Project position

Senior researcher

Reading group

Material culture and cultural anthropology

Research fields

traditionalization and heritagization, identities and subjectivities

Bio

Jacquesson Svetlana PhD is an area study scholar with a strong anthropological bias. Her recent research has focused on “history making,” or popular ways of re-emplotting history to support old and new identity claims. She has extensively published on this topic as well as on the post-Soviet transformations of lives and identities in Kyrgyzstan. She is also interested in the politics of knowledge production on or in Central Asia, in the past and in the present.

Publication

‘New History’ as a Translocal Field. In Translocalities and Translations: Mobilities, Boundaries, and Traveling Ideas. Case Studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus, edited by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
2016a. Introduction. In History Making in Central and Northern Eurasia, edited by Svetlana Jacquesson, pp. 7-20. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag.
2016b. Genealogies as a craft: the search for “truth” and authority in contemporary Kyrgyzstan. In History Making in Central and Northern Eurasia, edited by Svetlana Jacquesson, pp. 100-121. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag.

Performance and Poetics in Kyrgyz Memorial Feasts: the Discursive Construction of Identity Categories. In Explorations in the Social History of Modern (19th – early 20th century), edited by Paolo Sartori. Leiden: Brill, pp.181-206.
2012 Introduction: Local History as an Identity Discipline. With Ildiko Beller-Hann. Central Asian Survey, 31/3, 239-249.
2012 From Clan Narratives to Clan Politics. Central Asian Survey, 31/3, pp. 277-292.

The Time of Dishonour: Land and Murder under Colonial Rule in the Tian Shan. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 55/4-5, pp. 664-687.