Stefaan Jansen

My work aims to contribute to the development of a critical anthropology of the making of home and hope with regard to place, nation and postsocialist state transformations, based on long term ethnographic research in the post-Yugoslav states of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia.

See my personal webpages for:

- a list of publications (including some downloadable PDF files)

- information regarding doctoral supervision (current researchers and guidance for queries)

- details on my research projects

- information on my teaching

See my personal webpages for detailed information on current and past research.

My work consists of ethnographic investigations of:
* postsocialist transformations and unequal distributions of hope (socio-economic, gendered and generational patterns of expectations, despair, recognition, imagined futures, cynicism)
* state transformation (hegemony, resistance and compliance, borders, state effects, senses of entitlement, ideology, socialism and neoliberalisation) 
* experiences of home, displacement and entrapment (incl. 'ethnic cleansing' and the (im)possibility to cross borders)
* (anti)nationalism and everyday configurations of nationality
* memory (contested and marginalised remembering and forgetting, remembered normality, nostalgia as postsocialist critique)

My past and current research is concentrated in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.

See my personal webpages for information on current and past doctoral supervision.

I welcome enquiries for ethnographic doctoral research related to the following research themes:

• hope: transformations and unequal distributions of hope in contemporary post-Fordist, post-socialist, post-Cold War conjunctures
• the state: (trans)formations of statecraft, political subjectivity, hegemonic process, social inequality, conflict and struggle, affect, infrastructure, polity borders
• time and modernity: life rhythms and trajectories, (remembered) normality, nostalgia as critique
• home: belonging, displacement, entrapment in place
• (anti)nationalism: everyday configurations of nationality, nation and citizenship