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This is a list of conference papers, some of which have subsequently been revised for publications or are being incorporated into my book project. (last update: Sept. 2021)
2021.
I co-organized a roundtable at the AAA, 'Imagining Fiscal Futures: What is an Anthropology of Tax'. See: www.tax-anthro.net for more details.
2020.
Activities mostly cancelled due to Covid-19.
Instead, in spring 2020 I gave presentations of my research to the Department of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands and to the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.
2019.
"Contesting the social contract: Tax reform and economic governance in Istria, Croatia". The anthropology of tax workshop, Stockholm Univ.
"The (im-)morality of business: informal financial practices in Croatia’s wine industry". The moral dimensions of economic life in Eastern Europe, Roundtable at the Oxford School of Global Studies, Oxford Univ.
"Enacting economic agency: struggles over the economic governance of Istria". Becoming taxpayers: establishing the anthropology of tax. Workshop at Stockholm University.
2018.
"Chains of debt: winemaking families and predatory business practices". Household and personal debt: international perspectives, Roundtable at the Department of Anthropology, the London School of Economics.
"Chains of debt and the politics of liquidity in Croatia’s agribusiness sector". Corporate lives after socialism: theory and ethnography, at the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, MA.
"The sociality of taxes: state-citizen imaginaries". Panel convened by Robin Smith and Nicolette Makovicky at the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth at Oxford Univ.
"Wine is alive: Istrian cosmologies of winemaking" (plan to publish). Wine Mobilities: tensions in crafting wine stories, at the European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference (EASA) at Stockholm Univ.
2016.
"Broker capitalism and democratic discontent: recession, favors, and farmer protest". Purposeful Agency & Governance, International Multidisciplinary Conference at the Univ. of Kent, Canterbury.
2015.
"Fiskalizacija and informality in rural Istrian business communities: business values confronting a bureaucratizing state" (different versions). Precarious Economy: Informality and Entrepreneurship at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Dec., Univ. of Sussex. And at Multiple Moralities and Shadow Economies in Post-Socialism: debating positive and negative incentives to tackle the informal economy, Marie Curie Summer School, organized by Univ. of Sheffield School of Management.
"The influence of EU agricultural legislation on traditional farming practices and rural trading relationships in Istria’s wine industry". International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), 12th Congress, Zagreb.
"Agrotourisms and the marketization of rural Istrian identity through food". Past, Present, Future: Identity in Flux, Univ. of Pula.