Towards Shared Research

Tobias Haller, Claudia Zingerli

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Research... Lees meer

Becoming a Migrant Worker in Nepal

Hannah Uprety

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• High-profile events such as the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have made one thing abundantly clear: Much of today's economic growth would be unthinkabl... Lees meer

Afrodiasporic Identities in Germany

Silvia Wojczewski

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• Aminata Camara, Maya K., Lafia T., Oxana Chi and Layla Zami are middle-class, highly educated women in Germany and come from families of mixed African... Lees meer

Saving and Being Safe Away from Home

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• Savings and insurance associations are widespread not only in Ethiopia but also in its diaspora, even in countries with diversified and comprehensive ... Lees meer

Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia

Susanne Epple, Getachew Assefa

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This... Lees meer

La Chance

Susann Ludwig

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where university graduates constitute an ed... Lees meer

Plurinational Afrobolivianity

Heck Moritz

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• In Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unpreceden... Lees meer

Traversing Transnational Biomedical Landscapes

Judith Schühle

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• In the age of globalization, the transnational dimension of sciences like medicine seems to be given. However, the agents connecting different parts o... Lees meer

The Bureaucratic Production of Difference

Julia M., PhD. Eckert

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse c... Lees meer

Youth and the State in Guinea

Michelle Engeler

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this research monograph introduces the perspective of "... Lees meer

Contested Properties

Britta Rutert

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• This book deals with the values of medicinal plants and associated knowledge(s) in the field of bioprospecting in post-apartheid South Africa. Biopros... Lees meer

Being a Parent in the Field

Fabienne Braukmann, Michaela Haug, Katja Metzmacher, Rosalie Stolz

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• How does being a parent in the field influence a researcher's positionality and the production of ethnographic knowledge? Based on regionally and them... Lees meer

Becoming Jewish in Berlin

Vanessa Rau

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• Why do young Israelis choose to come to Berlin and how does this impact Jewish life? With this ethnography, Vanessa Rau provides a captivating portrai... Lees meer

The Multi-Sided Ethnographer

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• As ethnographic fieldwork blurs the boundaries between >privateprofessional Lees meer

Tangier/Gibraltar--A Tale of One City

Dieter Haller

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Social Practice
• Contemporary life is caught in prisons of identity. Public, academic, and political discourses do not seem to be possible without circling around the ... Lees meer