Larissa Vetters
Fragmented Sovereignty and Census Projects: The Workings of law in the Production of Population Knowledge, Political Community and Statehood in the European Union and in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Larissa Vetters studied Social and Cultural Anthropology, Eastern European History, and Administrative Sciences in Tübingen, Athens and Speyer. She was a lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (2011-2013) and assistant research coordinator for the project ‘Local State and Social Security in Rural Hungary, Romania and Serbia’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (2009-2011). Her doctoral research focuses on processes of state-building in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina. She conducted fieldwork in the city of Mostar between 2006 and 2007, analyzing internationally monitored reforms of the city’s municipal administration as elements of an emerging international project of externally driven state-building.
Fragmented Sovereignty and Census Projects: The Workings of law in the Production of Population Knowledge, Political Community and Statehood in the European Union and in Bosnia-Herzegovina
In her Rechtskulturen project, Fragmented Sovereignty and Census Projects, Vetter will extend the line of inquiry of her doctoral research to the broader question of interdependencies between law, demographic knowledge and statehood. Taking the first harmonized European Union census round of 2011 and the Bosnian population and housing census planned for late 2013 as empirical centerpieces, she will investigate two large-scale statistical projects through which states and supra-state entities such as the EU come to know and thereby bring into existence their populations.
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