SPP 1448 Working Paper Series

This completed Working Paper Series presents findings from the DFG funded Special Priority Program (2011 to 2017) that examined technologies and significations in (dis)ordering practices.



“No. 29: Knowlege on the run. Uncertainties in the careers of Kenyan long-distance runners” by Konstantin Biehl

“No. 28: Registers of justice and feminine agencies in sexual violence in Sudan” by Siri Lamoureaux.

“No. 27: Skewing the nation: mobilising queer citizenship in South Africa” by Ernst van der Wal.

“No. 26: Stateness and borderness in mediation: productions and contestations of space in the Sahel” by Amy Niang.

“No. 25: Ruminations on renovation in Beira (Mozambique)” by Pamila Gupta.

“No. 24: Cell Phones as an Anticipatory Technology: Behind the Hype of Big Data for Ebola Detection and Containment” by Susan L. Erikson.

“No. 23: Genealogies of a Non-Political Islam in the Sahel: The Burkina Case” by Abdourahmane Idrissa.

“No. 22: The Ordering Power of Technology” edited by Norman Schräpel.

“No. 21: The Ordering Power of Narratives” edited by Eva Riedke.

“No. 20: Translating Technologies in Global Health. Diagnostic Spaces between Standardization and Adaptation in Uganda’s Malaria Control Programme” by René Umlauf and Uli Beisel.

“No. 19: The Politics of Contingency: Events, Traveling Models, and Situations” by Andrew Barry.

“No. 18: Vital Conjunctures Revisited – Gender in Tims of Uncertainty” edited by Lena Dallywater and Nadine Sieveking.

“No. 17: Crude Politics: Oil talk, new media and political scripts in the production of disorder in Zinder (Niger)” by Jannik Schritt.

“No. 16: Notes from Within and Without – Research Permits between Requirements and ‘Realities'” edited by Ulf Engel, Claudia Gebauer and Anna Hüncke.

“No. 15: Model transfer in the making: changing development strategies of, and expectations towards, the state in Ethiopia and Ghana” by Felix Müller.

“No. 14: Divergent Legitimations of Post-State Health Institutions in Western Equatorial Africa” by John M. Janzen.

“No. 13: ‘Invisible Enemy’: Translating Ebola prevention and control measures in Sierra Leone” by Sylvanus N. Spencer.

“No. 12: Space and the production of order and disorder” by Claudia Gebauer.

“No. 11: Changing patterns of rain or power? How an idea of adaptation to climate change travels up and down to a village in Simanjiro, Maasailand Northern Tanzania” by Sara de Wit.

“No. 10: Questioning the Local in Peacebuilding” by Claudia Simons and Franzisca Zanker.

“No. 9: On Coba and Cocok: youth-led drug-experimentation in Eastern Indonesia” by Anita Hardon and Nurul Ilmi Idrus.

“No. 8: Powerful, metamorphic, mediative: Trees, climate change and the intricate geographies of objects” by Florian Weisser.

“No. 7: Timeliness and chronic medication: knowledge about hypertension and diabetes in Uganda” by Susan Reynolds Whyte.

“No. 6: Staging global public health: Workshops, technologies of participation, and the authorization of knowledge in anti-retroviral therapy in Uganda” by Sung-Joon Park.

“No. 5: Market men and station women: changing significations of gendered space in Accra, Ghana” by Michael Stasik and Alena Thiel.

“No. 4: ‘Agents of Translation’: West African Entrepreneurs in China as Vectors of Social Change” by Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel.

“No. 3: ‘Festivalisation’ in South Africa’s host cities: themes and actors of urban governance in the media discourse on the 2010 FIFA World Cup” by Christoph Haferburg and Romy Hofmann.

“No. 2: Policing Uganda, Policing the World” by Sarah Biecker and Klaus Schlichte.

“No. 1: In the Hustle Park: The Social Organization of Disorder in a West African Travel Hub” by Michael Stasik.