Founding Editors' Welcome

Harald Wydra, Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen.

The Journal International Political Anthropology provides a new and much needed forum for interdisciplinary and comparative scholarship, addressing problematics and concerns of the contemporary political scene through the prism of anthropologically based approaches.

A main aim of the Journal is to give a voice to conceptual and methodological creativity, linking the study of politics to perspectives and tools drawn from disciplines or subject areas that were long considered irrelevant to the study of politics proper.

The Journal is bi-annual. At intervals, the Journal will publish a Symposium, gathering articles and commentaries relating to a specific theme that has been dealt with at a preceding workshop. Symposia themes and workshops will be announced at the IPA website.

• Agnes Horvath
• Harald Wydra
• Bjørn Thomassen

• Agnes Horvath

  Agnes Horvath is a sociologist and political scientist with an interest in an anthropological understanding of modern society. She has a PhD in social and political sciences from the European University Institute in Florence (2000). She was affiliated visiting scholar at Cambridge University (2011-14), and now is a Visiting Research Fellow at University College, Cork. She is co-founder and chief editor of International Political Anthropology.  

  Her recent books include Modernism and Charisma (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013), Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality (Oxford, Berghahn, 2015, co-editor), Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking (with Arpad Szakolczai, Routledge, 2018), Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion (Routledge, 2019, co-editor), and Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology
  of Transformations (Routledge, 2019, co-editor). 

  More about Agnes Horvath

• Harald Wydra

  Harald Wydra is a university lecturer in politics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St Catharine's College. His general research interests include political anthropology, symbolic politics, politics of memory, and methodological approaches to the understanding of uncertainty in politics.

  He is a founding editor of the academic journal International Political Anthropology. Wydra is the author of the 2007 book Communism and the Emergence of Democracy. He is editor with Ágnes Horváth and Bjørn Thomassen for the forthcoming book called Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality.

• Bjørn Thomassen

  Bjørn Thomassen holds a Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) in Political and Social Science at the European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Florence; BA and MA Degrees in Anthropology, Institute of Anthropology, Department of Political and Social Science, University of Copenhagen. He has been chair of the Department of International Relations since 2008. Before coming to AUR he taught at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and at the University College of Cork, Ireland.

   

• Camil Roman (Acting Editor)
• Marius Bența
• Daniel Gati
• Tom Boland
• John O'Brien

• Camil Roman (Acting Editor)

  Acting Editor

  Camil Francisc Roman (PhD University of Cambridge, 2017) is currently Lecturer in Political Science at John Cabot University and LUMSA University (Rome).  He is interested in reflexive and interpretative approaches to the human sciences, with an emphasis on anthropologically and historically oriented theory. Among his areas of research are modern democracy and revolutions, modernity and secularization, and the social foundations and implications of political power. At the moment he is completing the research monograph The French Revolution as a Liminal Process: Understanding the Political Schismogenesis of Modernity (Routledge, forthcoming). His latest publications include Divinization and Technology. The Political Anthropology of Subversion (co-editor; Routledge 2019), ‘The French Revolution and the Craft of the Liminal Void: From the Sanctity of Power to the Political Power of the Limitless Sacred’ (Historical Sociology 2018), ‘The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Prussian political Imaginary: A Politico-Anthropological Genealogy of the “Special” German–French Relations’ (Journal of International Relations and Development 2018), and “Liminality, the Execution of Louis XVI, and the Rise of Terror during the French Revolution” in Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality (Berghahn 2015).

• Marius Bența

  Marius Ion Bența received his PhD in 2014 from University College Cork, Ireland, with a thesis on Alfred Schutz's sociology of 'multiple realities.' His work focuses on such topics as the political anthropology of media and new media, phenomenology, mystical experience, nationalism, and identity. His recent publications include Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations (a collective volume co-edited with Agnes Horvath and Joan Davison, Routledge 2018), Experiencing Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz’s Sociology of the Finite Provinces of Meaning (a research monograph, Routledge 2018), or "Fluid identity, fluid citizenship: The problem of ethnicity in post-communist Romania", in: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 23/2017. He works in Cluj, Romania, as Research Fellow in sociology at George Barițiu Institute and Associate Lecturer at Babeș-Bolyai University.

• Daniel Gati

  Daniel Gati grew up in Florence and naturally graduated in Renaissance Art History at the University of Florence. However he moved on to sociology, studying in Ireland, before gaining his masters at the University of Amsterdam. His main areas of interests are the nature of political power and the phenomenon of the trickster. As well as working on the IPA journal he organised the International Beauty conferences in 2010 and 2011. First in the Bellini Museum and second, in the Uffizi Museum. Daniel is in search of an excellent Ph.D. for the coming year alongside working with the IPA journal.

• Tom Boland

  Tom Boland lectures in Sociology at Waterford Institute of Technology. His core interests are in social theory, historical sociology and the sociology of critique. Recent articles have appeared in journals of sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. His monograph Critique as a Modern Social Phenomenon was published in 2013 by Mellen Press. With Ray Griffin he is author of The Sociology of Unemployment (Manchester University Press, 2015).

• John O'Brien

  John O’Brien is a Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Applied Arts, School of Humanities, Waterford Institute of Technology. John holds a BSocSci and MSocSci from University College Dublin. In 2011 he graduated with a PhD from the Department of Sociology, University College Cork. His most recent publication is 'States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilization'. John has lectured in Sociology in WIT since 2008. Prior to this he was a tutor in sociology in Dublin City University, University College Cork and University College Dublin. He is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Moral Foundations of Economy and Society, a Member of the Sociological Association of Ireland, the British Sociological Association and the Drinking Studies Network. He has worked with the office of the President of Ireland on the Ethics Initiative, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Moral Foundations of Economy and Society.  John’s research interests include alcohol and other psychoactive substances, consumption, sociological theory, classical philosophy, Irish society, memory and commemoration. He has published two books and numerous journal papers on these topics. He currently supervises four PhD students and has hosted/delivered at several conferences and summer schools.  

• Diletta Tonatto
• Janos M. Szakolczai

• Diletta Tonatto

  Diletta Tonatto holds honors degrees from the University of Sydney, Australia. She Specialised on social movements and the role of the Internet (online social platforms) in political mobilization.  She wrote her dissertation titled "The Rise of Grillism: Fighting the Italian Malaise through the Internet".    Working Languages: Italian, English, Spanish

• Janos M. Szakolczai

  Janos Mark Szakolczai is a PhD candidate in University College Cork. His field of interest includes criminology, anthropology and sociology.