Contributors
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Diana Allan, an anthropologist and filmmaker, is currently a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is the creator of the Nakba Archive and Lens on Lebanon. Her films have screened in international film festivals and as gallery installations, and her articles have appeared in the Journal of Oral History, Quaderni Storici, the Journal of Palestine Studies, Cairo Papers in Social Science, ArteEast, and in edited volumes. Her forthcoming book Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (Stanford, 2013) explores the contingencies of nationalism and everyday survival in Shatila camp.
Zerrin Özlem Biner is a research associate in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Her research includes the study of the state and the experience of minority citizens in contemporary Turkey. Recent publications include "Acts of Defacement, Memory of Loss: Ghostly Effects of the 'Armenian Crisis' in Mardin, Southeast Turkey," History & Memory 22, no. 2 (2010), and "Multiple Imaginations of the State: Understanding a Mobile Conflict of Justice and Accountability from the Perspective of Assyrian-Syriac Communities," in Citizenship Studies 15, no. 4 (2011). She is also co-editor, with Julia Eckert, Brian Donohoe, and Christian Strümpel, of Law against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law's Transformations (Cambridge, 2012).
Murtada Bulbul is a documentary photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His subjects are people who are the victims of social, economic, and political discrimination. His intention is to emphasize their conditions in order to win the empathy of society at large, as well as to establish their rights. His works include Swineherd: The Salaried Gypsy with a Domestic Mind, the photo sequence excerpted here, which won second place in the 2010 Alexia Foundation Student Awards. Another notable work is Frankenstein of Buriganga, a photo story on the current state of Dhaka's river Buriganga.
John E. Drabinski is associate professor of black studies at Amherst College. He is the author of over three dozen articles and three books, including most recently Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other (Edinburgh, 2011). He is currently at work on two book-length projects, one on Édouard Glissant's poetics, another on James Baldwin and the history of black Atlantic theory.
Mariane C. Ferme is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. She is the author of The Underneath of Things: Violence, History and the Everyday in Sierra Leone (California, 2001), a study of gender symbolism and secrecy in Mende everyday life in relation to a history of violence embedded in material culture, social relations, and strategies of political empowerment. She is working on a book about the ways in which the 1991-2002 civil war in Sierra Leone [End Page 181] opened spaces for reimagining figures and sites of the political, and she is also the author of articles on political cultures, electoral politics, citizenship, and the state.
Isaias Rojas-Perez is assistant professor of anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Fragments of Soul: Law, Transitional Justice and Mourning in Postwar Peru, which explores the forms of mourning and justice without the body that have emerged among Quechua-speaking relatives of people disappeared by the state during the 1980s and 1990s counterinsurgency campaign in the Peruvian Andes. His ethnographic work focuses on forensic exhumations of clandestine mass graves and explores how Quechua-speaking families and communities of victims of state violence engage post-conflict prosecutions of state crime set within the Peruvian project of transitional justice.
Sharon Sliwinski is assistant professor of visual culture in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University in Canada. She is author of Human Rights in Camera (Chicago, 2011), which considers the aesthetic dimensions of human rights discourse. She is currently working on a book about the social and political significance of dream-life, tentatively titled Dream Matters.
Jill Stauffer is assistant professor of philosophy and director of the concentration in peace, justice, and human rights at Haverford College. She is currently working on a book called Ethical Loneliness about the difficulties and possibilities of political reconciliation, and she has published articles in journals including Law, Culture and the...
