All Publications

Joshi, V.: A matter of belief: Christian conversion and healing in North-East India. Berghahn Books, New York ; Oxford (2012), 298 pp.

Vertovec, S.: Transnarodowosc. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, Krakow (2012), 212 pp.

Horstmann, A.; Reuter, T. A. (Eds.): Faith in the future: understanding the revitalization of religions and cultural traditions in Asia. Brill, Leiden (2012), 323 pp.

Vigneswaran, D.; Quirk, J. (Eds.): Slavery, migration and contemporary bondage in Africa. Africa World Press, Trenton, N.J. (2012), 386 pp.

Arnaut, K.; Blommaert, J.; Rampton, B.; Spotti, M. (Eds.): Language and Superdiversities II (Special issue). Diversities 14, (2) (2012)

Aptekar, S.: Naturalization ceremonies and the role of immigrants in the American nation. Citizenship Studies 16 (7), pp. 937 - 952 (2012)

Arnaut, K.: Super-diversity: elements of an emerging perspective. Diversities 14 (2), pp. 1 - 16 (2012)

Burchardt, M.; Schuh, C.; Wohlrab-Sahr, M.: Contested secularities: religious minorities and secular progressivism in the Netherlands. Journal of Religion in Europe 5 (3), pp. 349 - 383 (2012)

Burchardt, M.; Wohlrab-Sahr, M.: Multiple secularities: toward a cultural sociology of secular modernities. Comparative Sociology 11 (6), pp. 875 - 909 (2012)

Cornelio, J. S.: Priesthood satisfaction and the challenges priests face: a case study of a rural diocese in the Philippines. Religions 3 (4), pp. 1103 - 1119 (2012)

Cornelio, J. S.; Salera, T. A. E.: Youth in interfaith dialogue: Intercultural understanding and its implications on education in the Philippines. Innovación Educativa 12 (60), pp. 41 - 62 (2012)

Fisher, G.: Religion as repertoire: resourcing the past in a Beijing Buddhist temple. Modern China 38 (3), pp. 346 - 376 (2012)

Gandhi, A.: Catch me if you can: Monkey capture in Delhi. Ethnography 13 (1), pp. 43 - 56 (2012)

Gandhi, A.; Hoek, L.: Introduction to crowds and conviviality: ethnographies of the South Asian city. Ethnography 13 (1), pp. 3 - 11 (2012)

Horstmann, A.: Manora ancestral beings, possession and cosmic rejuvenation in Southern Thailand: modern adaptations of the multi-religious Manora ancestral vow ceremony. Anthropos 107.2012 (1), pp. 103 - 114 (2012)

Horstmann, A.: Mediating the suffering of Karen Refugees and the representation of their rights. Sangkhomsāt: The Journal of social sciences 24 (1-2), pp. 243 - 284 (2012)

Horstmann, A.: Échanges de gestuelles religieuses dans l’espace rituel: Performance des traditions rituelles et négociation des frontières entre les communautés dans le bassin du lac Songkhla, en Thaïlande du Sud. Anthropologie du geste 36 (3), pp. 117 - 136 (2012)

Huang, W.: The Bodhisattva comes out of the closet: city, surveillance, and doing religion. Politics and religion journal 6 (2), pp. 199 - 216 (2012)

Huang, Y.: Remarriage, gender, and life course in contemporary inland rural China. Journal of comparative family studies 43 (2), pp. 313 - 330 (2012)

Huang, Y.: From the 'feminization of agriculture' to the 'ageing of farming populations': demographic transition and farming in a central Chinese village. Local economy 27 (1), pp. 19 - 32 (2012)

Huang, Y.: Jumping out of the agricultural gate (tiaochu nongmen): social mobility and gendered intra-household resource distribution among children in a central chinese village, 1950-2012. China perspectives 2012 (4), pp. 25 - 33 (2012)

Kathiravelu, L.: Social networks in Dubai: informal solidarities in an uncaring state. Journal of Intercultural Studies 33 (1), pp. 103 - 119 (2012)

Luo, R.: Across the institutional passage of migration: Hukou System in China. InterDisciplines: journal of history and sociology 3 (1), pp. 120 - 147 (2012)

Nieswand, B.: Banal diasporic nationalism: Ghana@50 in Berlin. Ethnic and Racial Studies 35 (11), pp. 1874 - 1892 (2012)

Nowicka, M.: Cosmopolitans, spatial mobility and the alternative geographies. International Review of Social Research 2 (3), pp. 1 - 16 (2012)

Petermann, S.; Abel, F.: Beeinflusst der Wohnort die Einstellung zu Migranten? Eine Untersuchung über die Wirkung individueller und kontextueller Faktoren auf die Meinung zu Migranten in den Leipziger Ortsteilen. Stadt Leipzig, Statistischer Quartalsbericht III/2012, pp. 23 - 28 (2012)

Petermann, S.; Schönwälder, K.: Gefährdet Multikulturalität tatsächlich Vertrauen und Solidarität? Eine Replik. Leviathan 40 (4), pp. 482 - 490 (2012)

Quijada, J. B.: Soviet science and post-Soviet faith: Etigelov's imperishable body. American Ethnologist 39 (1), pp. 138 - 154 (2012)

Roberts, N.: Is conversion a ‘colonization of consciousness’? Anthropological Theory 12 (3), pp. 272 - 294 (2012)

Schönwälder, K.; Triadafilopoulos, T.: A bridge or barrier to incorporation? Germany's 1999 citizenship reform in critical perspective. German Politics and Society 30 (1), pp. 52 - 70 (2012)

Shaery, R.: The local politics of the Lebanese disappeared. Middle East report 42 (263), pp. 1 - 4 (2012)

Smyer Yu, D.: Chinese abstract: Smash temple, burn books / Peter van der Veer. The world religious cultures 73 (Spring), pp. 26 - 27 (2012)

Smyer Yu, D.: The sentient reflexivity of Buddha nature: metaphorizing Tathagatagarbha. The World Religious Cultures 2012 (6), pp. 13 - 22 (2012)

Tayob, S.: The 2010 World Cup in South Africa: a millennial capitalist moment. Journal of Southern African Studies 38 (3), pp. 717 - 736 (2012)

Udupa, S.: Beyond acquiescence and surveillance: a modular and grounded approach to media regulation. Economic and political weekly 47 (4), pp. 101 - 109 (2012)

Udupa, S.: Desire and democratic visibility: news media’s twin avatar in urban India. Media, Culture and Society 34 (7), pp. 880 - 897 (2012)

Udupa, S.: News media and contention over “the local” in urban India. American ethnologist 39 (4), pp. 819 - 834 (2012)

Udupa, S.; Chakravartty, P.: Changing with the times of India (Bangalore): remaking a post-political media field. South Asian History and Culture 3 (4), pp. 491 - 510 (2012)

van der Veer, P.: Smash temples, burn books: comparing secularist projects in India and China. The world religious cultures 73 (Spring), pp. 17 - 26 (2012)

van der Veer, P.: Spirituality in modern society = 现代社会中的灵性. N.W. ethno-national studies = Xibei-minzu-yanjiu 72 (Spring), pp. 115 - 124 (2012)

van der Veer, P.: Religion, secularism and national development in India and China. Third world quarterly 33 (4), pp. 719 - 732 (2012)

van der Veer, P.: Market and Money: a critique of rational choice theory. Social compass 59 (2), pp. 183 - 193 (2012)

Vertovec, S.: “Diversity” and the social imaginary. European Journal of Sociology 53 (3), pp. 287 - 312 (2012)

Vorng, S.: Incendiary central: the spatial politics of the May 2010 street demonstrations in Bangkok. Urbanities 2 (1), pp. 46 - 56 (2012)

Wafer, A.: Discourses of infrastructure and citizenship in post-apartheid Soweto. Urban forum 23 (2), pp. 233 - 234 (2012)

Wafer, A.; Bénit-Gbaffou, C.; Fourchard, L.: Local politics and the circulation of community security initiatives in Johannesburg. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 36 (5), pp. 936 - 957 (2012)

Schönwälder, K.; Petermann, S.: Vielfalt als städtische Normalität. (2012)

Acosta, R.: Scaling claims of common good: transnational and intercultural advocacy in the Brazilian Amazon. MMG Working Paper (12-03) (2012), 34 pp.

Alunni, L.: “After all, they are nomads, aren’t they?”: Roma transnationalism and health issues. MMG Working Paper (12-20) (2012), 24 pp.

Arnaut, K.: Social mobility in times of crisis: militant youth and the politics of impersonation in Côte D'ivoire (2002-2011). Microcon Research Working Paper (58) (2012), 30 pp.

Arnaut, K.: Sociolinguistic diversity: Bibliography. MMG Working Paper (12-10) (2012), 66 pp.

Blommaert, J.; Rampton, B.: Language and superdiversity. MMG Working Paper (12-09) (2012), 36 pp.

Cieslik, A.: Transnational mobility and family planning decisions: a case study of skilled Polish migrant women. MMG Working Paper (12-14) (2012), 26 pp.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh , E.: Conflicting missions?: the politics of Evangelical humanitarianism in the Sahrawi and Palestinian protracted refugee situations. MMG Working Paper (12-06) (2012), 38 pp.

Grillo, R. D.; Shah, P.: Reasons to ban?: The anti-burqa movement in Western Europe. MMG Working Paper (12-05) (2012), 48 pp.

Heil, T.: Fragile convivialities: everyday living together in two stateless but diverse regions, Catalonia and Casamance. MMG Working Paper (12-18) (2012), 34 pp.

Horstmann, A.: Creating non-state spaces: interfaces of humanitarianism and self-government of Karen-refugee migrants in Thai Burmese border spaces. MMG Working Paper (12-17) (2012), 34 pp.

Jung, J.-H.: Some tears of religious aspiration: dynamics of Korean suffering in post-war Seoul, South Korea. MMG Working Paper (12-19) (2012), 32 pp.

Krause, K.; Alex, G.; Parkin, D.: Medical knowledge, therapeutic practice and processes of diversification. MMG Working Paper (12-11) (2012), 30 pp.

Krause, K.; Alex, G.; Parkin, D.; Stocker, S.: Medical Pluralism: Bibliography. MMG Working Paper (12-12) (2012), 116 pp.

Molina, J. L.; Petermann, S.; Herz, A.: Defining and measuring transnational fields. MMG Working Paper (12-16) (2012), 30 pp.

Nowicka, M.: Deskilling in migration in transnational perspective: The case of recent Polish migration to the UK. Working Papers – Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development 2012 (112) (2012), 29 pp.

Palmberger, M.: Renaming of public space: a policy of exclusion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. MMG Working Paper (12-02) (2012), 26 pp.

Petermann, S.; Heywood, J.; Hewstone, M.; Hüttermann, J.; Schmid, K.; Schmitt, T. M.; Schönwälder, K.; Stolle, D.; Vertovec, S.: The “Diversity and Contact” (DIVCON) Survey 2010 (wave 1) - Technical Report. MMG Working Paper (12-21) (2012), 286 pp.

Pottie-Sherman, Y.: Markets and diversity: annotated bibliography. MMG Working Paper (12-15) (2012), 106 pp.

van der Veer, P.: Market and Money: a critique of rational choice theory. MMG Working Paper (12-01) (2012), 18 pp.

Vertovec, S.: Superdiversität. Heimatkunde: Migrationspolitisches Portal (2012)

Vigneswaran, D.: Methodological debates in human rights research: a case study of human trafficking in South Africa. MMG Working Paper (12-07) (2012), 24 pp.

Vorng, S.: Incendiary central: the spatial politics of the May 2010 street demonstrations in Bangkok. MMG Working Paper (12-04) (2012), 26 pp.

Wiesemann , L.: Public spaces, social interaction and the negotiation of difference. MMG Working Paper (12-08) (2012), 26 pp.

Ye, J.: Working men: Bangladeshi migrants in the global labour force. MMG Working Paper (12-13) (2012), 26 pp.

Akan, M.: Twin tolerations or siamese twins: Kemalist laicism and political Islam in Turkey. In: Problems confronting contemporary democracies: essays in honor of Alfred Stepan, pp. 381 - 423 (Eds. Chalmers, D.; Mainwaring, S.). University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame (2012)

Aptekar, S.: Immigration and customs enforcement. In: The making of modern immigration: an encyclopedia of people and ideas, pp. 305 - 320 (Ed. Hayes, P.). ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif. (2012)

Arnaut, K.: Corps Habillés, Nouchis and Subaltern Bigmanity in Côte D'Ivoire. In: African conflicts and informal power: big men and networks, pp. 78 - 100 (Ed. Utas, M.). Zed Books, London (2012)

Arnaut, K.; Gadou, D.: Ivory Coast. In: Encyclopedia of global religion, Vol. 1, pp. 605 - 606 (Eds. Juergensmeyer, M.; Roof, W. C.). Sage, Thousand Oaks, Calif. (2012)

Gandhi, A.: Informal moral economies and urban governance in India. In: Urban Informalities, pp. 51 - 66 (Eds. McFarlane, C.; Waibel, M.). Ashgate, Farnham (2012)

Koenig, M.: Das Recht auf Religionsfreiheit – zur Entstehung eines neuzeitlichen Differenzierungsmusters. In: Umstrittene Säkularisierung: soziologische und historische Analysen zur Differenzierung von Religion und Politik, pp. 293 - 313 (Eds. Gabriel, K.; Gärtner, C.; Pollack, D.). Berlin University Press, Berlin (2012)

Koenig, M.: Max Weber. In: Menschenrechte: ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, pp. 57 - 59 (Eds. Pollmann, A.; Lohmann, G.). Metzler, Stuttgart (2012)

Maud, J.: Sacred tourism and the state: some paradoxes of cross-border religious patronage in Southern Thailand. In: Pilgrimage in an age of globalisation, pp. 93 - 119 (Ed. Hyndman-Rizik, N.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle (2012)

Maud, J.: Fire and water: ritual innovation, tourism, and spontaneous religiosity in Hat Yai, Southern Thailand. In: Faith in the future: understanding the revitalization of religions and cultural traditions in Asia, pp. 269 - 296 (Eds. Horstmann, A.; Reuter, T.). Brill, Leiden (2012)

Meissner, F.; Hasselberg, I.: Forever malleable: the field as a reflexive encounter. In: Where is the field?: The experience of migration viewed through the prism of ethnographic fieldwork, pp. 87 - 106 (Eds. Hirvi, L.; Snellman, H.). Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki (2012)

Petermann, S.: Theorie, Operationalisierung und Daten individuellen sozialen Kapitals. In: Die Integration von Theorie und Methode in der Netzwerkforschung, pp. 95 - 115 (Eds. Hennig, M.; Stegbauer, C.). Springer, Wiesbaden (2012)

Schmitt, T. M.: Mosque debates as space-related, intercultural, and religious conflicts. In: Migration and religion: christian transatlantic missions, islamic migration to Germany, pp. 207 - 217 (Ed. Becker-Cantarino , B.). Radopi, Amsterdam (2012)

Schönwälder, K.: Cautious steps: minority representation in Germany. In: Immigrant politics: race and representation in Western Europe, pp. 67 - 86 (Eds. Givens, T. E.; Maxwell, R.). Lynne Rienner Publ., Boulder (2012)

Schönwälder, K.; Baykara-Krumme, H.; Fromm, S.; Schmid, N.: Ethnizität in der Zuwanderungsgesellschaft Deutschland. In: Berichterstattung zur sozio-ökonomischen Entwicklung in Deutschland - Teilhabe im Umbruch: zweiter Bericht, pp. 693 - 722 (Ed. Forschungsverbund Sozioökonomische Berichterstattung). Springer, Wiesbaden (2012)

Shaery, R.: Fixing and negotiating identities in the field: the case of Lebanese Shiites. In: Ethnographic fieldwork: an anthropological reader, 2 ed. Ed., pp. 103 - 113 (Eds. Robben, A. C. G. M.; Sluka, J. A.). Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, Mass. (2012)

van der Veer, P.: Culture and religion. In: Oxford textbook of spirituality in healthcare, 25, pp. 169 - 176 (Eds. Cobb, M. R.; Puchlaski, C. M.; Rumbold, B.). Oxford Univ. Pr., Oxford (2012)

Vertovec, S.: Trends and impacts of migrant transnationalism. In: Indian diaspora and transnationalism, pp. 48 - 106 (Eds. Sahoo, A. K.; Baas, M.; Faist, T.). Rawat, Jaipur (2012)

Vigneswaran, D.: Experimental data collection methods and migration governance. In: African migrations research, pp. 133 - 172 (Eds. Berriane, M.; de Haas, H.). Africa World Press, Trenton (2012)

Vigneswaran, D.; Quirk, J.: Human bondage in Africa: historical legacies and recent innovations. In: Slavery, migration and contemporary bondage in Africa, - (Eds. Vigneswaran, D.; Quirk, J.). Africa World Press, Trenton, N.J. (2012)

Smyer Yu, D.: Chinese Popular Religion. In: Encyclopedia of global religion, Vol. 1, pp. 199 - 203 (Eds. Juergensmeyer, M.; Roof, W. C.). Sage, Thousand Oaks, Calif. (2012)