Jarrett Zigon

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Jarrett Zigon (Ph.D. 2006, CUNY Graduate Center) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at theUniversity of Amsterdam, an Associate Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute,and a staff member of the AISSR. His research interests include morality, personhood, experience, and institutional spaces of disciplinary practice. These interests are taken up from the perspective of an anthropology strongly influenced by post-Heideggerian phenomenology and critical theory. He has completed two research projects in Russia on these topics: one on the relationship between personal experience and moral conceptions, and a second on Russian Orthodox Church drug rehabilitation programs as spaces for moral training. His current research is a transnational comparison of human rights-based HIV prevention and treatment programs and the disciplinary consequences of rights-based discursive regimes on clients and staff of these programs. His articles on morality, experience, and personhood can be found in Anthropological Theory, Ethnos, and Ethos among other journals.  He has also published three books on these topics.

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Publications

Books

2008  Morality: An Anthropological Perspective . (Berg Publishers).

2010  Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Narratives of Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow . (Brill Publishing).

Chapter 1 - Introduction

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Conclusion

2011  HIV is God’s Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia. (University of California Press)  



Review of HIV is God's Blessing

Edited Volumes

2011  Multiple Moralities and Religion in Contemporary Russia. (Berghahn Press).

Chapters in Edited Volumes
2008  “Moral Responses to an HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Comparison of Russian Orthodox Church, Secular NGO and Russian Government Discourse and Practice,” in Health Capital and Sustainable Economic Development, Patricia Cholewka, ed., (CRC Press).

2008  “The Russian Orthodox Church and Harm Reduction,” Effective and Conclusive Narcology in the Epoch of HIV, Media Press.

2008  “Aleksandra Vladimirovna: Moral Narratives of a Russian Orthodox Woman,” in Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Soviet Societies, Mark Steinberg and Catherine Wanner, eds., (Woodrow Wilson Center Press).

2009  “Life-History and Personal Experience: the moral conceptions of a Muscovite man,” in The Anthropology of Moralities, Monica Heinz, ed., (Berghahn Press).

2011  “Multiple Moralities: discourses, practices, and breakdowns in post-Soviet Russia,” in Multiple Moralities and Religion in Contemporary Russia , Jarrett Zigon, ed., (Berghahn Press).

Articles

2007   “Moral Breakdown and the Ethical Demand: A Theoretical Framework for an Anthropology of Moralities,” in Anthropological Theory, vol.7, no.2.

Moral Breakdown and the Ethical Demand

2009  “Developing the Moral Person: The Concepts of Human, Godmanhood, and Feelings in some Russian Articulations of Morality,” in Anthropology of Consciousness, vol. 20, no. 1.

2009  “‘Morality and Personal Experience: the moral conceptions of a Muscovite man,” in Ethos, vol. 37, no. 1.

2009  “Morality Within a Range of Possibilities: A Dialogue with Joel Robbins,” in Ethnos, vol. 74, no. 2.

Morality Within a Range of Possibilities

2009  “Phenomenological Anthropology and Morality,” in Ethnos, vol. 74, no. 2.

2009  “Morality and HIV/AIDS: A Comparison of Russian Orthodox Church and Secular NGO Approaches,” in Religion, State & Society, no. 3.

2009  “Hope Dies Last: two aspects of hope in contemporary Moscow,” in Anthropological Theory, vol. 9, no. 3.

2010  “‘Spreading Grace’ in post-Soviet Russia,” in Anthropology Today, vol. 26, no. 1.

2010  “Moral and Ethical Assemblages: a response to Fassin and Stoczkowski,” in Anthropological Theory, vol. 10, no. 1.

2010  “A Disease of Frozen Feelings: Ethically working on emotional worlds in a Russian Orthodox Church drug rehabilitation program,” in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 24, no.

2011  “Working on the Self in Russian Orthodox Church Drug Rehabilitation: A Moral and Ethical Assemblage,” in Ethos, vol. 39, no. 1.