About the reading group
We are happy to welcome the Associate Professor of Societies and Cultures of Central Asia Tommaso Trevisani as our guest for the Soils November Reading Group. This month we will read and discuss his chapter Who owns the (good) land? from the edited book The Central Asian World. The readings will be circulated via the SOILS e-mail listserve.
Readings
- Trevisani, Tommaso. "Who Owns the (good) land?" In The Central Asian World, edited by Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, Madeleine Reeves. London: Routledge, 2023.
Location
This will be a hybrid event but we encourage to attend in person if you can!
Zoom-link
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Meeting ID: 620 7767 8158
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About the presenter
Tommaso Trevisani is Associate Professor at L’Orientale University of Naples, where he teaches Societies and Cultures of Central Asia at the Department for Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies.
He graduated in philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2001 and completed his PhD in social anthropology at the Free University of Berlin in 2008. He has held postdoctoral research positions at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, the Department for Central Asian Studies of the Humboldt University Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the University of Tübingen. Since 2018 he is the coordinator of the departmental study center CSACTI (Centro Studi Asia Centrale, Caucaso, Tibet, Turchia, Iran).
His research interests are in the anthropology and history of Soviet and contemporary Central Asia. His publications are based on extensive ethnographic field studies in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and include work on agrarian and environmental change; class and industrial work; ritual, marriage and society; state- and nation building in socialist and postsocialist Central Asia.