All Outputs (30)

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.