Verstappen
Biographic Data
| ID | 68730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verstappen |
| FAMILY NAME | Verstappen |
| SIGNATURE | VERSTAPPEN |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2281-2766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reorientation
This article engages with anthropological discussions about the relation between imagination and migration, using the concept of ‘reorientation’. This notion is explained with ethnographic examples and then conceptually synthesized, incorporating anthropological analyses about space (in the sense of spatial orientation) and time (in the sense of orienting toward the future). The article describes the rural-urban mobility of Gujarati Muslims in we…
Empty homes
With 22 per cent of its housing stock vacant, China has the highest vacancy rate in the world. Yet Chinese cities are marked by constant expansion and the construction of high-rise buildings. Why are all these ‘empty homes’ being built? And what moves people to buy homes in which they cannot live? In this article, we explore these questions through a filmmaking project embedded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Wuhan. The film Empty Home, in…
Ethnographic film as world‐making
This article initiates a dialogue between Science and Technology Studies (STS) and visual anthropology. It demonstrates how ethnographic filmmaking can be an avenue for STS research, teaching, and thinking. Highlighting similarities between knowledge practices in the natural sciences and the social sciences, it conceptualizes filmmaking as a world‐making project. This is a new answer to the persistent question of how to understand the use of film…
Developing a segregated homeland
This article contributes to research on migration and development, in particular to the studies that seek to move beyond ahistorical approaches and those that seek to explore the long-term consequences of internal displacement. Existing studies of migration and development have arrived at numerous insights into how transnational migrants act as agents of development in remittance-receiving regions. They have less often asked the related question;…
Today, we teach the kids where we are from
How do people make themselves at home in situations of movement, dispersal, and marginalization? Migration scholars have destabilized the idea that a home is bound to a dwelling, and developed more processual ways of conceptualizing home. In this article I bring this research agenda into conversation with the anthropology of events, to conceptualize social events as a diasporic home-making practice. Methodologically, I demonstrate how event filmm…
Ethnocinematographic Theory. How to Develop Migration Theory Through Ethnographic Filmmaking
Film and text can be complementary modes of theory formation in the field of migration studies. If the theoretical potential of filmmaking is recognized in research, this also opens opportunities for teaching migration theory through film. This argument is illustrated here through the project Living like a common man , in which both film and text were used to observe, analyse, and theorize the migration experiences of young Indians to the UK - as…
Communal living
India witnesses a proliferation of ‘Muslim’ and ‘Hindu’ residential areas, which reflect deepening segregation along religious lines. This article explores the production of such spaces through a case study of Anand in central Gujarat. It uses the lens of ‘mobilities’ to critically interrogate the ‘Muslim ghetto’, a notion that has come to figure prominently as a conceptual framework in discussions on residential segregation in contemporary India…
Mobility and the Region
A rich body of historical and anthropological scholarship has critically interrogated the making and remaking of ‘Gujarat’, exploring not only the political and social contestations around the formation of Gujarat as regional territory but also the articulation of distinct regional identities in various parts of the region and by various ‘minority’ communities. This article contributes to these discussions through a case study of a transnational …
A Global Town in Central Gujarat, India
Towns have been described as nodes of rural-urban mobility, while megacities have been described as hubs of international mobility. This paper uses the term ‘global town’ to describe a town as a hub of rural-urban and transnational migration. It draws attention to the connection between regional power dynamics, transnational migrants' ties with their home region, and urban transformation. Regionally-dominant groups can use a town to reproduce the…
Reflections on Migration through Film
Visual anthropologists have seldom discussed audience reactions, and those that have done so have tended to focus on the reactions of informants featured in their films. This article shows that collecting and examining responses from a wider range of audiences, and broadening the discussion on the subject of the audience, are useful in further exploring film as a tool in anthropological research. Research on responses elicited by the film Living …
Middling Migration
In this paper we examine the contradictory migration experiences of Indian youth who recently moved to Britain on a student or temporary work visa and discuss the perspectives of their middle-class families in Gujarat. Like many young people in developing countries, our informants dreamed of going to the West to earn money and improve their prospects at home but ended up in low-status, semi-skilled jobs to cover their expenses, living in small gu…
Middling Migration
In this paper we examine the contradictory migration experiences of Indian youth who recently moved to Britain on a student or temporary work visa and discuss the perspectives of their middle-class families in Gujarat. Like many young people in developing countries, our informants dreamed of going to the West to earn money and improve their prospects at home but ended up in low-status, semi-skilled jobs to cover their expenses, living in small gu…
A Global Town in Central Gujarat, India
Towns have been described as nodes of rural-urban mobility, while megacities have been described as hubs of international mobility. This paper uses the term ‘global town’ to describe a town as a hub of rural-urban and transnational migration. It draws attention to the connection between regional power dynamics, transnational migrants' ties with their home region, and urban transformation. Regionally-dominant groups can use a town to reproduce the…
Mobility and the Region
A rich body of historical and anthropological scholarship has critically interrogated the making and remaking of ‘Gujarat’, exploring not only the political and social contestations around the formation of Gujarat as regional territory but also the articulation of distinct regional identities in various parts of the region and by various ‘minority’ communities. This article contributes to these discussions through a case study of a transnational …
Developing a segregated homeland
This article contributes to research on migration and development, in particular to the studies that seek to move beyond ahistorical approaches and those that seek to explore the long-term consequences of internal displacement. Existing studies of migration and development have arrived at numerous insights into how transnational migrants act as agents of development in remittance-receiving regions. They have less often asked the related question;…
Reflections on Migration through Film
Visual anthropologists have seldom discussed audience reactions, and those that have done so have tended to focus on the reactions of informants featured in their films. This article shows that collecting and examining responses from a wider range of audiences, and broadening the discussion on the subject of the audience, are useful in further exploring film as a tool in anthropological research. Research on responses elicited by the film Living …
Middling Migration
In this paper we examine the contradictory migration experiences of Indian youth who recently moved to Britain on a student or temporary work visa and discuss the perspectives of their middle-class families in Gujarat. Like many young people in developing countries, our informants dreamed of going to the West to earn money and improve their prospects at home but ended up in low-status, semi-skilled jobs to cover their expenses, living in small gu…
A Global Town in Central Gujarat, India
Towns have been described as nodes of rural-urban mobility, while megacities have been described as hubs of international mobility. This paper uses the term ‘global town’ to describe a town as a hub of rural-urban and transnational migration. It draws attention to the connection between regional power dynamics, transnational migrants' ties with their home region, and urban transformation. Regionally-dominant groups can use a town to reproduce the…
Reflections on Migration through Film
Visual anthropologists have seldom discussed audience reactions, and those that have done so have tended to focus on the reactions of informants featured in their films. This article shows that collecting and examining responses from a wider range of audiences, and broadening the discussion on the subject of the audience, are useful in further exploring film as a tool in anthropological research. Research on responses elicited by the film Living …
Mobility and the Region
A rich body of historical and anthropological scholarship has critically interrogated the making and remaking of ‘Gujarat’, exploring not only the political and social contestations around the formation of Gujarat as regional territory but also the articulation of distinct regional identities in various parts of the region and by various ‘minority’ communities. This article contributes to these discussions through a case study of a transnational …
Communal living
India witnesses a proliferation of ‘Muslim’ and ‘Hindu’ residential areas, which reflect deepening segregation along religious lines. This article explores the production of such spaces through a case study of Anand in central Gujarat. It uses the lens of ‘mobilities’ to critically interrogate the ‘Muslim ghetto’, a notion that has come to figure prominently as a conceptual framework in discussions on residential segregation in contemporary India…
Ethnocinematographic Theory. How to Develop Migration Theory Through Ethnographic Filmmaking
Film and text can be complementary modes of theory formation in the field of migration studies. If the theoretical potential of filmmaking is recognized in research, this also opens opportunities for teaching migration theory through film. This argument is illustrated here through the project Living like a common man , in which both film and text were used to observe, analyse, and theorize the migration experiences of young Indians to the UK - as…
Empty homes
With 22 per cent of its housing stock vacant, China has the highest vacancy rate in the world. Yet Chinese cities are marked by constant expansion and the construction of high-rise buildings. Why are all these ‘empty homes’ being built? And what moves people to buy homes in which they cannot live? In this article, we explore these questions through a filmmaking project embedded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Wuhan. The film Empty Home, in…
Ethnographic film as world‐making
This article initiates a dialogue between Science and Technology Studies (STS) and visual anthropology. It demonstrates how ethnographic filmmaking can be an avenue for STS research, teaching, and thinking. Highlighting similarities between knowledge practices in the natural sciences and the social sciences, it conceptualizes filmmaking as a world‐making project. This is a new answer to the persistent question of how to understand the use of film…
Developing a segregated homeland
This article contributes to research on migration and development, in particular to the studies that seek to move beyond ahistorical approaches and those that seek to explore the long-term consequences of internal displacement. Existing studies of migration and development have arrived at numerous insights into how transnational migrants act as agents of development in remittance-receiving regions. They have less often asked the related question;…
Today, we teach the kids where we are from
How do people make themselves at home in situations of movement, dispersal, and marginalization? Migration scholars have destabilized the idea that a home is bound to a dwelling, and developed more processual ways of conceptualizing home. In this article I bring this research agenda into conversation with the anthropology of events, to conceptualize social events as a diasporic home-making practice. Methodologically, I demonstrate how event filmm…
Reorientation
This article engages with anthropological discussions about the relation between imagination and migration, using the concept of ‘reorientation’. This notion is explained with ethnographic examples and then conceptually synthesized, incorporating anthropological analyses about space (in the sense of spatial orientation) and time (in the sense of orienting toward the future). The article describes the rural-urban mobility of Gujarati Muslims in we…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)