Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi
Assistant Professor | Faculty staff
Profile
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.
- Ethnic violence
- International Development
- Migration
- Colonization processes and cultural changes
- Critical Theories
- Violence
Postdoctoral Fellow, Universit茅 de Sherbrooke, Canada. 2016-2018
Ph.D., Anthropology,聽Universit茅 de Montr茅al, Canada,聽2016
Visiting Doctoral Fellow, IIAC, 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, 2012鈥2014
Affiliate Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, USA, 2005鈥2006
M.A., IDHEAP, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
B.Sc., Physics, University of Tirana
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: 鈥Collective Memories and Legacies of Political Violence in the Balkans, Nationalities Papers, 47(2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI:聽
Sula-Raxhimi, E. et Alexandra Dorca (eds). 2016. 芦聽L鈥櫭塼ranger聽禄, 础濒迟茅谤颈迟茅蝉, 9(1). 116 pages.聽. 聽ISSN 1205-8009.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2020. 鈥淒ispozitivi normalizues: Politikat mbi rom毛t n毛 Shqip毛rin毛 socialiste鈥 (The normalizing apparatus: Roma policies in Socialist Albania). Antropologji, 2 (2):聽7-31.
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2019. 鈥淩eading the present through the past: Roma memories in post-war Kosovo鈥, In Collective Memories and Legacies of Political Violence in the Balkans, Nationalities Papers, Special Issue, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 47(2): 217-231.
Kienzler, H. and Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi. 2019.聽鈥淚ntroduction鈥, 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.
Sula-Raxhimi, E, Butzbach, C. and Astrid Brouselle. 2019. 鈥淐ountering Commercial and Corporate Power鈥. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(1): PE12-E13, January 1,聽DOI:聽
Sula-Raxhimi, E. and Alexandra Dorca. 2016. 芦聽L鈥櫭﹖ranger. Introduction et pr茅sentation du num茅ro聽禄, L鈥櫭塼ranger, 础濒迟茅谤颈迟茅蝉, 9 (1)聽: 1-8.
Book Chapters
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2021. 鈥淗eterotopias of Displacement: The production of Space in Post-socialist Albania鈥, 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. 鈥淧auvret茅, exclusion et racisme: modes d鈥檃ppr茅hension au pluriel鈥, in Suarez-Herrera, J.C., Blain, M.J. (eds), 脡l茅ments th茅orico-pratiques pour une approche socio-anthropologique de la recherche en sant茅 mondiale, Conference acts n掳 652: cahier d鈥橝cfas, Montreal, Canada, p. 153-166.
Critical Reviews
Sula-Raxhimi, E. and Brousselle, A. 2018. Book review, Humanit茅s environnementales: Enqu锚tes et Contre-enqu锚tes. of Blanc G, Demeulenaere 脡, Feuerhahn W (eds) (Publications de la Sorbonne). Anthropologica, 60(1): 355鈥356.
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2014. 鈥淧opulism, or Playing Extremism by Democratic Rules鈥, review of Stewart Michael (eds), The Gypsy 鈥渕enace鈥: 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. 鈥淰iva Jerez!鈥 de H茅l猫ne Gigu猫re (Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval). Anthropologica, 53(2): 361-363.