Maple Razsa

Profile Picture of Maple Razsa
Title
Assistant Professor of Global Studies
Department
Anthropology
Institution
Colby College
Email
maple.razsa@colby.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. Anthropology and Visual Media, Harvard University, 2007
  • M.A. Social Anthropology, Harvard University, 2002
  • B.A. International Studies, Vassar College, 1996

Research Interests

Social Movements   Human Rights   Transnationalism  

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Biography

Maple Razsa is an anthropologist, activist and documentary filmmaker. He is committed to using text, images and sound to embody and explore the experience and political imagination of contemporary social movements. He has published in journals such as East European Politics and Society and American Ethnologist. Maple's documentary work from Croatia, Slovenia, Mozambique, and the US has shown in such fora as the George Eastman House, The Harvard Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as well as festivals from Taipei to Turin. An Assistant Professor of Global Studies at Colby College, Razsa enjoys working with students on research that crosses the boundaries of disciplines and the borders of states.

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  207-859-5222

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List of Publications (17)
In 2015
17

"Anarchism," International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, section editors, Dominic Boyer and Ulf Hannerz (forthcoming) April 2015

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In 2014
16

"Bastards of Utopia:" The Radical Imaginary from the fall of Socialism to the Occupy Movement, (book manuscript) cross-listed in the New Anthropologies of Europe Series & Global Research Studies Series, Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2014

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15

"Beyond 'Riot Porn:' Protest Video and the Production of Unruly Political Subjects," Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, (forthcoming February 2014)

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In 2013
14

"Learning from, and Contributing to, European Uprisings Against Corruption, Austerity and Neoliberalism," (co-authored with Andrej Kurnik), Anthropology News, June 2013

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In 2012
13

"Images of Global Militancy: Reflections on Affect, Memory and Embodiment" Audio-Visual Thinking Journal (June 2012) Volume 4

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12

"The Occupy Movement in Zizek's hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming," (co-authored with Andrej Kurnik) American Ethnologist, Volume 39 Number 2 (May 2012) pp 238-258

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11

"Toward an Affirmative Ethnography," Anthropology News, September 2012

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10

Co-editor, Cultural Anthropology "Hot Spot" on the Occupy Movement, July 2012, http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/641 with submissions by nineteen contributors

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9

"Introduction: Occupy, Anthropology, and the 2011 Global Uprisings," (co-authored with Jeffrey Juris), Cultural Anthropology, "Hot Spot" on the Occupy Movement, July 2012

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8

"The Subjective Turn: The Radicalization of Personal Experience within Occupy Slovenia," Cultural Anthropology, "Hot Spot" on the Occupy Movement, July 2012

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In 2009
7

Review of Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization, by Jeffery J. Juris. Duke University Press, 2009, in American Anthropologist

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In 2008
6

"Mutual Aid, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Dumpster Diving: Anarchist Activism in Croatia Since 2000," in Sabrina Ramet, et al (eds). Challenges Facing Croatia after 1995, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008

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In 2005
5

"Producing Spectacles of Resistance: Global Social Movements, Activist Video, and Political Mimesis in the former Yugoslavia," in Casopis za kritiko znanosti (Journal for the Critique of Science), (Volume 33, Number 220, 2005, pp 165-176)

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In 2004
4

"Balkan is Beautiful: Balkanism in the Political Discourse of Tuman's Croatia" (co-authored with Nicole Lindstrom) East European Politics and Society (Volume 18, Number 4, 2004, pp 628-650)

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"Regionalism, Memory, and Belonging at the Frontiers of the Nation-State," (review essay) History In Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans by Pamela Ballinger, Anthropological Quarterly, Volume 77, Number 1, 2004, pp 161-165

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2

"Video" essay in Shock and Awe: The War on Words. Eds. Anna Tsing et al. New Pacific Press: Santa Cruz. 2004

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"Occupy Slovenia: From Resisting Migrant Illegality to Innovative Direct Democracy" (co-authored with Andrej Kurnik), in Border Crossers, Border Protectors: Social Movements and Globalization, eds. Naples, Nancy and Jennifer Mendez, New York University Press, (forthcoming)

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