Election statement: I am a long-standing member of EASA and co-co-ordinator of the PACSA network (peace and conflict studies network). As an anthropologist of displacement based in Queen’s University Belfast, I work closely on asylum seeker and refugee issues and Indigenous Australian politics with a thematic focus on conflict, loss and reparation. I am programme director for a large conflict transformation and social justice master’s programme in QUB. I have a particular passion for public and applied anthropology. Having worked for a number of years in business school and marketing settings, I am active in the development of pedagogical opportunities in the spaces of business, design and policy anthropology. If elected to the EASA executive board, I would work towards further expanding the public visibility of anthropology in new and experimental forms. I see the role of social media formats as playing a key role here. Much of my interest in expanding the role of anthropology, in rethinking collaboration and application, stems from my personal experience of precarity. As such, I would see my role on the executive committee as embracing of creativities and expansion whilst always working in solidarity with attempts to address the urgent issue of precarity.
Nominating member: Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou (Queens University Belfast); Supporting member: Katja Seidel (Maynooth University)