Andrea Chiovenda
Biographic Data
| ID | 643407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Chiovenda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiovenda |
| SIGNATURE | CHIOVENDA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine 641 Huntington Avenue Boston Massachusetts United States |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2951-2520 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 210 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Psychoanalytic Foundations of Psychological Anthropology
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Retranscribing the past: Memory, subjectivity and trauma among Afghan asylum seekers in Greece
The Anthropology of Being Haunted: On the Emergence of an Anthropological Hauntology
Since the appearance of Derrida's Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International in 1994, there has been an outpouring of writing in cultural studies around the themes of hauntology and spectralities. This article asks broadly whether a form of hauntology has emerged within anthropology; if so, when and how it has appeared; and what constitutes such a field as distinctive. This article asks what comprises …
Crafting Masculine Selves: Culture, War, and Psychodynamics in Afghanistan
From Metaphor to Interpretation: "Haunting" as Diagnostic of Dissociative Processes
The article is based on the analysis of one psychodynamic interview session the author had with one of his respondents, who had with the author a long-term, one-on-one series of sessions. Positioning the respondent in his sociocultural and political setting (as a Pashtun, male, well-educated, and middle-class individual living in south-east Afghanistan, at a time of great instability and security concerns), the article explores the respondent's r…
The specter of the “arrivant”: Hauntology of an interethnic conflict in Afghanistan
For more than a century Afghanistan has been marred by (among other things) the interethnic conflict between two major groups in the country, with Pashtuns in the role of the dominant ethnicity, and Hazaras of the oppressed minority. The post-Taliban period in Afghanistan has seen a renaissance in Hazaras’ social and political participation, which has aroused fear and anxiety in Pashtuns’ collective imaginary. Jacques Derrida, building on Freud’s…
Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan by Julie Billaud
Reviewed by: Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan by Julie Billaud Andrea Chiovenda Julie Billaud, Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 256 pp. In the introduction to her ethnography, Julie Billaud writes that “[the] book is an attempt to capture the nature of the ‘reconstruction’ project in Afghanistan, using the category ‘woman’ as an entry point into bro…
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
The Anthropology of Being Haunted: On the Emergence of an Anthropological Hauntology
Since the appearance of Derrida's Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International in 1994, there has been an outpouring of writing in cultural studies around the themes of hauntology and spectralities. This article asks broadly whether a form of hauntology has emerged within anthropology; if so, when and how it has appeared; and what constitutes such a field as distinctive. This article asks what comprises …
From Metaphor to Interpretation: "Haunting" as Diagnostic of Dissociative Processes
The article is based on the analysis of one psychodynamic interview session the author had with one of his respondents, who had with the author a long-term, one-on-one series of sessions. Positioning the respondent in his sociocultural and political setting (as a Pashtun, male, well-educated, and middle-class individual living in south-east Afghanistan, at a time of great instability and security concerns), the article explores the respondent's r…
Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan by Julie Billaud
Reviewed by: Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan by Julie Billaud Andrea Chiovenda Julie Billaud, Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 256 pp. In the introduction to her ethnography, Julie Billaud writes that “[the] book is an attempt to capture the nature of the ‘reconstruction’ project in Afghanistan, using the category ‘woman’ as an entry point into bro…
The specter of the “arrivant”: Hauntology of an interethnic conflict in Afghanistan
For more than a century Afghanistan has been marred by (among other things) the interethnic conflict between two major groups in the country, with Pashtuns in the role of the dominant ethnicity, and Hazaras of the oppressed minority. The post-Taliban period in Afghanistan has seen a renaissance in Hazaras’ social and political participation, which has aroused fear and anxiety in Pashtuns’ collective imaginary. Jacques Derrida, building on Freud’s…
Crafting Masculine Selves: Culture, War, and Psychodynamics in Afghanistan
From Metaphor to Interpretation: "Haunting" as Diagnostic of Dissociative Processes
The article is based on the analysis of one psychodynamic interview session the author had with one of his respondents, who had with the author a long-term, one-on-one series of sessions. Positioning the respondent in his sociocultural and political setting (as a Pashtun, male, well-educated, and middle-class individual living in south-east Afghanistan, at a time of great instability and security concerns), the article explores the respondent's r…
The Anthropology of Being Haunted: On the Emergence of an Anthropological Hauntology
Since the appearance of Derrida's Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International in 1994, there has been an outpouring of writing in cultural studies around the themes of hauntology and spectralities. This article asks broadly whether a form of hauntology has emerged within anthropology; if so, when and how it has appeared; and what constitutes such a field as distinctive. This article asks what comprises …
Psychoanalytic Foundations of Psychological Anthropology
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Retranscribing the past: Memory, subjectivity and trauma among Afghan asylum seekers in Greece
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Afghan (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Applied anthropology (2 works)