Dr Stavroula Pipyrou
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Research areas
Stavroula Pipyrou is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and Founding Director of the Centre for Minorities Research http://cmr.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/. She has conducted long-term ethnographic research with minorities in Italy since 2006. In her first monograph “The Grecanici of Southern Italy: Governance, Violence, and Minority Politics” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) she presents a theory of “Fearless Governance” – overlapping and sometimes contradictory systems of power, authority, and relational networks that enable the minority to achieve political representation at the intersection of local, national, and global encounters.
Her Leverhulme project (2014-17), “An Intergenerational Analysis of Forced Child-relocation in Italy”, looked at the silenced stories of displacement in Cold War (1950s) South Italy shedding light on a hitherto overlooked historico-political period of turmoil. Child displacement is directly associated with historical macro-silences and the lack of systematic ethnological studies on the events that took place during the Cold War period in Italy. Violent displacements that remained silenced in the post-Cold War years have shaped contemporary European politics in a profound manner.
Centre for Minorities Research (CMR). A unique initiative that brings together interdisciplinary expertise from an outstanding pool of staff from across seven Schools at the University of St Andrews. Centre members are committed to exploring intersectionality in the ‘everyday lives’ of minorities, both in Scotland and internationally. Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in the University and wider community is central to all our activities. The CMR arranges public talks, holds networking events, organises outreach activities, collaborates on funding applications and policy-oriented research. Contact Stavroula Pipyrou for more information.
Research Interests / Supervision Topics: Political Anthropology, Minorities, Displacement, Equality and Diversity, Children, Governance, Civil Society, Violence and Crime, Cold War, Silence, Performance and Dance, Death, Italy, Greece, Brazil, Turkey
Books Authored:
Pipyrou, S. 2016. The Grecanici of Southern Italy: Governance, Violence, and Minority Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Edited Collections:
Pipyrou, S. 2018. (ed.). #MeToo is little more than mob rule // vs // #MeToo is a legitimate form of social justice. Special section of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8(3)
Projects:
2019-20: ODA Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) "Capturing new education models among indigenous and quilombla minorities in Brazil".
2017-19: Gender Diversity and Inclusion (GDI) grant for the project ‘International Minority Education: Opening New Collaborative Research Possibilities’ for best-practice knowledge exchange between the University of St Andrews and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil).
2014-17: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, “An intergenerational analysis of forced child-relocation in Italy”.
2015-17: ESRC Urgency Grant, “Transitory Lives: An Anthropological Research of the Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean”.
2015-16: British Academy (British School of Athens) and Ecole française d’Athènes “Trust” seminar and research project (with Maria Couroucli and Daniel M. Knight).
2013-14: Carnegie Trust Grant "Art and Energy: Understanding Attitudes to Renewables in Scotland".
Selected publications
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The Grecanici of Southern Italy: governance, violence, and minority politics
Pipyrou, S., Aug 2016, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 256 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Special Collection on #MeToo: #MeToo is little more than mob rule // vs // #MeToo is a legitimate form of social justice
Pipyrou, S. (ed.), 21 Dec 2018, In: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 8, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Open access
Displaced children, silence, and the violence of humanitarianism in Cold War Italy
Pipyrou, S., 30 Jan 2021, In: Anthropological Quarterly. 93, 3 (Summer 2020), p. 429-459Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The untold story of thousands of Italian children sent away from their parents in the 1950s
Pipyrou, S., 11 Apr 2017, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Adrift in time: lived and silenced pasts in Calabria, South Italy
Pipyrou, S., 1 Jan 2016, In: History and Anthropology. 27, 1, p. 45-59 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cutting bella figura: Irony, crisis, and secondhand clothes in South Italy
Pipyrou, S., 14 Aug 2014, In: American Ethnologist. 41, 3, p. 532-546 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Altruism and sacrifice: mafia free gift giving in south Italy
Pipyrou, S., 2014, In: Anthropological Forum. 24, 4, p. 412-426Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Commensurable language and incommensurable claims among the Greek linguistic minority of South Italy
Pipyrou, S., 1 Jan 2012, In: Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 17, 1, p. 70-91 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Violence and the Construction of Civil Society: Freedoms and Liberties of Analysis
Pipyrou, S., Dec 2016, Freedom in Practice: Governance, Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday. Wardle, H. & Lino e Silva, M. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 87-100 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Governance, Theatricality and Fantasma in Mafia Dance
Pipyrou, S., 2015, Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance. Flynn, A. & Tinius, J. (eds.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 147-170 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter