All Outputs (31)

Virtualism and the logic of environmentalism (2009)
Book Chapter
Argyrou, V. (2009). Virtualism and the logic of environmentalism. In Virtualism, governance and practice: vision and execution in environmental conservation (24-44). Berghahn Books

This chapter is concerned with the apparent reversal of the modernist ‘physics’ and ‘anthropology’ in environmentalism; the reversal, that is, of the modernist perception of the physical world and definition of humanity and culture. 1 The central que... Read More about Virtualism and the logic of environmentalism.

Naturalising distinctions: the contested field of environmental relations in Costa Rica (2009)
Journal Article
Johnson, M., & Clisby, S. (2009). Naturalising distinctions: the contested field of environmental relations in Costa Rica. Landscape research, 34(2), 171-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426390802390517

This paper draws on Bourdieu's notion of 'the field', a contested domain of relations of power, as a way to think about the social relations of environmentalism. More specifically, we suggest that talk about the environment and its protection is an i... Read More about Naturalising distinctions: the contested field of environmental relations in Costa Rica.

Summer Sex: Youth, Desire and the Carnivalesque at the English Seaside (2009)
Book Chapter
Clisby, S. (2009). Summer Sex: Youth, Desire and the Carnivalesque at the English Seaside. In Transgressive Sex: Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters (47 - 68). Berghahn Books

Rik Coolsaet (ed.), Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 212 pp. ISBN: 9780754672173, £55.00 (hbk) (2009)
Journal Article
Dearey, M. (2009). Rik Coolsaet (ed.), Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 212 pp. ISBN: 9780754672173, £55.00 (hbk). European Journal of Cultural Studies, 12(1), 119-121. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549408098708

Both 'One' and 'Other': Environmental Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Hybridity in Costa Rica (2008)
Journal Article
Johnson, M., & Clisby, S. (2008). Both 'One' and 'Other': Environmental Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Hybridity in Costa Rica. Nature and Culture, 3(1), 63 - 81. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2008.030105

Cosmopolitans are frequently characterized as living and perceiving the world and their environment from a distance. Drawing on ethnographic work among a small group of Western migrants in Costa Rica, we complicate this portrayal in a number of ways.... Read More about Both 'One' and 'Other': Environmental Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Hybridity in Costa Rica.

The philosopher's gift (2007)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2007). The philosopher's gift. Critique of anthropology, 27(3), 301-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X07080358

This article considers Derrida's critique of Mauss's The Gift and the philosopher's argument that the gift is impossible. In the spirit of the gift, the article engages Derrida in a potlatch-like manner and subjects his critique to the same sort of c... Read More about The philosopher's gift.

How Greeks think: about Turks, for example (2006)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2006). How Greeks think: about Turks, for example. South European Society and Politics, 11(1), 33-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608740500470307

Gender mainstreaming or just more male-streaming? Experiences of popular participation in Bolivia (2005)
Journal Article
Clisby, S. (2005). Gender mainstreaming or just more male-streaming? Experiences of popular participation in Bolivia. Gender and development, 13(2), 23 - 35

`Reflexive modernization' and other mythical realities (2003)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2003). `Reflexive modernization' and other mythical realities. Anthropological Theory, 3(1), 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499603003001750

Tradition, modernity and European hegemony in the Mediterranean (2002)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2002). Tradition, modernity and European hegemony in the Mediterranean. Journal of Mediterranean studies, 12(1), 23-42

This paper argues that tradition and modernity, invented in European societies with an eye both on the European past and the non-European present, are ontological categories which structure the way we think about the world. This means that the world... Read More about Tradition, modernity and European hegemony in the Mediterranean.

Women's reproductive lives as a symbolic resource in Central and Eastern Europe (2001)
Journal Article
Hockey, J., & Alsop, R. (2001). Women's reproductive lives as a symbolic resource in Central and Eastern Europe. European Journal of Women's Studies, 8(4), 454-471. https://doi.org/10.1177/135050680100800404

When Communism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe women seemed to lose the control they had gained over their reproductive lives. Abortion rights became more limited as did access to childcare and maternity benefits. The authors argue that this... Read More about Women's reproductive lives as a symbolic resource in Central and Eastern Europe.