As a geographer, comparative research is central to my training. In particular analysing the similarities and differences in spatial transformations (both visible and structural) in two or more places.
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The Corpus of Russian Translations of Social and Political Works
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It is in the eighteenth century that Russian political language was born. The digital project “The Corpus of Russian Translations of Social and Political Works of the Eighteenth Century” coordinated…
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Gender in the EU’s Corona Response – Transformation Beyond Clapping?
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By Felicia Riethmüller and Hanna-Maria Paul While the Corona pandemic has had an impact on all members of society, the crisis unquestionably aggravates existing gender inequalities within the European Union…
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Cambodian Court Dance After Genocide: Embodied Heritage and the Limits of Critique
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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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Sexualized Violence in Peru amid Covid-19
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By Patricia Ruiz Bravo and Aranxa Pizarro Peru has been under sanitary emergency for the past five months due to the coronavirus pandemic. During this time, we stayed home for more…
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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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“#systemrelevance in one word? women” – The Need for Analyzing Gender(ed) Media Discourse
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By Margreth Lünenborg, Wolfgang Reißmann, Miriam Siemon and Moe Kinoshita The above quote is taken from a German tweet by Jeannette Gusko from March 18, 2020. Gusko works for the…
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Covid-19 and Radical Self-Care
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By Chia Longman. In this short blog, I introduce the idea that we urgently need to radicalize ‘self-care’ from a feminist intersectional perspective.
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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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Collaboration + Laboratory = The German Studies Collaboratory
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By Jennifer Evans and Swen Steinberg | “We are all in this together” is not simply the solidarity slogan of our new reality in times of Covid-19. In May 2020, it became a starting point for a group of scholars teaching at North American universities
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Brazil and Coronavirus: How Denialism, Religious Fundamentalism and Necropolitics has Disproportionately Affected Women
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By Andrea Dip Brazil is the second country in the world with the most infections and deaths from coronavirus, surpassed only by the United States. We have exceeded 100,000 deaths…
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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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A ‘Conversation’ on Comparisons between Japanese Studies, Contemporary History and Medieval Art History
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While studying political science at Heidelberg University’s South Asia Institute, I was always told to refrain from making comparisons if and when I would become a researcher. Comparative research, it was said, is an extremely complex research methodology…
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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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Hate Male
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Audrey Truschke, a philologist and historian of encounters and entanglements in early modern South Asia at Rutgers University – in an essay published in the online magazine The Revealer on July…
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The Leader as Groom, the Nation as Bride: Patriarchal Nationalism under Nasser and Sisi
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Rim Naguib’s (EUME Fellow 2019-21) article, published in the current issue of META (Middle East Topics & Arguments) Vol. 14 (2020) on “Gender” surveys and analyzes the gendered symbols and…
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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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Beyond the Boundaries of “The Land of the Deer”: R. Binyamin between Jewish and Arab Geographies, and the Critique of the Zionist-Colonial Connection
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Avi-ram Tzoreff’s article, published in Issue 82 (Summer 2020) of the Jerusalem Quarterly, revisits the writings and ideas of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman, an observant orthodox Jew, author, essayist, and anti-colonial Zionist,…
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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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Thriving in Isolation and Beyond: The Empowering Poetry of Vasyl Stus
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Bohdan Tokarsky’s article, Thriving in Isolation and Beyond: The Empowering Poetry of Vasyl Stus, recently published in the LA Review of Books, examines the writings of Ukrainian poet, Vasyl Stus…
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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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Studying Comparisons
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If we remember that those we study are also studying us as well as themselves, and that they are all engaged in the human exercise of understanding the play of cultural difference and similarity, we may be able to contribute to making comparison the fruitful, congenial, and open-ended conversation that the discipline’s ethical as well as intellectual commitments demand.
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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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The Virtue of Stopping
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Towards Learning Journeys That Build Bridges Rather Than Schooling in Bubbles By Alia Mossallam On the first day of school after the lockdown, my second-grade daughter was beside herself with…
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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.