Month: May 2024
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Operationalizing the Social Gaze. Doing Race in Affirmative Action Practices in Brazil – By Sarah Lempp
The dissertation of our member Sarah Lempp is now published online. The dissertation ethnographically examines a specific aspect of the Brazilian affirmative action policies: so-called hetero-identification commissions that have to decide whether candidates who applied for a quota vacancy for Black persons should be accepted as such. Drawing on field research conducted between 2016 and…
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Kick Off event “Anton Wilhelm Amo in Berlin”
The Kick Off event “Anton Wilhelm Amo in Berlin” took place on April 26, 2024 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This event was added last minute to the closing event and publication of the “Remembering Colonialism” (Kolonialismus erinnern). It was not originally part of the city-wide memory concept of “Colonialism” for Berlin, but…
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Why Cold Drinks Matter: Relieving Heat in South Africa – By Eileen Jahn
Imagine the moment you open the oven door to check on some freshly baked cookies. The whiff of warm, sweetly saturated air swiftly envelops you, leaving behind a lingering heat and a gradually fading smell throughout the room you are in. This sensory encounter vividly captures the essence of Slovo Park, where my research took…
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“Made in Bangladesh”. Film screening and discussion on 8 May at 7 p.m. CINEPLEX BAYREUTH
Dr. Nasima Selim, a member of the Working Group Anthropology of Global Inequalities will participate in the post-screening discussion about the film “Made in Bangladesh” (Rubaiyat Hossain, 2019, 95 Min.) to talk about the wider context of the film in relation to biosocial justice focusing on the suffocating working conditions if female garments factory workers…
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Saving sheep – On extinction narratives in Namibian Swakara farming – by Eleanor Schaumann
The Namibian Swakara industry, a type of sheep farming focused on the production of lamb pelts for the fashion industry, currently faces a crisis situation. Formerly one of the most important export products from Namibia, a combination of drought, falling pelt prices and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic now threaten the survival of Swakara,…
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BREATHING HEARTS: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany – By Nasima Selim
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 