Napolitano
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 10764 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Napolitano |
| SOBRENOME | Napolitano |
| ASSINATURA | NAPOLITANO |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6871-2093 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Divorce in time of war and displacement, between social anxiety and changing family practices
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Confinement et mise en dépendance des refugié·es syrien·nes
Cet article analyse les logiques humanitaires et sécuritaires qui font du camp de Zaatari en Jordanie un dispositif de confinement et de mise en dépendance des réfugié·es syrien·nes qui y sont installé·es depuis 2012. Il montre comment cet espace, initialement conçu pour faciliter leur accueil, devient un lieu de contrôle et d’isolement, dans un contexte marqué par les pressions des bailleurs de fonds internationaux visant l’endiguement des flux …
A Foucault’s Otherwise
Confinement et mise en dépendance des refugié·es syrien·nes
Cet article analyse les logiques humanitaires et sécuritaires qui font du camp de Zaatari en Jordanie un dispositif de confinement et de mise en dépendance des réfugié·es syrien·nes qui y sont installé·es depuis 2012. Il montre comment cet espace, initialement conçu pour faciliter leur accueil, devient un lieu de contrôle et d’isolement, dans un contexte marqué par les pressions des bailleurs de fonds internationaux visant l’endiguement des flux …
Holy Infrastructures
Through an ethnographic rendering of the Catholic Church at the Detroit-Windsor borderland, this article foregrounds the ways elemental forces, including water, earth/soil, and air, form an interconnected entity that constitutes part of the theopolitical and religious scaffolding of Holy Infrastructures. We argue that the repetitive inscription of social and affective flows within an urban terrain generates infrastructure projects that contract f…
Exploring Migrations in Jordan
This is a summary of a two-day symposium on migrations in Jordan, by the symposium coordinators Amal Khaleefa and Valentina Napolitano.The event, held in May 2023 at the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) in Amman, aimed to challenge prevailing political narratives on migration in Jordan and deconstruct stereotypes, while exploring the role of archives in the production of these narratives.It featured four panels and a Policy Council, brin…
Managing Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Based on a study of previously unexplored UNRWA archives covering a period from the 1950s to the 1970s, this essay examines the relationship between the UN agency and the Syrian government agency PARI (Palestine Arab Refugee Institution) in managing Palestinian refugees in Syria.It offers insight into this decisive phase during which refugee camps were constructed and the Syrian host policy was developed.By contributing to the debates on humanita…
On a Provisional Finitude of Indebtedness
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsValentina NapolitanoValentina Napolitano’s work engages with anthropological, political theological and critical theory debates on subjectivity, migration/mobility, anthropology of traces, borderlands, and Critical Catholic Studies. Her current work is on projects on Entangled Worlds: Sovereignty, Sanctities and Soil (htt…
Young Kings
In the aftermath of the UK loss in the 2020 Euro Football Cup, I analyze a theopolitical force of contemporary black football players, as a sovereignty from below epitomized by the figure of Marcus Rashford. Given his meteoric rise in British culture and his prominent social activism against child hunger, Rashford, among the other targets of racial abuse, is a particularly apt exemplar. By integrating anthropological ideas on theopolitics, totemi…
On Grammars of Unease
This short commentary on this Special Issue highlights realms of uneasiness that current recalibrations of Political Theology can bring forward. The grammar of unease here discussed points to possibilities for affective counter-hegemonic power, to new theopolitical reading of Black religious movements (where there were previously none), to (self) estrangement as practice and analytics, and to critiques of a vagueness of whiteness as it exceeds so…
Engagements et désengagements combattants. Les émotions comme outil d’analyse
La sociologie des émotions politiques est en plein renouveaudepuis une vingtaine d’années. Certains auteurs évoquent même l’idéed’un « tournant émotionnel » , tandis que d’autres mettent en avantl’apparition de « nouveaux mouvements émotionnels » . Pourtant, ensociologie des mobilisations et de l’engagement, l’étude des émotionspolitiques a longtemps suscité la méfiance. Il importait de se démarquerde l’héritage de la psychologie des foules et de…
Donner sens et cohérence à la désertion en contexte de guerre
Face à la répression sanglante des manifestations contre le régime de Bachar al-Assad et à la violence du conflit qui s'est ensuivi, plusieurs milliers de militaires syriens ont fait le choix de quitter l'armée régulière entre 2011 et 2013. En questionnant le processus de cette désertion, plutôt que ses causes, cette contribution s'inscrit dans la lignée de travaux récents qui ont envisagé les trajectoires des acteurs en guerre sur un continuum a…
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Political Theology/Theopolitics
Anthropological work on political theology has been informed by Agamben's work on the state of exception and, thus, by a Schmittian account of sovereignty as analogous to that of the God who bestows miracles. In this review, we read gestures to this analogy's limits in recent ethnographies of the state, vital force, and the Anthropocene as also pointing to the limits of anthropology's secularity and its embedding in the colonial enterprise. In so…
Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return
Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return examines contemporary migration in the context of a Roman Catholic Church eager to both comprehend and act upon the movements of peoples. Combining extensive fieldwork with lay and religious Latin American migrants in Rome and analysis of the Catholic Church’s historical desires and anxieties around conversion since the period of colonization, Napolitano sketches the dynamics of a return to a faith’s putativ…
On the Touch-Event
This article addresses the ‘touch-event’ as a mediated affective encounter that pivots around a tension between intimacy and distance, seduction and sovereignty, investment and withdrawal. Through a rereading of the Pauline event of conversion to Christianity, it argues that an analysis of the evolving significance of touch-events for Catholic liturgy and a religious congregation shows the theopolitical as always already constituted within an eco…
On a Political Economy of Political Theology
Introduction
Circulations transnationales et transformations de l’engagement
Comment les circulations transnationales affectent les parcours, les représentations et les formes d’engagements militants ? Dans quelle mesure ces mobilités favorisent l’établissement de réseaux militants transfrontaliers qui peuvent être activés dans des contextes de crise et de migration forcée ? C’est à ces questions que cette contribution souhaite répondre en étudiant, sur une période historique longue remontant aux années 1970, les circulat…
La politique jordanienne à l’égard des réfugiés syriens
Huit ans après le début du conflit en Syrie, la Jordanie accueille sur son territoire près de 660000 réfugiés syriens. Les dilemmes liés aux différentes modalités de gestion des Syriens, entre « devoir d’hospitalité » et protection des intérêts socioéconomiques des communautés hôtes, demeurent d’actualité sur fond d’assistance internationale qui, au fil du temps, s’est étendue au-delà de l’assistance humanitaire, pour couvrir le développement éco…
Francis, a Criollo Pope
This article explores the tension between Pope Francis as a 'trickster' and as a much-needed reformer of the Catholic Church at large. He is an exemplar of the longue durée of an embodied 'Atlantic Return' from the Americas to the 'heart' of Catholicism (Rome and the Vatican), with its ambivalent, racialized history. Through the mobilization of material religion, sensuous mediations, and the case of the Lampedusa crosses in particular, I engage w…
On a Political Economy of Political Theology
Through ethnographic exploration of the Peruvian devotion of the Señor de Los Milagros (Lord of the Miracles) in Rome, this chapter discusses the intersection between Catholicism, masculinity and transnational labor. Through close exploration of Catholic orientations and the attachments they create between bodies, flesh and objects, it is argued that Brotherhoods such as the Señor de Los Milagros, should not be understood, in received sociologica…
Religion and the Morality of the Market
Myriam Benraad Irak, la revanche de l'histoire. De l'occupation étrangère à l’État islamique Paris, Vendémiaire, 2015, 285 p
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On Bone Relic Assemblages
A very interesting casket of bone relics stands in the crypt of the Naples’ Cathedral. Behind a glass window constructed into the altar, illuminated by well-placed beams of light, these are alleged
Anthropology and traces
This article explores the trace as a methodological tool and theoretical pathway in anthropology and beyond. Traces signal the limits of representation; they are the materials of knots of histories at the margins, as well as auratic presences. Through a critical reading of key ethnographic works, including an analysis of a Casa del Popolo in Rome which has been turned into a squat by Peruvian migrants, this article argues that the study of traces…
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
The Virgin of Guadalupe
Through an analysis of current celebrations of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Rome, I discuss how the Virgin echoes worries aboutpatria y fe(nation and faith) as well as a Catholic faith mobilized in reaction to secularism. The Virgin's performative celebrations awaken a phantomatic unity of the nation and the family through affect and subtle racial tensions within, first, the body of religious transnational migration related to diocesan and missiona…
Political Theology/Theopolitics
Anthropological work on political theology has been informed by Agamben's work on the state of exception and, thus, by a Schmittian account of sovereignty as analogous to that of the God who bestows miracles. In this review, we read gestures to this analogy's limits in recent ethnographies of the state, vital force, and the Anthropocene as also pointing to the limits of anthropology's secularity and its embedding in the colonial enterprise. In so…
Complementary Medicine
This article discusses some aspects of the practice of complementary and traditional medicine in urban Mexico through a transcultural paradigm, hence it focuses on how medical knowledge(s) are commodified as well as how a 'travelling' medical knowledge acquires agency in a transculturation process. This study, while analysing different practices of Chinese and Japanese medicine, argues that oriental medicine is translated in at least two ways - a…
Introduction
In the introduction to this special section of Religion and Society, we discuss existing and potentially new intersections of border theories and religious studies in relation to two contested regions—US-Mexico and Israel-Palestine (as part of the history of the Levant)—respectively. We argue for a recentering of borderland studies through an analysis of political theologies, affective labor, and differing configurations of religious heritage, tr…
Hamas and the Syrian Uprising
Becoming a Mujercita
Cet article analyse la celebration du quinzieme anniversaire des filles dans un quartier pauvre de Guadalajara au Mexique, et soutient que ce rituel est important pour comprendre l'identite de genre dans la societe mexicaine contemporaine. Au moyen de l'analyse de recits personnels et de l'interaction sociale, je soutiens que le symbolisme de la celebration du quinzieme anniversaire des filles est associe a ses aspects performatifs, aux images de…
Writing's edges and the sex ofEarth beings
Comment on de la Cadena, Marisol. 2015. Earth beings: Ecologies of practice across Andean worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Between 'traditional' and 'new' Catholic church religious discourses in urban, Western Mexico
This paper analyses processes of belonging, identity formation and construction of knowledge within and between 'new' and 'traditional' Catholic groups in a low-income neighbourhood of Guadalajara. It argues that these two expressions of the Church carry through distinctive 'progressive' and 'conservative' messages in matter of engagement with, and empowerment in social reality, notions of personal responsibility, relation to non-human agents and…
Francis, a Criollo Pope
This article explores the tension between Pope Francis as a 'trickster' and as a much-needed reformer of the Catholic Church at large. He is an exemplar of the longue durée of an embodied 'Atlantic Return' from the Americas to the 'heart' of Catholicism (Rome and the Vatican), with its ambivalent, racialized history. Through the mobilization of material religion, sensuous mediations, and the case of the Lampedusa crosses in particular, I engage w…
On Bone Relic Assemblages
A very interesting casket of bone relics stands in the crypt of the Naples’ Cathedral. Behind a glass window constructed into the altar, illuminated by well-placed beams of light, these are alleged
The Atlantic Return and the Payback of Evangelization
This article explores Catholic, transnational Latin American migration to Rome as a gendered and ethnicized Atlantic Return, which is figured as a source of ‘new blood’ that fortifies the Catholic Church but which also profoundly unsettles it. I analyze this Atlantic Return as an angle on the affective force of history in critical relation to two main sources: Diego Von Vacano’s reading of the work of Bartolomeo de las Casas, a 16th-century Spani…
Confinement et mise en dépendance des refugié·es syrien·nes
Cet article analyse les logiques humanitaires et sécuritaires qui font du camp de Zaatari en Jordanie un dispositif de confinement et de mise en dépendance des réfugié·es syrien·nes qui y sont installé·es depuis 2012. Il montre comment cet espace, initialement conçu pour faciliter leur accueil, devient un lieu de contrôle et d’isolement, dans un contexte marqué par les pressions des bailleurs de fonds internationaux visant l’endiguement des flux …
Young Kings
In the aftermath of the UK loss in the 2020 Euro Football Cup, I analyze a theopolitical force of contemporary black football players, as a sovereignty from below epitomized by the figure of Marcus Rashford. Given his meteoric rise in British culture and his prominent social activism against child hunger, Rashford, among the other targets of racial abuse, is a particularly apt exemplar. By integrating anthropological ideas on theopolitics, totemi…
On Grammars of Unease
This short commentary on this Special Issue highlights realms of uneasiness that current recalibrations of Political Theology can bring forward. The grammar of unease here discussed points to possibilities for affective counter-hegemonic power, to new theopolitical reading of Black religious movements (where there were previously none), to (self) estrangement as practice and analytics, and to critiques of a vagueness of whiteness as it exceeds so…
Engagements et désengagements combattants. Les émotions comme outil d’analyse
La sociologie des émotions politiques est en plein renouveaudepuis une vingtaine d’années. Certains auteurs évoquent même l’idéed’un « tournant émotionnel » , tandis que d’autres mettent en avantl’apparition de « nouveaux mouvements émotionnels » . Pourtant, ensociologie des mobilisations et de l’engagement, l’étude des émotionspolitiques a longtemps suscité la méfiance. Il importait de se démarquerde l’héritage de la psychologie des foules et de…
La politique jordanienne à l’égard des réfugiés syriens
Huit ans après le début du conflit en Syrie, la Jordanie accueille sur son territoire près de 660000 réfugiés syriens. Les dilemmes liés aux différentes modalités de gestion des Syriens, entre « devoir d’hospitalité » et protection des intérêts socioéconomiques des communautés hôtes, demeurent d’actualité sur fond d’assistance internationale qui, au fil du temps, s’est étendue au-delà de l’assistance humanitaire, pour couvrir le développement éco…
The Atlantic Return and the Payback of Evangelization
This article explores Catholic, transnational Latin American migration to Rome as a gendered and ethnicized Atlantic Return, which is figured as a source of ‘new blood’ that fortifies the Catholic Church but which also profoundly unsettles it. I analyze this Atlantic Return as an angle on the affective force of history in critical relation to two main sources: Diego Von Vacano’s reading of the work of Bartolomeo de las Casas, a 16th-century Spani…
La mobilisation des réfugiés palestiniens dans le sillage de la « révolution » syrienne
Cet article propose une lecture de l’actuelle contestation syrienne à partir du point de vue des Palestiniens de Syrie. Cette communauté d’un demi-million d’individus a intégré la « révolution » syrienne et cela à partir de ses propres subjectivités et attentes. Cette étude vise, d’une part, à approfondir notre connaissance des « répertoires d’actions » et des « pratiques de résistance individuelles » adoptées au cours de la contestation syrienne…
Les réfugiés palestiniens et la contestation populaire en Syrie
Becoming a Mujercita
Cet article analyse la celebration du quinzieme anniversaire des filles dans un quartier pauvre de Guadalajara au Mexique, et soutient que ce rituel est important pour comprendre l'identite de genre dans la societe mexicaine contemporaine. Au moyen de l'analyse de recits personnels et de l'interaction sociale, je soutiens que le symbolisme de la celebration du quinzieme anniversaire des filles est associe a ses aspects performatifs, aux images de…
Between 'traditional' and 'new' Catholic church religious discourses in urban, Western Mexico
This paper analyses processes of belonging, identity formation and construction of knowledge within and between 'new' and 'traditional' Catholic groups in a low-income neighbourhood of Guadalajara. It argues that these two expressions of the Church carry through distinctive 'progressive' and 'conservative' messages in matter of engagement with, and empowerment in social reality, notions of personal responsibility, relation to non-human agents and…
Guinea-Pigs
Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine MenLiving in Urban Mexico
This book explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, it paints a picture of daily life in a low-income neighborhood of Guadalajara. The book portrays the personal experiences of the neighborhood's residents while engaging with important questions about the nature of selfhood, subjectivity, and community ide…
Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men
Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborhood of Guadalajara. Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men insightfully portrays the personal experiences of the neighborhood's residents while engagi…
Complementary Medicine
This article discusses some aspects of the practice of complementary and traditional medicine in urban Mexico through a transcultural paradigm, hence it focuses on how medical knowledge(s) are commodified as well as how a 'travelling' medical knowledge acquires agency in a transculturation process. This study, while analysing different practices of Chinese and Japanese medicine, argues that oriental medicine is translated in at least two ways - a…
Medical Profiling, Justice and Recognition
Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS. Edited by Diego Armus. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. 326. $64.95 cloth, $21.95 paper.) Globalización, Conocimiento Y Poder: Médicos Locales Y Sus Luchas Por El Reconocimiento En Chiapas. By Steffan Igor Ayora Díaz. (México: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, 2002. Pp. 205.) Staying Sober in Mexico City. By Stanley Brandes. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.…
Of migrant revelations and anthropological awakenings
This article analyses how otherness and a politics of affect emerge from the presence of a new Latino migration to Rome, Italy. Looking at processes around Catholic evangelisation and plural migrant itineraries, the paper argues that different and contradictory forces such as narratives of centrality and periphery are mirrored in the presence and history of the Sacred Heart. Exploring and counterposing de Certeau's ideas on migrations and mystics…
Michel de Certeau
devoted to his work and published since his death in 1986 attest to his broader influence.De Certeau's work has therefore been revisited and reassessed in numerous disciplinary circles.Curiously, however, anthropology, so seemingly sponge-like in its theoretical fashions, has not engaged extensively with de Certeau's work. 2 This is despite the fact that de Certeau's primary thematic concerns were peculiarly anthropological in nature.Issues of re…
The subject of anthropology
Commentary on Berg's article “Homeland and Belonging among Cubans in Spain”
The Virgin of Guadalupe
Through an analysis of current celebrations of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Rome, I discuss how the Virgin echoes worries aboutpatria y fe(nation and faith) as well as a Catholic faith mobilized in reaction to secularism. The Virgin's performative celebrations awaken a phantomatic unity of the nation and the family through affect and subtle racial tensions within, first, the body of religious transnational migration related to diocesan and missiona…
La montée en puissance du Hamas depuis la fin des années 1990
Depuis la fin des années 90, le camp de réfugiés de Yarmouk a connu d’importantes recompositions politiques. Dans un contexte marqué par le détachement des réfugiés vis-à-vis des factions nationalistes et de gauche, le Hamas est parvenu à gagner un rôle politique et social croissant au sein du camp, notamment suite à l’établissement d’un bureau politique dans la capitale syrienne en 1993. Au cours de ce travail, je propose donc d’analyser le disc…
Les réfugiés palestiniens et la contestation populaire en Syrie
La mobilisation des réfugiés palestiniens dans le sillage de la « révolution » syrienne
Cet article propose une lecture de l’actuelle contestation syrienne à partir du point de vue des Palestiniens de Syrie. Cette communauté d’un demi-million d’individus a intégré la « révolution » syrienne et cela à partir de ses propres subjectivités et attentes. Cette étude vise, d’une part, à approfondir notre connaissance des « répertoires d’actions » et des « pratiques de résistance individuelles » adoptées au cours de la contestation syrienne…
The Atlantic Return and the Payback of Evangelization
This article explores Catholic, transnational Latin American migration to Rome as a gendered and ethnicized Atlantic Return, which is figured as a source of ‘new blood’ that fortifies the Catholic Church but which also profoundly unsettles it. I analyze this Atlantic Return as an angle on the affective force of history in critical relation to two main sources: Diego Von Vacano’s reading of the work of Bartolomeo de las Casas, a 16th-century Spani…
The Atlantic Return and the Payback of Evangelization
This article explores Catholic, transnational Latin American migration to Rome as a gendered and ethnicized Atlantic Return, which is figured as a source of ‘new blood’ that fortifies the Catholic Church but which also profoundly unsettles it. I analyze this Atlantic Return as an angle on the affective force of history in critical relation to two main sources: Diego Von Vacano’s reading of the work of Bartolomeo de las Casas, a 16th-century Spani…
Hamas and the Syrian Uprising
Introduction
In the introduction to this special section of Religion and Society, we discuss existing and potentially new intersections of border theories and religious studies in relation to two contested regions—US-Mexico and Israel-Palestine (as part of the history of the Levant)—respectively. We argue for a recentering of borderland studies through an analysis of political theologies, affective labor, and differing configurations of religious heritage, tr…
Anthropology and traces
This article explores the trace as a methodological tool and theoretical pathway in anthropology and beyond. Traces signal the limits of representation; they are the materials of knots of histories at the margins, as well as auratic presences. Through a critical reading of key ethnographic works, including an analysis of a Casa del Popolo in Rome which has been turned into a squat by Peruvian migrants, this article argues that the study of traces…
On a Political Economy of Political Theology
Through ethnographic exploration of the Peruvian devotion of the Señor de Los Milagros (Lord of the Miracles) in Rome, this chapter discusses the intersection between Catholicism, masculinity and transnational labor. Through close exploration of Catholic orientations and the attachments they create between bodies, flesh and objects, it is argued that Brotherhoods such as the Señor de Los Milagros, should not be understood, in received sociologica…
Religion and the Morality of the Market
Myriam Benraad Irak, la revanche de l'histoire. De l'occupation étrangère à l’État islamique Paris, Vendémiaire, 2015, 285 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On Bone Relic Assemblages
A very interesting casket of bone relics stands in the crypt of the Naples’ Cathedral. Behind a glass window constructed into the altar, illuminated by well-placed beams of light, these are alleged
The Sacred Heart and the Religious in Movement
Devotions to the Sacred Heart are not only histories of faith, but conditions of the matter and the flesh that connect multiple places of dwelling and affective orientations. Different iconographie
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