Ziga Podgornik Jakil
Biographic Data
| ID | 896045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ziga Podgornik Jakil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ziga Podgornik |
| FAMILY NAME | Jakil |
| SIGNATURE | JAKIL Z P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9038-2919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Alter-globalisation, not Anti-globalisation for Europe: Learning from the Anthropology of No-border Activism
Anti-globalisation authoritarians and alter-globalisation activists criticise Europe’s liberal political order but offer opposing views. Ethnographic research with no-border activists during the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 reveals how egalitarian assemblies and open borders can counter nationalist exclusion
Sensing the political: Activist sentiment in the European long summer of migration
Self-organized groups across Europe, working autonomously from the state and official humanitarian organizations, played a crucial role in supporting asylum-seekers during the European Long Summer of Migration in 2015/2016. Researchers have focused on how humanitarian work and political activism overlapped in these groups, but not so much on how the distinction between the two forms of action was maintained. Based on my activist research on two l…
Toward a comparative anthropology of activism: Activist identity formations in Germany and Uganda
There is an ongoing debate in anthropology on the kinds of subject positions activists ascribe to the marginalized actors they encounter and the political consequences this brings about. Drawing from ethnographic research on refugee activism in Germany and transitional justice activism in Uganda, we revisit the respective debates on humanitarian activism, human rights activism, and political activism and argue to reframe the analysis. Instead of …
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Toward a comparative anthropology of activism: Activist identity formations in Germany and Uganda
There is an ongoing debate in anthropology on the kinds of subject positions activists ascribe to the marginalized actors they encounter and the political consequences this brings about. Drawing from ethnographic research on refugee activism in Germany and transitional justice activism in Uganda, we revisit the respective debates on humanitarian activism, human rights activism, and political activism and argue to reframe the analysis. Instead of …
Sensing the political: Activist sentiment in the European long summer of migration
Self-organized groups across Europe, working autonomously from the state and official humanitarian organizations, played a crucial role in supporting asylum-seekers during the European Long Summer of Migration in 2015/2016. Researchers have focused on how humanitarian work and political activism overlapped in these groups, but not so much on how the distinction between the two forms of action was maintained. Based on my activist research on two l…
Alter-globalisation, not Anti-globalisation for Europe: Learning from the Anthropology of No-border Activism
Anti-globalisation authoritarians and alter-globalisation activists criticise Europe’s liberal political order but offer opposing views. Ethnographic research with no-border activists during the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 reveals how egalitarian assemblies and open borders can counter nationalist exclusion
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political activism (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 works) · Cambodian History and Society (1 works)