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Maruška Svašek (PhD Anthropology, Amsterdam 1996, Reader) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Minerva in Groningen and cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Her main research interests include migration, material culture, and emotions. In her most recent work she seeks to bring these strands together, exploring the mobility and agency of humans, artefacts and images in an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity. Her publications include 2018 Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space. Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland (Berghahn, edited with Milena Komarova) 2016 Creativity in Transition. Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe. Oxford: Berghahn (ed. M. Svašek and B. Meyer), Emotions and Human Mobility. Ethnographies of Movement (Routledge 2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Berghahn 2012), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (Pluto 2007), Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe (Berghahn 2006) and (with Kay Milton) Mixed Emotions. Anthropological Studies of Feeling (Berg 2005). She is co-editor (with Birgit Meyer) of the Book Series ‘Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement’ (Oxford: Berghahn).
At present, she is working on a book on art and politics in Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic, and is investigating the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic on the lives of migrant women in Ireland.
Funded Research
Svašek's interest in cultural production, emotional dynamics and globalising forces was nurtured through three AHRC-funded international interdisciplinary conferences, organised by her in 2006 and 2007. Resulting from this were special issues for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(6) (published in 2010) and the Journal of Intercultural Studies 29(3) (published in 2008). In 2010, Svašek secured HERA funding for a two-year collaborative research project entitled Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement (CIM). This interdisciplinary Consortium consists of eleven researchers (working in the fields of anthropology, art history and museum curation) in Belfast, Manchester, Norway, Amsterdam and Vienna. Her interest in migration and transnational family life resulted in research project (2010) funded by Changing Ageing Partnership on transnational families, emotions and ageing. Her research provided an insight into the challenges faced by elderly parents and adult children involved in transnational care giving. Exploring mobility and family life in the larger context of the European Union, she also contributed as senior researcher to the EU Framework 7 finded interdisciplinary project Euroidentities, headed by Prof Robert Miller at the School of Sociology and Social Policy (QUB). The Project, entitled Euroidentities, involved partners in Northern Ireland, Wales, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Bulgaria and Italy, was completed in 2011, and used autobiographical narration as its main method. Svašek also established the Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network (CDEN) with Dr. Kala Shreen (MOP Vaishnav College for woman, Chennai, India) in 2007, which functioned as a teaching tool to facilatate local and transnational communication between lectureres and students interested in the study of emotions.
Particulars
Relevant Website addresses
http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/CreativityandInnovationinaWorldofMovement/
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/series.php?pg=mate_medi
/Euroidentities/Workpackages/Trans-nationalworkers/
www/berghahnbooks.com/journals/focaal /
Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network
www.qub.ac.uk/cibr/
http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/
Research Statement
My research focuses on emotions, migration, transnational families, material culture and art.
I am open to PhD applications in the fields of
- material culture and art
- migration,transnationalism and placemaking
- affect and emotions
Teaching
Teaching
A World on the Move, ANT1003
Culture and Society, ANT1001
Anthropology of Material Culture and Visual Mediation, ANT2009/3029
Love, Hate and Beyond: Emotions, Culture, Practice, ANT2010/3035
Advanced Anthropological Methods, ANT7007
The Ethnographic Interview, AHS
Postgraduate Research Seminar
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Projects
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Research output
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”Invasive” Writing: Exploring Subjectivity, Performativity and Politics in the Art of Jiří Kovanda
Svasek, M., 07 Aug 2020, (Accepted) In: Liminalities.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Art of the Game: Visual Methods, Artistic Engagement and Playful Ethnography
Svasek, M., 01 Jun 2019, In: Irish Journal of Anthropology. 22, 1, p. 205-223 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ageing Kin, Proximity and Distance: Translocal Relatedness as Affective Practice and Movement
Svasek, M., 2018, Affect in Relation. Families, Places, Technologies.: Essays on Affectivity and Subject Formation in the 21th Century. Birgit, R-R. & Slaby, J. (eds.). London: RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Criss-crossing Pathways: The Indian Community Centre as Focus of Diasporic and Cross-Community Place-Making
Svasek, M., 2018, Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-making in the New Northern Ireland. Svasek, M. & Komarova, M. (eds.). Oxford and New York: Berghahn, p. 211-234 23 p. (Material Mediations; vol. 8).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland
Svasek, M. (ed.) & Komarova, M. (ed.), Jul 2018, New York and Oxford: Berghahn. 298 p. (Material Mediations; vol. 8)Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
Prizes
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Excellence Leadership and Management Development Programme Award
Svasek, Maruska (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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PhD Supervisory Excellence Award
Svasek, Maruska (Recipient), 24 May 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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STAR Scheme Performance Award for Academic Year 2019/20
Svasek, Maruska (Recipient), 10 Mar 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice Fellow
Svasek, Maruska (Recipient), 01 Oct 2016
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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Un/Predictable Environments
Maruska Svasek (Organiser), John Barry (Organiser), Tracey Heatherington (Organiser) & Prashant Khattri (Organiser)
20 May 2021 → 21 May 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Dis/Connection
Rukshana Zaman (Organiser) & Maruska Svasek (Organiser)
25 Nov 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Royal Anthropological Society Film Festival and Conference
Maruska Svasek (Speaker)
26 Mar 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Histories of Care
Maruska Svasek (Organiser) & Zhi Min (Organiser)
23 Apr 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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“Hello, Can You Hear Me?” Endings and Beginnings in Covid Times
Maruska Svasek (Presenter)
27 Nov 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
Press / Media
Impact
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Exhibition and Performance Victoria and Albert Museum
Maruska Svasek (Participant)
Impact: Societial Impact, Cultural Impact
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