Research Output per year
Personal profile
Personal information
I take pride in the fact that I begun my higher education in sociology/cultural anthroplogy and remained consistently within the discpline of social sciences while maintaining diverse interests. My research interests begin with the mundane affairs of everyday life and end up in most weird and lesser explored corners of existence. So be aware of the maddness before coming closer.
My work concentrates on questions of subjectivity, violence, materiality and print culture. However, I maintain an academic interest in sexuality, digital presence and gender studies. I explored the question of materiality of guns and bodies while studying militancy and militants in Lebanon. Currently, I am tracing the pleasures of violence and the convergence of the subjectivity of authors and readers within propaganda materials and state sanctioned memoirs.
My theoretical interests are influenced by post-structuralism, critical theory and storytelling. Therfeore, I designed and organize the Summer School in 'hands-on anthroplogy and storytelling'. You can find more information about it here https://handsonanthropology.org/ and Stories from Amsterdam.
Ancillary activities
No ancillary activities
Ancillary activities are updated daily
Teaching
At the moment I teach (this year I am not part of the 2018 teaching program at the faculty of scoial sciences in VU)
- Hands-on Anthropology and Ethnography (Summer School)
- Middle East Today at Amsterdam University College
- Graduate Seminars and Ethnographic Writing
- Coordinator of the Master Thesis (2017, 2018, 2019)
Prizes and Awards
- Nomination for Teacher Talent Prize 2016-2017, FSW, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Nomination for Teacher Talent Prize 2017-2018, FSW, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Petrer Beahr Prize for Best Research proposal 2017
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Post-doc fellow Sept 2018- March 2019.
- Einstein Junior Research Fellowship Sept 2018- August 2019 (Einstein Foundation Berlin/ fellowship hosted in Humboldt University)
- Vrije Universiteit Research Fellowship 2019-2020 (Ghorashi Fellow)
Ancillary activities
- Book Review Editor for Journal of Perpetarator Studies
- Book Review Editor for Journal of Politics, Religion and Ideology
- Book Review Editor for Journal of Anthropology of Middle East & Eurasia
Education/Academic qualification
Sociology, PhD, Delhi School of Economics
Keywords
- H Social Sciences
- conflict ethnography
- cultural anthropology
- Embodiment theory
- memory studies
- subjectivity and violence
- sexuality
- storytelling
- Islam
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Afghanistan
- Millitancy
- radicalization
- Political Violence
- Material Culture
- Gender and Religion
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Younes Saramifar is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
ethnography
Social Sciences
Iraq
Social Sciences
anthropology
Social Sciences
Iran
Social Sciences
photographer
Social Sciences
narrative
Social Sciences
violence
Social Sciences
political consciousness
Social Sciences
Research Output 2015 2018
Chasing some bodies: Tracing the embodiment of female refugees in transnational settings and reading tales of their bodies
Saramifar, Y., May 2018, In : European Journal of Women's Studies. 25, 2, p. 183-197 15 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Homelands
refugee
corporeality
phenomenology
anthropology
Crafting Sacrality from the tensile life of objects: learning about the material life of prayer beads from a Khaksari Sufi Murshid
Saramifar, Y., 2018, In : Contemporary Islam. 12, 1, p. 39–55Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
learning
apprenticeship
follower
Murshid
Sufi
Emotions of Felt Memories: Looking for Interplay of Emotions and Histories in Iranian Political Consciousness since Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Saramifar, Y., 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Anthropology of Consciousness.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
political consciousness
Iraq
Iran
emotion
history
Enchanted by the AK-47: contingency of body and the weapon among Hezbollah militants
Saramifar, Y., 1 Mar 2018, In : Journal of Material Culture . 23, 1, p. 83-99 17 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
weapon
contingency
propaganda
humor
semiotics
Framing the war in the post war era: Exploring the counter-narratives in frames of an Iranian war photographer thirty years after the ceasefire with Iraq
Saramifar, Y., 7 Aug 2018, In : Media, War and Conflict. p. 1-19 19 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
photographer
Iraq
narrative
Iran
pain