Recent Publications

Working Paper Series

Article or Chapter

  • Behrends, Andrea (2015) "The long history of conflict, integration and changing alliances on the Darfur." in Emerging orders in the Sudans , edited by Sandra Calkins, Enrico Ille and Richard Rottenburg, 39-68. Bamenda and Buea: Langaa.
  • Beisel, Uli (2015) "The blue warriors: Science, public health and democracy in Malaria control experiments in Ghana." in Para-states and medical science: Making African global health , edited by Paul Wenzel Geissler, 281-302. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Beisel, Uli (2015) "Markets and mutations: Mosquito nets and the politics of disentanglement in global health." in Geoforum 66: 146-155.
  • Boëte, Christophe, Uli Beisel, Luísa Reis Castro, Nicolas Césard, and R Guy Reeves (2015) "Engaging scientists: An online survey exploring the experience of innovative biotechnological apporaches to controlling vector-borne diseases." in Parasites & Vectors 8 (1): 414.
  • Bognitz, Stefanie (2015) "Rwanda." in The SAGE encyclopedia of world poverty, 2nd ed. , edited by Mehmet Odekon. Los Angeles: SAGE.
  • Bognitz, Stefanie (2015) "Lawyers without borders." in The SAGE encyclopedia of world poverty, 2nd ed. , edited by Mehmet Odekon. Los Angeles: SAGE.
  • Buchenhorst, Ralph (2015) "'... as if the shame before the victims would be offended' - Adorno's verdict on Arnold Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw." in Music and genocide , edited by Wojtek Klimczyk and Agata Swierzowska, 155-170. Frankfurt am Main [et al.]: Peter Lang.
  • Calkins, Sandra, Enrico Ille, Siri Lamoureaux, and Richard Rottenburg (2015) "Rethinking Institutional Orders in Sudan Studies: The Case of Land Access in Kordofan, Blue Nile and Darfur." in Canadian Journal of African Studies 49 (1): 175-195. → https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2014.963135
  • Calkins, Sandra, Enrico Ille, and Richard Rottenburg (2015) "Emergence and contestation of orders in the Sudans." in Emerging orders in the Sudans , edited by Sandra Calkins, Enrico Ille and Richard Rottenburg, 1-22. Bamenda and Buea: Langaa.
  • Ille, Enrico (2015) "Historical thinking in political discourses: The case of land issues in South Kordofan." in Past, present and future: Fifty years of anthropology in Sudan , edited by Munzoul A. M. Assal and Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil, 277-290. Bergen: Chr.-Michelsen-Institute.
  • Ille, Enrico (2015) "Sudan." in The SAGE encyclopedia of world poverty , edited by Mehmet Odekon, 300-302. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
  • Ille, Enrico (2015) "Greedy donors? Uncertainty and the organisation of seed distribution in the Nuba Mountains." in Emerging orders in the Sudans , edited by Sandra Calkins, Enrico Ille and Richard Rottenburg, 221-240. Bamenda and Buea: Langaa.
  • Ille, Enrico (2015) "'But they can’t manage to silence us': Mahjoub Sharif’s prison poem ‘A homesick sparrow’ (1990) as resistance to political confinement." in Middle East – Topics & Arguments 5: 117-130.
  • Ille, Enrico (2015) "The Nuba Mountains between coercion and persuasion during Mahdist rule (1881-1898)." in Northeast African Studies 15 (2): 1-63.
  • Ille, Enrico, Guma Kunda Komey, and Richard Rottenburg (2015) "Tragic entanglements: Vicious circles and acts of violence in South Kordofan." in Sudan's killing fields: Political violence and fragmentation , edited by Laura Nyantung Beny and Sondra Hale, 117-137. Trenton: Red Sea Press.
  • Moradi, Fazil (2015) "Dawn in Salar Majeed's 12 m2 atelier: Memory of loss and future in the city of Sulaimani." in 100 Jahre Völkermord an AremnierInnen und die KurdInnen: Komplexe Vergangenheit und Nachwirken in der Gegenwart , edited by Ferdinand Hennerbichler, Christoph Osztovics, Maria Six-Hohenbalken and Thomas Schmidinger, 215-243. Wien: Caesar Press.
  • Moradi, Fazil, Adel Daoud, Roukaya A. Ibrahim, and Shailen Nandy (2015) "Iraq." in The SAGE encyclopedia of world poverty , edited by Mehmet Odekon. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
  • Park, Sung-Joon (2015) "IRBs as traveling technologies: Between regulation and virtues." in Notes from within and without: Research permits between requirements and "realities" , edited by Ulf Engel, Claudia Gebauer and Anna Hüncke, 23-27. Working Papers of the Priority Programme 1448 of the German Research Foundation.
  • Park, Sung-Joon (2015) "'Nobody is going to die': An ethnography of hope, indicators, and improvisations in the provision of access to treatment in Uganda." in A world of indicators: The making of governmental knowledge through quantification , edited by Richard Rottenburg, Sally Engle Merry, Sung-Joon Park and Johanna Mugler, 188-219. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rottenburg, Richard, and Sally Engle Merry (2015) "Introduction. A world of indicators: The making of governmental knowledge through quantification." in A world of indicators: The making of governmental knowledge through quantification , edited by Richard Rottenburg, Sally Engle Merry, Sung-Joon Park and Johanna Mugler, 1-33. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Scholtes, Fabian (2015) "Richard Rottenburg: Weit hergeholte Fakten: Eine Parabel der Entwicklungshilfe." in Schlüsselwerke der Organisationsforschung , edited by Stefan Kühl, 586-590. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Schramm, Katharina (2015) "Thinking About Race in an Age of Diversity." in Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies , edited by Steven Vertovec, 52-59. London, New York: Routledge.
  • Schramm, Katharina (2015) "Heritage, Power and Ideology." in A Companion to Contemporary Heritage Research , edited by Emma Waterton and Steve Watson, 442-457. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Schramm, Katharina (2015) "Vom Horror des Hybriden und der Zelebrierung genetischer Vielfalt: Zur Darstellung von 'Rasse' und Genealogie im neuen Südafrika." in Medienethnographie: Ein Handbuch , edited by Cora Bender and Martin Zillinger, 319-341. Berlin: Reimer.
  • Schramm, Katharina (2015) "Wie Phönix aus der Asche: Klassifikation, Erinnerungspolitik und Populationsgenetik in Südafrika." in Sociologus 65 (2): 201-224.
  • Seidel, Katrin, and Timm Sureau (2015) "Introduction: Peace and constitution making in emerging South Sudan on and beyond the negotiation tables." in Journal of Eastern African Studies 9 (4): 612-33.
  • Sureau, Timm (2015) "Confusing DDR: How DDR shifted its face." in Emerging orders in the Sudan , edited by Enrico Ille, Sandra Calkins and Richard Rottenburg, 273-298. Bamenda and Buea: Langaa.
  • Whyte, Susan Reynolds, Sung-Joon Park, George Odong, Moris Ojara, and Alice Lamwaka (2015) "The visibility of non-communicable diseases in northern Uganda." in African Health Sciences 15 (1): 82-89.
  • Ille, Enrico (2015) "Variations of field design and crop organization in Heiban (South Kordofan): Forecast and experimentation between the wars." in Sudan Journal of Economic and Social Studies 12: 9-45.
  • Turner, Bertram (2015) "Introduction. Exploring avenues of research in legal pluralism: Forward-looking perspectives in the work of Franz von Benda-Beckmann." in Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 47 (3): 375-410.
  • Thelen, Tatjana (2015) "Care as Social Organisation: Creating, Maintaining and dissolving significant relations." in Anthropological Theory 15 (4): 497-515.
  • Field, Amy (2015) "Protest in Parliament." in Anthropology Now 7 (1): 39-50.
  • Gout, Philippe (2015) "Le statut juridique des Noubas du Sud Kordofan et la Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples." in Les minorités ethniques, linguistiques et/ou culturelles en situations coloniales et post-coloniales (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles) , edited by Anne-Claire De Gayffier-Bonneville, Samia El Mechat and Éric Gojosso, 109-125. Poitiers: Faculté de Droit et des Sciences sociales de Poitiers.
  • Mugler, Johanna (2015) "By Their Own Account: (Quantitative) Accountability, Numerical Reflexivity, and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa." in The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification , edited by Richard Rottenburg, Sally Engle Merry, Sung-Joon Park and Johanna Mugler, 76-101. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Riedke, Eva (2015) "'You shouldn’t be seen talking to them!': Accidental frontlines, building trust and coping with danger." in Civilisations 64. Special Issue: "Field Research in Difficult Contexts: Hostile Settings Sensitive Topics, Taboos".
  • McHardy, Julien (2015) "Why Books Matter: There is value in what cannot be evaluated." Jointly hosted on the LSE Impact of Social Science Blog and on the Hybridpublishing Blog. → http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/09/30/why-books-matter/
  • Thiel, Alena and Michael Stasik (2015) "Market men and station women: Changing significations of gendered space in Accra, Ghana." in Journal of Contemporary African Studies 34 (4): 459-478.
  • Marfaing, Laurence, Karsten Giese and Alena Thiel (2015) "Introduction: Du rejet des autres à leur implication dans les dynamiques de changement social." in Entrepreneurs africains et chinois: Les impacts sociaux d’une rencontre particulière , edited by Karsten Giese and Laurence Marfaing, 7-29. Paris: Karthala.
  • Giese, Karsten and Alena Thiel (2015) "Chinese factor in the space, place and agency of female head porters in urban Ghana." in Social and Cultural Geography 16 (4): 444-464.
  • Thelen, Tatjana (2015) "Ethnographische Methoden." in Handbuch Transformationsforschung , edited by Raj Kollmorgen, Wolfgang Merkel and Hans-Jürgen Wagener, 255-264. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Thelen, Tatjana (2015) "Care of the Elderly, Migration, Community: Explorations from Rural Romania." in Rethinking Care: Kinship, Work, Institutions, and the Life-Course , edited by Erdmute Alber and Heike Drotbohm, 137-155. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Komey, Guma Kunda (2015) "The rights and status of the Christians as a religious minority in Sudan." in The Ahfad Journal Women and Change 32 (2): 14-24.
  • Redfield, Peter (2015) "A Measured Good." in Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice , edited by S. Abramowitz and C. Panter-Brick, 242-251. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Redfield, Peter (2015) "Fluid Technologies: The Bush Pump, the LifeStraw® and Microworlds of Humanitarian Design." in Social Studies of Science 46 (2): 159–183.
  • Spencer, Sylvanus (2015) "‘Invisible Enemy’: Translating Ebola Prevention and Control Measures in Sierra Leone." in Working Papers of the Priority Programme 1448 of the German Research Foundation, No. 13.
  • Langwick, Stacey (2015) "Partial Publics: The Political Promise of Traditional Medicine in Africa." in Current Anthropology 56 (4): 493-514.
  • Muyinda, Herbert and James Mugisha (2015) "Stock-outs, uncertainty and improvisation in access to healthcare in war-torn Northern Uganda." in Social Science and Medicine 146: 316-323.
  • Mugisha, James, Herbert Muyinda, Samuel Malamba and Eugene Kinyanda (2015) "Major depressive disorders seven years after the conflict in Northern Uganda: Burden, risk factors and impact on outcomes (The Wayo-Nero study)." in BMC Psychiatry 15 (48).
  • Nsabagasani, Xavier, Jasper Ogwal-Okeng, Anthony Mbonye, Freddie Ssengooba, Rebecca Nantanda, Herbert Muyinda and Ebba Holme Hansen (2015) "The ‘child size medicines’ concept: Policy provisions in Uganda." in Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice 8 (2).
  • Mugisha, James, Herbert Muyinda, Peter Wandiembe and Eugene Kinyanda (2015) "Prevalence and factors associated with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder seven years after conflict in three districts in northern Uganda (The Wayo-Nero study)." in BMC Psychiatry 15 (170).
  • Holden, Kerry (2015) "Lamenting the golden age: Love, labour and loss in the collective memory of scientists." in Science as Culture 24 (1): 24-45.
  • Breckenridge, Keith (2015) "The Conspicuous Disease: The Surveillance of Silicosis in South Africa, 1910 - 1970." in American Journal of Industrial Medicine 58 (S1): 15-22.
  • Breckenridge, Keith (2015) "Hopeless Entanglement: The Short History of the Academic Humanities in South Africa." in American Historical Review 120 (4): 1253-1269.
  • Giese, Karsten, and Alena Thiel (2015) "The silent majority: The psychological contract in Chinese-Ghanaian labor relations." in International Journal of Human Resource Management 26 (14): 1807-1826.
  • Marfaing, Laurence, and Alena Thiel (2015) "Networks, spheres of influence and the mediation of opportunity: The case of West African trade agents in China." in The Journal of Pan African Studies 7 (10): 65-84 , edited by Adams Bodomo (Special Issue: “Africans in China: Guangzhou and Beyond”).
  • Gebauer, Claudia, Eva Riedke, and Norman Schräpel (2015) "Introduction: Space and the production of order and disorder." in Space and the production of order and disorder. Working Paper of the DFG Priority Programme 1448, Nr. 12, pp. 3-5 , edited by Claudia Gebauer.
  • Eckert, Julia (2015) "Tugendethik und Verantwortung: Eine Sozialanthropologische Perspektive." in Anthropologie und Ethik , edited by Jan-Christoph Heilinger and Julian Nida-Rümelin. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Eckert, Julia (2015) "Gerüchte vom Recht." in Gerüchte vom Recht , edited by Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer and Christoph Möllers, 227-246. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
  • Ballim, Faeeza (2015) "The Pre-History of South African “Neo-Liberalism”: The Rise and Fall of Co-Operative Farming on the Highveld." in Journal of Southern African Studies, 41 (6): 1239–1254. → https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2015.1093835

Book or Edited Volume

  • Buchenhorst, Ralph (ed.) (2015) "Von Fremdheit lernen: Zum produktiven Umgang mit Erfahrungen des Fremden im Kontext der Globalisierung." Bielefeld: Transcript.
  • Calkins, Sandra, Enrico Ille, and Richard Rottenburg (eds.) (2015) "Emerging orders in the Sudans." Bamenda and Buea: Langaa.
  • Ille, Enrico (2015) "An annotated bibliography of social research on the Nuba Mountains." Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute.
  • Rottenburg, Richard, Sally Engle Merry, Sung-Joon Park, and Johanna Mugler (eds.) (2015) "A world of indicators: The making of governmental knowledge through quantification." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Seidel, Katrin, and Timm Sureau (eds.) (2015) "Emerging South Sudan: Negotiating statehood (Special issue)." in Journal of Eastern African Studies 9 (4).
  • Ille, Enrico (2015) "‘Nuba’: A historical perspective on changing and contested notions." in Nuba Mountains Studies Working Paper 2. Halle: LOST Research Group, University of Halle.
  • Ille, Enrico (2015) "Dynamics of destabilisation in development interventions in South Kordofan, 2005-2011." in Sudan Working Paper 2015: 4. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute.
  • Geissler PW (ed.) (2015) "Para-states and Medical Science: Making Global Health in Africa." Durham: Duke University Press.