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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On Colonial Aphasia in the Study of German Orientalism
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By Zubair Ahmad This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. Humanists have too often confined their attention to departmentalized topics of research. They have…
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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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Ten Revolutionary Nights in Tehran: On the Significance of the Poetry at the dah shab for the ‘1979 Moment’ in Iran
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By Olmo Gölz Pinpricks: On Small Moments with Seminal Impact “Nineteenth-century European revolutions often started in opera houses; the Iranian Revolution can be said to have begun in poetry-reading sessions.”[1]…
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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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Comparing Comparisons – Introduction and Overview
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By James D Sidaway and Franz Waldenberger How and why do we compare in the social sciences and humanities? These are enduring questions. On 2nd and 3rd December 2019, a…
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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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Reenchantment: From the Facts of Orientalism to the Sustenance of Storytelling
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By Wendy Shaw Facts cannot solve the problem of lies. Stories can. The given wisdom of modern positivism has been that more facts amount to more truth. In line with…
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40 Years After Orientalism
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An Introduction to the TRAFO series “40 Years After Orientalism”, Edited by Schirin Amir-Moazami (Freie Universität Berlin). Published in 1978, Orientalism has been a seminal investigation on questions regarding cultural…
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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…
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Introducing #DossierCorona #religiousmatters
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By Birgit Meyer These are trying times, in which we struggle to cope with the devastating and scary omnipresence of the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19. Invisible to the naked…
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“I Became Intrigued by the Relationship Between Disciplines and Their Different Answers to the Same Question” – 5in10 with Alain Zysset
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Alain Zysset is a Lecturer in Public Law at the School of Law, University of Glasgow. In the academic year 2019/2020, he is a Fellow of re:constitution – Exchange and Analysis…
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The ‘1979 Moment’ in Syrian Theatre: From Politicization to an ‘Inward Turn’?
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By Friederike Pannewick In fall 1979, Egyptian President Sadat became the first Arab politician to travel to Israel on official business, where he outlined his plans for peace in a…
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“Highlighting Intellectual Continuities That Linked Fascist and Democratic Worldviews” – 5in10 with Simon Unger-Alvi
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Simon Unger-Alvi is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome. He gained his PhD in 2018 at the University of Oxford, where he also taught classes in…
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The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Imperial Russia
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By Stefan B. Kirmse “The Lawful Empire” combines an analysis of law and legal practice with a discussion of autocratic rule over a multicultural empire. It is as much about…
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“It Is Actually My Students Who Repeatedly Explain My Research to Me” – 5in10 with Oraib Toukan
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Oraib Toukan is an artist and Clarendon Scholar at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Until Fall 2015, she was head of the Arts Division and Media Studies…
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What I Learned From My Grandparents, and Other Stories: Fragments of Biography, Autobiography and a History of Calcutta
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By Benjamin Zachariah [1] I: The Meanings of Lives It seems not a little self-indulgent for a historian to tell a story with oneself in it, even if one is…
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“I Study Who Was Mobile and How the State, Local Communities, and Residents Dealt With Migration” – 5in10 with Levke Harders
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Levke Harders is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC and Assistant Professor of Modern History and Gender History at Bielefeld University. She is currently…
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Landna(h)me Georgien – Interview with Zaal Andronikashvili
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Zaal Andronikashvili is a literary scholar and a research associate at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) Berlin, where he is working on the project Literature in…
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Rebuilding Pride and the Technocratic Fantasy in South Lebanese Villages and Neighborhoods
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Diana Zeidan Shattered neighborhoods and policies As part of its rebuilding strategy after the 2006 war, the Lebanese government put…
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Knowledge Unbound – New International Research Project
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The new research project „Knowledge Unbound“ is opening up innovative areas of research by focussing on key regions such as Africa, the Near and Middle East and the Pacific region.
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“Even after collecting hundreds of narratives, I find that each one surprises me” – 5in10 with Ilkay Yilmaz
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İlkay Yılmaz is a 2020 Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – the Middle East in Europe (EUME), a research program of the Forum Transregionale Studien, and affiliated with…
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Towards a Locatedness of Postcolonial Knowledge: Report from the Exploratory Workshop “Postcolonial Critique”
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By Dorota Kołodziejczyk On September 23rd-24th, 2019, the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung held a two-day workshop, Postcolonial Critique: Latin American and Eastern European Perspectivations (America South…
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Re-Constructing the Historic Neighbourhood in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, after the 2006 War
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Howayda Al-Harithy During the July 2006 war, Israel targeted various sites across Lebanon, including the southern town of Bint Jbeil….
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Beruf und Berufung Transnational. Deutsche und polnische Akademikerinnen in der Zwischenkriegszeit
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Von Iwona Dadej Gläserne Decke in der Wissenschaft? Fehlende Anerkennung der weiblichen wissenschaftlichen Leistung und ein erschwerter Zugang zu bestimmten Positionen im akademischen Betrieb? Vielseitige Förderprogramme für angehende Wissenschaftlerinnen, damit…
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“A Major Task is to Challenge our own Positionality on an Ongoing Basis” – Interview with Mohammed Bamyeh
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Mohammed Bamyeh is a Sociologist from the University of Pittsburgh and has been working with the Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME) program of…