Jakob Rigi    

 

Associate Professor
PhD (1999) in Social Anthropology (SOAS),
University of London.
BSc (1993) University of Stockholm.
Contact:
Address: Nador 9, Room 407
Phone Number: (36-1) 327 3000 / ext 2131
Email: rigij@ceu.hu


Areas of Research/Interest:
Sovereignty (state, war, law, coercion, spectacle, patronage, citizenship, ethnicity/nationalism/religion); Market (Neo-liberalism, exchange, money, consumption, urban networks, and kinship); Globalization (cultural flows, migration, cultural diversification/complexity); Social stratification (Class, disposition, sex work); Marx & Foucault (value & bio-power).

Publications

Books:

2002 Post-Soviet Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kazakhstan. London: Pluto Press. Published under the name of Joma Nazpary.

2003, Sovyet Sonsarsi Karmasa, Kazakistan’da Siddet Va Mullksuzlesme. (The Turkish edition of Post-Soviet Chaos) Istanbul: Iletisim.

Articles and Chapters in Books:

2008 “Post-Soviet Formation of the Russian State and the War in Chechnya: The Chaotic form of Sovereignty”, in B. Kapferer (ed.) War and Sovereignty, Bergahahn Press.

2007 “The Moral Economy of Sex in Russia” in G. Herdt and A.C. Howe, eds. 21 st Century Sexualities. London: Routledge

2007 “The War in Chechnya: The Chaotic Mode of Domination, Violence and Bare Life in Russia” in Critique of Anthropology, 27(1), 37-62.

2005 “Zhenshchiny I Seksuall’ny Strategii: Pozor i Nasilie’ (Women and Sexual Strategies: Stigma and Violence” in ACTA EURASICA, 22 (1) 32-77.

2005 “State and the Big Capital in Russia.” In Social Analysis, 49-1, reprinted in B. Kapferer, ed. (2005) Monopolies and Oligopolies. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2005 “Homeland as a Domestic Sphere in Kazakhstan” Toronto Studies in Inner and Central Asia. 8, 151-167.

2004 “Corruption in Kazakhstan.” in Italo Pardo (Ed.) Corruption Between Morality and Law. London: Ashgate.

2004 “Conspiracy, Spectacle and Violence: Chaos and The Privatization of War.” Journal Of Social Analysis. 41:1, reprinted in Bruce Kapferer (Ed.) 2005, State, War and Sovereignty. New York: Berghahn Books.

2003 “The Conditions of Post-Soviet Dispossessed Youth and Work in Almaty, Kazakhstan.” in Critique of Anthropology (23:1): 35 -49.

Courses taught