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Irena Kašparová is a Czech social anthropologist, who enjoys freedom coming out of her discipline, as well as out of her liminal life experiences. A daughter of a protestant priest, she spent her childhood in Sudeten, the border zones of socialist Czechoslovakia, where the family was exiled to live; and her teens in Middlesbrough, Britain, where the family migrated after the change of regime. Having the experience of internal political refugee as well as that of an Easterner in the West, politics and power had a profound impact upon her awareness of the self and became an intrinsic part of her identity. Currently, Irena heads the Social Anthropology department at Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic and enjoys study of childhood, education and qualitative research methodology.