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Ahmad, Irfan: Citizen Amendment Act is Confirmation of India as a Hindu Nation-State (Berkley Forum, March 2020)

Ahmad, Irfan: A critical tribute to sociologist Yogendra Singh (1932-2020) — as a teacher, and his thoughts as a scholar (Firstpost, May 2020)

Ahmad, Irfan: Is Political Anthropology Dead? Renewing Political Anthropology (Anthropology News, February 2018)

Ahmad, Irfan: Twentieth-Century Faces of Anthropology’s Holism. Renewing Political Anthropology (Anthropology News, May 2018)

Alex, Gabriele: Ominous illness initiators – Germans, Indians and in-laws (August 2009)

Amrith, Megha: Ageing in a Time of Mobility: An Introduction (December 2018)

Amrith, Megha: Ageing Bodies: Retiring from Temporary Lives (December 2018)

Amrith, Megha: Enduring indifference and the vital labour of migrant domestic workers (Identities COVID-19 Blog Series, April 2020)

Amrith, Megha, & Sampaio, Dora: Reflections on the ‘Grey is the New Pink: Moments of Ageing’ Exhibition (July 2019)

Amrith Megha: Waiting for Sundays. Fieldwork reflections (October 2019)

Audéoud, Daniel: Checking the signs (December 2010)

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Becker, Paul: Kazan - City of cultures (January 2013)

Bialas, Ulrike, & Lukate, Johanna M.: Contested Categories in the Context of Migration: A Writing Workshop (June 2023)

Bialas, Ulrike, & Sohail, Jagat: “Like Us!” - The Shifting Grounds of Proximity in the Reception of Refugees, Then and Now (May 2022)

Bialas, Ulrike: More Secure, More Self-Determined… For Now (April 2022)

Blanton, Anderson: A machine for the production of Gods (SSRC Forums, August 2015)

Boudou, Benjamin: The Solidarity Offense in France: Egalité, Fraternité, Solidarité! (Verfassungsblog, July 2018)

Buck Quijada, Justine: Ties that bind: the emotional entangle- ments of ethnography (August 2010)

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Carabelli, Giulia: Trieste is Sissi with Piercings and Blue Hair (July 2017)

Carabelli, Giulia: Finding Place(s) for the Past in Trieste/A Trieste, cercando di far posto alla storia (April 2018)

Chimbidzikai,  Tinashe: Déjà vu: Anti-immigrant and xenophobic attitudes as a recurrent feature of post-apartheid South Africa (April 2022)

Chimbidzikai,  Tinashe: Virus, curse or prophecy? African Pentecostals making sense of the COVID-19 pandemic (April 2020)

CityDiv-Team (Michalis Moutselos, Christian Jacobs, Julia Martínez-Ariño, Maria Schiller, Karen Schönwälder, Alexandre Tandé): Economy or Justice? How Urban Actors Respond to Diversity (Urban Affairs Forum, May 2018)

Cohen, Robin: Emphatic beginnings: from culture contact to creolization (October 2010)

Cohen, Robin: Mobility after Covid-19: From ‘globubble’ to ‘slowbubble’ (May 2020)

Cornelio, Jayeel Serrano: Youth studies and emancipation (July 2012)

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Denman, Derek: Off-Center Inquiry (December 2018)

Diao, Ying: Echoes of History: Chinese Poetry at the Angel Island Immigration Station (May 2017)

Druez, Elodie: Two exhibitions on Muslim-Jewish relations in Paris: finding what to show (August 2022)

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Egorova, Yulia: Solidarity and Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in the UK (December 2021)

Eisenlohr, Patrick: Voice, Sound and Atmospheres: Religious Feelings and Beyond (February 2019)

Emmerich, Arndt: Exploring Frankfurt’s Deep-Story and Impact on Jewish-Muslim Encounters (October 2022)

Emmerich, Arndt: Germany’s first Christian-Muslim kindergarten. Interfaith cooperation and integration (October 2022)

Emmerich, Arndt: Interreligiöse Begegnungen in der Metropole. Am Beispiel von jüdisch-muslimischen Beziehungen in Frankfurt am Main (February 2024)

Emmerich, Arndt: Language Change and Persistence within Turkish Mosques in Germany (January 2022)

Everett, Samuel Sami: Teaching Virtual Interreligious Ethnography in a Pandemic (February 2022)

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Gadjanova, Elena: From Accra to Bolgatanga and back: reflections on a month spent in Ghana (March 2014)

Gadjanova, Elena: Kenya’s 2017 Election: Devolution, Uncertainty, and Unpredictable Electorates (August 2017)

Galushko, Artem: The female silhouette of the Belarusian uprising (November 2020)

Gandhi, Ajay: Is Indian capitalism really designed to enhance public welfare? (March 2021)

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Heil, Tilmann: Anthropological travel: between institutional support and the perils of paperwork (June 2009)

Hellmann, Naomi: China’s stained glass windows (October 2014)

Heo, Angie: Icons and Iconoclasm: dying to the world (June 2013)

Hof, Helena: How COVID-19 changed migration (research): Constrained research practices, constrained migrant subjects (June 2022)

Horstmann, Alexander: Doing fieldwork with religious missionary networks (January 2010)

Huang, Yuqin: Christianity, space and gender in the Chinese Christian community in the UK (March 2010)

Hüttermann, Jörg: Good and evil in a sufficiently unsuccessful interview (November 2012)

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İlengiz, Çiçek: Commodifying and Generating Spiritual Love: The Love Pilgrimage of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi (1207-1273) (May 2020)

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Janev, Goran: Searching for multicultural El Dorado (February 2009)

Joshi, Vibha: An anthropologist among believers (June 2011)

Jovanović, Miloš : Tianjin’s Imperial Discomfort (August 2017)

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Kam, Liza Wing Man: Shinto Shrines in Taiwan 101: Art Exhibition in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (June 2018)

Kang, Jie: 70th anniversary - Patriotism becomes fashionable in China (October 2019)

Kang, Jie: Retirement of Peter van der Veer on 31.05.2021 (July 2021)

Kang, Jie: Workshop on “Chinese Religions in the Age of Massive Urbanization” (June 2018)

Kathiravelu, Laavanya: Fieldwork at ‘home’ (October 2011)

Kathiravelu, Laavanya: Urban friendship networks as “communities of convenience” (FASS Cities Research Cluster Blog, May 2013)

Kusters, Annelies: Preparing to capture the use of gesture in Mumbai (April 2014)

Kusters, Annelies: Regulations versus hierarchies: commuters creating inhabitable worlds in the Mumbai suburban trains (Somatoshpere, May 2015)

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Ladwig, PatriceFieldnote 3: Buddhism, booming businesses and the ritual economy in urban Laos (Max-Cam, March 2019)

Lang, Christine, Schneider, Jens, & Pott, Andreas: #MeTwo – und die Frage, was sozialen Aufstieg in der deutschen Einwanderungsgesellschaft so schwer macht (December 2018)

Lindemann, Stefan: Being ‘in between’ – the challenges of doing medium-N research (April 2011)

Bialas, Ulrike, & Lukate, Johanna M.: Contested Categories in the Context of Migration: A Writing Workshop (June 2023)

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Ma, Zhen: Chinese black humor in a time of crisis and despair (February 2020)

Matshedisho, Raji: Reflections on video log (February 2012)

Maud, Jovan: Windows to a virtual field (April 2010)

Meissner, Franziska: On research and festivities (October 2009)

Michalis, Moutselos: Banlieues and the terrorist enemy within (November 2015)

Moghaddari, Sonja: Fieldnotes on interpretation and the limits of activist-research (June 2018)

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Nagy, Dorottya: Social sciences, theology and many coffee cups (June 2010)

Newhouse, Léonie: Come tomorrow (October 2015)

Ngo, Tam: Perhaps not a world war, but one that should concern us all: The War in Ukraine from a Vietnamese perspective (March 2022)

Nieswand, Boris: Anthropology on the threshold. Ethnographic infiltration of a public organisation (November 2009)

Nieswand, Boris: Waiting ... how to get field access to a public administration (January 2009)

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Palmberger, Monika: Losing track of time and other side effects of pursuing a doctorate (May 2009)

Peretz, Dekel: Innovating Interfaith Dialogue between Jews and Muslims in Berlin (November 2021)

Petermann, Sören: Advantages and disadvantages of a secondary analysis (April 2009)

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Rexhepi, Piro: Europe wrote the book on demonising refugees, long before Trump read it (The Guardian, February 2017)

Roberts, Nathaniel: Time, order, and the ethical in the production of ethnographic knowledge (January 2012)

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Sakti, Victoria K.: Portraits of Ageing in Displacement: East Timorese Diasporas in Indonesia (December 2018)

Samanani, Farhan: “All organizing is disorganizing” (May 2019)

Samanani, Farhan: Race in Britain: Inequality, Identity, Belonging (November 2018)

Samanani, Farhan: Rehumanising scholarship (December 2021)

Sampaio, Dora: ‘Boa viagem’ (or ‘visa trips’): on migration, separation, and faith. Accounts from my fieldwork with transnational Brazilian families (December 2019)

Sampaio, Dora:(Im)mobilities of transnational ageing care: negotiating separation, solidarity and conflict within Brazilian families (December 2018)

Schader, Miriam, Rohmann, Tim, & Münch, Sibylle: Ankunfts-, Entscheidungs- und Rückführungszentren (AnkER-Zentren) – Erwartungen und kritische Bestandsaufnahme (September 2018)

Schader, Miriam: Du bist nicht #vonhier, oder? Kommentar zur aktuellen „Heimat“- und „Herkunfts“debatte (March 2019)

Schader, Miriam: Kommentar zu „In den AnkER-Zentren wollen wir die Asyl-Verfahren nicht nur schneller, sondern auch sicherer durchführen. Sie sind notwendig.” (June 2018)

Schlegel, Stefan: Eine direkte Demokratie wird in der globalisierten Rechtsordnung erwachsen: Die Schweiz nach der Selbstbestimmungs­initiative (Verfassungsblog, December 2018)

Schlegel, Stefan: „Festung Europa“. Es wird Zeit für ein anderes Bild (September 2018)

Schlegel, Stefan: “I want my entry tickets back!” (September 2016)

Schlegel, Stefan: Was kann die offene Gesellschaft dem chauvinistischen Nationalismus entgegensetzen? (Der Tagesspiegel, July 2018)

Schmalz, Dana, & Azizi, Nerges: Advertizing against Asylum. Thoughts on the “Rumours about Germany” Campaign (February 2018)

Schmalz, Dana: Die Fiktion der Nichteinreise ist ein Instrument der Entrechtung (Verfassungsblog, July 2018)

Schmalz, Dana: Weshalb man Asylsuchende nicht an der Grenze abweisen kann (Verfassungsblog, June 2018)

Schmalz, Dana: Weshalb man Asylsuchende nicht an der Grenze abweisen kann, Teil 2 (Verfassungsblog, June 2018)

Schmid, Samuel D.: The Local Citizenship Crisis in Switzerland (February 2019)

Scholz, Maximilian: Vor Jahrhunderten gab es eine Flüchtlingskrise – das können wir daraus lernen (FOCUS Online, August 2018)

Shachar, Ayelet: Borders in the Time of COVID-19 (Ethics & International Affairs, March 2020)

Shaery, Roschanack: Hizbullah between Islamism and Imperialism (February 2014)

Shaw, Daniella: Mapping the Messy ‘Field’ of Interfaith Encounters (March 2022)

Smyer Yu, Dan: Embrace – Dan Smyer Yu on film making (June 2012)

Smyer Yu, Dan: Ensouling the mountain (October 2012)

Smyer Yu, Dan: Fieldworking with Khenpo Sodargye (February 2013)

Smyer Yu, Dan: Practicing public anthropology with Khenpo Sodargye (April 2013)

Smyer Yu, Dan: Rethinking of social scientific study of religion (November 2013)

Smyer Yu, Dan: Thoughts from Shanghai’s bund (September 2012)

Sohail, Jagat: A Caste Theory of Asylum Management? (June 2023)

Stasik, Michael: Diversity, anthropologically studied (June 2018)

Stasik, Michael: Les bus ghanéens, entre attente, ruses et petits arrangements (May 2019)

Stasik, Michael: The Migrant in a House of Mirrors: Some Reflections on the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies (June 2022)

Ströhle, Claudius: Greetings from… Max-Planck-Institut in Göttingen (November 2022)

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Udupa, Sahana: A Pedagogy for Anti-Racism. Reflections from a Classroom and Beyond (boasblog, February 2023)

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van den Brink, Martijn, & Kochenov, Dimity : A Critical Perspective on “Associate EU Citizenship” (May 2018)

van den Brink, Martijn: Is the Reasoning in "Coman" as Good as the Result? (June 2018)

van der Veer, Peter: After 9/11 (September 2011)

van der Veer, Peter: Crossing and conversion: Conclusion (SSRC Forums, July 2018)

van der Veer, Peter: The Dead and the Living (April 2018)

van der Veer, Peter: Global Breathing (April 2020)

van der Veer, Peter: Master Yang’s lingering power (SSRC Forums, September 2013)

van der Veer, Peter: The prayer blog: the ritual location of prayer (SSRC Forums, March 2013)

van der Veer, Peter: Religious diversity in Singapore (November 2014)

van der Veer, Peter: Spirit (The Immanent Frame, November 2019)

Vertovec, Steven: Climate Cosmopolitics and Cosmopraxis: Impressions of and at COP27 (November 2022)

Vertovec, Steven: Diversity, cosmopolitans and locals (September 2010)

Vertovec, Steven: Low-skilled migrants after COVID-19: Singapore futures? (April 2020)

Vertovec, Steven: The public understanding of migration. A variety of factors influence how people conceive of the issue (December 2018)

Vertovec, Steven: Reading ‘super-diversity’ (December 2013)

Vevaina, Leilah: Giving, time, and a wish (September 2019)

von Rütte, Barbara: Decentralise the Procedure but not the Law? Cautionary Lessons from Switzerland’s Multilevel Citizenship (September 2020)

Vorng, Sophorntavy: Angst and enlightenment in the city of angels (February 2010)

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Walton, Jeremy F.: Four Days Quarantine in an Ankara Hospital, or, Disciplinary Power in the Time of Covid-19 (July 2020)

Walton, Jeremy F.: Lessons of an Eccentric Perspective on Empire (December 2018)

Walton, Jeremy F.: Pavelić’s Ghost (June 2021)

Walton, Jeremy F.: Post-Imperial Peregrinations (On the Origins of Empires of Memory) (February 2017)

Walton, Jeremy F.: space, place (The Immanent Frame, May 2020)

Walton, Jeremy F.To Steward Unruly Imperial Pasts (TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, May 2020)

Wari, Shahd, Chitchian, Somayeh, & Momic, Maya: INSIDE OUT – OUTSIDE IN. Shifting Architectures of Refugee (In)habitation (July 2019)

Wessendorf, Susanne: Commonplace diversity: stable and peaceful relations across myriad differences in Hackney (LSE, February 2015)

Wessendorf, Susanne: Doing fieldwork with busy people (March 2009)

White, Bob: Do Policies Have Worlds? Some Reflexions on “Integration” and Local Governance (December 2018)

Wolter, Nele: Constructing Livelihoods: Older Cameroonians in Times of Mobility (December 2018)

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Ye, Junjia: Notes on the familiar stranger. Part one (August 2013)

 

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