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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02757206.2016.1226171?journalCode=ghan20 Abstract This paper addresses the way that religious affiliation and conversion shape ongoing tensions over historical periods of exile, resettlement, exodus and elimination in a small town on the Eastern Polish border. I explore how local Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian’s negotiations of a troubled past are materialized and managed through narrating familyContinue reading ““Dying out”: conversion and the complexity of neighbourliness on the Polish Belarussian border”

Editors Aimée Joyce, Katie Aston, William Tantam Abstract ‘Tenses’ is a publication that emerges from the experiences and reflections and topics of new researchers and their engagement with current anthropological debates on ‘time’. The collection includes a range of writings crystallising critiques and narratives explored in the Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Anthropology DoctoralContinue reading “Tenses: New Graduate Writing”

Chapter in Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe: Relations, Borders and Invisibilities Chapter on cross border trading, exchange, and morality

Author(s) Katie Aston, Helen Cornish, Aimée Joyce Abstract Fifteen years ago an outpouring of new academic material asserted the value of being an insider in religious research. Conventional assumptions that linked objectivity with outsider status were challenged. This valuable burst of scholarship worked hard to critique the kind of research that preceded it, where faith orContinue reading “Plotting Belonging: interrogating insider and outsider status in faith research”