By Eliska Bujokova The term ‘research impact’ has become a buzzword in funding applications across academia, but as the current crisis has shown, its use often seems rather hollow. Doing…
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Portals of Globalization: Repositioning Mumbai’s Ports and Zones, 1833–2014
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By Megan Maruschke Social scientists tend to talk about globalization as a challenge to nation states; its threat, especially to developing states, is often illustrated in special economic zones, export…
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Yoga and Immunity in the Time of the Pandemic
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By Tuhina Ganguly The “stay fit” mantra seems to have found renewed salience in the present pandemic context in India and globally as privileged people find themselves at home, stranded…
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Introducing #DossierCorona #TransnationalFeminisms
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Sabina García Peter, Nina Lawrenz and Tanja Wälty (Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) In the current crisis, issues that have long been critically discussed and…
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Thinking the Global Rise of Forced Labor: Old, New, and Changing Forms of Labor Exploitation in Times of Crisis
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By Marianne Braig, Léa Renard, Nicola Schalkowski, and Theresa Wobbe The current hygienic and economic crisis affects work relationships and organization in various ways. The virus not only prompted us…
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Rearticulating Globalization, Solidarities and Work in Ethiopia
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By Constance Perrin-Joly In the spring of 2020, the coronavirus in Africa seems to be shaping up more as a social and economic crisis than as a health crisis, due…
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Environments of Exile: Refugees, Nature, and Representations
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This article is part of the TRAFO series Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the conference “Environments of Exile: Refugees, Nature, and Representations”,…
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Die Suche nach dem ,eigenen Klang‘ – 5in10 mit Elmir Mirzayev
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„Der Widerspruch zwischen Moderne und Archaik, den ich in meiner Forschung beleuchte, kann als Ausdruck der besonderen geopolitischen und -kulturellen Lage Aserbaidschans zwischen drei Großreichen und seiner Verbundenheit mit ihnen gesehen werden.“
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The Future of Shopping: Corona as a Catalyst for the Transformation of Work
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By Felix Sieker and Anke Hassel Six weeks into the Corona crisis, the German department store chain Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof announced that it would close up to half its stores,…
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Hidden Economies of Slavery
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Today, we put the spotlight on the conference “Hidden Economies of Slavery” which will take place on December 10-11 2020 at the German Historical Institute in London. We talked to the conveners Melina Teubner (University of Bern) and Felix Brahm (German Historical Institute London) about the upcoming event.
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The End of the Pandemic of Productivism?
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By Sasha Disko The Sars-Coronavirus 2 pandemic has thrown a stark light on global inequalities, themselves outcomes of the centuries-long accretion of exploitative relationships based on historically constructed binaries of…
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‘Quarantine is Godly’, but in the Fight against Corona, ‘the Devil is in the Details’
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By Erik Meinema ‘Quarantine is Godly’, but in the fight against Corona, ‘the Devil is in the details’: Spiritual danger, disease, and the Kenyan nation. As a dangerous entity of…
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Covid and Looking for the Exit
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By Bruce Kogut Covid-19 came as a shock to almost everyone, except for the many elites responsible for the task of preparation. Who should be surprised that pandemics are a…
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Going Online: How Corona Transforms Christian Worship
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By Veerle Dijkstra In the period of heightened insecurity the COVID-19 pandemic has created, the need for community and spiritual solace is high. Yet, for religious people the current ‘five…
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Who or What Is Being Tested in Pandemic Times?
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By David Stark The coronavirus pandemic is witness to a great proliferation of two types of tests. The first type is testing – new medical diagnostic tests as well as…
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Die große Leere im Archiv – Herausforderungen einer global gedachten Kunstgeschichtsforschung
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Von Sophie Junge Die Wirkungsmacht europäischer Archiv- und Museumssammlungen wird in den Debatten um die Provenienz und Restitution von Kulturgütern deutlich. Auch die Ausstellung Fiktion Kongo im Zürcher Rietberg Museum…
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Transnational Solidarities: Will the Pandemic Change Ways of Social and Political Struggle?
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By Sana Tannoury-Karam [1] Between 1936 and 1939, thousands of volunteers came flocking into Spain to fight against the fascist forces of General Franco. Palestinian volunteer, Najati Sidqi, who joined…
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The Crisis as Beginning of a New Relationship to the Professional World?
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By Michel Lallement One of the effects of the pandemic crisis ascribable to Covid-19 has been the home detention of almost half of humanity. The eventual onset of such a…
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Controlled Avalanche – A Regulated Voluntary Exposure Approach for Addressing Covid-19
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By Alon Harel The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented crisis whose optimal means of control and mitigation are still unknown. Most strategies that have been implemented so far…
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“Epidemics are a fascinating topic given their characteristic disrespect for any kinds of borders” – Interview with Andrea Wiegeshoff
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Andrea Wiegeshoff is a historian at Marburg University. She received her PhD in 2011 with a thesis on the German Foreign Service and held a long-term visiting Fellowship at the…
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“Coronavirus is a Ghost of the West”: Conspiratorial Explanations of the Covid-19 Pandemic among some Religious Leaders in Nigeria
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By Murtala Ibrahim The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has plunged the entire world into a serious crisis with a far-reaching socio-economic impact that is unprecedented in recent history. When…
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Book Review: Forced Migration and Human Security in the Eastern Orthodox World
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By Regina Elsner Lucian Leustean (ed.), Forced Migration and Human Security in the Eastern Orthodox World. London: Routledge, 2019, 312p, ISBN 9780815394709, £96. In 2018, Ulrich Schmiedel and Graeme Smith observed…
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Caring About What We Hold Dear and the Final Purposes of Work
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By Bénédicte Zimmermann Changes in the sphere of work have been fostered over the last thirty years by a continuous process of adapting companies and their employees to the demands…
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Vulnerabilities and Interventions in Times of Corona: Bodies, Food and Religion in South Africa
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By Johan Strijdom If the Coronavirus pandemic has rendered visible the unequal vulnerability to the virus across distinctions of class, gender, age and race, it is the vulnerability of the…
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How Does the Corona Crisis Affect the Future of Work and Our View of It?
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By Jürgen Kocka As long as we do not know when and how the Corona crisis will end, its social consequences are impossible to predict. These consequences will be different…
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Temporalities of the Pandemic and a Proposed Research Agenda About Religion
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By Rodrigo Toniol A pandemic is not simply created by a powerful contagious biological agent that puts millions of lives at risk. Pandemics are also the result of laws, decrees,…
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« Le concept de la bureaucratie appliqué dans le secteur de la santé » – Interview avec Aissatou Seck
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L’histoire de la santé contribue d’une manière générale à la connaissance et aux renouvellements des savoirs dans la recherche historique. Elle est fondamentale dans la mesure où elle s’intéresse aux faits sociaux relatifs à la compréhension des maladies qu’elles soient épidémiques ou endémiques, de leurs causes et leurs impacts sociaux.
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“Useful”, “Indispensable”, “Essential”: Is the Health Crisis Changing the Categories With Which We Consider Professional Activities?
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By Laure de Verdalle The health crisis we are experiencing makes some professional activities appear more socially useful than others. Hospital medical staff, on the „front line“ in the daily…
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The Corona Crisis Reveals the Struggle for a Sustainable Digital Future
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By Dirk Helbing For a long time, experts have warned of the dangers of a non-sustainable world, but few have understood the implications with regard to the use of mass…
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The Coronakrise and Moments of Respatialization
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By Matthias Middell In Germany, the spread of the novel coronavirus is discussed as a crisis – Coronakrise – at least partially due to the fact that the term rolls…
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The Need for De-Integration in Pandemic Times
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By Elena Esposito The Corona virus crisis highlights the dangerous interconnectedness of society. In the space of a few weeks, the virus spread everywhere, affecting all domains of society and each…
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The COVID 19 crisis accelerates structural change in the world of work
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By Martin Krzywdzinski The current crisis is having a massive impact on the economy and the world of work, and we can expect it to accelerate the structural change that…
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“As the Global Pandemic Criminalizes Certain Mobilities, Transnational Research Projects Are Already Being Creatively Rethought” – 5in10 with Chelsea Schields
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Chelsea Schields is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her scholarship explores the histories of sexuality, race and decolonization in Europe and the Caribbean. With Dagmar…
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How Can We Strengthen the Contributory Logic of Work?
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By Lisa Herzog The crisis has made clear that there is a logic of work that differs from the market logic and has long been overshadowed by it. You could…
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Introducing #DossierCorona #workingfutures
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The Corona crisis challenges our societies, and within them the field of work, in various ways. In their contributions to the #workingfutures thread of the #DossierCorona on the TRAFO Blog,…
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Global Breathing
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By Peter van der Veer More than ten years ago, I published an article entitled Global Breathing. It discusses a social history of breathing techniques in spiritual practices in India…
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“Multifaceted is the keyword to explain my research” – 5in10 with Nevin Şahin
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Nevin Şahin is a research associate at the Orient-Institut Istanbul. She completed her PhD in Sociology in 2016 upon her research on music and power among performers of Mevlevi music,…
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Promoting Research on Transregionalism and Conflict Resolution in Africa
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On Ulf Engel (ed.) Africa’s Transregional Conflicts, special issue of Comparativ, Volume 28, No. 6 (2018), pp. 7-108 [published late in 2019]. By Ulf Engel This special issue of the…
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Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers
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This article is part of the TRAFO series Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the symposium “Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents,…
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Studying Religion in Times of Corona
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#DossierCorona #religiousmatters By Birgit Meyer In my previous blog I introduced our new “Dossier Corona.” Pondering the accounts so far posted on this site and following news about how the…