Blogs

sorted in descending chronological order

Researchers from the institute describe the development of their projects and the challenges, delights and frustrations of conducting social scientific research.

Interreligiöse Begegnungen in der Metropole. Am Beispiel von jüdisch-muslimischen Beziehungen in Frankfurt am Main
Forum fuer Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung
Blog | February 2024
Jews and Muslims in the 19th arrondissement of Paris: face to face, or side by side?
Blog | June 2023
Contested Categories in the Context of Migration: A Writing Workshop
Blog | June 2023
A Caste Theory of Asylum Management?
boasblog
Blog | June 2023
Les Festivals de films Palestinien et Israélien, un laboratoire des relations judéo-musulmanes à Strasbourg
Blog | May 2023
A Pedagogy for Anti-Racism
boasblog
Blog | April 2023
Interreligious dynamics in Alsace, an exception to the rule in France
Blog | April 2023
Climate Cosmopolitics and Cosmopraxis: Impressions of and at COP27
Blog | November 2022
Greetings from… Max-Planck-Institut in Göttingen
Junge Forschung Blog, Universität Innsbruck
Blog | November 2022
Germany’s first Christian-Muslim kindergarten. Interfaith cooperation and integration
Qantara/ Deutsche Welle
Blog | October 2022
Exploring Frankfurt’s Deep-Story and Impact on Jewish-Muslim Encounters
Blog | October 2022
Two exhibitions on Muslim-Jewish relations in Paris: finding what to show
Blog | August 2022
The Migrant in a House of Mirrors: Some Reflections on the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies
MIASA blog
Blog | June 2022
How COVID-19 changed migration (research): Constrained research practices, constrained migrant subjects
Blog | June 2022
“Like Us!” - The Shifting Grounds of Proximity in the Reception of Refugees, Then and Now
Blog | May 2022
Déjà vu: Anti-immigrant and xenophobic attitudes as a recurrent feature of post-apartheid South Africa
ASCL Africanist Blog
Blog | April 2022
More Secure, More Self-Determined… For Now
Blog | April 2022
Mapping the Messy ‘Field’ of Interfaith Encounters
Blog | March 2022
Perhaps not a world war, but one that should concern us all: The War in Ukraine from a Vietnamese perspective
Blog | March 2022
Teaching Virtual Interreligious Ethnography in a Pandemic
Blog | February 2022
Language change and persistence within Turkish mosques in Germany
Blog | January 2022
Rehumanising scholarship
Talking Humanities 
Blog | December 2021
Solidarity and Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in the UK
Blog | December 2021
Innovating Interfaith Dialogue between Jews and Muslims in Berlin
Blog | November 2021
Retirement of Peter van der Veer on 31.05.2021
Blog | July 2021
Pavelić’s Ghost Sidecar
Blog | June 2021
Is Indian capitalism really designed to enhance public welfare? Scroll.in 
Blog | March 2021
The female silhouette of the Belarusian uprising
Blog | November 2020
Decentralise the Procedure but not the Law? Cautionary Lessons from Switzerland’s Multilevel Citizenship Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT)
Blog | August 2020
Four Days Quarantine in an Ankara Hospital, or, Disciplinary Power in the Time of Covid-19 American Ethnologist
Blog | July 2020
How “A Burning” grapples with India’s current political reality
The Caravan
Blog | June 2020
Magical afterlives in post-genocidal Turkey
Allegralabrotory
Blog | May 2020
Mobility after Covid-19: From ‘globubble’ to ‘slowbubble’
Blog | May 2020
A critical tribute to sociologist Yogendra Singh (1932-2020) — as a teacher, and his thoughts as a scholar Firstpost
Blog | May 2020
space, place The Immanent Frame
Blog | May 2020
To Steward Unruly Imperial Pasts TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
Blog | May 2020
Commodifying and Generating Spiritual Love: The Love Pilgrimage of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi (1207-1273) The Sociological Review
Blog | May 2020
Enduring indifference and the vital labour of migrant domestic workers Identities COVID-19 Blog Series
Blog | April 2020
Global Breathing
Blog | April 2020
Low-skilled migrants after COVID-19: Singapore futures? COMPAS Coronavirus and Mobility Forum
Blog | April 2020
Virus, curse or prophecy? African Pentecostals making sense of the COVID-19 pandemic ASCL Africanist Blog
Blog | April 2020
Borders in the Time of COVID-19 Ethics & International Affairs
Blog | March 2020
Citizen Amendment Act is Confirmation of India as a Hindu Nation-State Berkley Forum
Blog | March 2020
Chinese Black humor in a Time of Crisis and Despair
Blog | February 2020
‘Boa viagem’ (or ‘visa trips’): on migration, separation, and faith
Blog | December 2019
Spirit The Immanent Frame
Blog | November 2019
70th anniversary - Patriotism becomes fashionable in China
Blog | October 2019
Waiting for Sundays. Fieldwork reflections
Blog | October 2019
Giving, time, and a wish The Immanent Frame
Blog | September 2019
Reflections on the ‘Grey is the New Pink: Moments of Ageing’ Exhibition
Blog | July 2019
INSIDE OUT – OUTSIDE IN. Shifting Architectures of Refugee (In)habitation
Blog | July 2019
Les bus ghanéens, entre attente, ruses et petits arrangements Le Monde Afrique
Blog | May 2019
Fieldnote 3: Buddhism, booming businesses and the ritual economy in urban Laos Max-Cam
Blog | March 2019
“All organizing is disorganizing”
Blog | May 2019
Du bist nicht #vonhier, oder? Kommentar zur aktuellen „Heimat“- und „Herkunfts“debatte
Blog | March 2019
“The Local Citizenship Crisis in Switzerland”
Blog | February 2019
“Voice, Sound and Atmospheres: Religious Feelings and Beyond”: A blog on the workshop held on 7 Feb 2019 at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, Göttingen
Blog | February 2019
Do Policies Have Worlds? Some Reflexions on “Integration” and Local Governance
Blog | December 2018
Eine direkte Demokratie wird in der globalisierten Rechtsordnung erwachsen: Die Schweiz nach der Selbstbestimmungs­initiative Verfassungsblog
Blog | December 2018
Off-Center Inquiry
Blog | December 2018
Lessons of an Eccentric Perspective on Empire
Blog | December 2018
The public understanding of migration
Blog | December 2018
Ageing in a Time of Mobility: An Introduction
Blog | December 2018
(Im)mobilities of transnational ageing care: negotiating separation, solidarity and conflict within Brazilian families Blog | December 2018
Portraits of Ageing in Displacement: East Timorese Diasporas in Indonesia
Blog | December 2018
Constructing Livelihoods: Older Cameroonians in Times of Mobility
Blog | December 2018
Ageing Bodies: Retiring from Temporary Lives
Blog | December 2018
#MeTwo – und die Frage, was sozialen Aufstieg in der deutschen Einwanderungsgesellschaft so schwer macht
Blog | December 2018
Race in Britain: inequality, identity, belonging Cumberland Lodge

Blog | November 2018
„Festung Europa“. Es wird Zeit für ein anderes Bild Geschichte der Gegenwart

Blog | September 2018
Ankunfts-, Entscheidungs- und Rückführungszentren (AnkER-Zentren) – Erwartungen und kritische Bestandsaufnahme Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung

Blog | September 2018
Vor Jahrhunderten gab es eine Flüchtlingskrise – das können wir daraus lernen FOCUS Online

Blog | August 2018
Was kann die offene Gesellschaft dem chauvinistischen Nationalismus entgegensetzen? Der Tagesspiegel

July 2018
Crossing and conversion: Conclusion SSRC Forums

Blog | July 2018
The Solidarity Offense in France: Egalité, Fraternité, Solidarité! Verfassungsblog

Blog | July 2018
Die Fiktion der Nichteinreise ist ein Instrument der Entrechtung Verfassungsblog

Blog | July 2018
Kommentar zu „In den AnkER-Zentren wollen wir die Asyl-Verfahren nicht nur schneller, sondern auch ...“ Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung

Blog | June 2018
Is the Reasoning in "Coman" as Good as the Result? Verfassungsblog

Blog | June 2018
Diversity, anthropologically studied
Blog | June 2018
Workshop on “Chinese Religions in the Age of Massive Urbanization”
Blog | June 2018
Fieldnotes on interpretation and the limits of activist-research
Blog | June 2018
Shinto Shrines in Taiwan 101: Art Exhibition in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Blog | June 2018
Weshalb man Asylsuchende nicht an der Grenze abweisen kann Verfassungsblog
Blog | June 2018
Weshalb man Asylsuchende nicht an der Grenze abweisen kann, Teil 2 Verfassungsblog
Blog | June 2018
A Critical Perspective on “Associate EU Citizenship” Brexit Institute News

Blog | May 2018
Twentieth-Century Faces of Anthropology’s Holism Renewing Political Anthropology
Anthropology News
Blog | May 2018
Economy or Justice? How Urban Actors Respond to Diversity Urban Affairs Forum
Blog | May 2018
The Dead and the Living
Blog | April 2018
Finding Place(s) for the Past in Trieste/A Trieste, cercando di far posto alla storia A collaboration between Alessio Mazzaro and members of the EoM research group
Blog | April 2018
Is Political Anthropology Dead? Renewing Political Anthropology
Anthropology News
Blog | February 2018
Advertizing against Asylum Thoughts on the “Rumours about Germany” Campaign

Blog | January 2018
Kenya’s 2017 Election Devolution, Uncertainty, and Unpredictable Electorates
Blog | August 2017
Tianjin’s Imperial Discomfort
Blog | August 2017
Trieste is Sissi with Piercings and Blue Hair
Blog | June 2017
Echoes of History: Chinese Poetry at the Angel Island Immigration Station
Blog | May 2017
Europe wrote the book on demonising refugees, long before Trump read it The Guardian
Blog | February 2017
Post-Imperial Peregrinations (On the Origins of Empires of Memory)
Blog | February 2017
“I want my entry tickets back!”

Blog | September 2016
Banlieues and the terrorist enemy within
Blog | November 2015
Come Tomorrow
Blog | October 2015
A Machine for the Production of Gods SSRC Forums

Blog | August 2015
Regulations versus hierarchies: Commuters creating inhabitable worlds in the Mumbai suburban trains Somatosphere
Blog | May 2015
Commonplace diversity: stable and peaceful relations across myriad differences in Hackney LSE
Blog | February 2015
Religious Diversity in Singapore
Blog | November 2014
China’s stained glass windows
Blog | October 2014
Preparing to capture the use of gesture in Mumbai
Blog | April 2014
From Accra to Bolgatanga and back: reflections on a month spent in Ghana

Blog | March 2014
Hizbullah Between Islamism and Imperialism: Romanticizing Violence, Idealizing Categories?
Blog | February 2014
Reading ‘super-diversity’
Blog | February 2014
Rethinking of Social Scientific Study of Religion – metanotes from the field, summer 2013
Blogs | November 2013
Master Yang’s Lingering Power SSRC Forums

Blog | September 2013
Notes on the Familiar Stranger: thinking through ambivalent encounters in public spaces. Part One.
Blog | August 2013
Icons and Iconoclasm: Dying to the World
Blog | June 2013
Urban Friendship Networks as “Communities of Convenience” FASS Cities Research Cluster Blog
Blog | May 2013
Practicing Public Anthropology with Khenpo Sodargye
Blog | April 2013
The Prayer Blog: The Ritual Location of Prayer SSRC Forums

Blog | March 2013
Fieldworking with Khenpo Sodargye – The Charismatic Mind of a Modern Buddhist Thinker
Blog | February 2013
Kazan - City of cultures
Blog | January 2013
Good and evil in a sufficiently unsuccessful interview
Blog | November 2012
Ensouling the Mountain. Dan Smyer Yu on Film Making

Blog | October 2012
Thoughts from Shanghai’s Bund
Blog | September 2012
Youth studies and emancipation
Blog | July 2012
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