Zaid mirza biography of christopher

I am a Professor of Political Anthropology, Co-Director of the Institute of Advanced Study and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). The overarching theme that connects my work concerns an ethnographic exploration of public memories of violent pasts and aesthetic practices of reparative futures. Located within the debates of political anthropology my ethnographically-informed, interdisciplinary, research specialisation, teaching and publications are on the state, violence, memory, aesthetics, memorialisation, visual practices, ethics, irreconciliation, adoption and South Asia. My ethnographic research engages with (i)public memories of wartime sexual violence; (ii) the role of graphic ethnography in translating difficult stories; (iii) war crimes tribunals and irreconciliation; (iv)memorialisation of past violence and the history of the enslaved; (v)digital surveillance(vi)transnational adoption and genetic citizenship and (vii) ethics. I have p