Mgr. Bohuslav Kuřík, Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Research areas Bob Kuřík is a political and environmental anthropologist. He studied at Durham University (2006), was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (2013-2014), a Jan Patočka Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in He received his PhD in anthropology from Charles University for his thesis Revolutionary A Versatility as an Art of Resistance in Contemporary Germany (2015). In addition to anthropology of the Internet and ethnographic theory, his research focuses environmental topics such as resistance & protest, power, decolonization, anarchist anthro riots, post-humans, plantations, geological anthropology, infrastructures, and the climate recently, he has been particularly interested in elaborating an anthropology of more-than- He has conducted two long-term research projects - a multi-sited ethnography of post-auton in Germany, but also in Mexico, Greece and Israel (2008-2017) and a study of the so-called punk around the Vrah (Murderer) Club in the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy (2014-2020). He is currently involved in research on anarchism in the Czech Republic (GA ČR), everyday (Erasmus+) and contemporary forms of coexistence of humans, domesticated and non-domestica the Czechoslovakian borderlands (Dutch Research Council - NWO). He is the editor and co-author of Mikrofon je naše bomba: politika a hudební subkultury ml postsocialistickém Česku (Togga, 2018). He has published in the journals Czech Sociologica Journal of Urban Affairs. In addition to his scholarly writings, he seeks to bring anthrop closer to other worlds - be it the world of natural science and art [ URL "https://artycok nestabilni-podlozi-sesuvy-zivoty-a-perspektivy"] , documentary [ URL "https://www.youtube. v=9tGlxko4SVA&t=224s"] , journalism [ URL "https://www.novinky.cz/kultura/salon/clanek/cer esej-valentiny-podlesne-a-boba-kurika-40357993"] , pedagogy & online gaming [ URL "https:/ or activism [ URL "https://www.academia.edu/51399833/Kalistenika_znovuobjevovani_s_Jamesem • Political anthropology • Environmental anthropology • Anthropology of/around the Internet • Engaged anthropology • Theory of ethnography • America & Europe Employment • 2020 – present: assistant professor, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (Departme cultural anthropology; SP Social and cultural ecology) • 2017 – 2020: assistant professor, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (Department cultural ecology) Education • 2015: Ph.D., Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague; Disserta Revolutionary Amoebas: Political Versatility as the Art of Resistance in Germany • 2010: MA., General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague • 2007: BA., Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague Residencies • 2019: Jan Patočka Junior Visiting Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, September - November • 2014: Visiting Lecturer, Northeastern University, USA, March – April • 2013-14: Fulbright Fellow, UCLA, USA, September 2013 – June 2014 • 2006: Erasmus Program, Durham University, UK, September – December Funding & Research Projects • 2022-24: ‘Histories of Wildlife and People in Czech and Slovak Borderland,’ VENI-grant b Research Council (NWO), Project Collaborator • 2021-23: ‘Smart for Democracy and Diversity,’ Erasmus + Project, Head of the Charles Uni • 2020-22: ‘Anarchism in the context of Czech Political Culture: Presumptions, Parallels, Influences,’Research grant, Grant Agency of Czech Republic – FF UK & FHS UK, Co-investig • 2018-20: ‘Landslides – Underestimated Danger,’Strategy AV21, Czech Academy of Sciences, Coordinator of Social Science Section • 2017-19: ‘Disputes over Natures: Forms of Environmental Conflicts in the Anthropocene Er grant, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Principal Researcher • 2014-16: ‘Sources and Forms of the Subculture Politicization in Post-Socialism,’Research Agency of Czech Republic – FSV UK, Member of research team • 2010-12: ‘Staging the Revolution,’Research grant, Grant Agency of Charles University and Foundation, Principal Researcher • 2011: ‘Ethnography: From Dogma to Heterodoxy,’Research grant, Faculty of Humanities, Cha in Prague, Member of research team • 2010: ‘Power of the Powerless: Forms of Resistance in Globalized World,’Research grant, Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Member of research team • 2008: ‘Land of the Zapatistas: Change of Power Relations and Subjectivities,’Research gr Agency of Charles University, Principal Researcher Selected Publications • Kuřík, Bob 2022 ‘Towards an Anthropology of More-Than-Human Resistance: New Challenges f Conflicts in the Plantationocene,’ Sociální studia (speciální číslo o klimatickém aktivi Lorenz-Mayer & J. Taylor), tba. • Kuřík, Bob 2021 ‘Kalistenika znovuobjevování s Jamesem C. Scottem,’ in Scott, James Dvak anarchismu. Praha: Neklid, 219-278. • Kuřík, Bob ‘Monster Farm: Algorithms of Life in the Plantationocene/Farma monster: algor plantážocénu,’ in Janečková, Hana, Koťátková, Eva (Eds.) Animal Touch: Art, Labour and E zvířete: umění, práce a emoce. Praha: ArtMap, 171-184 • Kuřík, Bob 2020 ‘Temporal Collisions: Time, Infrastructure, and Protest in the Shadow of Port/Temporální kolize: Čas, infrastruktura a protest ve stínu hamburského přístavu,’ in Pazdera, Miroslav and Kateřina Frejlachová (Eds.) Steel Cities/Ocelová města. Praha/Züri PER/ Park Books, 306-327. • Kuřík, Bob, Novák, Arnošt 2020 ‘Rethinking radical activism: Heterogeneity and dynamics squatting in Prague after 1989,’ Journal of Urban Affairs, 2020, Vol. 42, No. 2: 203-221 doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2019.1565820. • Kuřík, Bob, Slačálek, Ondřej and Jan Charvát 2018 ‘Roviny politizace ve výzkumu hudebníc mládeže,’Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 2018, Vol. 54, No. 5: 781–803 doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2018.54.5.423. • Kuřík, Bob a Charvát, Jan (Eds.) 2018 Mikrofon je naše bomba: politika a hudební subkult postsocialistickém Česku. . Praha: Togga. • Kuřík, Bob 2018 ‘Člověk-chyba z Vraha: existenciální revolta punkem v čase „mrtvých havl Kuřík, Bob a Charvát, Jan (Eds.) Mikrofon je naše bomba: politika a hudební subkultury m postsocialistickém Česku. Praha: Togga, 161-209. • Kuřík, Bob 2016 ‘Emerging Subjectivity in Protest’, in Steven Vallas and David Courpasso SAGE Handbook of Resistance. London: SAGE Publishing, 51-77. • Kuřík, Bob 2015 ‘Křišťál Latinské Ameriky: z punkového klubu k epistemologické involuci’ Horký-Hlucháň and Tomáš Profant (Eds.) Mimo Sever a Jih. Rozumět globálním nerovnostem a Praha: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, 243-266. • Kuřík, Bob 2013 ‘Prosvítit výzkum: geopolitika a etnografie v proměnlivém světe’ in Yasa Tereza Stöckelová (Eds.) Etnografie: Improvizace v teorii a terénní praxi. Praha: SLON, • Kuřík, Bob 2009 ‘The Struggle for and in Public Spaces in the Zapatista s Chiapas,’ in M (ed.) Lighting the Bonfire, Rebuilding the Pyramid: Case Studies in Identity, Ethnicity in Indigenous Communities in Mexico. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita press, 124–159.