Dr Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

  • Lecturer in Sociology (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

Biography

Galina holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London (UCL). She has taught social anthropology at UCL, University of Edinburgh and St.Andrews, and sociology at Oxford International in Dundee.

She specialises in politics of history and memory, archival and human rights activism, anthropology religion, especially Islam and atheism; political anthropology; ethnic marginality. Galina has carried out ethnographic and archival research in Russia, North Macedonia, Greece and Serbia.

Research interests

Research groups

  • Social Anthropology & Migration

Publications

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Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2017 | 2015 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
Number of items: 24.

2024

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2024) Turncoats: Dervish magic, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and unstable religious compounds in a Roma neighbourhood, North Macedonia. In: Kostić, I. E. and Dizdarević, S. M. (eds.) Roma in Central and Southeastern Europe: Navigating Muslim Identities, Challenges, and Activism. Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory and Faculty of Humanities, Charles University: Belgrade, Prague. (Accepted for Publication)

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2024) Malware of history. Encryption of once and future violence in Novi Sad (Vojvodina, Serbia). Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2023) Toward a New Theory of Religion and Social Change. Sovereignties and Disruptions by Paul-Francois Tremlett. Religion and Society, [Book Review] (Accepted for Publication)

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2023) New Books Network Podcast: Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic Monumental Names. [Audio]

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2023) Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow. Series: The anthropology of history. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9780367701895 (doi: 10.4324/9781003144946)

2022

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2022) Razgovori u zajednici: Galina Oustinova Stjepanović. [Audio]

2021

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2021) The cut.: reading the hole on the last address memorial plaques in Moscow. Inscription, 2, pp. 30-39.

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. and Voronchuk, M. (2021) Miners' Stories from Eastern and Western Ukraine. Modern Languages Open, [Book Review]

2020

Amarasuriya, H., Kelly, T., Maunaguru, S., Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. and Spencer, J. (2020) The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press. ISBN 9781787357792

Amarasuriya, H., Kelly, T., Maunaguru, S., Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. and Spencer, J. (2020) Introduction: the intimate life of dissent. In: Amarasuriya, H., Kelly, T., Maunaguru, S., Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. and Spencer, J. (eds.) The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9781787357778

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2020) One is the biggest number: estrangement, intimacy and totalitarianism in late Soviet Russia. In: Amarasuriya, H., Kelly, T., Maunaguru, S., Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. and Spencer, J. (eds.) The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press, pp. 22-45. ISBN 9781787357778

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2020) Futile engagements. [Website]

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2020) Introduction: futile political gestures. [Website]

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2020) End of organized atheism. The genealogy of the law on freedom of conscience and its conceptual effects in Russia. History and Anthropology, 31(5), pp. 600-617. (doi: 10.1080/02757206.2019.1684271)

2019

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2019) A ritual demystified. Religion and Society, 10(1), pp. 30-43. (doi: 10.3167/arrs.2019.100104)

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2019) One is the Biggest Number: Dissent as Estrangement from Totality. [Website]

2017

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2017) A catalogue of vice: a sense of failure and incapacity to act among Roma Muslims in Macedonia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(2), pp. 338-355. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.12610)

Llera Blanes, R. and Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2017) Being Godless. Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-religion. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. ISBN 9781785336287

2015

Blanes, R. L. and Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2015) Introduction: Godless people, doubt, and atheism. Social Analysis, 59(2), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.3167/sa.2015.590201)

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2015) Confessional anthropology. Social Analysis, 59(2), (doi: 10.3167/sa.2015.590207)

2013

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2013) Why a Gypsy in Macedonia does not know ‘correct’ Islam. In: De Munck, V. C. and Risteski, L. (eds.) Macedonia: The Political, Social, Economic and Cultural Foundations of a Balkan State. I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 162-190. ISBN 9781848859364

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2013) Lost in transition. Ethnographies of everyday life after communism by Ghodsee, Kristen. Social Anthropology, 21(1), pp. 104-106. (doi: 10.1111/1469-8676.12004_9)[Book Review]

2012

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2012) BUBANDT, Nils, and Martijn VAN BEEK, eds., Varieties of Secularism in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual, 261 pp., illustrations, index. London: Routledge, 2012. Hardback, $145. ISBN 9780415616720. Religion and Society, 3(1), (doi: 10.3167/arrs.2012.030114)[Book Review]

2011

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2011) Rozenberg, Guillaume, Renunciation and Power: The Quest for Sainthood in Contemporary Burma. Religion and Society, 2(1), pp. 191-193. (doi: 10.3167/arrs.2011.020112)[Book Review]

This list was generated on Sun Dec 22 05:56:30 2024 GMT.
Number of items: 24.

Articles

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2024) Malware of history. Encryption of once and future violence in Novi Sad (Vojvodina, Serbia). Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, (Accepted for Publication)

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2021) The cut.: reading the hole on the last address memorial plaques in Moscow. Inscription, 2, pp. 30-39.

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2020) End of organized atheism. The genealogy of the law on freedom of conscience and its conceptual effects in Russia. History and Anthropology, 31(5), pp. 600-617. (doi: 10.1080/02757206.2019.1684271)

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2019) A ritual demystified. Religion and Society, 10(1), pp. 30-43. (doi: 10.3167/arrs.2019.100104)

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2017) A catalogue of vice: a sense of failure and incapacity to act among Roma Muslims in Macedonia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(2), pp. 338-355. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.12610)

Blanes, R. L. and Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2015) Introduction: Godless people, doubt, and atheism. Social Analysis, 59(2), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.3167/sa.2015.590201)

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2015) Confessional anthropology. Social Analysis, 59(2), (doi: 10.3167/sa.2015.590207)

Books

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2023) Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow. Series: The anthropology of history. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9780367701895 (doi: 10.4324/9781003144946)

Book Sections

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2024) Turncoats: Dervish magic, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and unstable religious compounds in a Roma neighbourhood, North Macedonia. In: Kostić, I. E. and Dizdarević, S. M. (eds.) Roma in Central and Southeastern Europe: Navigating Muslim Identities, Challenges, and Activism. Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory and Faculty of Humanities, Charles University: Belgrade, Prague. (Accepted for Publication)

Amarasuriya, H., Kelly, T., Maunaguru, S., Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. and Spencer, J. (2020) Introduction: the intimate life of dissent. In: Amarasuriya, H., Kelly, T., Maunaguru, S., Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. and Spencer, J. (eds.) The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9781787357778

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2020) One is the biggest number: estrangement, intimacy and totalitarianism in late Soviet Russia. In: Amarasuriya, H., Kelly, T., Maunaguru, S., Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. and Spencer, J. (eds.) The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press, pp. 22-45. ISBN 9781787357778

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2013) Why a Gypsy in Macedonia does not know ‘correct’ Islam. In: De Munck, V. C. and Risteski, L. (eds.) Macedonia: The Political, Social, Economic and Cultural Foundations of a Balkan State. I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 162-190. ISBN 9781848859364

Book Reviews

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2023) Toward a New Theory of Religion and Social Change. Sovereignties and Disruptions by Paul-Francois Tremlett. Religion and Society, [Book Review] (Accepted for Publication)

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. and Voronchuk, M. (2021) Miners' Stories from Eastern and Western Ukraine. Modern Languages Open, [Book Review]

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2013) Lost in transition. Ethnographies of everyday life after communism by Ghodsee, Kristen. Social Anthropology, 21(1), pp. 104-106. (doi: 10.1111/1469-8676.12004_9)[Book Review]

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2012) BUBANDT, Nils, and Martijn VAN BEEK, eds., Varieties of Secularism in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual, 261 pp., illustrations, index. London: Routledge, 2012. Hardback, $145. ISBN 9780415616720. Religion and Society, 3(1), (doi: 10.3167/arrs.2012.030114)[Book Review]

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2011) Rozenberg, Guillaume, Renunciation and Power: The Quest for Sainthood in Contemporary Burma. Religion and Society, 2(1), pp. 191-193. (doi: 10.3167/arrs.2011.020112)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Amarasuriya, H., Kelly, T., Maunaguru, S., Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. and Spencer, J. (2020) The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press. ISBN 9781787357792

Llera Blanes, R. and Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2017) Being Godless. Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-religion. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. ISBN 9781785336287

Audio

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2023) New Books Network Podcast: Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic Monumental Names. [Audio]

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2022) Razgovori u zajednici: Galina Oustinova Stjepanović. [Audio]

Website

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2020) Futile engagements. [Website]

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2020) Introduction: futile political gestures. [Website]

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (2019) One is the Biggest Number: Dissent as Estrangement from Totality. [Website]

This list was generated on Sun Dec 22 05:56:30 2024 GMT.

Teaching

Galina teaches Introduction to Social Anthropology and the honours modules After Atrocity: Social Sciences Approaches to Political Violence and Justice and Anthropology of Religion. She contributes to teaching postgraduate Research Methods.