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Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi, assistant professor at the School of Conflict Studies is an anthropologist specialized in Political Anthropology. Her research interests focus on migration and forced displacement - due to conflict and climate change, on political and ethnic violence, gender and conflict, power and abuse of power, and Roma minorities. She has conducted field research in France, Albania and Kosovo.
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ECS 2124 - Local and Community Responses to Conflict
Conflict is always experienced at a community level, whether its source is local or international. This course identifies and examines the many different ways in which local or community level actors respond to the causes and effects of violent and non-violent conflict in their midst.
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ECS 3540 - Rapports sociaux de sexes et conflits
Théories sociales et philosophiques sur le genre. Théories féministes sur la discrimination. Structures de domination de genre et leurs impacts en situation de conflit. Facteurs ethniques et religieux dans les conflits de genres. Mesures réparatrices et mouvements sociaux.
Préalables : ECS2591 et ECS2592. Ce cours était antérieurement ECS2525.
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ECS 5103 - RESEARCH METHODS
Critical evaluation of research findings in the human sciences. Qualitative and quantitative methods of gathering, validating, and interpreting evidence. Issues in research ethics. Applications in graduate research projects and theses.
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ECS 5101 - Identity-Based Conflict
- Theoretical concepts to understand the dynamics of religious and ethnic conflicts. Application of these concepts to particular situations. Religion, ethnicity, gender, class, and other identity signifiers. Human identity needs, mimetic theory, and structures of domination. Ethno-nationalist movements and victimization.
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ECS 5520 - THÈMES CHOISIS EN ÉTUDES DE CONFLITS
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ECS 4530 - Sujets avancés en études de conflits
Étude approfondie de sujets particuliers en études des conflits.
Préalables : 51 crédits universitaires. Ce cours est réservé aux étudiantes et étudiants inscrits en études de conflits.
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ECS 6540 - SÉMINAIRE DE RECHERCHE
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ECS 8911 - Selected Readings and Research
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ECS 5715 - RAPPORTS SOCIAUX DE SEXE ET CONFLITS
Examen multidisciplinaire de cas de domination et de marginalisation. Les rapports sociaux de sexe comme construction sociale et culturelle. Rôle de ces constructions dans des structures de domination. Défis particuliers aux tentatives de transformer ces structures.
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ECS 8901 - Doctoral Seminar
Seminar aimed at enabling students to gain expertise in Conflict Studies, from a multidisciplinary approach. Epistemologies of Conflict Studies. Exploration of the field in connection with the student’s research interests.
Prerequisite: Active knowledge of English or French and passive knowledge of the other language.
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ECS 8902 - Doctoral Seminar II
Seminar aimed at enabling students to gain expertise in Conflict Studies, from a multidisciplinary approach. Exploration of the field in connection with the student’s research interests.
Prerequisites: ECS8901. Active knowledge of English or French and passive knowledge of the other language.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. 2016-2018
Ph.D., Anthropology, Université de Montréal, Canada, 2016
Visiting Doctoral Fellow, IIAC, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, 2012–2014
Affiliate Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, USA, 2005–2006
M.A., IDHEAP, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
B.Sc., Physics, University of Tirana
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The current research, supported by the SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2020-2022), uses an ethnographic design to examine how the dynamics of displacement intersect with climate change, violence and political unrest and impact the lives of the displaced populations in Haiti.
Edited Special Issues
Sula-Raxhimi, E. and Hanna Kienzler (eds). 2019. Special Issue: “Collective Memories and Legacies of Political Violence in the Balkans, Nationalities Papers, 47(2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2018.31
Sula-Raxhimi, E. et Alexandra Dorca (eds). 2016. « L’Étranger », Altérités, 9(1). 116 pages. http://alterites.ca/vol9no1/index_en.html. ISSN 1205-8009.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2020. “Dispozitivi normalizues: Politikat mbi romët në Shqipërinë socialiste” (The normalizing apparatus: Roma policies in Socialist Albania). Antropologji, 2 (2): 7-31.
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2019. “Reading the present through the past: Roma memories in post-war Kosovo”, In Collective Memories and Legacies of Political Violence in the Balkans, Nationalities Papers, Special Issue, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 47(2): 217-231. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2018.23
Kienzler, H. and Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi. 2019. “Introduction”, in Collective Memories and Legacies of Political Violence in the Balkans, Special issue edited by H. Kienzler et Sula-Raxhimi, E. (eds). Nationalities Papers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 47(2): 173-181. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2018.31
Sula-Raxhimi, E, Butzbach, C. and Astrid Brouselle. 2019. “Countering Commercial and Corporate Power”. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(1): PE12-E13, January 1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30241-9
Sula-Raxhimi, E. and Alexandra Dorca. 2016. « L’étranger. Introduction et présentation du numéro », L’Étranger, Altérités, 9 (1) : 1-8.
Book Chapters
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2021. “Heterotopias of Displacement: The production of Space in Post-socialist Albania”, in Smoki Musaraj Natasa Gregoric, Remitted Pasts and Palpable Futures: Space and Temporality in Albanian Studies, London: Berghahn Books. (in press)
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2012. “Pauvreté, exclusion et racisme: modes d’appréhension au pluriel”, in Suarez-Herrera, J.C., Blain, M.J. (eds), Éléments théorico-pratiques pour une approche socio-anthropologique de la recherche en santé mondiale, Conference acts n° 652: cahier d’Acfas, Montreal, Canada, p. 153-166.
Critical Reviews
Sula-Raxhimi, E. and Brousselle, A. 2018. Book review, Humanités environnementales: Enquêtes et Contre-enquêtes. of Blanc G, Demeulenaere É, Feuerhahn W (eds) (Publications de la Sorbonne). Anthropologica, 60(1): 355–356.
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2014. “Populism, or Playing Extremism by Democratic Rules”, review of Stewart Michael (eds), The Gypsy “menace”: populism and the new anti-Gypsy politics (Oxford University Press). H-SAE, H-NET Reviews, May, 2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/21311/reviews/27000/sula-raxhimi-stewart-gypsy-menace-populism-and-new-anti-gypsy-politics.
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2011. “Viva Jerez!” de Hélène Giguère (Presses de l’Université Laval). Anthropologica, 53(2): 361-363.
