Maple Razsa is an anthropologist, activist and documentary filmmaker. He is committed to using text, images and sound to embody and explore the experience and political imagination of contemporary social movements. He has published in journals such as East European Politics and Society and American Ethnologist. Maple’s documentary work from Croatia, Slovenia, Mozambique, and the US has shown in such fora as the George Eastman House, The Harvard Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as well as festivals from Taipei to Turin. An Assistant Professor of Global Studies at Colby College, Razsa enjoys working with students on research that crosses the boundaries of disciplines and the borders of states.

AY112: Introduction to Anthropology

GS211: Human Rights and Social Struggles in Global Perspective

GS397: Internationalism: From Socialism to the World Social Forum

GS451: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the State in Europe

GS437: Media, Culture and the Political Imagination

I am currently conducting fieldwork for a major new research project titled From Common Passport-Holders, through Illegal Migrants, to Insurgent Citizens: Migrant Activism among Former Yugoslavs in Slovenia with support from the International Research and Exchange Board.

“The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming," (with Andrej Kurnik) American Ethnologist, Volume 39 Number 2 (May 2012) 238-258.

“Mutual Aid, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Dumpster Diving: Anarchist Activism in Croatia Since 2000,” in Sabrina Ramet, et al (eds). Challenges Facing Croatia after 1995, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008.

“Producing Spectacles of Resistance: Global Social Movements, Activist Video, and Political Mimesis in the former Yugoslavia,” in Časopis za kritiko znanosti (Journal for the Critique of Science), (Volume 33, Number 220, 2005, pp 165-176).

“Balkan is Beautiful: Balkanism in the Political Discourse of Tuđman’s Croatia” (co-authored with Nicole Lindstrom) East European Politics and Society (Volume 18, Number 4, 2004, pp 628-650).

“Regionalism, Memory, and Belonging at the Frontiers of the Nation-State,” (review essay) History In Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans by Pamela Ballinger, Anthropological Quarterly (Volume 77, Number 1, 2004, pp 161-165).

“Video” essay in Shock and Awe: The War on Words. Eds. Tsing, Anna et al. New Pacific Press: Santa Cruz. 2004.