User:P.LAVIOLETTE (Prof Dr)

Patrick LAVIOLETTE (PhD UCL)

Laviolette's research has contributed to the ethnography of the UK (Cornwall, London; South Yorkshire, Scotland) as well as NZ/Aotearoa, the Baltics/Balkans and Benelux/DE. Conceptually, he has been developing a social theory for the embodied imagination.

Currently, he is co-editor [with Elisabeth TIMM (Münster) & Aleksandar Bošković (Belgrade)] of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (AJEC) published by Berghahn (NY:Oxon).

From 2015-2020 he was editor-in-chief alongside Sarah GREEN (Helsinki) of EASA's official periodical Social Anthropology/Anthropology Sociale. This journal was published by Cambridge University Press from 1992 to 2006, by Wiley-Blackwell from 2007 to 2020 and from 2021- by Berghahn).

PL works for the Division of Social Anthropology in the Sociology Department, FFS, Masaryk Univ. Brno, CZ) (2021- ). He has held academic positions in: The School of Visual & Material Culture (COCA, Massey Univ. Wellington NZ) (2006-2010); The Institute of Humanities (Tallinn Univ. EE) (2010-18).

From 2015 to 2020 he was Co-PI with Aivita PUTNINA (Univ of Latvia) of the Baltic Anthropology Graduate School (BAGs), an initiative supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation via its 5 year International Development Grants.

He is a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at UCL and has held Research Fellowships in: British Art Centre, Yale Univ. (2011-12; New Haven USA); New Europe College (2019-20, Bucharest RO); the Inst. for Advanced Studies (2020, Leicester Univ. UK); and the Dept. of Ethnology, Inst. for Cultural Research (2020-21, Univ. of Tartu).

PL serves on the Editorial Boards for: Home Cultures; the Journal of Co-operative Studies; JEF, Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics and CRJSSH.

He has presented in over 125 Seminars and Conferences in approx 35 countries, as well as written two dozen articles, a dozen book chapters and dozens of other short book reviews, commentaries and interviews. He is the author of The Landscaping Metaphor and Cultural Identity (2011 Peter Lang); Extreme Landscapes of Leisure (2016 Ashgate/Routledge); Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads (2020, Palgrave).