Author: Anthropology of Global Inequalities
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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…
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‘Citizenship as incorporated beyond’ – Challenging national citizen–migrant categorisations with transnational (post)colonial relations of incorporating agrifood
21. Feb 2024, by Sabine Netz: Migrant activists in Bremen, Germany, challenge classifications of people as national citizens or migrants by highlighting the (post)colonial and capitalist relations that have contributed and continue to contribute to this citizen–migrant divide. Based on ethnographic research and using the relational–ontological tools of material semiotics, I concretise these alternative-knowledge claims…
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Anthroplogy Lecture Series: Antiracist Genomics (ANTIGEN): from ethnographic insights to speculative design
Speaker: Dr Ernesto Schwartz-Marin Lecturer in Sociology at University of Exeter Date and location: February 7, 6pm, in room S5 (in buildung GW II) Abstract: In 2003 the Human Genome Project claimed that race has no biological basis, since humanity shares 99.9% of its DNA. This led the acclaimed geneticist Francis Crick to state: “Under the skin, we…
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Anthropology Lecture Series #6: Sustainable Suburbanism in the American West – An Unlikely Site for the Production of Environmental Subjects
21.11.2023 Rachel Heiman | The New School New York This talk draws on five summers of fieldwork in an unlikely site for the production of environmental subjects and expertise: a massive master-planned community in Utah spearheaded by one the largest mining conglomerates in the world and developed with equal parts attention to sustainable suburbanism and…
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Anthropology Lecture Series #5: Exceptional Intimacy and the Ordinary Life of Crime in Burkina Faso
14.11.23 Melina C Kalfelis | University of Bayreuth This talk examines vigilante practices of restructuring of crime and violence in urban Burkina Faso. Focusing on the way koglweogo self-defense groups run prisons and mediate conflicts surrounding crime, I analyze vigilantes attempts to disrupt and reconcile criminal violations in everyday life. Moving the focus away from…
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Anthropology Lecture Series #4: Making Sense with Rats: Transgressing Species in East Africa
07.11.2023 Jia Hui Lee | University of Bayreuth In English, the phrase ‘to make sense’ has several meanings. When something makes sense, it is considered intelligible or comprehensible; it can also refer to something that is wise or reasonable, “the right tools for the job” (Clarke and Fujimura 1992). These definitions, however, assume implicit understandings…
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Anthropology Lecture Series #3: Building shared knowledge of and through the border regime. A first reflection on a collaborative ethnography of migration policies with Gambians returnees
31.10.23 Viola Castellano | University of Bayreuth The presentation will discuss some preliminary observations on an ongoing collaborative project called “Gambian Returnees as Knowledge Producers on the Border Regime”, which focuses on the experiences and visions of migrants who returned to Gambia through EU and IOM sponsored programs. The project is interested in the recent…
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