By Philip Geisler During a seminar trip to Cambodia last year with the research program Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, our group continuously encountered people engaged in creative practices –…
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Hello? How Can I Help You Today? : Mental Health Concerns for LGBTQIA+ People During Covid-19
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By Joshua Muyiwa While the common global refrain has been that we live in unprecedented times, it shouldn’t be remembered to mean the worst alone. It has also engendered the…
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Religion and Covid-19 under observation: the Asia-focused research blog CoronAsur
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By Natalie Lang When the world came to a halt in many places because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and researchers were worried about their fieldwork trips and research plans, Carola…
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“‘Urban Culture’ Really Is Best Seen as a Pan-European Phenomenon” – 5in10 with Marcus Meer
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Marcus Meer is a historian of communication and visual culture. He completed his PhD at the University of Durham as a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar and worked as a Graduate Teaching…
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Coronavirus and the Middle East’s ongoing state of emergency
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Abdalhadi Alijla, Post-doctoral fellow at the Orient Institute in Beirut, recently published an article on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East. The region was hit hard…
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“Nomadism Is Understood as an Anachronistic and Primitive Lifestyle” – 5in10 with Sina Steglich
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Sina Steglich received her PhD from the University of Mannheim with a project on the history of temporalities in the nineteenth century and holds an MA in History, German Literature…
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COVID-19 and Security Risks for Women: Indoors and Outdoors
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By Ailynn Torres Santana We are facing a global crisis with global consequences. On the one hand, the Covid-19 crisis has exposed impoverished public health systems, weak labor rights, high…
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Iqbal, German Orientalism and the Making of Modern Mysticism
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By Razak Khan This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. I emphasize in it accordingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the…
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The Digital Transformation of Work: COVID-19 as a Taste of Things to Come?
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By Lena Hipp After more than three months of working from home and school closures, many Germans are currently experiencing a return to what we considered “normal” before the outbreak…
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Understanding Childhood and Construction of National Identities
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On 20-21 January 2021, the conference „Understanding Childhood and Construction of National Identities“ will take place at the branch office of the German Historical Institute Warsaw in Vilnius. We talked to the convener Gintarė Malinauskaitė about the upcoming event.
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Household Divisions of Labor and Care Work in Times of COVID-19: Empirical Lessons from Hungary
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By Éva Fodor, Anikó Gregor, Júlia Koltai and Eszter Kováts The Gendered Effects of COVID-19: A Deluge of Social Problems The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic immediately brought up several…
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Book Review: L. Spinney: 1918 – Die Welt im Fieber
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By Steffy Marung | Laura Spinney has written a best-selling book, which is in major (online) book stores currently not available in its English original, but one may still be able to chase one of its translations in German, Dutch, French, Croatian, Italian, Czech or Spanish.
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Viral Devotionality and Christian Solidarity In/Beyond Borneo
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By Liana Chua As COVID-19 began to spread across Malaysia in early 2020, Jesus began to materialise with increasing frequency on my Facebook feed. A familiar figure with light skin,…
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COVID-19, Technology, and the Future of Care Work
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By Vidisha Mishra The COVID-19 outbreak is exacerbating existing multiple and intersecting systemic inequalities. Evidence from previous pandemics and fast-emerging trends indicate that the ongoing global pandemic is not gender…
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Book Review: M. Maruschke, M. Middell: The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization
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Since the 1990s, the historiography on the French Revolution has seen a major refocus in the context of the so-called “global turn”. However, the disparate conceptual framework within which this…
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Rewriting Histories of Care in the Times of Corona
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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…