Dr. Anna Fournier

Associate Professor
Office: 436 Fletcher Argue
Phone: (204) 474-7649
Email: Anna.Fournier@umanitoba.ca

Education:
PhD (Johns Hopkins University)
BA Honours (McGill University)

Recent Courses:

• ANTH 1220 - Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 2000 - Culture, Society, and Power
• ANTH 2300 - Anthropology of Childhood and Youth
• ANTH 2530 - Anthropology of Political Systems
• ANTH 3320 - Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• ANTH 7040 - Ethnography of Power Systems
• ANTH 7900 - Anthropology of Violence

Areas of Specialization:

Political anthropology, human rights, social movements, youth and politics, collective violence and crime, educational practice, research methods, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

Current Research:

My ethnographic research deals with the ways in which young people fashion themselves as political and moral subjects under conditions of rapid social change.  My first book examined these dynamics in the transition from socialism to capitalism in post-Soviet Ukraine, and my current project deals with the transition to socialism in Venezuela.  Funded by a multi-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant (SSHRC IDG), the Caracas-based project tracks young people’s creative engagement with politics through both formal politics and street action in times of crisis. 

• Fournier, Anna.  Vulnerable Vanguard: Youth and Crisis Politics in Venezuela.
  (manuscript in preparation)

• Fournier, Anna. 2012. Forging Rights in a New Democracy: Ukrainian Students Between Freedom and Justice.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.  http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15040.html

Articles and Chapters:

• Fournier, Anna. The End of Reciprocity? The Venezuelan Crisis Through the Eyes of Young Chavista Officials. (under review)

• Fournier, Anna. 2018. Between Mob and Multitude: Youth Ambivalence Toward Mass Mobilization in a Ukrainian Protest Movement. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 26 (1): 55-82.
  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/685610

• Fournier, Anna. 2017. From Frozen Conflict to Mobile Boundary: Youth Perceptions of Territoriality in War-Time Ukraine. East European Politics and Societies 32 (1): 23-55.
  http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0888325417740627?journalCode=eepa

• Fournier, Anna. 2015. Immature Publics: Democratic Revolutions and Youth Activists in the Eye of Authority.  Anthropological Quarterly 88 (1): 69-96.
  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/576045/summary

• Fournier, Anna. 2014. Russia as Ukraine’s Periphery? War and the Fate of the “External Soul.” Perspectives on Europe 44 (2): 43-49.
  https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/publications/perspectives-on-europe

• Fournier, Anna. 2014.   From Borderland to Heart of Europe? Ukraine’s Engagement with the EU’s Democratic Standards.  European Institutions, Democratization, and Human Rights Protection in the European Periphery. Henry F. Carey, ed.  Lanham: Lexington Press. pp.111-123

• Fournier, Anna. 2013.  EU Protests in Ukraine. Anthropology News 54 (12), 2013. 
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2013.541204.x/abstract

• Fournier, Anna. 2012.  Reflective Colonization: Domination, Consent, and the Self in Imperial Russia. Russian History 39 (2012), 519-537.
  http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/48763316-03904003

• Fournier, Anna. 2010.  Ukraine’s Orange Revolution: Beyond Soviet Political Culture?  Orange Revolution and Aftermath: Mobilization, Apathy, and the State in Ukraine. Paul D’Anieri, ed. Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp.110-128.

• Fournier, Anna. 2007. Patriotism, Order, and Articulations of the Nation in Kyiv High Schools Before and After the Orange Revolution. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 23 (1): 101-117.
  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13523270701194953?journalCode=fjcs20#preview

• Fournier, Anna. 2002. Mapping Identities: Russian Resistance to Linguistic Ukrainization in Central and Eastern Ukraine. Europe-Asia Studies 54 (3): 415-433.  
  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668130220129542#.VAiOrdHjjIU