Dr. Jeremy F. Walton (Research Group Leader • Forschungsgruppenleiter), 2016-2022

Vita

Jeremy F. Walton ist Kulturanthropologe, dessen Forschung an der Schnittstelle von Erinnerungsforschung, Stadtentwicklungsforschung und Neuem Materialismus angesiedelt ist. Er leitete von 2016 bis 2022 die Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe "Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities" am Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften. Dr. Walton erhielt seinen Ph.D. in Anthropologie von der University of Chicago im Jahr 2009. Sein erstes Buch Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2017) ist eine Ethnographie muslimischer NGOs, staatlicher Institutionen und des Säkularismus in der heutigen Türkei. Bevor er als Forschungsgruppenleiter ans MPI MMG wechselte, hatte er Forschungs- und Lehrstipendien am Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe an der Universität Rijeka, dem CETREN Transregional Research Network an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, dem Center for Contemporary Arab Studies der Georgetown University und dem Religious Studies Program der New York University inne. Er hat seine Forschungen in einer Vielzahl von wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften veröffentlicht, darunter in American Ethnologist, Sociology of Islam, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Die Welt des Islams und History and Anthropology. Er ist außerdem Mitherausgeber mehrerer Bände, darunter Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency (University of Chicago Press, 2010) und Art and Politics in the Modern Period (University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019). Das von ihm ins Leben gerufene Forschungsprojekt „Empires of Memory" versteht sich als ein interdisziplinäres, überregionals Projekt über post-imperiales Gedächtnis in post-habsburgischen und post-osmanischen Reichen.

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Forschungsprojekte


Publikationen

Bücher

Walton, J. F. (2017). Muslim civil society and the politics of religious freedom in Turkey. New York: Oxford University Press. Link

Herausgegebene Sammelbände

2020. Sharpening the Haze: Visual Essays on Imperial History and Memory. Co-edited with Giulia Carabelli, Miloš Jovanović, and Annika Kirbis. Ubiquity Press. https://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/10.5334/bcd/

2019. Art and Politics in the Modern Period. Co-edited with Dragan Damjanović, Lovorka Magaš Bilandžić, and Željka Miklošević. Published by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Zagreb.

Zeitschriftenartikel

2021. “Silhouettes and Submersions: Istanbul’s Past from Above and Below.” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 8(1): 11-22. DOI:10.2979/jottturstuass.8.1.03

2021. “Polished Memories, Liquid Histories: A Meditation on Istanbul’s Sveti Stefan Church.” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 8(1): 69-90. DOI:10.2979/jottturstuass.8.1.06

2020. “The Ban’s mana: post-imperial affect and public memory in Zagreb.” Cultural Studies 2020. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2020.1780285

2019. (with Doolan, K., & Cepić, D.) Charity’s dilemmas: an ethnography of gift-giving and social class in Croatia. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 8(1): 11-24. Link

2019. “Introduction: Religious Plurality, Interreligious Pluralism, and Spatialities of Religious Difference.” Coauthored with Neena Mahadev. Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 10: 81-91. DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2019.100107

2019. Introduction: Textured historicity and the ambivalence of imperial legacies. History and Anthropology, 1-13. Link

2019.  “On Institutional Pluralization and the Political Genealogies of Post-Yugoslav Islam. Coauthored with Piro Rexhepi. Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 10: 151-167. DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2019.100111

2019. Sanitizing Szigetvár: On the post-imperial fashioning of nationalist memory. History and Anthropology, 1-14. Link

2016. Architectures of interreligious tolerance: The infrastructural politics of place and space in Croatia and Turkey. New Diversities, 17(2): 103-117. Link

2016. Geographies of revival and erasure: Neo-Ottoman sites of memory in Istanbul, Thessaloniki, and Budapest. Die Welt des Islams, 56(3-4): 511-533. Link

Beiträge in Sammelbänden

2021. “Graphic Designs: On Constellational Writing, or a Benjaminian Response to Ingold’s Critique of Ethnography.” In Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future. Irfan Ahmad, ed. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 53-70.

2020. “Already Dead? Of Tombstones, Empire, and Photography.” Chapter in Sharpening the Haze: Visual Essays on Imperial History and Memory. Co-edited with Giulia Carabelli, Miloš Jovanović, and Annika Kirbis. Ubiquity Press.

2020. “Of Images and Empires.” Coauthored with Giulia Carabelli, Miloš Jovanović, and Annika Kirbis. Introduction to Sharpening the Haze: Visual Essays on Imperial History and Memory. Co-edited with Giulia Carabelli, Miloš Jovanović, and Annika Kirbis. Ubiquity Press.

2019. “Intersections of Art and Politics.” Coauthored with Dragan Damjanović, Lovorka Magaš Bilandžić and Željka Miklošević. Introduction to Art and Politics in the Modern Period. Co-edited with Dragan Damjanović, Lovorka Magaš Bilandžić, and Željka Miklošević. Published by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Zagreb.

2019. “Metrosophy: Rereading Walter Benjamin in Light of Religion After Religion.” Chapter 6 in All Religion is Inter-Religion. Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom. Kambiz Ghanea Bassiri and Paul Robertson, eds. Bloomsbury Academic.

Verschiedene Aufsätze

2021. “Pavelić’s Ghost.” Sidecar 3 June. https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/pavelics-ghost

2020. “To Steward Unruly Imperial Pasts.” TRAFO: Blog for Transregional Research. 4 March. https://trafo.hypotheses.org/23098

2020. “Space, place.” A contribution to the special project, “A Universe of Terms”. The Immanent Frame, 28 February. https://tif.ssrc.org/2020/02/28/space-place-walton/

2019. “The Civil Society Effect Revisited: On the Politics of Liberal Philanthropy Today.” Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought, 2(2): 101-107.

Buchrezensionen

2021. Review of Patricia Morris, Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, Anthropology. Published in Logos. A Journal of Modern Society & Culture. http://logosjournal.com/2021/patricia-morris-fetishism-psychoanalysis-anthropology-london-authors-collective-press-2020/

2021. Review of Charles Sabatos, Frontier Orientalism and the Turkish Image in Central European Literature. Published in Southeastern Europe, 45 (2021): 265-267

2021. Review of J. Andrew Bush, Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan. Published in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 8(1): 490-492.

2020. Review of Angie Heo’s The political lives of saints. Christian-Muslim mediation in Egypt. Published in Social Anthropology, 28(1, February): 197-198

2020. Review of Girard, Polo & Scalbert-Yücel (eds.), Turkish cultural policies in a global world. Published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 26: 434-435.

Medienauftritt

2019. “New Books Network: Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey.” Interview with Kristian Petersen, New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/jeremy-f-walton-muslim-civil-society-and-the-politics-ofreligious-freedom-in-turkey-oxford-up-2017/

Sonstige

2017. On the recent past, fraught present, and tenuous future of Turkish Muslim civil society. SSRC Blog: The Immanent Frame. Link

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