P Topali
Biographic Data
| ID | 57066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Topali |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Topali |
| SIGNATURE | TOPALI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Aegean |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0442-8413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Failed schemes of relatedness in domestic work: Filipina domestic workers in Greece
This article examines the development of Filipina domestic workers' ideas regarding their work, as well as the relational models of work they apply in Greek households during their stay in the country over time. These models are produced in the context of an ambivalent legal environment, are constructed in relation to models applied by employers and are informed by Filipino ideas concerning reciprocity and the relational construction of power. In…
Constructing Selves in (Im)mobility: Greek Women’s Narratives Concerning the Covid-19 Lockdowns in Athens, Greece
The present article examines women’s narratives concerning the COVID-19 pandemic experience in Athens, Greece. The spacetime contexts that women construct to situate this experience involve the city and the house, the former involving historical and cosmological temporalities, and the second a ritualized domestic tempo that gradually becomes disorganized. In these spatiotemporal formations women develop performative acts of individuality and sing…
Teaching Anthropology at 'Crisis' Times at the Greek Borders: Emergency Temporalities Entering the Classroom during the Refugee Crisis in Lesbos
In this paper I examine how culturally-based forms of time in Greece were transformed by the presence of new, emergency-like categorizations of time due to ‘crisis’. Reflecting on my teaching of anthropology on the island of Lesbos during the refugees’ arrival, I analyze how Greek temporalities got disrupted and muddled by the new ones that the humanitarian crisis created. A stabilized, extended anthropological temporality that was imposed by hum…
Visual Regimes of Mobility Photographic Exhibitions on Refugees during the Financial Crisis in Greece
This article explores how photographic images of refugees in modern Greece condition national imagination and construct new ethnopolitical moral fantasies. It also examines how repetitive images of suffering in photographic exhibitions become constitutive of a new regime of mobility in the country during the financial and refugee crisis. I argue that refugees’ images articulate kinship and gender norms, national archetypes, ethnic hierarchies, an…
Silent Bodies in Religion and Work: Migrant Filipinas and the Construction of Relational Power
The present article explores the relationship of silences, as vocal and non-vocal bodily practices, to forms of power in religion and work. More specifically, it focuses on Filipina domestic workers in Greece who are members of Iglesia ni Cristo, an independent Filipino church. In the hierarchical contexts of the church and paid domestic work, where the church expands its influence, silence is a dominant embodied religious ethos, an ideal behavio…
Constructions of Care in Modern Greece: Gendered Relationships between Filipina Domestic Workers and Greek Employers
The present article focuses on the culturally and contextually defined notion of ‘care’ with reference to Filipina live-in domestic workers in contemporary Greece. This is studied through careful examination of: the kinship discourses dominant in the Greek household and in domestic labor relationships; the kinship discourses present in the Philippines; and the religious Filipino discourse in the immigrant context of Greece. In all of these contex…
Failed schemes of relatedness in domestic work: Filipina domestic workers in Greece
This article examines the development of Filipina domestic workers' ideas regarding their work, as well as the relational models of work they apply in Greek households during their stay in the country over time. These models are produced in the context of an ambivalent legal environment, are constructed in relation to models applied by employers and are informed by Filipino ideas concerning reciprocity and the relational construction of power. In…
Visual Regimes of Mobility Photographic Exhibitions on Refugees during the Financial Crisis in Greece
This article explores how photographic images of refugees in modern Greece condition national imagination and construct new ethnopolitical moral fantasies. It also examines how repetitive images of suffering in photographic exhibitions become constitutive of a new regime of mobility in the country during the financial and refugee crisis. I argue that refugees’ images articulate kinship and gender norms, national archetypes, ethnic hierarchies, an…
Constructions of Care in Modern Greece: Gendered Relationships between Filipina Domestic Workers and Greek Employers
The present article focuses on the culturally and contextually defined notion of ‘care’ with reference to Filipina live-in domestic workers in contemporary Greece. This is studied through careful examination of: the kinship discourses dominant in the Greek household and in domestic labor relationships; the kinship discourses present in the Philippines; and the religious Filipino discourse in the immigrant context of Greece. In all of these contex…
Constructions of Care in Modern Greece: Gendered Relationships between Filipina Domestic Workers and Greek Employers
The present article focuses on the culturally and contextually defined notion of ‘care’ with reference to Filipina live-in domestic workers in contemporary Greece. This is studied through careful examination of: the kinship discourses dominant in the Greek household and in domestic labor relationships; the kinship discourses present in the Philippines; and the religious Filipino discourse in the immigrant context of Greece. In all of these contex…
Silent Bodies in Religion and Work: Migrant Filipinas and the Construction of Relational Power
The present article explores the relationship of silences, as vocal and non-vocal bodily practices, to forms of power in religion and work. More specifically, it focuses on Filipina domestic workers in Greece who are members of Iglesia ni Cristo, an independent Filipino church. In the hierarchical contexts of the church and paid domestic work, where the church expands its influence, silence is a dominant embodied religious ethos, an ideal behavio…
Visual Regimes of Mobility Photographic Exhibitions on Refugees during the Financial Crisis in Greece
This article explores how photographic images of refugees in modern Greece condition national imagination and construct new ethnopolitical moral fantasies. It also examines how repetitive images of suffering in photographic exhibitions become constitutive of a new regime of mobility in the country during the financial and refugee crisis. I argue that refugees’ images articulate kinship and gender norms, national archetypes, ethnic hierarchies, an…
Teaching Anthropology at 'Crisis' Times at the Greek Borders: Emergency Temporalities Entering the Classroom during the Refugee Crisis in Lesbos
In this paper I examine how culturally-based forms of time in Greece were transformed by the presence of new, emergency-like categorizations of time due to ‘crisis’. Reflecting on my teaching of anthropology on the island of Lesbos during the refugees’ arrival, I analyze how Greek temporalities got disrupted and muddled by the new ones that the humanitarian crisis created. A stabilized, extended anthropological temporality that was imposed by hum…
Constructing Selves in (Im)mobility: Greek Women’s Narratives Concerning the Covid-19 Lockdowns in Athens, Greece
The present article examines women’s narratives concerning the COVID-19 pandemic experience in Athens, Greece. The spacetime contexts that women construct to situate this experience involve the city and the house, the former involving historical and cosmological temporalities, and the second a ritualized domestic tempo that gradually becomes disorganized. In these spatiotemporal formations women develop performative acts of individuality and sing…
Failed schemes of relatedness in domestic work: Filipina domestic workers in Greece
This article examines the development of Filipina domestic workers' ideas regarding their work, as well as the relational models of work they apply in Greek households during their stay in the country over time. These models are produced in the context of an ambivalent legal environment, are constructed in relation to models applied by employers and are informed by Filipino ideas concerning reciprocity and the relational construction of power. In…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works)