Frederick Wojnarowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 904348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick Wojnarowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick |
| FAMILY NAME | Wojnarowski |
| SIGNATURE | WOJNAROWSKI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6254-1898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Irrigate to accumulate: Moral ecologies of water and land speculation in Jordan's eastern desert fringe
Speculation through enclosure and irrigation at the edges of Jordan's urban expansion into the desert has coincided in recent years with an ever-louder discourse of water scarcity, and a moral concern over the use of groundwater via illegal wells, eroding the viability of small-scale agriculture. Tracing a specific case of a speculative gambit and placing it in relation to a nearby agricultural community experiencing the disastrous effects of wat…
Contested flows: An ethnographic contribution to narratives of groundwater over abstraction in the central Jordanian highlands
This article explores the well-researched topic of Jordan's contentious hydropolitics in the face of scarcity from a new perspective: that afforded by an ethnographic case study of the poor and restive rural district of Dhiban in the highlands of central Jordan. Dhiban, well-known for its frequent protests, is experiencing some of the worst water scarcity in the country but remains relatively understudied in this context. The article traces how s…
Settling land, unsettling people: Living with and contesting land, social change and grand schemes in rural central Jordan
In this article I consider how changing legal and social conceptions of land usage and ownership in rural central Jordan offer ethnographic purchase on broad questions of historical change and political economy. Yet equally, I show how this topic shows the limitations of such broad questions, and how reducing local processes into them can obscure historically contingent but enduring practices and patterns of land relations. I consider how reforms…
The Ghosts at the Feast: Contested Land, Settlement, and Identity in the Jordanian Bādīya
This article considers how enactions of hospitality, everyday politics and livelihoods in the largely sedentarised, but still discursively Bedouin villages south-east of Amman continue to be shaped by long, contested and intersecting processes of land settlement, sedentarisation and state encompassment. I combine a specific ethnographic encounter (a village feast and the anxious, tense talk about land that occurred at it) with a reading of histor…
Making mansaf: The interplay of identity and political economy in Jordan's ‘national dish’
In Jordan mansaf has become a national symbol, consumed on major social occasions, served in various forms to tourists and visitors, and imbued with a set of historical and socio-cultural associations. Across historical Syria (Bilād ash-Shām) and northern Arabia dishes similar to what is now considered mansaf have been made and consumed in different historical contexts and have often been linked with ideas of hospitality and protection given to g…
Making mansaf: The interplay of identity and political economy in Jordan's ‘national dish’
In Jordan mansaf has become a national symbol, consumed on major social occasions, served in various forms to tourists and visitors, and imbued with a set of historical and socio-cultural associations. Across historical Syria (Bilād ash-Shām) and northern Arabia dishes similar to what is now considered mansaf have been made and consumed in different historical contexts and have often been linked with ideas of hospitality and protection given to g…
Making mansaf: The interplay of identity and political economy in Jordan's ‘national dish’
In Jordan mansaf has become a national symbol, consumed on major social occasions, served in various forms to tourists and visitors, and imbued with a set of historical and socio-cultural associations. Across historical Syria (Bilād ash-Shām) and northern Arabia dishes similar to what is now considered mansaf have been made and consumed in different historical contexts and have often been linked with ideas of hospitality and protection given to g…
The Ghosts at the Feast: Contested Land, Settlement, and Identity in the Jordanian Bādīya
This article considers how enactions of hospitality, everyday politics and livelihoods in the largely sedentarised, but still discursively Bedouin villages south-east of Amman continue to be shaped by long, contested and intersecting processes of land settlement, sedentarisation and state encompassment. I combine a specific ethnographic encounter (a village feast and the anxious, tense talk about land that occurred at it) with a reading of histor…
Settling land, unsettling people: Living with and contesting land, social change and grand schemes in rural central Jordan
In this article I consider how changing legal and social conceptions of land usage and ownership in rural central Jordan offer ethnographic purchase on broad questions of historical change and political economy. Yet equally, I show how this topic shows the limitations of such broad questions, and how reducing local processes into them can obscure historically contingent but enduring practices and patterns of land relations. I consider how reforms…
Contested flows: An ethnographic contribution to narratives of groundwater over abstraction in the central Jordanian highlands
This article explores the well-researched topic of Jordan's contentious hydropolitics in the face of scarcity from a new perspective: that afforded by an ethnographic case study of the poor and restive rural district of Dhiban in the highlands of central Jordan. Dhiban, well-known for its frequent protests, is experiencing some of the worst water scarcity in the country but remains relatively understudied in this context. The article traces how s…
Irrigate to accumulate: Moral ecologies of water and land speculation in Jordan's eastern desert fringe
Speculation through enclosure and irrigation at the edges of Jordan's urban expansion into the desert has coincided in recent years with an ever-louder discourse of water scarcity, and a moral concern over the use of groundwater via illegal wells, eroding the viability of small-scale agriculture. Tracing a specific case of a speculative gambit and placing it in relation to a nearby agricultural community experiencing the disastrous effects of wat…
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)