Dr Johan Rasanayagam
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- johan.rasanayagam@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272191
- Office Address
Room G18 Edward Wright Building University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3QY
- School/Department
- School of Social Science
Biography
Johan Rasanayagam joined the department in 2005. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Uzbekistan, Central Asia on themes of Islam, citizenship, and moral selfhood. More recently, he has conducted research on Islam, illness and healing in Morocco. His current research focuses on developing an engagement between anthropology and Islamic traditions of thought.
Latest Publications
Mahalla: state and community
Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding. Montgomery, D. (ed.). University of Pittsburgh PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDialogues: anthropology and theology
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 297-347Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesAnthropology in conversation with an Islamic tradition: Emmanuel Levinas and the practice of critique
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 90-106Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBook reviews: Fragile conviction: changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan
Central Asian Survey, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 491-493Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2018.1445594
Counter-extremism, secularism and the category of religion in the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan: should we be studying Islam at all?
Constructing the Uzbek State: Narratives of Post-Soviet Years. Laruelle, M. (ed.). Lexington Books, pp. 151-168, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
- Research
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Research Overview
Uzbekistan and Central Asia, postsocialist societies, Morocco, the anthropology of Islam, morality and subjectivity, healing practices and spirit possession, religion and the secular, politics and the state.
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start
Teaching Responsibilities
AT1502 Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity
AT3027 Anthropological Theory
AT3534 Religion, Power and Belief
- Publications
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Mahalla: state and community
Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding. Montgomery, D. (ed.). University of Pittsburgh PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDialogues: anthropology and theology
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 297-347Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesAnthropology in conversation with an Islamic tradition: Emmanuel Levinas and the practice of critique
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 90-106Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBook reviews: Fragile conviction: changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan
Central Asian Survey, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 491-493Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2018.1445594
Counter-extremism, secularism and the category of religion in the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan: should we be studying Islam at all?
Constructing the Uzbek State: Narratives of Post-Soviet Years. Laruelle, M. (ed.). Lexington Books, pp. 151-168, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAuthor-critic forum
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2014.995923
The politics of culture and the space for Islam: Soviet and post-Soviet imaginaries in Uzbekistan
Central Asian Survey, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIntroduction: Performances, Possibilities, and Practices of the Political in Central Asia
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and PostscriptsEthnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics
Indiana University Press, Indiana. 344 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Beyond Islam: Tradition and the Intelligibility of Experience
Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds. Marsden, M., Retsikas, K. (eds.). Springer, pp. 101-118, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters