North America and Australia. Several theories are advanced. The social life of the Hazaras is not structured by reference to a common place of residence but rather by effective ties of solida…
Book Notes
Sisk, Timothy D, 2009.International Mediation in Civil Wars:Bargaining with Bullets. London: Routledge. xiþ253 pp.ISBN 9780415477055
La fabrique de la démocratie: ONG, fondations, think tanks et organisations internationales en action
Depuis la chute du mur de Berlin, les discours politiques et les valeurs qu'ils véhiculent n'ont plus le monopole de la promotion de la démocratie et de la bonne gouvernance. Des agences de coopération, des ONG, des fondations et des organisations internationales coproduisent des politiques publiques dans un certain nombre de pays en transition et qui sont en train de réformer leur système politique. Cet ouvrage réunit des études de cas concernan…
Fuzzy Sovereignty: Rural Reconstruction in Afghanistan, between Democracy Promotion and Power Games
This paper contributes to the study of new forms of transnational power constituted by the action of international and nongovernmental organizations, to which gravitate loose networks of activists variously promoting democracy, human rights, the empowerment of women, and environmental conservation. The paper's focus is impacts that the massive reconstruction effort is having on Afghan society, examined through a case study of The National Solidar…
La terre du pouvoir, le pouvoir de la terre: Conflits fonciers et jeux politiques en Afghanistan
Cet article vise à montrer comment la légalité ne s’oppose pas de façon systématique au recours à la violence mais constitue deux manières de gagner et de maintenir l'accès à des ressources qui s’entremêlent et se renforcent mutuellement. À travers l’analyse d’un conflit foncier à la périphérie rurale de la capitale afghane, Kaboul, et l’observation des processus d’appropriation et de redistribution de terres au niveau local, nous mettrons en lum…
Anthropologizing Afghanistan: Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters
Afghanistan is a key region in and from which scholars can reflect on the potentials and challenges of anthropology. Structured chronologically and analytically, this review analyzes the persistence up to present day of the colonial image of an inward-looking society without, however, equating the current interplay of states and nonstate actors to the international context of the nineteenth century or the Cold War. The 1960s and 1970s were a prod…
Forced Migration in Broader Central Asia
This chapter examines one of the most emblematic recent cases of forced migration—protracted displacement in and from Afghanistan—along with complex cases of forced migration and statelessness caused by conflict and environmental stress in Central Asia. It begins with an overview of past, current, and future challenges confronting the region plagued by the ethnicization of public life and the proliferation of Islamist groups. It then considers th…
Landscapes of power: Local struggles and national stakes at the rural-urban fringe of Kabul, Afghanistan
This article shows the coexistence of the language of legal claims and the use of violence as constitutive modes of getting control over resources. Through the analysis of a specific case of land dispute east of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, we aim at revealing how local struggles are linked to broader geographies of power. Following important changes in the material conditions in Afghanistan, which have led to the expansion of the city and …
Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the Intervention by Noah Coburn
Reviewed by: Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the Intervention by Noah Coburn Alessandro Monsutti Noah Coburn, Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the Intervention. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 264 pp. After his studies of local politics in the community of potters of the town of Istalif, North of Kabul, and the internationally sponsored elections in Afghanistan (Coburn 2011, Coburn and Larson 2014), in Losing Afghanistan, Noah C…
Homo itinerans: La planète des Afghans
La société afghane a été marquée de façon durable par la guerre et l’exode d’une partie de sa population, mais également par la présence d’une myriade d’organisations non gouvernementales et de forces armées provenant de nombreux pays du globe. L’homo itinerans se décline ainsi de plusieurs façons. Aux déplacements des réfugiés, qui démasquent par leur mobilité la répartition inéquitable des ressources, correspond la circulation des experts, qui …
Mobility as a political act
This paper follows Thomas Faist's invitation to analyse the prominence that migration issues have acquired in European and North American political discourses and public perceptions. It situates mobility, beyond usual dichotomies between voluntary and forced migration, in the increasing global landscape of exclusion that characterizes today's world. It proposes as a working hypothesis that mobility can be seen as a testimony of the immorality of …
Refugees
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Please check back later for the full article. Refugees are understood as forcefully displaced people who flee conflict in their country of origin in search of safety in another country. Their international legal status is defined by the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention complemented by the 1967 Protocol. To be recognized as a refugee, an …
Thomas Faist and the Transnationalized Social Question
Migration and social diversity have been hot topics in the first decades of the twenty-first century, both in the social sciences and in public debates. What has been labelled as the European refug
Young Afghans at the doorsteps of Europe: The Difficult Art of Being a Successful Migrant
The aspirations and the decisions of young Afghan men at the south-eastern borders of the EU are structured by a moral economy of migration that has a twofold dimension. On the one hand, migration implies a social system of exchange and redistribution between young migrants and their relatives who stayed behind. It is underpinned by a code of conduct implying mutual obligations and collective responsibilities, by a system of values and solidarity…
Waiting Games: Taming Chance among Afghans in Greece
This paper offers a contribution to the understanding of migration beyond its spatial dimension to include the multiple temporalities that are entailed. We rely on empirical material collected among young Afghan men in Greece to explore how they conceptualize and make sense of waiting in their own terms by proposing an ethnographic depiction of card and online games. We argue that card and online games are a way for our interlocutors to express s…
Suivre les personnes, suivre les conflits: Quelques réflexions ethnographiques à partir d'un terrain afghan
BACZKO Adam, La guerre par le droit: Les tribunaux Taliban en Afghanistan
L’ouvrage d’Adam Baczko offre une vision originale et nécessaire de la société afghane, une société traversée par une série de conflits apparemment sans fin à cheval entre les xxe et xxie siècles. S’appuyant sur sa thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2018 à l’EHESS, l’auteur anticipe avec une singulière acuité les développements politiques et militaires de l’Afghanistan par son approche sociologique du droit en guerre civile. Quoique rédigé et publié a…
Petite chronique citoyenne: Entre Anthropologie Critique Et Collaboration Artistique
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Afghan (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Political economy (6 works)