André Thiemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 77220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | André Thiemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | André |
| FAMILY NAME | Thiemann |
| SIGNATURE | THIEMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7940-5251 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
(Under)valuing infrastructures: Transformations and frictions in Serbia’s raspberry value chain since late socialism
This article proposes to study agriculture by focusing on its infrastructures of value, i.e. the sociomaterial technologies and networks that are essential for the production of commodities but that often remain invisible. Pivoting around the ethnography of a meeting of an association of raspberry producers that was led by an agronomist, the article reconstructs how, since socialism, the once cooperative agronomic infrastructure underwent first (…
The Politics of Relations: How Self-Government, Infrastructures, and Care Transform the State in Serbia
Rethinking the contributions of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology for political ethnography, the Politics of Relations elaborates its relational approach to the state along four interlaced axes of research – embeddedness, boundary work, modalities and strategic selectivity – that enable thick comparisons across spatio-temporal scales of power. In Serbia local experiences of self-government, infrastructure and care motivate its citizens…
Faire et transformer la « framboise serbe ». Infrastructures et politiques d’un fruit « sensible »
Cet article propose d’approcher l’étude des modes d’alimentation en se concentrant sur leurs « infrastructures de valeur » sous-jacentes, à savoir les technologies et réseaux sociomatériels indispensables à la production d’un bien compétitif, mais qui restent souvent invisibles. En s’appuyant sur l’ethnographie d’une réunion d’une association de producteurs de framboises de Serbie, il retrace la manière dont sont produites des framboises fraîches…
Politics of Relations: How Self-Government, Infrastructures, and Care Transform the State in Serbia
Prelude I The Ethnographic Position
Keebet as supervisor, or on the surprises of ethnographic theorizing
Introduction: Infrastructuring Value
Exploring infrastructure has much to offer for economic anthropology. Inspired by the convergence of literatures on value and infrastructure in studies of financialisation, we develop the analytics of 'infrastructures of value' on old terrain: agriculture. Infrastructure facilitates valuation practices and enables valorisation as fixed capital. Material networks emerging from practices of infrastructuring also mediate value by facilitating, chann…
Infrastructuring 'Red Gold: Agronomists, Cold Chains, and the Involution of Serbia's Raspberry Country
Serbia has exported raspberries since socialism. Its production network withstood the post-Yugoslav property transformations and grew despite global competition. This article traces the configuration of the 'infrastructures of value' that underwrite the raspberries' spatio-temporal reach to distant markets. Combining new and historical materialism, it contributes to economic anthropology by studying the interplay between two infrastructures - agr…
Fledgling Farms and Failing Health: How the Polypore State Transforms the Multispecies Relations in Serbia’s Raspberry Fields
Extending from an ethnographic case study that demonstrates the existential troubles of Serbian farmers to continue raspberry production for the global market, this article anthropologically hones in on the intertwining of human and non-human labour (production) with socio-economic and techno-scientific policies of care (reproduction). Different waves of state transformation—the build-up and decay of formal employment coupled with the emergence, …
Becoming In-visible: Family Farms in Rural Latvia in the Framework of theEUCommon Agricultural Policy
Historically, Latvia has been integrated into several (multi-) national state formations that have shaped agricultural practices. Beginning in 1991, newly independent Latvia reintroduced a family farming model and prepared to join the European Union. The ability of small farmers to adapt to and implement the new EU regulations that support farming either as efficient food production or alternatively as cultural landscaping has been contingent upo…
Everyday Life in the Balkans
Reviewsand wherever they may create that separation
Shrinking capitalism, “milky ways”, and the moral appreciation of Serbia’s “living village”
This ethnographic case study, building on long term participant observation in Serbia, tackles the relationship of the state and the regional economy during the transformations from self-managed socialism to late capitalism. Embedding the work relations of small-scale dairy farmers from central Serbia in wider moral economic relations, it develops the notion of ‘moral appreciation’ to explain how many households who disinvested from dairy product…
State Kinning and Kinning the State in Serbian Elder Care Programs
In this article, we analyze processes of kinning within state-initiated programs of elder care in Serbia in order to explore how images of the state as an entity are cast as distinct from the domain of the family. We present data from the fieldwork we conducted in two settlements, in northern and central Serbia respectively. Contrary to the findings of many anthropological studies of the state, state actors in these cases surpass the expectations…
Introduction: Infrastructuring Value
Exploring infrastructure has much to offer for economic anthropology. Inspired by the convergence of literatures on value and infrastructure in studies of financialisation, we develop the analytics of 'infrastructures of value' on old terrain: agriculture. Infrastructure facilitates valuation practices and enables valorisation as fixed capital. Material networks emerging from practices of infrastructuring also mediate value by facilitating, chann…
Infrastructuring 'Red Gold: Agronomists, Cold Chains, and the Involution of Serbia's Raspberry Country
Serbia has exported raspberries since socialism. Its production network withstood the post-Yugoslav property transformations and grew despite global competition. This article traces the configuration of the 'infrastructures of value' that underwrite the raspberries' spatio-temporal reach to distant markets. Combining new and historical materialism, it contributes to economic anthropology by studying the interplay between two infrastructures - agr…
State Kinning and Kinning the State in Serbian Elder Care Programs
In this article, we analyze processes of kinning within state-initiated programs of elder care in Serbia in order to explore how images of the state as an entity are cast as distinct from the domain of the family. We present data from the fieldwork we conducted in two settlements, in northern and central Serbia respectively. Contrary to the findings of many anthropological studies of the state, state actors in these cases surpass the expectations…
Shrinking capitalism, “milky ways”, and the moral appreciation of Serbia’s “living village”
This ethnographic case study, building on long term participant observation in Serbia, tackles the relationship of the state and the regional economy during the transformations from self-managed socialism to late capitalism. Embedding the work relations of small-scale dairy farmers from central Serbia in wider moral economic relations, it develops the notion of ‘moral appreciation’ to explain how many households who disinvested from dairy product…
Everyday Life in the Balkans
Reviewsand wherever they may create that separation
Becoming In-visible: Family Farms in Rural Latvia in the Framework of theEUCommon Agricultural Policy
Historically, Latvia has been integrated into several (multi-) national state formations that have shaped agricultural practices. Beginning in 1991, newly independent Latvia reintroduced a family farming model and prepared to join the European Union. The ability of small farmers to adapt to and implement the new EU regulations that support farming either as efficient food production or alternatively as cultural landscaping has been contingent upo…
Fledgling Farms and Failing Health: How the Polypore State Transforms the Multispecies Relations in Serbia’s Raspberry Fields
Extending from an ethnographic case study that demonstrates the existential troubles of Serbian farmers to continue raspberry production for the global market, this article anthropologically hones in on the intertwining of human and non-human labour (production) with socio-economic and techno-scientific policies of care (reproduction). Different waves of state transformation—the build-up and decay of formal employment coupled with the emergence, …
The Politics of Relations: How Self-Government, Infrastructures, and Care Transform the State in Serbia
Rethinking the contributions of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology for political ethnography, the Politics of Relations elaborates its relational approach to the state along four interlaced axes of research – embeddedness, boundary work, modalities and strategic selectivity – that enable thick comparisons across spatio-temporal scales of power. In Serbia local experiences of self-government, infrastructure and care motivate its citizens…
Faire et transformer la « framboise serbe ». Infrastructures et politiques d’un fruit « sensible »
Cet article propose d’approcher l’étude des modes d’alimentation en se concentrant sur leurs « infrastructures de valeur » sous-jacentes, à savoir les technologies et réseaux sociomatériels indispensables à la production d’un bien compétitif, mais qui restent souvent invisibles. En s’appuyant sur l’ethnographie d’une réunion d’une association de producteurs de framboises de Serbie, il retrace la manière dont sont produites des framboises fraîches…
Politics of Relations: How Self-Government, Infrastructures, and Care Transform the State in Serbia
Prelude I The Ethnographic Position
Keebet as supervisor, or on the surprises of ethnographic theorizing
Introduction: Infrastructuring Value
Exploring infrastructure has much to offer for economic anthropology. Inspired by the convergence of literatures on value and infrastructure in studies of financialisation, we develop the analytics of 'infrastructures of value' on old terrain: agriculture. Infrastructure facilitates valuation practices and enables valorisation as fixed capital. Material networks emerging from practices of infrastructuring also mediate value by facilitating, chann…
Infrastructuring 'Red Gold: Agronomists, Cold Chains, and the Involution of Serbia's Raspberry Country
Serbia has exported raspberries since socialism. Its production network withstood the post-Yugoslav property transformations and grew despite global competition. This article traces the configuration of the 'infrastructures of value' that underwrite the raspberries' spatio-temporal reach to distant markets. Combining new and historical materialism, it contributes to economic anthropology by studying the interplay between two infrastructures - agr…
(Under)valuing infrastructures: Transformations and frictions in Serbia’s raspberry value chain since late socialism
This article proposes to study agriculture by focusing on its infrastructures of value, i.e. the sociomaterial technologies and networks that are essential for the production of commodities but that often remain invisible. Pivoting around the ethnography of a meeting of an association of raspberry producers that was led by an agronomist, the article reconstructs how, since socialism, the once cooperative agronomic infrastructure underwent first (…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)