203:, Ann Arbor from 1986 to 1989. Later, he took two years to do fieldwork from 1989 to 1991 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to study the sociocultural trauma of enforced disappearances by the 1976-1983 military regime. Robben returned to the Netherlands in 1991 and was appointed Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University in 1993. He received research grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lowie Foundation, National Science Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research. He spent 2004 at Harvard University with a research fellowship from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. In 2006, the American Anthropological Association awarded Robben the Robert B. Textor Prize for “his contributions to anticipatory anthropology, structural change and violence, and a widening understanding of the traumatic impact of growing violence globally.” Deeply affected by the
246:(2005) demonstrated that the spiral of violence—generally understood as a self-perpetuating process—can become mediated by sociocultural trauma to result in a violence-trauma-violence process. Different manifestations of violence and trauma percolated through Argentine society and was fueled by the repeated mutual sociocultural traumatization of political enemies. This historical process culminated in the state terrorism of the country's last dictatorship (1976–83) against an armed insurgency and a radicalized political left. Protests against the massive enforced disappearances, together with labor unrest and the defeat in the Falkland/Malvinas War (1982), brought down the military regime.
239:(1989) argues that the economy is not a bounded social system that can be reduced to objective principles, laws, structures or models; instead, research on Brazilian boat and canoe fishermen demonstrated how their conflicting interpretations about what constituted the economy was intertwined with the social consequences of their different economic practices. Power differences and frequent disagreements about economic matters shaped their actions, decisions, and long-term strategies. This focus on discursive conflict and practice also guided the field research in Argentina on political violence and sociocultural trauma.
253:(2018), analyzed how primary bonds of trust motivated the relentless search for the disappeared by their relatives and how the military dictatorship was betraying the Argentine people through state repression. The dynamics of trust and betrayal did not end in 1983 when the regime fell from power, but continued in ongoing contestations and mutual mistrust among the state, and military and human rights groups during democratic times.
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revealed that the intrusion of the home by military assault teams violated spatial, social, gender and ego boundaries that undermined people's trust in each other and the state. In a current project about wartime
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research objectives. They seduce fieldworkers into accepting their discourse as the only correct interpretation of reality. Other problems of ethnographic fieldwork in conflict situations were addressed in the edited book
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