Pelkmans, Mathijs

Dr Mathijs Pelkmans  

Department

Position held

Associate Professor

 

Experience keywords:

borders and boundaries; political anthropology; post-socialism; religious conversion

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Caucasus; Central Asia; Georgia; Kyrgyzstan

Languages:

Dutch [Spoken: Fluent, Written: N/A]; German [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Russian [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

Radio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7862

Publications

2014

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2014) Paradoxes of religious freedom and repression in (post-)Soviet contexts Journal of Law and Religion, 29 (03). 436-446. ISSN 0748-0814

2013

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2013) Powerful documents: passports, passages, and dilemmas of identification on the Georgian–Turkish border In: Bacas, Jutta Lauth and Kavanagh, William, (eds.) Border Encounters: Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK, 90-107. ISBN 9781845453961

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2013) A wider audience for anthropology?: political dimensions of an important debate Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (2). 398-404. ISSN 1467-9655

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2013) Ruins of hope in a Kyrgyz post-industrial wasteland (respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate) Anthropology Today, 29 (5). 17-21. ISSN 0268-540X

Pelkmans, M.E., ed (2013) Ethnographies of doubt: faith and uncertainty in contemporary societies I.B.Tauris & Co, London, UK. ISBN 9781848858107

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2013) Outline for an ethnography of doubt In: Pelkmans, Mathijs, (ed.) Ethnographies of Doubt: Faith and Uncertainty in Contemporary Societies. I.B.Tauris, London, UK, 1-42. ISBN 9781848858107

2012

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2012) Contradictions of religious freedom and religious repression The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere (18 Apr 2012) blog

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2012) Chaos and order along the (former) iron curtain In: Wilson, Thomas M. and Donnan, Hastings, (eds.) Companion to Border Studies. Wiley-Blackwell, 269-282. ISBN 9781405198936

2011

Pelkmans, Mathijs and Machold, Rhys (2011) Conspiracy theories and their truth trajectories Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2011 (59). 66-80. ISSN 0920-1297

2010

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2010) Religious frontiers after socialism: missionary encounters and the dynamics of conversion in Kyrgyzstan, In: Hann, Chris, (ed.) Religion, Identity, Postsocialism: the Halle Focus Group 2003-2010. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 41-44.

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2010) Religious crossings and conversions on the Muslim–Christian frontier in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 19 (2). 109-128. ISSN 1755-2923

2009

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2009) Temporary conversions: encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan In: Pelkmans, Mathijs, (ed.) Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK, 143-162. ISBN 9781845456177

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2009) Introduction: post-Soviet space and the unexpected turns of religious life In: Pelkmans, Mathijs, (ed.) Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK, 1-16. ISBN 9781845456177

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2009) The "transparency" of Christian proselytizing in Kyrgyzstan Anthropological Quarterly, 82 (2). 423-445. ISSN 0003-5491

Hann, Chris and Pelkmans, Mathijs (2009) Realigning religion and power in Central Asia: Islam, nation-state and (post)socialism Europe-Asia Studies, 61 (9). 1517-1541. ISSN 0966-8136

Pelkmans, Mathijs, ed (2009) Conversion after socialism: disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781845456177

2008

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2008) Book review: urban life in post-Soviet Asia Ab Imperio, 2008 (3). 453-457. ISSN 2166-4072

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2008) Book review: communities of the converted: Ukrainians and global evangelism - Catherine Wanner Slavic Review, 67 (4). 1018-1019. ISSN 0037-6779

McBrien, Julie and Pelkmans, Mathijs (2008) Turning Marx on his head Critique of Anthropology, 28 (1). 87-103. ISSN 0308-275X

2007

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2007) 'Culture' as a tool and an obstacle: missionary encounters in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13 (4). 881-899. ISSN 1467-9655

2006

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2006) Defending the border: identity, religion and modernity in the Republic of Georgia Culture & society after socialism. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. ISBN 9780801473302

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2006) Religion und Kultur in Zentralasien: Sowjetische Vermächtnisse und neue Herausforderungen Jahrbuch 2006, Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Munich, Germany.

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2006) Asymmetries on the 'religious market' in Kyrgyzstan In: Hann, Chris, (ed.) The Postsocialist Religious Question: Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe. LIT Verlag, Berlin, 29-46. ISBN 3825899047

2005

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2005) Missionary encounters in Kyrgyzstan: challenging the national ideal Central Eurasian Studies Review, 4 (1). 13-16. ISSN 1538-5043

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2005) On transition and revolution in Kyrgyzstan Focaal, 2005 (46). 147-157. ISSN 0920-1297

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2005) Baptized Georgian: religious conversion to Christianity in autonomous Ajaria Working paper, 71. Max Planck Gesellschaft, Halle / Saale, Germany.

2003

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2003) The social life of empty buildings: imagining the transition in post-Soviet Ajaria Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2003 (41). 121-136. ISSN 0920-1297

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2003) Rural credit institutions in Kyrgyzstan: the practice of transition aid In: Spoor, Max, (ed.) Transition, Institutions and the Rural Sector. Rural economies in transition. Lexington Books, Maryland, USA, 183-195. ISBN 0739105469

2002

Pelkmans, Mathijs (2002) Religion, nation and state in Georgia: Christian expansion in Muslim Ajaria Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 22 (2). 249-273. ISSN 1360-2004

Expert Image

The edited volume Ethnographies of Doubt unravels the mechanisms by which convictions gain and lose their force, and analyses the cycles of hope, faith, doubt and disillusion that are intrinsic to the human condition

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Awards

2010 LSE Teaching Excellence Award. 2007 "William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology" (co-winner), Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

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