Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 9TH March 2015 - Dr. Elisabeth Kirtsoglou - University of Durham - “We are all immigrants : the politics of mis-recognition in Thessaloniki Greece”
| Dates: | 9 March 2015 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou |
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Social Anthropology Seminar
Monday, 9TH March 2015
Dr. Elisabeth Kirtsoglou - University of Durham
“We are all immigrants : the politics of mis-recognition in Thessaloniki Greece”
This paper wishes to discuss the role of recognition and intersubjective identification in the establishment of political selves. Its aim is to contextualize the ways in which recognition informs ideas about democracy, social interaction, inclusion and exclusion in modern Greece. Careful ethnographic exploration reveals mirroring to be a mechanism and a marker for distinguishing between ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in political terms, in such a way that the non-national ‘Other’ can be cast outside the realm of sympathy and by consequence outside the realm of democracy and equal rights. The paper examines the effect of nationalism on history, time and morality and re-visits the ways in which history is presented as linear, time is imagined as empty and homogenous and ultimately morality succumbs to the limits of national identity resulting in the engendering of bounded spheres of moral sensibility. What it means to be a ‘fellow human’ becomes a contested matter in the process of being conflated with what it means to be a ‘fellow-national’. At the same time however, it can be ethnographically substantiated that it is precisely recognition as intersubjective identification which comes in defense of the ‘humanity of the Other’, a perception of humanity that eventually transcends nationalist positionalities.
2.016/2.017
Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
3:15 – 5:00pm
(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 3:00pm)
ALL WELCOME!
Speaker
Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
Role: Speaker
Organisation: University of Durham
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