Maple Razsa
Biographic Data
| ID | 79258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maple Razsa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maple |
| FAMILY NAME | Razsa |
| SIGNATURE | RAZSA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reappropriating the Balkan Route: Mobility Struggles and Joint-Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In this article the authors question how the EU’s enlistment of the post-Yugoslav states into the EU’s border regime has exacerbated local nationalisms. They also question how, on the other hand, migrant struggles to cross this territory have intersected with local movements against nationalism and silenced political alternatives. They use the notion of joint-agency, that is, the co-articulation of mobility struggles and antinationalist struggle…
Movements upon movements: Refugee and activist struggles to open the Balkan route to Europe
In 2015–2016, 1.2 million refugees sought safety in Europe via the Balkan Route. How, in an era of securitized borders, did this unprecedented movement of people from the global south reach the global north? Ethnographic research from two post-Yugoslav nodes along the Route—Preshevë, Serbia and Ljubljana, Slovenia—offers answers that diverge from state-centric accounts, revealing that the relationships between movements, in the sense of both migr…
Anarchism
Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics after Socialism
Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or "globalization from below." Ethnographer Maple Razsa follows individual activists from the transnational protests against globalization of the early 2000s through the Occupy encampments. His portrayal of activis…
Beyond 'Riot Porn: Protest Video and the Production of Unruly Subjects
From the globalization protests of the previous decade to the more recent Occupy Movement, activists have embraced the use of digital video. Many appropriations of the technology, including those by human rights advocates, rest on the theory that 'seeing is believing' and understand video to be uniquely suited to forms of truth telling such as witnessing, documenting and reporting. While I encountered such realist uses of video during fieldwork w…
Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization by Jeffery J. Juris
The Occupy Movement in Žižek's hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming
In an otherwise sympathetic speech to Occupy Wall Street, Slavoj Žižek dismissed protesters' pursuit of direct democracy as a "dream." In no small part responding to a perceived crisis of representative politics, however, the popular movements that swept through northern Africa, Europe, and North America during 2011 have been distinguished by their adoption of direct democratic forms. This initial ethnography-collaboratively researched and writte…
Balkan Is Beautiful: Balkanism in the Political Discourse of Tudman's Croatia
This article examines the role of Balkanist discourse in Tudman's Croatia. Todorova's concept of Balkanism provides a useful theoretical framework through which to explore the deployment of Balkanist stereotypes against Croatia by Western leaders. Balkanism also illuminates the ways in which Croatians used many of these same Balkan stereotypes to differentiate themselves from their neighbors to the south and east. Through an examination of Croati…
Regionalism, Memory and Belonging at the Frontiers of the Nation-State
Pamela Ballinger. History In Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. When the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s prevented her from conducting fieldwork on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia Pamela Ballinger made productive use of her displacement, moving north to a study the Julian March, the region spanning contemporary Croatia, Italy and Slovenia. In her painstakingly researched History …
The Occupy Movement in Žižek's hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming
In an otherwise sympathetic speech to Occupy Wall Street, Slavoj Žižek dismissed protesters' pursuit of direct democracy as a "dream." In no small part responding to a perceived crisis of representative politics, however, the popular movements that swept through northern Africa, Europe, and North America during 2011 have been distinguished by their adoption of direct democratic forms. This initial ethnography-collaboratively researched and writte…
Movements upon movements: Refugee and activist struggles to open the Balkan route to Europe
In 2015–2016, 1.2 million refugees sought safety in Europe via the Balkan Route. How, in an era of securitized borders, did this unprecedented movement of people from the global south reach the global north? Ethnographic research from two post-Yugoslav nodes along the Route—Preshevë, Serbia and Ljubljana, Slovenia—offers answers that diverge from state-centric accounts, revealing that the relationships between movements, in the sense of both migr…
Balkan Is Beautiful: Balkanism in the Political Discourse of Tudman's Croatia
This article examines the role of Balkanist discourse in Tudman's Croatia. Todorova's concept of Balkanism provides a useful theoretical framework through which to explore the deployment of Balkanist stereotypes against Croatia by Western leaders. Balkanism also illuminates the ways in which Croatians used many of these same Balkan stereotypes to differentiate themselves from their neighbors to the south and east. Through an examination of Croati…
Beyond 'Riot Porn: Protest Video and the Production of Unruly Subjects
From the globalization protests of the previous decade to the more recent Occupy Movement, activists have embraced the use of digital video. Many appropriations of the technology, including those by human rights advocates, rest on the theory that 'seeing is believing' and understand video to be uniquely suited to forms of truth telling such as witnessing, documenting and reporting. While I encountered such realist uses of video during fieldwork w…
Reappropriating the Balkan Route: Mobility Struggles and Joint-Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In this article the authors question how the EU’s enlistment of the post-Yugoslav states into the EU’s border regime has exacerbated local nationalisms. They also question how, on the other hand, migrant struggles to cross this territory have intersected with local movements against nationalism and silenced political alternatives. They use the notion of joint-agency, that is, the co-articulation of mobility struggles and antinationalist struggle…
Balkan Is Beautiful: Balkanism in the Political Discourse of Tudman's Croatia
This article examines the role of Balkanist discourse in Tudman's Croatia. Todorova's concept of Balkanism provides a useful theoretical framework through which to explore the deployment of Balkanist stereotypes against Croatia by Western leaders. Balkanism also illuminates the ways in which Croatians used many of these same Balkan stereotypes to differentiate themselves from their neighbors to the south and east. Through an examination of Croati…
Regionalism, Memory and Belonging at the Frontiers of the Nation-State
Pamela Ballinger. History In Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. When the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s prevented her from conducting fieldwork on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia Pamela Ballinger made productive use of her displacement, moving north to a study the Julian March, the region spanning contemporary Croatia, Italy and Slovenia. In her painstakingly researched History …
Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization by Jeffery J. Juris
The Occupy Movement in Žižek's hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming
In an otherwise sympathetic speech to Occupy Wall Street, Slavoj Žižek dismissed protesters' pursuit of direct democracy as a "dream." In no small part responding to a perceived crisis of representative politics, however, the popular movements that swept through northern Africa, Europe, and North America during 2011 have been distinguished by their adoption of direct democratic forms. This initial ethnography-collaboratively researched and writte…
Beyond 'Riot Porn: Protest Video and the Production of Unruly Subjects
From the globalization protests of the previous decade to the more recent Occupy Movement, activists have embraced the use of digital video. Many appropriations of the technology, including those by human rights advocates, rest on the theory that 'seeing is believing' and understand video to be uniquely suited to forms of truth telling such as witnessing, documenting and reporting. While I encountered such realist uses of video during fieldwork w…
Anarchism
Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics after Socialism
Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or "globalization from below." Ethnographer Maple Razsa follows individual activists from the transnational protests against globalization of the early 2000s through the Occupy encampments. His portrayal of activis…
Movements upon movements: Refugee and activist struggles to open the Balkan route to Europe
In 2015–2016, 1.2 million refugees sought safety in Europe via the Balkan Route. How, in an era of securitized borders, did this unprecedented movement of people from the global south reach the global north? Ethnographic research from two post-Yugoslav nodes along the Route—Preshevë, Serbia and Ljubljana, Slovenia—offers answers that diverge from state-centric accounts, revealing that the relationships between movements, in the sense of both migr…
Reappropriating the Balkan Route: Mobility Struggles and Joint-Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In this article the authors question how the EU’s enlistment of the post-Yugoslav states into the EU’s border regime has exacerbated local nationalisms. They also question how, on the other hand, migrant struggles to cross this territory have intersected with local movements against nationalism and silenced political alternatives. They use the notion of joint-agency, that is, the co-articulation of mobility struggles and antinationalist struggle…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Social science (3 works)