Recalibrating Syria: New Openings for Anthropological Engagement
Joyful crowds toppling statues, unsealing torture prisons, defacing regime iconography, ordinary people roaming freely through Al-Asad’s Presidential Palace . . […]
Andreas Bandak
Andreas Bandak is Associate Professor in the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include religion, displacement, and temporality. His ethnographic work spans Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and more recently Denmark and Europe. Books include Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres (Duke, 2024, with Daniel M. Knight) and Exemplary Life: Modelling Sainthood in Christian Syria (Toronto, 2022). Bandak leads the consortium ‘Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis’.