Trevor Stack
Biographic Data
| ID | 534018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trevor Stack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trevor |
| FAMILY NAME | Stack |
| SIGNATURE | STACK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4640-4994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Citizens against Crime and Violence: Societal Responses in Mexico
Mexico has become notorious for crime-related violence, and the efforts of governments and national and international NGOs to counter this violence have proven largely futile. Citizens against Crime and Violence studies societal responses to crime and violence within one of Mexico’s most affected regions, the state of Michoacán. Based on comparative ethnography conducted over twelve months by a team of anthropologists and sociologists across six …
Afterword: Citizenship in Pandemic Times
Creativity in Advertising, Fiction and Ethnography
This chapter examines the experiences of creativity for those who produce culture-as-elitetradition. It focuses on three such forms: advertising, fiction and ethnography. While as an abstraction the idea has heuristic utility, its real-world instantiations vary in intensity and quality among particular domains our focus here being on the three domains of advertising, fiction and ethnography. The core product of any advertising agency is creativit…
Citizenship and the Established Civil Sphere in Provincial Mexico
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Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty
Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty – as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. The authors of this volume provide a multi-dimensional picture of how the category of religion has served the ends of modern government. They draw on perspectives from history, anthropology, moral philosophy, theol…
Religion as a category of governance and sovereignty
Spoken Like a State: Language and Religion as Categories of Liberal Thought
In the eyes of the law, in the eyes of society: A citizenship tradition in west Mexico
Citizenship has been in the last thirty years a significant concern of anthropologists, not least because it has been in the same period a concern of people around the world. At least, the term "citizenship" has been used widely, if not always in quite the same way as anthropologists have used it, especially those anthropologists who have paid less attention to their informants' understandings of it. During fieldwork in west Mexico in 2007-2010, …
Trajectories of Culture in West Mexico
Explaining culture change requires a multi-dimensional approach, and so does explaining cultural continuity. I combine several approaches to explain why the account given of a Mexican town's history changed between 1879 and 1992. I also identify and explain what did not change during the period, as well as during the subsequent period of fieldwork itself, 1992–2005. Rather than treat cultural continuity as the result of inertia, I follow Urban ([…
Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship
While much has been written about national history and citizenship, anthropologist Trevor Stack focuses on history and citizenship of towns and cities. Basing his inquiry on fieldwork in west Mexican towns near Guadalajara, Stack begins by observing that people talked (and wrote) of their towns' history and not just of Mexico's. Key to Stack's study is insight that knowing history can give someone public status or authority. It can make someone s…
Beyond the state? Civil sociality and other notions of citizenship
Social scientists generally begin with a definition of citizenship, usually the rights-bearing membership of nation-states, and have given less attention to the notions of citizenship held by the people whom they study. Not only is how people see themselves as citizens crucial to how they relate to states as well as to each other, but informants' own notions of citizenship can be the source of fresh theoretical insights about citizenship. In this…
A just rule of law: A Just Rule of Law
Peer reviewed
Rooting and Cultura in West Mexico
Drawing on Kwame Appiah's discussion of the relationship between rooting and cosmopolitanism, I show that this concern was shared by many in west Mexico, where I conducted fieldwork among diverse groups of townspeople, villagers, weekend visitors from Guadalajara, and migrants working in Guadalajara and in California. All of those groups talked about belonging or rooting to specific places - villages, towns, cities, countries and so on. They also…
Citizenship Beyond the State: Thinking with Early Modern Citizenship in the Contemporary World
In our introduction, we pose some of the broader questions raised by the interdisciplinary and inter-period work of our contributors, while also drawing upon our own research on early modern London and contemporary Mexico. We argue that elements of the early-modern tradition of urban citizenship have indeed survived alongside national citizenship, at least in certain contexts. Beyond that, we argue that early modern citizenship also helps to set …
The skewing of history in Mexico
In this article, I consider the attempt by a group of activists in west Mexico to uncover the history of their town. Attention focuses on how group members understood the genre of history and why they believed that mastering the genre would help to revitalize their community. I also look at the difficulties faced by the group in living up to its own understandings of that genre and particularly in obtaining the right kinds of evidence to substant…
Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism
Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism. Claudio Lomnitz. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ix. 354 pp., notes, references, index
Citizens of Towns, Citizens of Nations: The Knowing of History in Mexico
This article finds a disjuncture between the practices associated with being a citizen of a town and those associated with being a citizen of a nation. The practices on which it focuses are the knowing of a town's history and the knowing of a nation's history. It looks at how townspeople in west Mexico talked about the history of their town, Tapalpa, in relation to how they talked about Mexico's history. In principle, the knowing of Tapalpa's his…
Remapping Memory: The Politics of Timespace
Citizenship Beyond the State: Thinking with Early Modern Citizenship in the Contemporary World
In our introduction, we pose some of the broader questions raised by the interdisciplinary and inter-period work of our contributors, while also drawing upon our own research on early modern London and contemporary Mexico. We argue that elements of the early-modern tradition of urban citizenship have indeed survived alongside national citizenship, at least in certain contexts. Beyond that, we argue that early modern citizenship also helps to set …
Beyond the state? Civil sociality and other notions of citizenship
Social scientists generally begin with a definition of citizenship, usually the rights-bearing membership of nation-states, and have given less attention to the notions of citizenship held by the people whom they study. Not only is how people see themselves as citizens crucial to how they relate to states as well as to each other, but informants' own notions of citizenship can be the source of fresh theoretical insights about citizenship. In this…
Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism
Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism. Claudio Lomnitz. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ix. 354 pp., notes, references, index
In the eyes of the law, in the eyes of society: A citizenship tradition in west Mexico
Citizenship has been in the last thirty years a significant concern of anthropologists, not least because it has been in the same period a concern of people around the world. At least, the term "citizenship" has been used widely, if not always in quite the same way as anthropologists have used it, especially those anthropologists who have paid less attention to their informants' understandings of it. During fieldwork in west Mexico in 2007-2010, …
Citizens of Towns, Citizens of Nations: The Knowing of History in Mexico
This article finds a disjuncture between the practices associated with being a citizen of a town and those associated with being a citizen of a nation. The practices on which it focuses are the knowing of a town's history and the knowing of a nation's history. It looks at how townspeople in west Mexico talked about the history of their town, Tapalpa, in relation to how they talked about Mexico's history. In principle, the knowing of Tapalpa's his…
The skewing of history in Mexico
In this article, I consider the attempt by a group of activists in west Mexico to uncover the history of their town. Attention focuses on how group members understood the genre of history and why they believed that mastering the genre would help to revitalize their community. I also look at the difficulties faced by the group in living up to its own understandings of that genre and particularly in obtaining the right kinds of evidence to substant…
Rooting and Cultura in West Mexico
Drawing on Kwame Appiah's discussion of the relationship between rooting and cosmopolitanism, I show that this concern was shared by many in west Mexico, where I conducted fieldwork among diverse groups of townspeople, villagers, weekend visitors from Guadalajara, and migrants working in Guadalajara and in California. All of those groups talked about belonging or rooting to specific places - villages, towns, cities, countries and so on. They also…
Remapping Memory: The Politics of Timespace
Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism
Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism. Claudio Lomnitz. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ix. 354 pp., notes, references, index
Citizens of Towns, Citizens of Nations: The Knowing of History in Mexico
This article finds a disjuncture between the practices associated with being a citizen of a town and those associated with being a citizen of a nation. The practices on which it focuses are the knowing of a town's history and the knowing of a nation's history. It looks at how townspeople in west Mexico talked about the history of their town, Tapalpa, in relation to how they talked about Mexico's history. In principle, the knowing of Tapalpa's his…
The skewing of history in Mexico
In this article, I consider the attempt by a group of activists in west Mexico to uncover the history of their town. Attention focuses on how group members understood the genre of history and why they believed that mastering the genre would help to revitalize their community. I also look at the difficulties faced by the group in living up to its own understandings of that genre and particularly in obtaining the right kinds of evidence to substant…
Rooting and Cultura in West Mexico
Drawing on Kwame Appiah's discussion of the relationship between rooting and cosmopolitanism, I show that this concern was shared by many in west Mexico, where I conducted fieldwork among diverse groups of townspeople, villagers, weekend visitors from Guadalajara, and migrants working in Guadalajara and in California. All of those groups talked about belonging or rooting to specific places - villages, towns, cities, countries and so on. They also…
Citizenship Beyond the State: Thinking with Early Modern Citizenship in the Contemporary World
In our introduction, we pose some of the broader questions raised by the interdisciplinary and inter-period work of our contributors, while also drawing upon our own research on early modern London and contemporary Mexico. We argue that elements of the early-modern tradition of urban citizenship have indeed survived alongside national citizenship, at least in certain contexts. Beyond that, we argue that early modern citizenship also helps to set …
A just rule of law: A Just Rule of Law
Peer reviewed
Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship
While much has been written about national history and citizenship, anthropologist Trevor Stack focuses on history and citizenship of towns and cities. Basing his inquiry on fieldwork in west Mexican towns near Guadalajara, Stack begins by observing that people talked (and wrote) of their towns' history and not just of Mexico's. Key to Stack's study is insight that knowing history can give someone public status or authority. It can make someone s…
Beyond the state? Civil sociality and other notions of citizenship
Social scientists generally begin with a definition of citizenship, usually the rights-bearing membership of nation-states, and have given less attention to the notions of citizenship held by the people whom they study. Not only is how people see themselves as citizens crucial to how they relate to states as well as to each other, but informants' own notions of citizenship can be the source of fresh theoretical insights about citizenship. In this…
Spoken Like a State: Language and Religion as Categories of Liberal Thought
In the eyes of the law, in the eyes of society: A citizenship tradition in west Mexico
Citizenship has been in the last thirty years a significant concern of anthropologists, not least because it has been in the same period a concern of people around the world. At least, the term "citizenship" has been used widely, if not always in quite the same way as anthropologists have used it, especially those anthropologists who have paid less attention to their informants' understandings of it. During fieldwork in west Mexico in 2007-2010, …
Trajectories of Culture in West Mexico
Explaining culture change requires a multi-dimensional approach, and so does explaining cultural continuity. I combine several approaches to explain why the account given of a Mexican town's history changed between 1879 and 1992. I also identify and explain what did not change during the period, as well as during the subsequent period of fieldwork itself, 1992–2005. Rather than treat cultural continuity as the result of inertia, I follow Urban ([…
Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty
Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty – as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. The authors of this volume provide a multi-dimensional picture of how the category of religion has served the ends of modern government. They draw on perspectives from history, anthropology, moral philosophy, theol…
Religion as a category of governance and sovereignty
Citizenship and the Established Civil Sphere in Provincial Mexico
A summary 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.
Creativity in Advertising, Fiction and Ethnography
This chapter examines the experiences of creativity for those who produce culture-as-elitetradition. It focuses on three such forms: advertising, fiction and ethnography. While as an abstraction the idea has heuristic utility, its real-world instantiations vary in intensity and quality among particular domains our focus here being on the three domains of advertising, fiction and ethnography. The core product of any advertising agency is creativit…
Citizens against Crime and Violence: Societal Responses in Mexico
Mexico has become notorious for crime-related violence, and the efforts of governments and national and international NGOs to counter this violence have proven largely futile. Citizens against Crime and Violence studies societal responses to crime and violence within one of Mexico’s most affected regions, the state of Michoacán. Based on comparative ethnography conducted over twelve months by a team of anthropologists and sociologists across six …
Afterword: Citizenship in Pandemic Times
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