Julie Kleinman
Biographic Data
| ID | 77410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Kleinman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleinman |
| SIGNATURE | KLEINMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Infrastructure Across Borders
From Little Brother to Big Somebody
All daughters and sons of the Republic'? Producing difference in French education
Anthropological focus on public sphere debates can have the unintended consequence of reaffirming ideological oppositions ('secularism versus Islam') while ignoring other processes of difference production. In this article, I examine how French school employees build a logic of cultural otherness in an arena of uncertain social reproduction. Contrary to analyses of the French public sphere that emphasize the ideology of secular universalism, I ar…
Adventures in Infrastructure
Based on ethnographic research at one of the largest transit hubs in the world-Paris'sGare duNord railway station-this article examines how the practices of WestAfrican migrants transform theFrench urban environment. I argue that migrants create social ties outside of kin and village networks by rerouting and combining the channels of two types of infrastructures:French transportation systems andWestAfrican systems of exchange and obligation. Whi…
The Gare du Nord
La gare du Nord : topographies parisiennes d'échanges À la gare du Nord se croisent de manière parfois explosive des populations diverses, des trajectoires, des pratiques et des représentations hétérogènes. L'auteur compare les aménagements de la gare, de 1864 et d'aujourd'hui, pour montrer comment le passage du modèle de contrôles spatiaux d'exclusion à celui d'espace ouvert fondé sur l'idée de la transparence a engendré des nouvelles pratiques …
The Politics of Survival
In this provocative analysis of global politics, the anthropologist Marc Abeles argues that the meaning and aims of political action have radically changed in the era of globalization. As dangers such as terrorism and global warming have moved to the fore of global consciousness, foreboding has replaced the belief that tomorrow will be better than today. Survival, outlasting the uncertainties and threats of a precarious future, has supplanted har…
Adventures in Infrastructure
Based on ethnographic research at one of the largest transit hubs in the world-Paris'sGare duNord railway station-this article examines how the practices of WestAfrican migrants transform theFrench urban environment. I argue that migrants create social ties outside of kin and village networks by rerouting and combining the channels of two types of infrastructures:French transportation systems andWestAfrican systems of exchange and obligation. Whi…
All daughters and sons of the Republic'? Producing difference in French education
Anthropological focus on public sphere debates can have the unintended consequence of reaffirming ideological oppositions ('secularism versus Islam') while ignoring other processes of difference production. In this article, I examine how French school employees build a logic of cultural otherness in an arena of uncertain social reproduction. Contrary to analyses of the French public sphere that emphasize the ideology of secular universalism, I ar…
The Gare du Nord
La gare du Nord : topographies parisiennes d'échanges À la gare du Nord se croisent de manière parfois explosive des populations diverses, des trajectoires, des pratiques et des représentations hétérogènes. L'auteur compare les aménagements de la gare, de 1864 et d'aujourd'hui, pour montrer comment le passage du modèle de contrôles spatiaux d'exclusion à celui d'espace ouvert fondé sur l'idée de la transparence a engendré des nouvelles pratiques …
Infrastructure Across Borders
The Politics of Survival
In this provocative analysis of global politics, the anthropologist Marc Abeles argues that the meaning and aims of political action have radically changed in the era of globalization. As dangers such as terrorism and global warming have moved to the fore of global consciousness, foreboding has replaced the belief that tomorrow will be better than today. Survival, outlasting the uncertainties and threats of a precarious future, has supplanted har…
The Gare du Nord
La gare du Nord : topographies parisiennes d'échanges À la gare du Nord se croisent de manière parfois explosive des populations diverses, des trajectoires, des pratiques et des représentations hétérogènes. L'auteur compare les aménagements de la gare, de 1864 et d'aujourd'hui, pour montrer comment le passage du modèle de contrôles spatiaux d'exclusion à celui d'espace ouvert fondé sur l'idée de la transparence a engendré des nouvelles pratiques …
Adventures in Infrastructure
Based on ethnographic research at one of the largest transit hubs in the world-Paris'sGare duNord railway station-this article examines how the practices of WestAfrican migrants transform theFrench urban environment. I argue that migrants create social ties outside of kin and village networks by rerouting and combining the channels of two types of infrastructures:French transportation systems andWestAfrican systems of exchange and obligation. Whi…
From Little Brother to Big Somebody
All daughters and sons of the Republic'? Producing difference in French education
Anthropological focus on public sphere debates can have the unintended consequence of reaffirming ideological oppositions ('secularism versus Islam') while ignoring other processes of difference production. In this article, I examine how French school employees build a logic of cultural otherness in an arena of uncertain social reproduction. Contrary to analyses of the French public sphere that emphasize the ideology of secular universalism, I ar…
Infrastructure Across Borders
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 1958 (1 work) · Action (physics) (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Architecture, Modernity, and Design (1 work)