Maruska Svasek

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Maruska Svasek

Professor

Professor, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Anthropology and Ethnomusicology
The Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
Emailm.svasek@qub.ac.uk
Room 03.003 - 13 University Square

United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

1991 …Research output 2002: 2Projects 2005: 1Research output 2005: 4Research output 2006: 3Research output 2007: 3Research output 2008: 1Research output 2009: 2Research output 2010: 4Research output 2011: 1Research output 2012: 10Research output 2013: 2Research output 2014: 2Research output 2015: 1Research output 2016: 3Research output 2018: 6Research output 2019: 1Research output 2020: 2Research output 2022: 3Research output 2023: 2Research output 2025: 22025

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Interests

\ Maruška Svašek (PhD Anthropology, Amsterdam 1996, Reader) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Minerva in Groningen and cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Her main research interests include migration, material culture, and emotions. In her most recent work she seeks to bring these strands together, exploring the mobility and agency of humans, artefacts and images in an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity. Her publications include 2018 Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space. Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland (Berghahn, edited with Milena Komarova) 2016 Creativity in Transition. Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe. Oxford: Berghahn (ed. M. Svašek and B. Meyer), Emotions and Human Mobility. Ethnographies of Movement (Routledge 2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Berghahn 2012), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (Pluto 2007), Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe (Berghahn 2006) and (with Kay Milton) Mixed Emotions. Anthropological Studies of Feeling (Berg 2005). She is co-editor (with Birgit Meyer) of the Book Series ‘Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement’ (Oxford: Berghahn).

\ At present, she is working on a book on art and politics in Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic, and is investigating the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic on the lives of migrant women in Ireland.

*Funded Research \ *Svašek's interest in cultural production, emotional dynamics and globalising forces was nurtured through three AHRC-funded international interdisciplinary conferences, organised by her in 2006 and 2007. Resulting from this were special issues for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(6) (published in 2010) and the Journal of Intercultural Studies 29(3) (published in 2008). In 2010, Svašek secured HERA funding for a two-year collaborative research project entitled Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement (CIM). This interdisciplinary Consortium consists of eleven researchers (working in the fields of anthropology, art history and museum curation) in Belfast, Manchester, Norway, Amsterdam and Vienna. Her interest in migration and transnational family life resulted in research project (2010) funded by Changing Ageing Partnership on transnational families, emotions and ageing. Her research provided an insight into the challenges faced by elderly parents and adult children involved in transnational care giving. Exploring mobility and family life in the larger context of the European Union, she also contributed as senior researcher to the EU Framework 7 finded interdisciplinary project Euroidentities, headed by Prof Robert Miller at the School of Sociology and Social Policy (QUB). The Project, entitled Euroidentities, involved partners in Northern Ireland, Wales, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Bulgaria and Italy, was completed in 2011, and used autobiographical narration as its main method. Svašek also established the Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network (CDEN) with Dr. Kala Shreen (MOP Vaishnav College for woman, Chennai, India) in 2007, which functioned as a teaching tool to facilatate local and transnational communication between lectureres and students interested in the study of emotions.

Particulars

Relevant Website addresses

http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/CreativityandInnovationinaWorldofMovement/

https://www.berghahnbooks.com/series.php?pg=mate_medi

/Euroidentities/Workpackages/Trans-nationalworkers/

www/berghahnbooks.com/journals/focaal /

Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network

www.qub.ac.uk/cibr/ \ \ http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/

Research Statement

My research focuses on emotions, migration, transnational families, material culture and art.

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of

material culture and art
migration,transnationalism and placemaking
affect and emotions

Teaching

\ A World on the Move, ANT1003

Culture and Society, ANT1001\ Anthropology of Material Culture and Visual Mediation, ANT2009/3029 \ Love, Hate and Beyond: Emotions, Culture, Practice, ANT2010/3035\ Advanced Anthropological Methods, ANT7007\ The Ethnographic Interview, AHS

Postgraduate Research Seminar

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Projects

1 Finished
R1730SAN: Migration: Emotions and Human Mobility

Svasek, M. (PI)

01/08/2005 → 31/03/2007

Project: Research

Research output

19 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
13 Article
4 Chapter
3 Book
4 More
2 Anthology
2 Paper
2 Web publication/site
1 Foreword/postscript
Freeze, melt, ferment: on memory making and multimodal collaboration

Svasek, M., 14 Jul 2025.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - ### Playing, stretching, fermenting: collaborative and parallel experimentation

Svasek, M., 04 Jun 2025, (Unpublished).

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

Collaborative
Limits
Dynamics
Ethnography as creative improvisation: exploring methods in (post) pandemic times

Svašek, M., 25 Jun 2023, In: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 13, 1, p. 101-127

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access

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Time
Migrants
Ethnology
Analysis
Woman

7 Citations (Scopus)

245 Downloads (Pure) - ### Pandemic times: nine acts

Svašek, M., 20 Jun 2023, (Early online date) In: Anthropology and Humanism. 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access

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Labour
Reality
Vulnerability
Poem
Engage-ment

1 Citation (Scopus)

118 Downloads (Pure) - ### Lockdown routines: im/mobility, materiality and mediated support at the time of the pandemic

Svasek, M., 17 Feb 2022, Material culture and forced migration: materializing the transient. Bräunlein, P., Fuhse, A., Lauser, A. & Yi-Neumann, F. (eds.). London: UCL Press, p. 229-250

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Open Access

File

146 Downloads (Pure)

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