Dr Maria Kastrinou
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
- Anthropology
- Social Science and Communications
Summary
Maria Kastrinou is a social anthropologist with fieldwork experience in South-Eastern Mediterranean, specifically in Syria, Greece, Lebanon and in the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights. Her research critically interrogates the politics of religion, sect, state and statelessness, the political and cultural lives of refugees, and the political economy of conflict and resistance. Her monograph Power, Sect and State in Syria (I.B. Tauris 2016) is the first ethnography of the Druze minority in Syria, and one of only a handful of anthropological works about Syria. She has been engaged with projects on sectarianism, statelessness and refugees in the Middle East and she is currently working on the Druze Heritage Foundation funded research project ‘Lives across divides: Ethnographic stories from the Golan Heights.’ Experimenting between anthropology and theatre, together with Hannah Knoerk and Johannes Birringer, they formed the Hotspot Collective and created, produced and performed ‘The Price of Water’ – a political play about refugees, capitalism and the Hotspot critically engaging with Kastrinou's ethnographic work in Greece and the Middle East.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Anthropology (Durham), PhD Anthropology (Durham)
Responsibility
Social and Political Sciences Postgraduate Research Co-Director
Anthropology Placements Convenor
Newest selected publications
Kastrinou, M., Knoerk, H. and Birringer, J. (2024) 'The Price of Water: Reflections on an Anthropological Play'. Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, June 2024 (29). pp. 1 - 21.
Kastrinou, M. and Knoerk, H. (2024) ''. History and Anthropology, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 0275-7206
Kastrinou, M. (2023) 'Looking at ethnic cleansing in Palestine from the occupied Syrian Golan'. FocaalBlog. pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0920-1297
Kastrinou, M., Said, S., Jarbouh, R. and Emery, SB. (2023) ''. Conflict and Society, 9 (1). pp. 147 - 166. ISSN: 2164-4543
Kastrinou, M., Jarbouh, R., Said, S. and Emery, S. (Accepted) 'Present Absence and Absent Presence: Sectarianism and the State in two Druze regions of Syria', in Hinnebusch, R. and Valbj酶rn, M. (eds.) Comparing Sectarianism in Syria's Regions. London : Routledge.