Associate Professor Jeff Sluka
PhD (Berkeley)
Associate Professor, Social Anthropology Programme
Location: Turitea Campus
Office: Social Science Tower 3.06
Phone: +64 6 356 9099 ext. 2512
Email: J.Sluka@massey.ac.nz
Teaching
- 146.102 Endangered Cultures - Internal
- 146.102 Endangered Cultures - Distance
- 146.208 Political Anthropology
Research interests
Jeff is a specialist in political anthropology and ethnicity and has conducted extensive fieldwork in Belfast, Northern Island. His primary research interests are social - particularly ethnic - conflict, cultures of terror and resistance, and human rights issues.
Recent publications
2010 "The Ruatoki Valley 'Anti-Terrorism' Police Raids: Losing 'Hearts and Minds" in Te Urewera." Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 7:1, 44-64.
2010 "Losing Hearts and Minds in the 'War Against Terrorism'." In, Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War, Ed. by Antonius C.G.M. Robben. University of Pennsylvania. 106-132.
2010 "Curiouser and Curiouser: Montgomery McFate's Strange Interpretation of the Relationship between Anthropology and Counterinsurgency." PoLAR (Political and Legal Anthropology Review), 33:S1, 99-115.
2009 "In the Shadow of the Gun: Not-War-Not-Peace and the Future of Conflict in Northern Ireland." Critique of Anthropology, 29:3, 279-299.
Supervision interests
- Participatory action research
- Cultures of terror resistance
- Social and ethnic conflict
