Alice Forbess
Biographic Data
| ID | 5679998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Forbess |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Forbess |
| SIGNATURE | FORBESS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Redistribution Dilemmas and Ethical Commitments
Situated in Cameron's 'austerity Britain', this article explores contestations surrounding financial responsibility and fair redistribution in a local authority office and an NHS psychiatric hospital. Bureaucratic action is informed by simultaneously ethical and economic calculations, but to enact public good values, bureaucrats must circumvent material contingencies beyond their control. There is an ethical, even utopian, pressure upon street bu…
Paradoxical paradigms
Whilst anthropological discussions of morality tend to be rooted in Aristotelian ethical theory, this paper highlights an alternative Christian moral reasoning rooted in Neoplatonist/Christian hybrids and visible in contemporary Eastern Orthodox monastic practice. The analytical move proposed here is to focus on the disjunctures between different ethical traditions within Christianity in order to show how they produce diverse forms of moral reaso…
Acts of Assistance
This article explores everyday interactions with the British welfare state at a moment when it is attempting to shift and transform its funding regimes. Based on a study of two London legal services providers, it draws attention to a set of actors poised between local state officers and citizens: the advisers who carry out the work of translation, helping people to actualize their rights and, at the same time, forcing disparate state agencies to …
Montenegro versus Crna Gora
This article examines how hero-ancestor-saints came to be drawn into contestations over heritage, economic assets, and ritual between two rival groups of Orthodox clerics and their political and entrepreneurial backers. After Montenegro's secession from Serbia (2006), pro- and anti-Serbian factions of the population have been mobilized under the banners of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) and of the recently formed Montenegrin Orthodox Church (M…
From the mouth of God
This article proposes "divine kinship" as an analytical tool with which to explore the relation between the divine, "the people", and their political leaders and advance an ethnographically led comparative anthropology of democracy. More specifically, using the political ethnographies of five localities-North India, Venezuela, Montenegro, Russia, and Nepal-we discuss lived understandings of popular sovereignty, electoral representation, and polit…
Into the Field by Alyssa Grossman
Montenegro versus Crna Gora
This article examines how hero-ancestor-saints came to be drawn into contestations over heritage, economic assets, and ritual between two rival groups of Orthodox clerics and their political and entrepreneurial backers. After Montenegro's secession from Serbia (2006), pro- and anti-Serbian factions of the population have been mobilized under the banners of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) and of the recently formed Montenegrin Orthodox Church (M…
Paradoxical paradigms
Whilst anthropological discussions of morality tend to be rooted in Aristotelian ethical theory, this paper highlights an alternative Christian moral reasoning rooted in Neoplatonist/Christian hybrids and visible in contemporary Eastern Orthodox monastic practice. The analytical move proposed here is to focus on the disjunctures between different ethical traditions within Christianity in order to show how they produce diverse forms of moral reaso…
Redistribution Dilemmas and Ethical Commitments
Situated in Cameron's 'austerity Britain', this article explores contestations surrounding financial responsibility and fair redistribution in a local authority office and an NHS psychiatric hospital. Bureaucratic action is informed by simultaneously ethical and economic calculations, but to enact public good values, bureaucrats must circumvent material contingencies beyond their control. There is an ethical, even utopian, pressure upon street bu…
From the mouth of God
This article proposes "divine kinship" as an analytical tool with which to explore the relation between the divine, "the people", and their political leaders and advance an ethnographically led comparative anthropology of democracy. More specifically, using the political ethnographies of five localities-North India, Venezuela, Montenegro, Russia, and Nepal-we discuss lived understandings of popular sovereignty, electoral representation, and polit…
Into the Field by Alyssa Grossman
Montenegro versus Crna Gora
This article examines how hero-ancestor-saints came to be drawn into contestations over heritage, economic assets, and ritual between two rival groups of Orthodox clerics and their political and entrepreneurial backers. After Montenegro's secession from Serbia (2006), pro- and anti-Serbian factions of the population have been mobilized under the banners of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) and of the recently formed Montenegrin Orthodox Church (M…
From the mouth of God
This article proposes "divine kinship" as an analytical tool with which to explore the relation between the divine, "the people", and their political leaders and advance an ethnographically led comparative anthropology of democracy. More specifically, using the political ethnographies of five localities-North India, Venezuela, Montenegro, Russia, and Nepal-we discuss lived understandings of popular sovereignty, electoral representation, and polit…
Acts of Assistance
This article explores everyday interactions with the British welfare state at a moment when it is attempting to shift and transform its funding regimes. Based on a study of two London legal services providers, it draws attention to a set of actors poised between local state officers and citizens: the advisers who carry out the work of translation, helping people to actualize their rights and, at the same time, forcing disparate state agencies to …
Paradoxical paradigms
Whilst anthropological discussions of morality tend to be rooted in Aristotelian ethical theory, this paper highlights an alternative Christian moral reasoning rooted in Neoplatonist/Christian hybrids and visible in contemporary Eastern Orthodox monastic practice. The analytical move proposed here is to focus on the disjunctures between different ethical traditions within Christianity in order to show how they produce diverse forms of moral reaso…
Redistribution Dilemmas and Ethical Commitments
Situated in Cameron's 'austerity Britain', this article explores contestations surrounding financial responsibility and fair redistribution in a local authority office and an NHS psychiatric hospital. Bureaucratic action is informed by simultaneously ethical and economic calculations, but to enact public good values, bureaucrats must circumvent material contingencies beyond their control. There is an ethical, even utopian, pressure upon street bu…
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Kinship (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)