Ethnography
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November 2024: Language as a Matter of Life and Death
This month’s Spotlight was contributed by Gerald Roche. He is a political anthropologist based at La Trobe University, Australia, and his work focuses on the intersections of language and power. He previously edited the Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization, and he has recently published articles in Language in Society, State Crime Journal, and Emancipations: A…
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Guilherme Fians
Leverhulme Research Fellow University of St Andrews St Andrews, United Kingdom [email protected] I am interested in how languages and global media are used for the (re)production of certain viewpoints on political and epistemological issues. In this regard, I have analyzed the emergence of a form of post-political internationalism in print and digital media in the…
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Leigh Swigart
Leigh Swigart, Ph.D. Language, Culture and Justice Hub Coordinator Fellow in Research and Practice – EHCN and CHRA Bard College/Open Society University Network [email protected] Read Leigh’s Spotlights on Language, Culture and Justice: October 2019, November 2019, December 2019, November 2021, December 2022, and February 2024. I have worked for many years in the field of international justice, but…
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Maya Angela Smith
Associate Professor of French University of Washington Seattle, Washington USA [email protected] Having received my PhD in romance languages and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, I investigate identity formations among marginalized groups in the African diaspora, particularly in the postcolonial francophone world. Much of my work has been focused on Senegal and its diaspora.…
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Toni Shapiro-Phim
Associate Professor, Creativity, the Arts and Social Transformation Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts [email protected] Read Toni’s April 2020 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. I’m a cultural anthropologist and dance ethnologist whose work has focused on the relationship between the arts and migration, violence (including war and genocide) and other oppressions. I have spent time with artists…
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Anaïk Pian
Maître de conférences l’Université de Strasbourg (Laboratoire DynamE) Strasbourg, France [email protected] Je suis sociologue et mes recherches portent sur les migrations internationales, les frontières et l’interprétariat dans l’asile et dans le domaine de la santé. J’ai récemment mené un terrain ethnographique sur l’interprétariat à la Cour nationale du droit d’asile (article à paraître dans la…
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Laura Kunreuther
Associate Professor and Director of Anthropology Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York [email protected] Read Laura’s September 2021 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. My research and teaching center on themes such as sound, voice, translation/interpretation, technology and media, social suffering, affect, cultural memory, and urban public culture. My first book, “Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in…
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Alexandra Grey
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law Sydney, Australia [email protected] Read Alex’s July 2021 and May 2020 Spotlights on Language, Culture and Justice. I am a lecturer and researcher with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Technology Sydney. I combine doctrinal law and ethnographic social sciences methods to examine how legal regimes work in…
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María Luz García
Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan [email protected] I take perspectives from linguistic and cultural anthropology to consider the ways that Ixil Mayas make use of the resources of their language in constructing and reflecting social realities. In my doctoral research, I considered the expression of historical memory of the…
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April 2023: “Multilingual Life on a Monolingual Campus: Findings and Recommendations”
This month’s Spotlight focuses on a project of the Language, Culture and Justice Hub, “Multilingual Life on a Monolingual Campus,” whose final report is now available. Six Brandeis University student researchers collaborated with Hub director Leigh Swigart, seeking to shed light on how international students live their linguistic lives on our campus. A central question for the study…
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June 2021: “Linguistic Lives as Working Lives: Exploring Communication Labor with Legal Interpreters’ Language Life Histories”
By Sonya Rao, American Bar Association/AccessLex Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow in Legal and Higher Education The life history interview, a type of oral history that covers the events of an individual’s life experiences, is a useful methodological tool for social scientists and historians. In these interviews, researchers can explore the depths of an individual’s historical experience and…
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April 2020: “Culture’s Contribution to Justice: The Story of a Dance-Drama and Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal”
This commentary was contributed by Hub member Toni Shapiro-Phim, associate professor of Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation, Brandeis University. Toni Shapiro-Phim A “moral and collective reparation” project associated with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) — also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal — offers an example of the potency of expressive…
