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Dr Maruska Svasek

BA, PhD (University of Amsterdam)

Reader in Social Anthropology

 

Postgraduate co-ordinator for Anthropology and Ethnomusicology

 

Tel: + 44 (0) 28 9097 3879
E-mail: m.svasek@qub.ac.uk

Office: 13UQ.301

 

Maruška Svašek is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam, and has worked for nine years at Queens University Belfast. She has done extensive research and has published widely on the topics of art and politics in Ghana and Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic, on identity formation and the politics of emotion in the Czech-German border region, and on emotional dynamics and belonging in the context of globalising forces. Her current research examines experiences of  belonging and non-belonging amongst migrants in Northern Ireland. Linked to this work, she has been contributing to research on transnational workers as part of an EU Framework 7 project on the evolution of European Identity.  Between February and August 2009 she will mainly focus on her CAP-Funded research project, entitled  Transnational Families, Age Progression and Care. Svašek is Associate Editor of the journals Focaal. European Journal of Anthropology and Identities. Global Studies in Culture and Power.

 

In 2006 and 2007, Svašek organised three AHRC-funded international interdisciplinary conferences at Queens University Belfast on migration and emotion. Resulting from this, she has edited two special issues on these themes for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (forthcoming) and the Journal of Intercultural Studies (2008), and is working on an edited volume for Berghahn, entitled ‘Moving Subjects, Moving Objects’.

 

In 2007, Svašek established the Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network (CDEN) with Dr. Kala Shreen (MOP Vaishnay College for woman, Madras, India). This exciting new Network stimulates international and interdiscipline research on cultural dynamics and emotional processes, and functions as a teaching tool to facilatate local and transnational communication between lectureres and students interested in the study of emotions. To enter the CDEN website click: Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network  

Research Interests

Her principal research interests are in emotions, migration, art, material culture and border issues. 

Select Publications

Svašek, M. 2010 'Improvising a World in Movement: Transit, Transition and Transformation', in Cuoltural Expression: Creativity and Innovation (ed. H.K. Anheier and Y.R. Isar) London; Sage.

 

Svašek, M. 2009 'In teh Field: Intersubjectivity, Empathy and the Workings of Internalsed Prsence' in Anthropological Fieldwork: A Relational Process(ed. D. Spencer and  J. Davies) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.

 

Svašek, M. 2009 'Shared History? Polish Migrant Experiences and the Politics of Display in Nortehrn Ireland' in Polish Migration to the UK in the 'New' European Union (ed. K. Burrell) Aldershot: Ashgate.

 

Svašek, M. 2009 'On the Move: Emotions and Human Mobility', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(6).

 

Svašek, M. 2008 (ed.) 2008  Special Issue ‘Transnational Families: Emotions and Belonging‘, Journal of Intercultural Studies 29(3).

 

Svašek, M. and Skrbiš, Z. 2007 (eds.) Special Issue: ‘Emotions and Globalisation’, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 14(4).


Svašek, M. 2007 'Moving Corpses: Emotions and Subject-Object Ambiguity', in: The Emotions: A Cultural Reader (ed Helena Wulff ), Oxford: Berg.

 

Svašek, M. 2007  Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production. London: Pluto

 

Svašek, M. (ed)  2006 Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe. Oxford: Berghahn.

 

Svašek, M 2005 ‘Emotions in Anthropology’ in Mixed Emotion Anthropological Studies of Feeling (eds. K. Milton and M. Svašek). Oxford: Berg. 

 

Teaching

 
A World on the Move, SAN1003 [download - word doc]

 

Anthropology of Art, SAN2009 [download - word doc]

Anthropology of Art, SAN3029 [download - word doc]

Anthropological Methods, SAN7007 [download - word doc]

 

Relevant Website addresses

 

Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network

 

Centre for International Borders Research www.qub.ac.uk/cibr/

 

 

 

http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/Euroidentities/Workpackages/Trans-nationalworkers/

 

www/berghahnbooks.com/journals/focaal/

 

 

www.diasporas.ac.uk