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Balkan Transits: Becoming-Other in Theo Angelopoulos’s The Suspended Step of the Stork (2025)
Journal Article
Retsikas, K. (2025). Balkan Transits: Becoming-Other in Theo Angelopoulos’s The Suspended Step of the Stork. Film-Philosophy, 29(3), 630-653. https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2025.0323

In affirming the figure of the refugee, Theo Angelopoulos’s 1991 film The Suspended Step of the Stork radically repositions the latter from its normative casting as another human being worth saving precisely because of sharing a basic likeness to one... Read More about Balkan Transits: Becoming-Other in Theo Angelopoulos’s The Suspended Step of the Stork.

Unleashing the Future: Deleuze's Crystals of Time and Theo Angelopoulos' 'The Travelling Players' (2024)
Journal Article
Retsikas, K. (2024). Unleashing the Future: Deleuze's Crystals of Time and Theo Angelopoulos' 'The Travelling Players'. Deleuze & Guattari Studies, 18(4), 570-594. https://doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2024.0573

This article discusses The Travelling Players (1975), Theo Angelopoulos's provocative film, by upholding the priority the director's audio-visual images assign to the future as what Deleuze calls ‘the pure and empty form of time’. It also argues that... Read More about Unleashing the Future: Deleuze's Crystals of Time and Theo Angelopoulos' 'The Travelling Players'.

Singing Hong Kong: The Representation of ‘Hongkonger’ Identity in Cantopop Music (2024)
Thesis
Cai, H. (2024). Singing Hong Kong: The Representation of ‘Hongkonger’ Identity in Cantopop Music [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042130

This thesis explores the identity of ‘Hongkonger’ through the lens of Cantonese popular music (Cantopop). ‘Hongkonger’ is a term that has been frequently invoked in pro-democracy contexts in Hong Kong, particularly during the democratic movements. Gr... Read More about Singing Hong Kong: The Representation of ‘Hongkonger’ Identity in Cantopop Music.

Complementary and Disparate: Conceptualising Female and Male Genital Cutting in Northern Tanzania (2024)
Thesis
Decatur, M.-A. V. (2024). Complementary and Disparate: Conceptualising Female and Male Genital Cutting in Northern Tanzania [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041259

This thesis traces the ways in which genital cutting practices historically seen as complementary become regarded as disparate. While most Maasai women and men I met during my fieldwork in northern Tanzania described female and male genital cutting a... Read More about Complementary and Disparate: Conceptualising Female and Male Genital Cutting in Northern Tanzania.

"Happy China": An Ethnography of Youth, Media and the Nation (2022)
Thesis
Li, X. (2022). "Happy China": An Ethnography of Youth, Media and the Nation [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00038382

In this research, I explore the cultural, social and political significance of local television by investigating Hunan TV/Mango TV’s role in the reconstitution of the nation and youths (qingnian 青年) in contemporary China from both the perspectives... Read More about "Happy China": An Ethnography of Youth, Media and the Nation.

A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st Century Indonesia (2020)
Book
Retsikas, K. (2020). A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st Century Indonesia. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34933-2

This book is an anthropological investigation into the different forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves, when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a field of everyday practice. It is based on long-term e... Read More about A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st Century Indonesia.

Multiplication through Division: Time, Value, and Prosperity in Indonesia (2018)
Journal Article
Retsikas, K. (2018). Multiplication through Division: Time, Value, and Prosperity in Indonesia. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8(3), 656-671. https://doi.org/10.1086/701045

The paper explores contemporary practices of value multiplication amongst Muslims in Indonesia, paying particular attention to the rise to public prominence of 'the mathematics of alms giving'. 'The mathematics of alms giving' provides the faithful w... Read More about Multiplication through Division: Time, Value, and Prosperity in Indonesia.

The Gift of Future Time: Islamic Welfare and Entrepreneurship in 21st century Indonesia (2017)
Journal Article
Retsikas, K. (2017). The Gift of Future Time: Islamic Welfare and Entrepreneurship in 21st century Indonesia. South East Asia Research, 25(3), 284-300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967828X17719761

The attainment of religiously informed and socially responsible wealth is a desire widespread in the metropolises of Java, Indonesia, especially amongst the pious middle classes. This article aims at an understanding of the emergence and effects of a... Read More about The Gift of Future Time: Islamic Welfare and Entrepreneurship in 21st century Indonesia.

Value Transfers in South East Asia (2017)
Journal Article
Retsikas, K. (2017). Value Transfers in South East Asia. South East Asia Research, 25(3), 217-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967828X17716598

This Special Issue of South East Asia Research sets out to explore the complexities that arise from the contemporary intersections of religion and the economy in the region, with particular regard to public projects that seek to transfer value to the... Read More about Value Transfers in South East Asia.

The Other Side of the Gift: Soliciting in Java (2016)
Journal Article
Retsikas, K. (2016). The Other Side of the Gift: Soliciting in Java. Heidelberg Ethnology, (4). https://doi.org/10.11588/hdethn.0.0.29971

The paper inquiries into some of the hidden dimensions of anthropological considerations of the gift and giving, making the case for a new approach to value transfers. Such approach is delineated through critical engagement both with Mauss’s original... Read More about The Other Side of the Gift: Soliciting in Java.