Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Researcher in the REVENANT ERC Programme at the University of Rijeka, Visiting Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
Biography:
Lili Di Puppo was previously Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She is convenor of the European Association of Social Anthropology’s network ‘Muslim Worlds’. Her research focuses on religion and identity, memory, experiences of divine presence in Muslim communities and environmental movements and spirituality in the Eurasian region. She has done fieldwork in the Volga-Ural Region of Russia and in Georgia, and published her work in Ethnicities, Globalizations, East European Politics, Contemporary Islam, the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures and Global Crime. She is co-editor of the book Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-Knowing and Ethnographic Limits (Routledge, 2021).
Publications Linked to the Theme of the Project:
Lili Di Puppo, ‘At the Core, beyond Reach: Sufism and words flying away in the field’, in F. Martinez, L. Di Puppo, M. D. Frederiksen, eds., Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits, London & New York: Routledge, 2021: 17–30
Lili Di Puppo & Jesko Schmoller, ‘Introduction: Normative Orders and the Remaking of Muslim Spaces and Selves in Contemporary Russia’, Ethnicities 20/4 (2020): 653–66
Lili Di Puppo & Jesko Schmoller, ‘Here or Elsewhere: Sufism and Traditional Islam in Russia’s Volga-Ural Region’, Contemporary Islam 14/2 (2020): 135–56
Lili Di Puppo & Jesko Schmoller, ‘Introduction: Studying Islam from Below and Interrogating Divisions in Contemporary Russia’, Contemporary Islam 14/2 (2020): 99–110
Lili Di Puppo, ‘The Paradoxes of a Localised Islamic Orthodoxy: Rethinking Tatar traditional Islam in Russia’, Ethnicities 19/2 (2019): 311–34
Lili Di Puppo & Jesko Schmoller ‘Sacred Geographies and Identity Claims: The revival of sacred sites in the post-Soviet space’, Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 13/2 (2019): 124–7
Lili Di Puppo & Jesko Schmoller, ‘Islam and Ethnicity in Russia: An Introduction’, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 27/1 (2018): 84–87
