Feuchtwang, Stephan


Professor Stephan Feuchtwang  

Department

Position held

Department of Anthropology

Director of the Masters programme on China in Comparative Perspective

Asia Research Centre

Experience keywords:

transmission of events of state violence in Germany, China and Taiwan over three generations; religious and political charisma in Taiwan and China; making urban places in Taiwan and China; Chinese civilisation and modernity

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Ongoing research includes: Charisma: the links between religious and political charisma, and the distinction between good, accountable and responsive, and bad, coercive charismatic leadership. Making places: the way in which spaces are turned into places by local actors, historically and in everyday, regular activities; the urbanisation of villages. Transmission of loss due to state violence: distinguishing between targeted mass violence and untargeted violence, the result of social indifference, and how such events are recorded and transmitted through different media. Comparing civilisations: the concept of civilisation as shared material culture and the formation of moral persons, overlapping with other civilisations; how to compare them and how to write their history in continuous long-term irreversible changes; their contemporary representation in different modernising projects. Temporalities: how people live, act in and combine several simultaneous senses and trajectories of time, as these cross between civilisations, and negotiate different material formations of temporality. Regimes of visibility and invisibility: the politics of making authority visible and of shielding authority from visibility; display and secrecy of different aesthetic, scientific, ritual and cosmological kinds of knowledge and their politics.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Berlin; Germany; Taiwan; China

Languages:

French [Written: Intermediate]; German [Spoken: Intermediate]; Chinese [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6241

Publications

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2012

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2012) Chinese civilisation in the present. The Asia Pacific journal of anthropology, 13 (2). pp. 112-127. ISSN 1444-2213

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2011) After the event: the transmission of grievous loss in Germany, China and Taiwan. Berghahn Books, London, UK. ISBN 9780857450869

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2011) Exhibition and awe: regimes of visibility in the presentation of an emperor. Journal of material culture, 16 (1). pp. 64-79. ISSN 1359-1835

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2011) Afterword: Re-writing culture in Taiwan. In: Shih, Fang-Long and Thompson, Stuart and Tremlett, Paul-François, (eds.) Re-writing culture in Taiwan. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415602938

2010

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2010) Recalling the Great Leap Famine and recourse to irony. In: Zhang, Everett and Kleinman, Arthur and Tu, Weiming, (eds.) Governance of life in Chinese moral experience: the quest for an adequate life. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415597197

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2010) Corrections of double vision. Critique of anthropology, 30 (1). pp. 94-101. ISSN 0308-275X

Feuchtwang, Stephan and Rowlands, Michael and Mingming, Wang (2010) Some Chinese directions in anthropology. Anthropological quarterly, 83 (4). pp. 897-926. ISSN 0003-5491

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2010) Re-evaluating the long term: civilisation and temporalities. In: Garrow, Duncan and Yarrow, Thomas, (eds.) Archaeology and anthropology: understanding similarity, exploring difference. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781842173879

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2010) The anthropology of religion, charisma and ghosts: Chinese lessons for adequate theory. De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 9783110223552

2009

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2009) The transmission of traumatic loss: a case study from Taiwan. In: Argenti, Nicolas and Schramm, Katharina, (eds.) Remembering violence: anthropological perspectives on intergenerational transmission. Berghahn Books, London, UK. ISBN 9781845456245

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2009) India and China as spiritual nations: a comparative anthropology of histories. Social anthropology, 17 (1). pp. 100-108. ISSN 0964-0282

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2009) Afterword: Traitors: suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building. In: Thiranagama, Sharika and Kelly, Tobias, (eds.) Traitors: suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building. University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania, US, pp. 227-240. ISBN 9780812242133

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2009) Civilisation and temporalities: examples from China. Zhongguo Renleixue Pinglun (Chinese Review of Anthropology), 12 pp. 38-52.

2008

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2008) Suggestions for a redefinition of charisma. Nova religio, 12 (2). pp. 90-105. ISSN 1092-6690

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2008) Disruption, commemoration and family repair. In: Brandtstädter, Susanne and Santos, Gonçalo D., (eds.) Chinese kinship: contemporary anthropological perspectives. Routledge, London, pp. 223-245. ISBN 9780415456975

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2008) History and the transmission of shared loss: the great leap famine in china and the Luku incident in Taiwan. In: Sautedé , Eric, (ed.) History and memory: present reflections on the past to Build our future. Macau Ricci Institute, Macao, China, pp. 163-189. ISBN 9789993794707

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2008) Centres and margins: the organisation of extravagance as self-government in China. In: Pine, Frances and Pina-Cabral, João de, (eds.) On the margins of religion. Berghahn Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 135-153. ISBN 9781845454098

2007

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2007) Belonging to what? Jewish mixed kinship and historical disruption in Twentieth-Century Europe. In: Carsten, Janet, (ed.) Ghosts of memory: essays on remembrance and relatedness. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405154239

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2007) On religious ritual as deference and communicative excess. The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13 (1). pp. 57-72. ISSN 1359-0987

2006

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2006) Memorials to injustice. In: Bell, Duncan, (ed.) Memory, trauma and world politics: reflections on the relationship between past and present. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 176-194. ISBN 0230006566

Shih, Fang-Long and Feuchtwang, Stephan and Tremlett, Paul-François (2006) The formation and function of the category “religion” in anthropological studies of Taiwan. Method and theory in the study of religion, 18 (1). pp. 37-66. ISSN 0943-3058

2005

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2005) Mythical moments in national and other family histories. History workshop journal, 59 (1). pp. 179-193. ISSN 1363-3554

2004

Feuchtwang, Stephan, (ed.) (2004) Making place: state projects, globalisation and local responses in China. UCL Press, London, UK. ISBN 1844720101

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2004) Theorising place. In: Feuchtwang, Stephan, (ed.) Making place: state projects, globalisation and local responses in China. UCL Press, London, pp. 3-33. ISBN 9781844720101

2003

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2003) Peasants, democracy and anthropology: questions of local loyalty. Critique of anthropology, 23 (1). pp. 93-120. ISSN 0308-275X

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2003) An unsafe distance. In: Stafford, Charles, (ed.) Living with separation in China: anthropological accounts. RoutledgeCurzon, London and New York, pp. 85-112.

2002

MacDonald, Judith and Bartlett, Rima and Feuchtwang, Stephan (2002) Appreciations of Sir Raymond Firth. Anthropology today, 18 (5). pp. 20-23. ISSN 1467-8322

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2002) Remnants of revolution in China. In: Hann, C, (ed.) Postsocialism: ideals, ideologies, and practices in Eurasia. Routledge, London, pp. 196-215. ISBN 0415262585

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2002) Tales of territoriality: the urbanisation of Meifa village, China.. Études rurales, (163-16). pp. 249-266. ISSN 0014-2182

2001

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2001) Popular religion in China: the imperial metaphor. Routledge Curzon, London. ISBN 9780700714216

Feuchtwang, Stephan and Mingming, Wang (2001) Grassroots charisma: four local leaders in China. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415244183

2000

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2000) Reinscriptions: commemoration and the transmission of histories and memories under modern States in Asia and Europe. In: Radstone, Susannah, (ed.) Memory and methodology. Berg Publishers, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781859732960

1999

Feuchtwang, Stephan (1999) The threat to care: working at the margins of fear and uncertainty. In: Responding to drug use amongst black and other visible minority communities. T3E, Beauvais, France.

Feuchtwang, Stephan (1999) Religion as resistance. In: Chinese society: change, conflict and resistance. Routledge, London, pp. 161-177. ISBN 0415223342

Feuchtwang, Stephan (1999) Spiritual recovery: a spirit-writing shrine in shifting under Japanese rule. Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, 88 pp. 63-90. ISSN 0001-3935

1993

Feuchtwang, Stephan (1993) Historical metaphor: a study of religious representation and the recognition of authority. Man, 28 (1). pp. 35-49. ISSN 0025-1496

Feuchtwang, Stephan (1993) Chinese race-nation. Anthropology today, 9 (1). pp. 14-15. ISSN 1467-8322

1991

Feuchtwang, Stefan and Baker, Hugh, (eds.) (1991) An old state in new settings : studies in the social anthropology of China in memory of Maurice Freedman. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Oxford, UK. ISBN 1870047400

Feuchtwang, Stephan (1991) Popular religion in China: the imperial metaphor. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780700713851

1987

Feuchtwang, Stephan (1987) The anti-racist challenge to anthropology in the U.K.. Anthropology today, 3 (5). pp. 7-8. ISSN 1467-8322

1985

Feuchtwang, Stephan (1985) Fanon's politics of culture: the colonial situation and its extension. Economy and society, 14 (4). pp. 451-473. ISSN 0308-5147

1982

Feuchtwang, Stephan (1982) Occupational ghettos. Economy and society, 11 (3). pp. 251-291. ISSN 0308-5147

1974

Feuchtwang, Stephan (1974) A comment on Meillassoux and some notions about an agricultural state. Journal of peasant studies, 1 (3). pp. 379-385. ISSN 1743-9361

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