Owen Kohl
Kohls anthropological research explores media-making and different social imaginations of home, including exclusivist visions of homeland. He asks how communication technologies intersect with dynamic understandings of belonging and power, both in the contemporary US and after socialist Yugoslavias dismemberment. His extensive teaching is interwoven with themes from an emergent manuscript: Were the Balkans Made for Rap? A Domestic Hip-Hop Primer. These considerations of media politics now extend to analyzing news and crisis narratives.
Book Chapters:
Kohl, Owen and Dragana Cvetanovic. 2024. Stacking Nightingales, Male Tears, and Albums of the Year: How the Balkans and Other Scales of Domestic Hip-Hop Are Crafted in Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans, edited by Catherine Baker. New York, NY: Routledge.
Kohl, Owen and Dragana Cvetanovi. 2023. Traces of Solidarity and Breakdown: Scales of Domestic Collection in Post-Yugoslav Hip Hop Fanzines and Mixtapes in Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production, edited by Mark V. Campbell and Murray Forman. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.
Other Publications:
Kohl, Owen and Ilana Gershon. 2021. in The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, edited by James Stanlaw. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
Kohl, Owen and Falina Enriquez. 2021. Platypus, the CASTAC Blog (Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing). October 14.
Kunreuther, Laura and Owen Kohl. 2020. in The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion, edited by James W. Wilce, Janina Fenigsen, and Sonya E. Pritzker. New York, NY: Routledge.
Kohl, Owen. 2016. Signs and Society Fall (2).