Lotte Segal

Dr Lotte Segal is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Science and the SPS Deputy Director of Research for Ethics. Her empirical focus is, first, Occupied Palestine, and second, the development of an anthropological vocabulary to speak about secondary trauma among kin as well as staff working with ameliorating the psychological effects of torture. Lotte’s research is animated by questions of violence, relatedness, everyday life, knowledge, as well as issues pertaining to gender and violence. Her research interests include:

• Ethnography
• Political violence
• Israel-Palestine
• Anthropology of the Middle East
• Gender
• Kinship and relatedness
• Trauma
• Anthropology of ethics
• Ethnic and religious minorities in Scandinavia.

Her first book ‘No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine’, is an ethnographic monograph about the porous boundary between endurance and exhaustion and, importantly, how kinship is the site per se in which such exhaustion is felt.  Lotte’s publications include:

• Segal, L. B. (2018). Tattered Textures of Kinship: Living with Torture in Iraqi Families in Denmark. Medical Anthropology.
• Segal, L. B. (2016). No Place For Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine. University of Pennsylvania Press. (Ethnography of Political Violence).
• Segal, L. B. (2015). The burden of being exemplary: national sentiments, awkward witnessing, and womanhood in occupied Palestine. Royal Anthropological Institute. Journal, 21( Nr. Supplement S1).
• Sega, L.B.: (2015)"Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank" In: Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium. Eds. Veena Das and Clara Han. Berkeley: University of California Press