Recent Publications

Working Paper Series

Article or Chapter

  • Gout, Philippe (2018) "Access to Land Rights for Non-Muslims in Greater Khartoum: Disclosing the Epistemic Gap Between International and Sudanese Religious Minority Models." in Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan: Land, Courts and the Plurality of Practices , edited by Barbara Casciarri and Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, 95-124. Leiden: Brill.
  • Lamoureaux, Siri and Timm Sureau (2018) "Knowledge and Legitimacy: The Fragility of Digital Mobilisation in Sudan." in Journal of Eastern African Studies 0 (0): 1–19. → https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2018.1547249
  • Thelen, Tatjana (2018) "Socialism: Marxist-Leninist-Maoist." in Encyclopedia of Anthropology , edited by Hilary Callan. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. → https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1836
  • Thelen, Tatjana (2018) "Property." in International Encyclopedia of Anthropology , edited by Hilary Callan. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. → https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2349
  • Thelen, Tatjana (2018) "Ethnographic Methods." in Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation , edited by Raj Kollmorgen, Wolfgang Merkel and Hans-Jürgen Wagener. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Thelen, Tatjana, Larissa Vetters and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (2018) "Introduction. Stategraphy: Relational Modes, Boundary Work, and Embeddedness." in Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State , edited by Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, 1-19. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Umlauf, René (2018) "'Dormant parasites’: Testing beyond the Laboratory in Uganda’s Malaria Control Program." in Experimentation beyond the laboratory: New perspectives on technology in society , edited by Ibo van de Poel and Lotte Alsveld. London, New York: Routledge.
  • Thiel, Alena and Jan Beek (2018) "Orders of Trade: Regulating Accra’s Makola Market." in Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 49 (1): 34-53.
  • Cantini, Daniele (2018) "Intag al-Ma’rifa fi mustawa al-Doktorah fi al-Ulum al-Insaniyya wa al-Ijtima’iyya fi al-Jami’at al-Masriyya [Knowledge Production at the Doctoral Level in Humanities and Social Sciences at Egyptian Universities]." in Idafat: Al-majallah al-arabiyya li-l-Ulum al-Ijtima’iyya 41-42: 13-30.
  • Erikson, Susan (2018) "Cell Phones ≠ Self: An Analysis of the Big Data Detection and Containment Hypes of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola Pandemic." in Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
  • Redfield, Peter (2018) "On Band-Aids and Magic Bullets." in Limn 9, Little Development Devices/Humanitarian Goods , edited by Stephen J. Collier, Jamie Cross, Peter Redfield and Alice Street. → https://limn.it/on-band-aids-and-magic-bullets/
  • Moradi, Hawar and Fazil Moradi (2018) "Afrin måste ses som en viktig del i vår gemensamma mänsklighet." in Flamman.http://flamman.se/a/afrin-maste-ses-som-en-viktig-del-i-var-gemensamma-mansklighet
  • Moradi, Faraidoun and Fazil Moradi (2018) "Sverige bör inrätta mottagning för stridsgasskadade patienter." in Läkartidningen (Swedish medical journal).http://www.lakartidningen.se/Opinion/Debatt/2018/03/Sverige-bor-inratta-mottagning-for-stridsgasskadade-patienter/
  • Moradi, Fazil (2018) "Love and Feminicide in Kurdistan." in Culture Magazine 3 (2018): 21-27. Trans. by Nabz Samad.
  • Langwick, Stacey (2018) "Cultivating Vitality: A Photo Essay." in Anthropology News website, January 24, 2018. → http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2018/01/24/cultivating-vitality/
  • Langwick, Stacey (2018) "A Politics of Habitability: Plants, Healing and Sovereignty in a Toxic World." in Cultural Anthropology 33 (3): 415-443.
  • Langwick, Stacey (2018) "Healing in the Anthropocene." in The World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds , edited by Keiichi Omura, Grant Jun Otsuki, Shiho Satsuka, Atsuro Morita. New York: Routledge.
  • Rao, Ursula (2018) "Biometric Bodies, or How to Make Fingerprinting Work in India." in Body & Society 24 (3): 68-94. → http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1357034X18780983
  • Behrends, Andrea (2018) "On categorizing: The ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ of refugees in the Chad-Sudan borderlands." in Vienna Working Papers in Ethnography No. 6. Vienna: University of Vienna.
  • Rottenburg, Richard (2018) "Name und Benanntes: (Un)disziplinierte Verschiebungen." in What’s in a name: Wofür steht die Umbenennung der ehemaligen Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde in eine Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie?https://blog.uni-koeln.de/gssc-whatsinaname/2018/07/10/name-und-benanntes-undisziplinierte-verschiebungen/
  • Moradi, Fazil (2018) "Zirak Mira’s Feminicidal Assembly." in Culture Project: Art Feminism And Gender.http://cultureproject.org.uk/2018/08/21/Zirak-Miras-Feminicidal-Assembly/
  • Cantini, Daniele (2018) "Romantic Love and Finding a Place in Life: Jordanian university students and their loving subjectivities." in Reinventing Love? Gender, Intimacy and Romance in the Arab World , edited by Irene Maffi, Aymon Kreil and Corinne Fortier, 141-163. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
  • Breckenridge, Keith (2018) "The Global Ambitions of the Biometric Anti-Bank: Net1, Lockin and the Technologies of African Financialization." in International Review of Applied Economics.
  • Scholtes, Fabian (2018) "Transregional aspects of International Financial Regulation." in The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies , edited by M. Middell. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Lammer, Christof (2018) "Distancing the regulating state: Corruption, transparency and the puzzle of personal relatedness in a food network in Sichuan." in Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, Special Issue "The Chinese State as Regulator", 47 (3-4): 369-406.
  • Mugler, Johanna (2018) "The Empty Chairs: On the Tedious Constraints of Trans-local Research." in Anthroblog of the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, February 2018. → http://www.anthro.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/anthroblog/index_ger.html
  • Beisel, Uli, Sandra Calkins, and Richard Rottenburg (2018) "Divining, testing, and the problem of accountability." in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8 (1/2): 109–113. → http://lost-research-group.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Beisel-2018.pdf
  • Lopes, Gabriel and Luísa Reis-Castro (2018) "A Vector in the (Re)Making: A History of Aedes aegypti as Mosquitoes that Transmit Diseases in Brazil." in Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains: Histories of of Non-Human Disease Vectors , edited by Christos Lynteris, 147-175. Cham: Palgrave. → https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030267940#aboutAuthors
  • Thiel, Alena (2018) "Cheat Me in the Price, but Not in the Goods’: Negotiating Imaginaries of Authenticity in Accra’s China Trade." in Chinese and African Entrepreneurs: Social Impacts of Interpersonal Encounters , edited by Karsten Giese and Laurence Marfaing, 253-272. Leiden: Brill.
  • Thiel, Alena (2018) "Translating the Time of Capital: Travelling Ideas and Collective Claims-Making in Accra’s Makola Market." in Translation Revisited: Contesting the Sense of African Social Realities , edited by Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo, Mamadou Diawara and Elisio Macamo, 2-19. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Drotbohm, Heike and Eva Riedke (2018) "Expecting justice: Struggling with the indeterminate between ideals and practices." in The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 50 (3): 294-298.
  • Ille, Enrico (2018) "Urgent anthropology research in the area of Kerma." in The British Museum Newsletter Egypt and Sudan 5 (25).
  • Ille, Enrico (2018) "Social lives of diesel engines in northern Sudan’s Nile settlements." in RAI Review 1 (2).
  • Ille, Enrico (2018) "Anthony John Arkell as Commissioner for Archaeology and Anthropology (1939-1948): A look into an early experiment with interdisciplinary administration." in Sudan & Nubia 22: 179-187.
  • Ille, Enrico (2018) "Land alienation as a legal, political, economic and moral issue in the Nile Valley of North Sudan." in Anthropology of law in Muslim Sudan: Land, courts and the plurality of practices , edited by Barbara Casciarri and Mohamed A. Babiker, 21-52. Leiden: Brill.
  • Ille, Enrico (2018) "International joint ventures in industrial gold mining, corporate social responsibility, and harm-production in Sudan." in Africa Spectrum 53 (3): 33-64.
  • Schritt, Jannik, and Andrea Behrends (2018) "‘Western’ and ‘Chinese’ Oil Zones: Petro-infrastructures and the emergence of new trans-territorial spaces of order in Niger and Chad." in Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa , edited by Ulf Engel, Detlef Müller-Mahn and Marc Böckler, 211-229. Leiden: Brill.
  • Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von and Bertram Turner (2018) "Legal pluralism, social theory, and the state." in Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 50 (3): 255-274. → https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2018.1532674
  • Eckert, Julia (2018) "The Morals of Liability: Some Thoughts on 'Humanitarians in Court'." in The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 50 (3): 375-378.

Book or Edited Volume

  • Thelen, Tatjana, Larissa Vetters and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (eds.) (2018) "Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State." New York, Oxford: Berghahn.
  • Lock, Margaret and Vinh-Kim Nguyen (eds.) (2018) "An Anthropology of Biomedicine, 2nd Edition." London: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Cantini, Daniele (ed.) (2018) "Al-Intag al-Ma’rifa fi al-Jami’at al-Masriyya [Knowledge Production at Egyptian Universities]." in Idafat: Al-majallah al-arabiyya li-l-Ulum al-Ijtima’iyya [Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology], Special Issue 41-42: 13-150.
  • Biehl, Konstantin (2018) "Knowledge on the Run: Epistemological Uncertainties in the Careers of Kenyan Long-Distance Runners." Working Paper Series DFG Priority Programme 1448: Adaptation and Creativity in Africa, Nr. 29. Leipzig and Halle. → http://lost-research-group.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP29_Biehl_180904_.pdf
  • Lammer, Christof (2018) "Performing state boundaries: A stategraphy of citizen participation in China." Doctoral thesis, University of Vienna.
  • Riedke, Eva (2018) "Concerning issues: Making things political in Durban." published PhD Dissertation, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, published open source through Gutenberg Qualify. → http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-diss-1000021179