Marek Mikuš

Marek Mikuš is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research interests include anthropology of politics, development, postsocialism, globalisation, and Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. From September 2010, he is carrying out an ethnography of practices and meanings associated with processes of democratisation, Europeanisation and civil-society building in Belgrade, Serbia.

Marek's PhD research is funded by an LSE PhD Scholarship and a scholarship of the International Visegrad Fund. The project is supervised by Professor Deborah James (LSE) and Dr Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE).




Writings


Published works:

2011. '"State Pride:" Politics of LGBT Rights and Democratisation in "European Serbia,"' in East European Politics and Societies 25(4): 834-851. [fulltext available to subscribers; read and download the pre-review, non-final version at scribd.com]

 

2011. 'Civil-society building, "advanced liberal" governmentality and the state in Serbia,' in Oxford Department of International Development Working Papers series. [fulltext available free of charge]

 

2009.‘Transnacionálne siete a diskurzy v participatívnej ochrane morských korytnačiek na Komorách’, in AntropoWebzin 2–3: 43–52. [‘Transnational networks and discourses in marine turtle participatory conservation in the Comoros’; available free of charge in Slovak language with an English abstract in HTML and PDF formats]


2009. ‘Naprieč hranicami, mimo autentického a falošného: transnacionálna antropológia, turizmus a identita,’ in Sociální studia 5(4): 193–216. [‘Across boundaries, beyond authentic and false: transnational anthropology, tourism and identity’; fulltext available in Slovak language with an English abstract]

2008. ‘Diskurzívna (de)konštrukcia kolektívnej identity: súperiace obrazy “Rómov”,’ in Český lid: Etnologický časopis 95(3): 251–272. [‘Discourse (de)construction of collective identity: clashing images of “Romani”’; in Slovak language with an English abstract]

2007. ‘Etnokulti: Ethnocultural Homogenization’ and ‘Multikulti: Welcome to the Borderland,’ in BA! (ed.) Z. Duchová, 96–99. Bratislava: Atrakt Art. [in English and Slovak]


Unpublished works (available for download):

2010. ‘Rerunning the Transition: Democratisation, Europeanisation and Civil-Society Building in Serbia’. PhD Research Proposal, LSE. Presented at the Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe, 15 June 2010. [PDF]


2009. ‘Strategies, Meanings and Actor-Networks: Community-based Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Comoros’. MSc Thesis, LSE. [PDF]


2007. ‘“You Were Hurt, Right?”: Framing and Reframing in the Semi-Institutional Setting of The People’s Court’. Final Essay in the course Genre Analysis, Vrije Universiteit. [DOC]


2007. ‘Social Markers and Diglossia in the Language Use of Slovak and Czech Roma’. Final Essay in the course Anthropological Linguistics: an Overview, Vrije Universiteit. [DOC]


2007. ‘“We Will Arrange a Techno Party in Your Municipality Too”: Mental Spaces and Conceptual Integration in Czech Political Anti-Campaigns’. Final Essay in the course Applied Semantics, Vrije Universiteit. [DOC]


2007. ‘Diskurzívna (de)konštrukcia kolektívnej identity: súperiace obrazy “Rómov”’. MA Thesis, Charles University. [‘Discourse (De)Construction of Collective Identity: Clashing Images of “Romani”’; PDF in Slovak language with an English abstract]


2006. ‘Applied Anthropology and Social Inclusion of the Roma in the Czech and Slovak Republic’. Final Essay in the course European Policy and Practice towards the Roma, Charles University. [PDF]


2006. ‘Mexický indigenizmus: od štátom riadenej asimilácie po politiku identity’. Final Essay in the course Ethnology of America, Charles University. [‘Mexican Indigenism: From State-Directed Assimilation to Politics of Identity’; PDF in Slovak language]


2006. ‘“Ropa je krv našej zeme”: etnické identity a konflikt v delte Nigeru’. Final Essay in the course Selected African Issues, Charles University. [‘“Oil is the Blood of our Land”: Ethnic Identities and Conflicts in the Niger Delta’; PDF in Slovak language]


2005. ‘Sociokultúrna integrácia a segregácia vo vrchárskej stredoslovenskej obci’. Fieldwork Report, Charles University. [‘Socio-cultural Integration and Segregation in a Central Slovakian Highland Municipality; PDF in Slovak language]


2005. ‘Postmoderné náboženstvo Vesmírnych ľudí z folkloristickej a religionistickej perspektívy’. Essay, Charles University. [‘The Postmodern Religion of the Universe People from the Perspective of Folklore and Religion Studies’; PDF in Slovak language with an English abstract]


2004. ‘Urieknutie v rómskych a majoritných kultúrach na českom a slovenskom území’. Essay, Charles University. [‘The Evil Eye in Romani and Majority Cultures in Czech and Slovak Lands’; DOC in Slovak language]


A Special Police officer kisses the ring of a Serb Orthodox priest during the riots of 5 October 2000.


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