Book Review (74)
2013
Book Review
Koenig, M. (2013). [Review of] Die Sakralität der Person by Hans Joas. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-013-0197-6
Book Review
Luo, R. (2013). [Review of:] Urban China (China today) by Xufei Ren. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2013. Urbanities. Retrieved from http://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/current-issue.html
Book Review
Roberts, N. (2013). [Review of:] Quack, Johannes: Disenchanting India. Religion and Society. Berghahn. Retrieved from http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/arrs/2013/00000004/00000001;jsessionid=1e5bflo3rlad7.victoria
Book Review
Vigneswaran, D. (2013). [Review of:] Tony R. Samara: Cape Town after apartheid: crime and governance in the divided city. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Blackwell Publishing Limited. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.12072_6/abstract
2012
Book Review
Futterlieb, K. (2012). Christliche Gebetskultur online?, Review of Anna-Katharina Lienau: Gebete im Internet: eine praktisch-theologische Untersuchung (Studien zur christlichen Publizistik, Band 17). Praktische Theologie. Kaiser. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-C48F-C
Book Review
Huang, W. (2012). [Review of:] The Religious Question in Modern China by Vincent Goossaert and David Palmer. University Of Chicago Press. Religion watch. Retrieved from http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo10327095.html
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Huang, W. (2012). [Review of:] Overseas Chinese Christian entrepreneurs in modern China by Joy Tong. Anthem Press. Religion watch. London, New York, Haryana: Anthem Press. Retrieved from http://www.anthempress.com/overseas-chinese-christian-entrepreneurs-in-modern-china-hb
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Huang, W. (2012). [Review of:] Social scientific studies of religion in China: methodology, theories, and findings. Edited by Fenggang Yang and Graeme Lang. Boston: Brill Press. Religion watch. Retrieved from http://www.brill.com/social-scientific-studies-religion-china
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Jung, J.-H. (2012). [Review of:] Witness to transformation: refugee insights into North Korea by Stephen Haggard and Marcus Noland. Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011. 256pp. Journal of refugee studies. Oxford Univ. Press. Retrieved from http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/1/161.extract
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Koenig, M. (2012). [Review of] Pickel, Gert, und Kornelia Sammet (Hrsg.): Religion und Religiosität im vereinigten Deutschland. Zwanzig Jahre nach dem Umbruch. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2011. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialspychologie. Springer. Retrieved from http://www.uni-koeln.de/kzfss/archiv12-14/ks121inh.htm
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Roberts, N. (2012). [Review of:] Thomas, V.V., Dalit Pentecostalism: Spirituality of the Empowered Poor. Bangalore: Asian Trading Company, 2008. xxv+432pp. Pbk. ISBN: 9788170864577. PentecoStudies. Equinox Publ. Ltd. Retrieved from http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/PENT/article/view/15060/pdf
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Smyer Yu, D., & (2012). [Review] Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern Tibet = 书评 – 滕华睿的《建构现代中国的藏传佛教徒. Asian Highlands Perspectives. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000E-7A47-8
2011
Book Review
Aptekar, S. (2011). [Review of:] Asian immigration to the United States by Philip Q. Yang. Cambridge: Polity. 2011. Ethnic and racial studies. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2011.623131#.U00011dC2no
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Quijada, J. B. (2011). [Review of:] Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam: Shamans, Spirituality, and Cultural Revitalization: Explorations in Siberia and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Anthropology News. American Anthropological Association. Retrieved from http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/toc/an-table-of-contents-december-2011-volume-529/
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Roberts, N. (2011). [Review of:] Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic: democratic practice in South India. Bernard Bate. NewYork: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxiv + 263 pp. American ethnologist. Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01312_3.x/abstract
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Roberts, N. (2011). [Review of:] The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai. Mary E. Hancock. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. 296 pp. American Anthropologist. Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01321_14.x/abstract
Book Review
Shaery, R. (2011). [Review of:] Max Weiss. In the Shadow of Sectarianism. Law, Shi‘ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2010. Social History. Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03071022.2011.555624#preview
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Shaery, R. (2011). Book review: Nicolas van Dam. The Struggle for Power in Syria. Politics and Society under Asad and the Ba‘th Party. London: I.B.Tauris, 2011. Syrian Studies Association Newsletter. Syrian Studies Association. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-C5B5-E
Book Review
Smyer Yu, D. (2011). A Review of Carolyn Chen’s "Getting saved in America: Taiwanese immigration and religious experience". Pastoral psychology. Springer. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11089-009-0233-7
Book Review
Vorng, S. (2011). [Review of:] Taylor, James. Buddhism and postmodern imaginings in Thailand: the religiosity of urban space. vii, 244 pp., Farnham, Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2008. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01698_29.x/abstract
Blog Post (73)
2025
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Emmerich, A. (2025, January 10). [Blog Post:] Symbolic boundaries within Jewish-Muslim encounters in Germany. Retrieved from https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglobalsociety/2025/01/symbolic-boundaries-within-jewish-muslim-encounters-in-germany/
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Emmerich, A. (2025, January 30). [Blog Post:] Biodeutsch – (Un)Wort des Jahres. Retrieved from https://blog.vielfaltleben.de/2025/01/30/biodeutsch-unwort-des-jahres/
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Emmerich, A. (2025, February 24). [Blog Post:] Blaulicht, Rotlicht, Nepp - und Toleranz? Jüdisch-muslimische Begegnungen im Frankfurter Bahnhofsviertel. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-C952-F
2024
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Emmerich, A. (2024, November 18). [Blog Post:] Symbolische Grenzkonfigurationen in jüdisch-muslimischer Beziehungsarbeit. Retrieved from https://blog.soziologie.de/2024/11/symbolische-grenzkonfigurationen-in-juedisch-muslimischer-beziehungsarbeit/
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Sakti, V. K. (2024, August 7). [Blog Post:] Who cares for older refugees? An East Timorese healthcare worker’s mission. Retrieved from https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/aging-globally/who-cares-for-older-refugees-an-east-timorese-healthcare-workers-missionby-victoria-kumala-sakti/
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Torno, S. (2024, July 16). [Blog Post:] ‘I am in Dushanbe now, selling apples at the market.’ Contemplating ageing and (im)mobilities in rural Tajikistan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-92A6-0
2023
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Bialas, U., & Lukate, J. M. (2023, June 30). [Blog Post:] Contested categories in the context of migration: A writing workshop. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-EAAD-9
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Sohail, J. (2023, June 27). [Blog Post:] A caste theory of asylum management? Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-EABF-5
2022
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Ilengiz, Ç. (2022, February). [Blog Post:] Heritage out of control: Models of inheriting spiritual love. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-20AE-E
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Ilengiz, Ç., Debele, S. B., & Kirbis, A. (2022, January). [Blog Post:] Heritage out of control: Introduction. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-20B2-8
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Ströhle, C. (2022, November 15). [Blog Post:] Greetings from… Max-Planck-Institut in Göttingen. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-ED76-4
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Vertovec, S. (2022, November 23). [Blog Post:] Climate Cosmopolitics and Cosmopraxis: Impressions of and at COP27. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-A362-E
2021
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Gandhi, A. (2021, March 22). [Blog Post:] Is Indian capitalism really designed to enhance public welfare? The difference in the way the farmers protest and bank bailouts are treated is instructive. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-3450-3
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Walton, J. F. (2021, June 3). [Blog Post:] Pavelić’s ghost. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-AC89-C
2020
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Badenhoop, E. (2020, February 4). [Blog Post:] Contextualising Frontex: A long-term perspective on database monitoring of migrants. https://doi.org/10.17176/20200204-225813-0
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Ilengiz, Ç. (2020, April 30). [Blog Post:] Commodifying and generating spiritual love: the love pilgrimage of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi (1207-1273). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-BBC0-E
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Ilengiz, Ç. (2020, May 21). [Blog Post:] Magical afterlives in post-genocidal Turkey. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-BC98-B
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Lanari, E., , & (2020, September 10). [Blog Post:] Sounds fishy? [The “Sardine” movement in Italy]. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-067A-A
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Shachar, A. (2020, March). [Blog Post:] Borders in the time of COVID-19. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-D201-2
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van der Veer, P. (2020, April 24). [Blog Post:] Global breathing. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-BBBC-4
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van der Veer, P. (2020, May 6). [Blog Post:] Globales Atmen. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-5F9A-3
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Vertovec, S. (2020, April 21). [Blog Post:] Low-skilled migrants after COVID-19: Singapore futures? Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-41FE-3
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Vertovec, S. (2020, April 21). [Blog Post:] Low-skilled migrants after COVID-19: Singapore futures? Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-4202-D
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Walton, J. F. (2020, March 4). [Blog Post:] To steward unruly imperial pasts. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-F286-2
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Walton, J. F. (2020, July 29). [Blog Post:] Four Days Quarantine in an Ankara Hospital, or, Disciplinary Power in the Time of Covid-19. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-CC2F-1
2019
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Amrith, M. (2019, April). [Blog Post:]Care. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-5E90-F
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Amrith, M., & Sampaio, D. (2019, July). [Blog Post:] Reflections on the ‘Grey is the New Pink: Moments of Ageing’ exhibition. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-5EA5-8
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Boudou, B. (2019, August 30). [Blog Post:] Vers une éthique du sauvetage. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-F07A-4
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Ladwig, P. (2019, March 29). [Blog Post:] Buddhism, booming businesses and the ritual economy in urban Laos (fieldwork note & vignette). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-5E86-B
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Mohamed, S. (2019). [Blog Post:] Schwarz. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-E147-D
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Schlegel, S., & (2019, May 10). [Blog Post:] Migration: Gegen das Schubladendenken. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-B8BC-8
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Schlegel, S., & (2019, July 28). [Blog Post:] 8 principles of direct democracy. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-B818-1
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Seethaler-Wari, S., , & (2019, July). [Blog Post:] Inside out, outside in: shifting architectures of refugee (in)habitation. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-D549-9
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van der Veer, P. (2019, November 14). [Blog Post:] Spirit. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-52EB-6
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Vevaina, L. (2019, September 11). [Blog Post:] Giving, time, and a wish. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-F375-5
2018
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Amrith, M. (2018, December). [Blog Post:] Ageing in a time of mobility: An introduction. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-B868-8
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Amrith, M. (2018, December). [Blog Post:] Ageing bodies: Retiring from temporary lives. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-0EE7-7
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Boudou, B. (2018, July 6). [Blog Post:] The solidarity offense in France: Egalité, Fraternité, Solidarité! Verfassungsblog. https://doi.org/10.17176/20180706-155440-0
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Gadjanova, E. (2018, April 27). [Blog Post:] ‘We need to match the other guy, try to undo the others’. Why campaign handouts do not guarantee votes in competitive elections with secret ballots, but continue anyway. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-D6A4-F
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Gadjanova, E. (2018, September 19). [Blog Post:] Democracy in decline in Africa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-F403-3
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Moghaddari, S. (2018, August 24). [Blog Post:] On (not) being there: Affective simultaneity across place and time #displacement. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-EB0B-7
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Moghaddari, S. (2018, June). [Blog Post:] Fieldnotes on interpretation and the limits of activist-research. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-EB12-E
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Mohamed, S. (2018, December). [Blog Post:] Afrofuturism & “space is the place”. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-E150-2
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Sakti, V. K. (2018, December). [Blog Post:] Portraits of ageing in displacement: East Timorese diasporas in Indonesia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-0EFA-2
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Schlegel, S. (2018, December 3). [Blog Post:] Eine direkte Demokratie wird in der globalisierten Rechtsordnung erwachsen: Die Schweiz nach der Selbstbestimmungsinitiative. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-B8D2-E
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Schlegel, S. (2018, September 12). [Blog Post:] „Festung Europa“. Es wird Zeit für ein anderes Bild. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-BAA8-C
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Schmalz, D. (2018, June 13). [Blog Post:] Weshalb man Asylsuchende nicht an der Grenze abweisen kann. https://doi.org/10.17176/20180614-182247-0
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Schmalz, D. (2018, July 4). [Blog Post:] Die Fiktion der Nichteinreise ist ein Instrument der Entrechtung. https://doi.org/10.17176/20180704-163846-0
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Schmalz, D. (2018, June 28). [Blog Post:] Standpunktlosigkeit ist keine Option. https://doi.org/10.17176/20180730-101743-0
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Schmalz, D. (2018, June 14). [Blog Post:] Weshalb man Asylsuchende nicht an der Grenze abweisen kann, Teil 2. https://doi.org/10.17176/20180615-164914-0.
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Schmalz, D., & (2018, January 8). [Blog Post:] Werben gegen Asyl: Gedanken zur „Rumours about Germany“-Kampagne. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-ED9B-2
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Schmalz, D., & (2018, January). [Blog Post:] Advertizing against asylum: Thoughts on the “Rumours about Germany” campaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-0A39-0
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Schmalz, D., & (2018, June 20). [Blog Post:] Anordnung des (Europa-)Rechtsbruchs. https://doi.org/10.17176/20180620-191624-0
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Stasik, M. (2018, June). [Blog Post:] Diversity, anthropologically studied. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-D59D-A
2017
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Schlegel, S. (2017, October 9). [Blog Post:] Völkerrecht und Verfassungsrecht: Wie eine Volksinitiative in der Schweiz herbeiführte, was sie abzuschaffen vorgibt. https://doi.org/10.17176/20171009-120154
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Schlegel, S., & (2017, May 4). [Blog Post:] Welcher Vorrang hat nun Vorrang? Wie der Schweiz die Herrschaft über das Völkerrecht zurückgewonnen werden soll. https://doi.org/10.17176/20180327-134023
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Schmalz, D. (2017, October 16). [Blog Post:] The identification of individuals: Some thoughts on the ECHR judgment in the case N.D. and N.T. https://doi.org/10.17176/20171016-172747
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Schmalz, D. (2017, October 4). [Blog Post:] Die Identifikation Einzelner – Gedanken zum EGMR-Urteil im Fall N.D. und N.T. https://doi.org/10.17176/20171005-100759
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Schmalz, D. (2017, August 22). [Blog Post:] Rescue operations in the Mediterranean and the intra-European distribution of responsibility for refugees. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-EDE0-3
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Schmalz, D. (2017, July 29). [Blog Post:] Subjektive Rechte aus der Dublin-Verordnung: Der Fall Mengesteab vor dem EuGH. https://doi.org/10.17176/20170729-074105
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Schmalz, D. (2017, May 31). [Blog Post:] The Michigan Guidelines on Refugee Freedom of Movement, or: how explosive existing law can be. https://doi.org/10.17176/20170531-154147
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Schmalz, D. (2017, May 29). [Blog Post:] Die Michigan Guidelines on Refugee Freedom of Movement, oder: so brisant ist das geltende Recht. https://doi.org/10.17176/20170529-174149
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Schmalz, D. (2017, May 3). [Blog Post:] Judgment and diversity: Thinking with Hannah Arendt about the composition of international court benches. https://doi.org/10.17176/20170503-132202
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Schmalz, D. (2017, February 2). [Blog Post:] Geschlossenheit in welchem Sinne? Europäische Verfassungsfragen beim Treffen in Malta. https://doi.org/10.17176/20170203-101737
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Walton, J. F. (2017). [Blog Post:] Beyond convivencia and conflict? Reflections on the history and memory of Andalusian and Ottoman religious belonging. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002C-4EDE-4
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Walton, J. F. (2017, June 8). [Blog Post:] On the recent past, fraught present, and tenuous future of Turkish Muslim civil society. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002D-6EC8-6
2016
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Bianchini, K. (2016). [Blog Post:] Facing a lifetime of uncertainty: Protecting stateless persons from arbitrary detention in the UK. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002C-011F-6
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Hellmann, N. (2016). [Blog Post:] Wildlife trafficking in Mongla. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002B-822B-9
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Hellmann, N. (2016, October 13). Mongla: ‘the wildlife Trafficking capital of the world.’ Retrieved from http://www.irrawaddy.com/features/mongla-wildlife-trafficking-capital-world.html
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Schlegel, S. (2016, September). [Blog Post:] “I want my entry tickets back!” Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-EC38-3
2015
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Jung, J.-H. (2015, October 14). Why do most North Korean migrants choose to be Protestant? Understanding North Koreans as people is better than wooing them with gifts. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0029-4849-A
2014
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Cornelio, J. S. (2014, February 14). [Blog Post:] Filipino Catholics are conservative and liberal. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0015-3E73-D
2012
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Schönwälder, K., & Petermann, S. (2012, November). Vielfalt als städtische Normalität. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000E-72DD-5
Interview (9)
2025
Interview
Emmerich, A. (2025, January 9). Gelebte Vielfalt: Kultursoziologe Arndt Emmerich im Gespräch. hr2 Kultur: "Am Nachmittag". Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-6B11-3
2024
Interview
Emmerich, A. (2024, September 23). Salafism in Germany. Rethinking Contemporary Islamic Movements in and across Europe and the Middle East and North Africa. Edinburgh; Cambridge: The Edinburgh Alwaleed Centre; The Centre for Islamic Studies. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmNApKuuHY8
2022
Interview
, , & Samanani, F. (2022, February 28). [Podcast:] Post-war/post-Covid. BBC Radio 4: Start the Week. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-111D-3
Interview
Wie nehmen wir Menschen mit krausen Haaren wahr? (2022, September 7). detektor.fm: Ach, Mensch! Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0011-54BE-9
2021
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Gandhi, A., & (2021, February 26). New Books in South Asian Studies: A. Gandhi et al., "Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction" (Cambridge UP, 2020) An interview with A. Gandhi and S. Schwecke. New Books Network NBN. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-34B7-F
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Schönwälder, K. (2021, July 28). Wie stehen die Deutschen zu Diversität? detektor.fm: Ach, Mensch! Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-F35D-E