Kosmatopoulos
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Governing Conflict: Expert networks in Lebanon and beyond | ||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | The PhD research project focuses on the institutionalization of the "crisis/conflict/peace" expertise structures between Europe and the Arab world. It pays specific attention to translocal processes of expert knowledge transfer and institution making, as well as to internal struggles for legitimacy and supremacy within the given expertise field. The project uses Lebanon, and by implication Palestine, as a case study in order to understand the proliferation of the crisis-peace-conflict field after the end of the Cold war, the transnational network of actors involved in the production, dissemination and translation of this expert knowledge and the specific socio-political needs that this new knowledge meets in different contexts. Globalized discourses pose major empirical and epistemological challenges to anthropology. A research agenda under the critical premises and promises of anthropology should therefore include the study of such discourses, their transnational diffusion and local domestication. Main research sites are Beirut and Geneva, which both boast an excessively institutionalized expert landscape (think tanks, research institutes, international organizations, NGOs etc.). The research is conducted at the University Research Priority Program (URPP) Asia and Europe (Research Field Entangled Histories). Further information: http://www.asienundeuropa.uzh.ch/research/verflechtungsgeschichten.html |
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| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Governmentality, Expert Networks, Conflict, Peace, Lebanon, Middle East | ||||
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| Other links to external web pages | http://www.ethno.uzh.ch/aboutus/people/nikolakosmatopoulos.html http://www.asienundeuropa.uzh.ch |
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career), Other Public Sources (e.g. Federal or Cantonal Agencies), Foundation Dissertation Project at the University Research Priority Program (URPP) Asia and Europe, University of ZurichFinancing Institutions: University Priority Research Program (URPP) Asia and Europe (financed by Gebert Rüf Stiftung): March 2007 - January 2008University Priority Research Program (URPP) Asia and Europe: February 2008 – February 2010Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE)Prof. Dr. Riccardo Bocco, Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID), Genève |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Mar 2007 to Jan 2010 |