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Dr Maria Kastrinou
Lecturer in Anthropology

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Summary

Maria Kastrinou is a social anthropologist with fieldwork experience in South-Eastern Mediterranean, specifically in Syria, Greece, Lebanon and in the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights. Her research critically interrogates the politics of religion, sect, state and statelessness, the political and cultural lives of refugees, and the political economy of conflict and resistance. Her monograph Power, Sect and State in Syria (I.B. Tauris 2016) is the first ethnography of the Druze minority in Syria, and one of only a handful of anthropological works about Syria. She has been engaged with projects on sectarianism, statelessness and refugees in the Middle East and she is currently working on the Druze Heritage Foundation funded research project ‘Lives across divides: Ethnographic stories from the Golan Heights.’ Experimenting between anthropology and theatre, together with Hannah Knoerk and Johannes Birringer, they formed the Hotspot Collective and created, produced and performed ‘The Price of Water’ – a political play about refugees, capitalism and the Hotspot critically engaging with Kastrinou's  ethnographic work in Greece and the Middle East.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Anthropology (Durham), PhD Anthropology (Durham)

Responsibility

Social and Political Sciences Postgraduate Research Co-Director

Anthropology Placements Convenor

Newest selected publications

Kastrinou, M. (2023) 'Looking at ethnic cleansing in Palestine from the occupied Syrian Golan'. FocaalBlog. pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0920-1297 Open Access Link

Journal article

Kastrinou, M., Said, S., Jarbouh, R. and Emery, SB. (2023) 'Still There: Politics, Sectarianism and the Reverberations of War in the Presences and Absences of the Syrian State'. Conflict and Society, 9 (1). pp. 147 - 166. ISSN: 2164-4543 Open Access Link

Journal article

Kastrinou, M., Khalaf, SN. and Hayward, B. (2020) 'Peace and War in Hawi al-Hawa', in Khalaf, SN. (ed.) Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party. London : Routledge. pp. 291 - 318. ISBN 10: 1-003-05055-7. ISBN 13: 978-0-367-50626-1. Open Access Link

Book chapter

Kastrinou, AMA., Fakher El-Deen, S. and Emery, SB. (2020) 'The stateless (ad)vantage? Resistance, land and rootedness in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights'. Territory, Politics, Governance, 9 (5). pp. 636 - 655. ISSN: 2162-2671 Open Access Link

Journal article

Kastrinou, M. (2018) 'From a window in Jaramana: Imperial sectarianism and the impact of war on a Druze neighbourhood in Syria', in Hinnebusch, R. and Imady, O. (eds.) The Syrian Uprising 2011-2014: Domestic Origins and Early Trajectory. Abingdon : Routledge. pp. 271 - 289. ISBN 10: 1138310549. ISBN 13: 9781138310544. Open Access Link

Book chapter
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