Christian Giordano
Professor Emeritus
University of Fribourg
Switzerland
Biography
Dr Christian Giordano, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Doctor Honoris Causa from University of Timisoara and from Ilia University Tbilisi (Georgia), Permanent Guest Professor: Universities of Bucharest, Kaunas, Murcia, Bydgoszcz, University Sains Malaysia at Penang; Guest Lecturer at Berlin (Humboldt University), Moscow (Russian State University of Humanities), Kuala Lumpur (University of Malaya, Asia Europe Insitute). Main research fields in political and urban anthropology: Southeast Europe, Mediterranean societies, Southeast Asia). Book publications: Die Betrogenen der Geschichte. Überlagerungsmentalität und Überlagerungsrationalität in mediterranen Gesellschaften (The Dupes of History. Frankfurt, New York: Campus, 1992); Essays in Intercultural Communication Belgrade, Biblioteka XX vek, 2001; Power, Mistrust and Legacy: Sceptical Anthropology Sofia: Polis, 2006), Power, Legitimacy, Historical Legacies: A Disenchanted Political Anthropology, Berlin, Münster, Zurich: 2015: Lit-Verlag. Recent edited books Diaspora as a Resource: Comparative Studies in Strategies, Networks and Urban Space (with W. Kokot and M. Gandelsman-Trier; Berlin: Lit-Verlag, 2013).
Research Interest
Political and Urban Anthropology