Dr. Alastair Mackie

• 01/02/2024 – 07/11/2024: Gastwissenschaftler; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
• 01/10/2023 – 31/01/2024: Lehrbeauftragter; Universität Graz.
• 01/10/2023 – 31/01/2024: Lehrbeauftragter; Lettische Kulturakademie (Riga).
• 01/10/2022 – 31/07/2023: Lehrbeauftragter und Exkursionsleiter; Universität Basel.
• 01/03/2022 – 31/05/2023: Unterstützender Organisator; Internationales Promotions-programm "Transformations in European Societies"Externer Link.
• 01/02/2021 – 31/05/2021: Verwaltungsassistent; Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh).
• 01/02/2019 – 31/05/2020: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, InterTrainEExterner Link (Erasmus+-gefördertes Projekt).
• 01/01/2018 – 12/07/2022: Doktorand, Intercultural Research CentreExterner Link, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh).
• 01/01/2018 – 31/05/2020: Lehrassistent, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh).

• Alltagserfahrungen Europas
• Europäische Identität (Schwerpunkt in Schottland und dem Vereinigten Königreich)
• Klangethnographie
• Kreative Ethnologie

• 2024: ‘Creative ethnology as an invitation to play: analysis of a fieldwork-based composition’, Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft. Journal for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology, 120(2), pp. 302–306.
• 2024: ‘On cultivating sound: Sampling, morphogenesis, and a creative sonic ethnography’, in M. Nic Craith, K. Strani, und A. Mackie (Red.) Heimatkunde: Explorations of place and belonging. Münster: LIT Verlag, pp. 264–275.
• 2024: ‘Place, belonging, and “Firestick Wisdom”’, mit Nic Craith, M., Strani, K., in M. Nic Craith, K. Strani, und A. Mackie (Red.) Heimatkunde: Explorations of place and belonging. Münster: LIT Verlag, pp. 1–19.
• 2023: ‘On the soft power of values: The “Scotland is Now” campaign’, mit Strani, K., in N.J. Chitty, L. Ji, und G.D. Rawnsley (Red.) The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power. 2. Auflage. Oxon: Routledge (Routledge international handbooks), pp. 275–284.
• 2022: Meanings of Europe in the Scottish independence movement after the 2016 EU Referendum: Brexit, (dis)integration and values. PhD Thesis. Heriot-Watt University.

2024: Heimatkunde: Explorations of place and belonging, mit Nic Craith, M. and Strani, K. Münster: LIT Verlag.

• 23/07/2024: ‘Experiences of (im)mobility on the European rail network: emerging cultural and political imaginaries’ (mit Betran, A.). Panel: Shaping futures: doing and undoing mobility through an anthropological lens on immobility. Konferenz: EASA2024: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology, Barcelona, 23-26 Juli 2024.
• 17/07/2024: ‘Mangling samples, doing science? Creative sample manipulation in ethnographic fieldwork’ (mit Dippel, A.). Panel: Making samples, doing science: transforming data and matter across landscapes and labscapes. Konferenz: EASST-4S 2024 Amsterdam: Making and Doing Transformations, Amsterdam, 16-19 Juli 2024.
• 09/06/2023: ‘Finding Euroland: experiences of European disintegration and their influence on perceptions of Europe’, Panel: Europe in times of uncertainty, risk and disintegration: everyday experiences and imagined futures. Konferenz: SIEF2023: Living Uncertainty, Brno, 7-10 Juni 2023.
• 09/06/2023: Europe in times of uncertainty, risk and disintegration: everyday experiences and imagined futures. Panelleitung mit Rueda, M.M.. Traditionelles Panel. Konferenz: SIEF2023: Living Uncertainty, Brno, 7-10 Juni 2023.
• 14/06/2022: Rethinking Remoteness: on the branding and soft power of the outskirts of the Nordic regions. Roundtable. Konferenz: RE22 Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Reykjavik, 13-16 June 2022.
• 15/04/2019: ‘New meanings of European identity in Scotland’, Poster. Track Changes: re-flecting on a transforming world. Konferenz: SIEF2019: Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World, Santiago de Compostela, 14-17 April 2019.

• 12/10/2022: ‘Finding Euroland: My search for meanings of Europe in the Scottish independence movement – and what it taught me about European ethnology’. Vorlesung: Meanings of Europe: Ethnological perspectives from Scotland and Montenegro. Universität Graz.
• 08/09/2022: ‘Scottish identity and Europe’ (mit Rieuwerts, S.). Moderierte Diskussion. Event series: Document Scotland: Reflections on a Changing Country, Museum für Europäische Kulturen (Berlin)

• 13-14/12/2024: Podcasting Southeasern Europe. Workshop. Universität Graz.
• 25/07/2024: Doing and Undoing Sonic Fieldnotes: Exploring the creative potential of audio samples in ethnographic research (mit Dippel, A.). Labor. Konferenz: EASA2024: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology, Barcelona, 23-26 Juli 2024.
• 23/05/2024: Doing and Undoing Sonic Fieldnotes: Exploring the creative potential of audio samples in ethnographic research. Workshop. Teil des Projektseminars: Kulturtechniken der Simulation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

• 11/03/2024: ‘Illegal LEGO’ (mit Price, L. und Rueda, M.M.). Podcast: Dramanauts (Anthropologische Perspektiven auf Kontroversen in Hobbygemeinschaften, von Mackie, A., Price, L. und Rueda, M.M.).
• 14/12/2021: ‘Branding the middle of nowhere’ (mit Schramm, K. und Mørup-Petersen, S.G.). Podcast: Nordic Talks.