Lorenzo Cañás Bottos
Biographic Data
| ID | 96009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo Cañás Bottos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo Cañás |
| FAMILY NAME | Bottos |
| SIGNATURE | BOTTOS L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3259-626X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Educating Anthropologists in the Contemporary World: Rethinking Teaching, Learning, and Disciplinary Boundaries
Education is arguably the central arena where the discipline of anthropology is reproduced, challenged, and renewed. This volume examines how anthropology is taught and transformed in diverse institutional and socio-political contexts worldwide. Covering themes such as multimodal teaching, research-led learning, and disciplinary boundaries, the book offers new insights into the changing role of teaching within anthropology. This book compiles eth…
Exclusionary Cosmopolitanism in Buenos Aires
In this article I explore the organisation of practices of vernacular cosmopolitanism in the city of Buenos Aires. The starting point is a series of festivals and activities organised by the city government to promote and celebrate its cosmopolitanism. I then explore the spaces where they take place, and the monuments built by immigrant communities that populate the urban landscape. I read these in relationship to the ideological making of the Ar…
Cosmopolitan Networks - Networking Cosmopolitans: Between Anyone, the Other and the Making of Sociality
In an increasingly polarised world, crisp labelling, dichotomisation, and the flourishing of nation- and ethnic-based prejudice hinders the finding and construction of spaces for transcending boundaries. By combining cosmopolitanism as forms of relating with networks as a social and cultural practice characteristic of our time, this special issue aims at discerning forms and situations which defy prior categorisation or bridge social boundaries. …
When Heritage Becomes Horizon: The Acquisition of Extra-Territorial Citizenship among Lebanese in Argentina
The sedentariness of the nation-state (emerging from its territoriality) sets it at odds with human mobility of different types and scales, but particularly so with international migration. In this article we are concerned with the different strategies states deploy for the construction of nationhood and citizenry when faced with immigration and emigration. We focus on heritage and horizon to think citizenship practices as they relate to Levantin…
Natural ingredient or nostalgic taste? Competing authenticities in the Norwegian vanilla tastescape
Vanillin has been the main source of vanilla flavoring in products such as vanilla sugar, sauce and ice cream throughout the twentieth century, and hence the authentic taste Norwegians associated with vanilla. However, over the last twenty years critics have pointed out that this taste is not made from the seeds of the vanilla plant, but is synthetic and industrially produced. In this article we explore the multiple modes of attribution of authen…
Race and Process: Certifying IberianPigs and Invisibilising Humans
This article is based on on-going fieldwork in Extremadura, Spain and printed material produced by the producers’ association: a producer’s handbook, a guide to the genealogical registry, a trade journal, and current legislation. In a context of global market oriented commodity production, the Iberian Pig undergoes several processes of classification and certification, governmental as well as from the private sector, that aim to assure certain ra…
Order and Dissent Among Old Colony Mennonites
This chapter presents an ethnographically grounded discussion on the interface between political and religious practices of "the exception" and "sovereignty". The Mennonites are a religious group with roots in sixteenth-century Friesland. In this direction of analysis, the Old Colony Mennonites provide three further characteristics that make them into an interesting example in the examination of practices of sovereignty. The Mennonites owe their …
Assemblages of sovereignty and anti-sovereign effects on the Irish border
Based on fieldwork undertaken in 2004-2005, I analyze how the Irish border has been constructed, represented, challenged, and imagined by both the state and borderlanders as a means to discuss processes of constructing sovereignty. I focus on the concept of "assemblage" to integrate and highlight the tensions and contradictions between different levels of analysis: the juridical, the academic representation of the border, and the memories and pra…
Does being Protestant matter? Protestants, minorities and the re-making of ethno-religious identity after the Good Friday Agreement
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 gave an opportunity to remake not just political institutions, but ethno-religious distinction in Northern Ireland. This article looks at how individuals reconstruct their way of being Protestant in Ireland and Northern Ireland in the context of social and political change. It shows individuals renegotiating their ways of being Protestant, attempting sometimes successfully to change its socio-cultural salience, b…
Transformations of Old Colony Mennonites: The Making of a Trans-Statal Community
Through an analysis that combines the historical development of the Old Colony Mennonites, which covers their migrations from sixteenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Latin America, with ethnographic field work in Bolivia and Argentina, I examine the genesis and maintenance of a religiously based trans-statal community. I argue for the conceptual maintenance of a clear distinction between transnational and trans-statal processes in unde…
The Moral Boundaries of the Nation: The Constitution of National Identity in the Southeastern Border Counties of Ireland
This article argues that nationalism is more varied in the way that it constructs its boundaries than contemporary scholarship suggests. In an interdisciplinary, multi-stranded qualitative study of ethno-national identity on the Southern side of the Irish border, it shows the moral repertoires that qualify, conflict with, and on occasion replace, territorial, ethnic and state-centred aspects of national identity. It refocuses attention on the cul…
Generations on the Border: Changes in Ethno-national Identity in the Irish Border Area
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2004/2005, this article explores the construal, change and redefinition of ethno-national identity in Ireland's Eastern border counties. Focusing on the structural properties of generational positions that simultaneously enable and constrain individuals' construal of identity, we analyze changes in the definition of Irishness in relation to recent cultural and political changes on the island
Fluid or Frozen? Choice and Change in Ethno-National Identification in Contemporary Northern Ireland
Theories of nationality pose a paradox. Given the possibilities of identity plurality and identity shift, why is ethno-national identity so deeply embedded and so prone to produce conflict? Working with in-depth interviews in Northern Ireland, this article illustrates some typical mechanisms of change in national identity. It shows that plurality of identification is compatible with deeply embedded identities, that change in such identities is po…
Fluid or Frozen? Choice and Change in Ethno-National Identification in Contemporary Northern Ireland
Theories of nationality pose a paradox. Given the possibilities of identity plurality and identity shift, why is ethno-national identity so deeply embedded and so prone to produce conflict? Working with in-depth interviews in Northern Ireland, this article illustrates some typical mechanisms of change in national identity. It shows that plurality of identification is compatible with deeply embedded identities, that change in such identities is po…
Does being Protestant matter? Protestants, minorities and the re-making of ethno-religious identity after the Good Friday Agreement
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 gave an opportunity to remake not just political institutions, but ethno-religious distinction in Northern Ireland. This article looks at how individuals reconstruct their way of being Protestant in Ireland and Northern Ireland in the context of social and political change. It shows individuals renegotiating their ways of being Protestant, attempting sometimes successfully to change its socio-cultural salience, b…
Transformations of Old Colony Mennonites: The Making of a Trans-Statal Community
Through an analysis that combines the historical development of the Old Colony Mennonites, which covers their migrations from sixteenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Latin America, with ethnographic field work in Bolivia and Argentina, I examine the genesis and maintenance of a religiously based trans-statal community. I argue for the conceptual maintenance of a clear distinction between transnational and trans-statal processes in unde…
Generations on the Border: Changes in Ethno-national Identity in the Irish Border Area
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2004/2005, this article explores the construal, change and redefinition of ethno-national identity in Ireland's Eastern border counties. Focusing on the structural properties of generational positions that simultaneously enable and constrain individuals' construal of identity, we analyze changes in the definition of Irishness in relation to recent cultural and political changes on the island
Cosmopolitan Networks - Networking Cosmopolitans: Between Anyone, the Other and the Making of Sociality
In an increasingly polarised world, crisp labelling, dichotomisation, and the flourishing of nation- and ethnic-based prejudice hinders the finding and construction of spaces for transcending boundaries. By combining cosmopolitanism as forms of relating with networks as a social and cultural practice characteristic of our time, this special issue aims at discerning forms and situations which defy prior categorisation or bridge social boundaries. …
Race and Process: Certifying IberianPigs and Invisibilising Humans
This article is based on on-going fieldwork in Extremadura, Spain and printed material produced by the producers’ association: a producer’s handbook, a guide to the genealogical registry, a trade journal, and current legislation. In a context of global market oriented commodity production, the Iberian Pig undergoes several processes of classification and certification, governmental as well as from the private sector, that aim to assure certain ra…
Assemblages of sovereignty and anti-sovereign effects on the Irish border
Based on fieldwork undertaken in 2004-2005, I analyze how the Irish border has been constructed, represented, challenged, and imagined by both the state and borderlanders as a means to discuss processes of constructing sovereignty. I focus on the concept of "assemblage" to integrate and highlight the tensions and contradictions between different levels of analysis: the juridical, the academic representation of the border, and the memories and pra…
Exclusionary Cosmopolitanism in Buenos Aires
In this article I explore the organisation of practices of vernacular cosmopolitanism in the city of Buenos Aires. The starting point is a series of festivals and activities organised by the city government to promote and celebrate its cosmopolitanism. I then explore the spaces where they take place, and the monuments built by immigrant communities that populate the urban landscape. I read these in relationship to the ideological making of the Ar…
When Heritage Becomes Horizon: The Acquisition of Extra-Territorial Citizenship among Lebanese in Argentina
The sedentariness of the nation-state (emerging from its territoriality) sets it at odds with human mobility of different types and scales, but particularly so with international migration. In this article we are concerned with the different strategies states deploy for the construction of nationhood and citizenry when faced with immigration and emigration. We focus on heritage and horizon to think citizenship practices as they relate to Levantin…
The Moral Boundaries of the Nation: The Constitution of National Identity in the Southeastern Border Counties of Ireland
This article argues that nationalism is more varied in the way that it constructs its boundaries than contemporary scholarship suggests. In an interdisciplinary, multi-stranded qualitative study of ethno-national identity on the Southern side of the Irish border, it shows the moral repertoires that qualify, conflict with, and on occasion replace, territorial, ethnic and state-centred aspects of national identity. It refocuses attention on the cul…
Generations on the Border: Changes in Ethno-national Identity in the Irish Border Area
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2004/2005, this article explores the construal, change and redefinition of ethno-national identity in Ireland's Eastern border counties. Focusing on the structural properties of generational positions that simultaneously enable and constrain individuals' construal of identity, we analyze changes in the definition of Irishness in relation to recent cultural and political changes on the island
Fluid or Frozen? Choice and Change in Ethno-National Identification in Contemporary Northern Ireland
Theories of nationality pose a paradox. Given the possibilities of identity plurality and identity shift, why is ethno-national identity so deeply embedded and so prone to produce conflict? Working with in-depth interviews in Northern Ireland, this article illustrates some typical mechanisms of change in national identity. It shows that plurality of identification is compatible with deeply embedded identities, that change in such identities is po…
Transformations of Old Colony Mennonites: The Making of a Trans-Statal Community
Through an analysis that combines the historical development of the Old Colony Mennonites, which covers their migrations from sixteenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Latin America, with ethnographic field work in Bolivia and Argentina, I examine the genesis and maintenance of a religiously based trans-statal community. I argue for the conceptual maintenance of a clear distinction between transnational and trans-statal processes in unde…
Does being Protestant matter? Protestants, minorities and the re-making of ethno-religious identity after the Good Friday Agreement
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 gave an opportunity to remake not just political institutions, but ethno-religious distinction in Northern Ireland. This article looks at how individuals reconstruct their way of being Protestant in Ireland and Northern Ireland in the context of social and political change. It shows individuals renegotiating their ways of being Protestant, attempting sometimes successfully to change its socio-cultural salience, b…
Assemblages of sovereignty and anti-sovereign effects on the Irish border
Based on fieldwork undertaken in 2004-2005, I analyze how the Irish border has been constructed, represented, challenged, and imagined by both the state and borderlanders as a means to discuss processes of constructing sovereignty. I focus on the concept of "assemblage" to integrate and highlight the tensions and contradictions between different levels of analysis: the juridical, the academic representation of the border, and the memories and pra…
Order and Dissent Among Old Colony Mennonites
This chapter presents an ethnographically grounded discussion on the interface between political and religious practices of "the exception" and "sovereignty". The Mennonites are a religious group with roots in sixteenth-century Friesland. In this direction of analysis, the Old Colony Mennonites provide three further characteristics that make them into an interesting example in the examination of practices of sovereignty. The Mennonites owe their …
Race and Process: Certifying IberianPigs and Invisibilising Humans
This article is based on on-going fieldwork in Extremadura, Spain and printed material produced by the producers’ association: a producer’s handbook, a guide to the genealogical registry, a trade journal, and current legislation. In a context of global market oriented commodity production, the Iberian Pig undergoes several processes of classification and certification, governmental as well as from the private sector, that aim to assure certain ra…
Natural ingredient or nostalgic taste? Competing authenticities in the Norwegian vanilla tastescape
Vanillin has been the main source of vanilla flavoring in products such as vanilla sugar, sauce and ice cream throughout the twentieth century, and hence the authentic taste Norwegians associated with vanilla. However, over the last twenty years critics have pointed out that this taste is not made from the seeds of the vanilla plant, but is synthetic and industrially produced. In this article we explore the multiple modes of attribution of authen…
When Heritage Becomes Horizon: The Acquisition of Extra-Territorial Citizenship among Lebanese in Argentina
The sedentariness of the nation-state (emerging from its territoriality) sets it at odds with human mobility of different types and scales, but particularly so with international migration. In this article we are concerned with the different strategies states deploy for the construction of nationhood and citizenry when faced with immigration and emigration. We focus on heritage and horizon to think citizenship practices as they relate to Levantin…
Exclusionary Cosmopolitanism in Buenos Aires
In this article I explore the organisation of practices of vernacular cosmopolitanism in the city of Buenos Aires. The starting point is a series of festivals and activities organised by the city government to promote and celebrate its cosmopolitanism. I then explore the spaces where they take place, and the monuments built by immigrant communities that populate the urban landscape. I read these in relationship to the ideological making of the Ar…
Cosmopolitan Networks - Networking Cosmopolitans: Between Anyone, the Other and the Making of Sociality
In an increasingly polarised world, crisp labelling, dichotomisation, and the flourishing of nation- and ethnic-based prejudice hinders the finding and construction of spaces for transcending boundaries. By combining cosmopolitanism as forms of relating with networks as a social and cultural practice characteristic of our time, this special issue aims at discerning forms and situations which defy prior categorisation or bridge social boundaries. …
Educating Anthropologists in the Contemporary World: Rethinking Teaching, Learning, and Disciplinary Boundaries
Education is arguably the central arena where the discipline of anthropology is reproduced, challenged, and renewed. This volume examines how anthropology is taught and transformed in diverse institutional and socio-political contexts worldwide. Covering themes such as multimodal teaching, research-led learning, and disciplinary boundaries, the book offers new insights into the changing role of teaching within anthropology. This book compiles eth…
Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Irish and British Studies (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)