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Alexander Koensler is a Social Anthropologist (PhD University of Siena 2009) specializing in the ethnographic study of social movements. Before moving to University of Perugia, he held interdisciplinary research and teaching positions at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Münster (Germany) and the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). His work combines recent developments in ethnography with social movement studies and political anthropology. Focusing in particular on emerging forms of activism, he is interested in the social production of political claims, how to illuminate the potential of “acts” in their ambiguous function of moments of rupture/reproduction and the limits and potential of peace-activism in conflicts. He is a member of the Center for Documentary Research at Queen’s University Belfast and coordinates with E. Apostoli Cappello the network “Anthropology and Social Movements” of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).

Over the course of the past decade he has carried out extensive ethnographic fieldwork with Arab-Jewish alliances in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and about the politics of recognition of Arab-Bedouin rights in the Israeli Negev desert. More recently he has carried out fieldwork with networks of neo-peasant activism about the right to certify (i.e. “Participatory Guarantee Systems”, PGS) and the opaque side of transparency.

Books

 * 2019 (with Pietro Meloni): Antropologia dell'alimentazione. Produzione, consumo, movimenti sociali. Milano: Carrocci
 * 2015 (monograph): Israeli-Palestinian Mobilizations: Shifting Paradigms. London: Routledge.
 * 2012 (co-edited with Amalia Rossi): Comprendere il dissenso. Etnografia e l’antropologia dei movimenti sociali, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia [Understanding dissent. Ethnography and the anthropology of social movements].
 * 2008 (monograph): Amicizie vulnerabili. Coesistenza e conflitto in Israele. Morlacchi Editore, Perugia. The volume includes a DVD.

Articles
2020 ''Prefigurative Politics in Practice. Concrete Utopias in Italy’s Food Sovereignity Activism'', Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 25, 1, pp. 101-119

2019 ''Affective Borderlands. Experiences in Practice of the Neo-Zionist Settling Enterprise in Israel'', Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 48, 5, pp. 700–725

2018 ''Reinventing Transparency. Governance, Trust and Passion in Activism for Food Sovereignty in Italy'', in: Ethnologia Europaea, 48,1, 48, 1

2017 (with Cristina Papa) L’uomo accademico flessibile: due casi a confronto, in: Anuac, 6,1, pp. 83-88

2016 Acts of Solidarity: Crossing and Reiterating Israeli-Palestinian Frontiers, in: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, no. 40, 2, pp. 340–356

2016 (with Cristina Papa) ''Che cosa richiede il cambiamento? Percorsi postgramsciani per un’etnografia politica della contemporaneità'', in: Lares: Quadrimestrale di studi demoetnoantropologici, no. LXXXI, 2-3, pp. 407-426

2016: Islamismo e terrore: un grande Jihad contro il senso comune (essay), Anuac 4(2): 51-66.

2015: Auto-certificazioni, in: AM – Antropologia Museale, 34, pp. 29-32.

2014: ''Human Rights, Local Plights. Implications of Human Rights Activism for Arab-Bedouin Citizens in Israel'', in: “ISCTSJ Working Papers Series” 3-14

2014: Le conflit comme performance : contestation et politique de l’espace des bédouins arabes en Israël, in: L’homme et la société, 187/188, pp. 205-226.

2012: Frictions as opportunity: mobilizing for Arab-Bedouin ethnic rights in Israel, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(11), pp. 1808-1828.

2012: ''Insurgent Building. Spatial Practices of Resistance in the Bedouin-State Conflict in Southern Israel'', in: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(1), pp. 46–60.

2012: Studiare frizioni: attivisti, giornalisti e beduini intorno ad un “villaggio fantasma” in Israele, ANUAC Rivista, 1(2), pp. 1-24.

2011: ''Spielräume der Mobilisierung. Transnationale Fiedensnetzwerke in Israel seit dem Gaza-Krieg'', in: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Ethnology 136(1), pp. 123-137.

2011 (with Cristina Papa): Political tourism in the Israeli-Palestinian space, in: Anthropology Today 27 (2), pp. 9-14.

2010: ''Practices of Reality. Demolitions and Reconstructions of a Ghost Village in Israel'', in: Cultural Politics 6(3), pp. 357-382.

2005: Protesta e potere intorno alla costruzione di un nuovo insediamento nel deserto del Negev, in: Achab 11, 2/2005, pp. 32-38.

Book Chapters
2016: Emerging Spheres of Resonance: “Clandestinely Genuine” Food Networks and the Challenges of Governing Sustainability in Italy, in: Envisioning Sustainabilities in Times of Disaster (a cura di Fiona Murphy and Pierre McDonagh), Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge.

2012 (co-authored with Amalia Rossi): Introduzione: comprendere il dissenso, in: “Comprendere il dissenso. Introduzione all’antropologia dei movimenti sociali” (ed: Alexander Koensler and Amalia Rossi), Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, pp. 13-34.

2012: Per un’antropologia dei movimenti: etnografia e paradigmi dell’analisi dei movimenti, in: “Comprendere il dissenso. Introduzione all’antropologia dei movimenti sociali” (Eds. Alexander Koensler and Amalia Rossi), Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, pp. 47-57.

2010: ''Cambiare il mondo e aprire il cuore? Negoziare modelli di convivenza nel Negev (Israele)'', in: “Saperi antropologici, media e società civile nell’Italia Contemporanea” (a cura di Luisa Faldini e Eliana Pili), CISU, Roma, pp.67-79.

2010: Coesistenza e conflitto nel deserto del Negev, in: “Miti di guerra, riti di pace” (Ed. C. Masseria e D. Loscalzo), EdiPuglia, Bari, pp.23-32.

2009: ''Turismo sostenibile e sostenibilità militare. Connessioni parziali intorno a un progetto di sviluppo dal basso nel deserto del Sinai'', in: “Il turismo come strumento di sviluppo locale sostenibile” (Eds. Luisa Faldini et al.), Cisu, Roma, pp. 251-265.

2009: ''Il beduino e la tenda: un’associazione fatale. Dinamiche di protesta e potere intorno alla costruzione di un nuovo insediamento in Israele'', in: “Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Perugia“ 2007/08, XLV, XXXI, pp. 95-131.

2008: ''I muri permeabili. Un’etnografia del “sapere di frontiera” in Israele e Palestina'', in: “Campo, Spazio, Territorio. Approcci antropologici” (Ed. Pier Giorgio Solinas), Ed.it, Catania, pp. 65-79.

Edited Journal
2013 (with Cristina Papa): ''After anthropocentrism? Environmental conflicts, social movements, and power'', Journal of Political Ecology, special issue vol. 20, pp. 286-294.

Documentaries
2018 (with F. Loce-Mandes): De-commodifying Foodways (Italy/UK. 70 min.)

2016 (with F. Loce-Mandes): An Experimental Path (Italy/UK, 38 min.)

''2008: La verità liquida. La storia dell’attivismo per la terra dei beduini in Israele'' (Documentary, 43,00 min.), Morlacchi Editori, Perugia.

External Links:
www.peasantproject.org