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Arndt Emmerich

Arndt Emmerich

Symbolic boundaries within Jewish-Muslim encounters in Germany
LSE Religion and Global Society
Blog | January 2025
Colin Clarke

Colin Clarke

Racist Regimes, Forced Labour and Death: British Slavery in the Caribbean and the Holocaust in Germany and the Occupied Territories
Blog | January 2025
Arndt Emmerich

Arndt Emmerich

Symbolische Grenzkonfigurationen in jüdisch-muslimischer Beziehungsarbeit
SozBlog: Blog der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
Blog | November 2024
Arndt Emmerich

Arndt Emmerich

Die Zweiflers. Was uns die preisgekrönte Serie im Frankfurter Bahnhofsviertel über jüdisch-muslimisches Zusammenleben erzählt
Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, ZfM Online, GAAAP_The Blog
Blog | November 2024
Arndt Emmerich

Arndt Emmerich

Interreligiöse Begegnungen in der Metropole. Am Beispiel von jüdisch-muslimischen Beziehungen in Frankfurt am Main
Forum fuer Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung
Blog | February 2024
Nonna Mayer

Nonna Mayer

Jews and Muslims in the 19th arrondissement of Paris: face to face, or side by side?
Blog | June 2023
Ulrike Bialas & Johanna M. Lukate

Ulrike Bialas & Johanna M. Lukate

Contested Categories in the Context of Migration: A Writing Workshop
Blog | June 2023
Jagat Sohail

Jagat Sohail

A Caste Theory of Asylum Management?
boasblog
Blog | June 2023
Lalia Schmitt

Lalia Schmitt

Les Festivals de films Palestinien et Israélien, un laboratoire des relations judéo-musulmanes à Strasbourg
Blog | May 2023
Sahana Udupa

Sahana Udupa

A Pedagogy for Anti-Racism
boasblog
Blog | April 2023
Hande Senguler

Hande Senguler

Interreligious dynamics in Alsace, an exception to the rule in France
Blog | April 2023
Steven Vertovec

Steven Vertovec

Climate Cosmopolitics and Cosmopraxis: Impressions of and at COP27
Blog | November 2022
Claudius Ströhle

Claudius Ströhle

Greetings from… Max-Planck-Institut in Göttingen
Junge Forschung Blog, Universität Innsbruck
Blog | November 2022
Arndt Emmerich

Arndt Emmerich

Germany’s first Christian-Muslim kindergarten. Interfaith cooperation and integration
Qantara/ Deutsche Welle
Blog | October 2022
Arndt Emmerich

Arndt Emmerich

Exploring Frankfurt’s Deep-Story and Impact on Jewish-Muslim Encounters
Blog | October 2022
Elodie Druez

Elodie Druez

Two exhibitions on Muslim-Jewish relations in Paris: finding what to show
Blog | August 2022
Michael Stasik

Michael Stasik

The Migrant in a House of Mirrors: Some Reflections on the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies
MIASA blog
Blog | June 2022
Helena Hof

Helena Hof

How COVID-19 changed migration (research): Constrained research practices, constrained migrant subjects
Blog | June 2022
Ulrike Bialas (MPI-MMG) and Jagat Sohail (Princeton University)

Ulrike Bialas (MPI-MMG) and Jagat Sohail (Princeton University)

“Like Us!” - The Shifting Grounds of Proximity in the Reception of Refugees, Then and Now
Blog | May 2022
Tinashe Chimbidzikai

Tinashe Chimbidzikai

Déjà vu: Anti-immigrant and xenophobic attitudes as a recurrent feature of post-apartheid South Africa
ASCL Africanist Blog
Blog | April 2022
Ulrike Bialas

Ulrike Bialas

More Secure, More Self-Determined… For Now
Blog | April 2022
Daniella Shaw

Daniella Shaw

Mapping the Messy ‘Field’ of Interfaith Encounters
Blog | March 2022
Tam Ngo

Tam Ngo

Perhaps not a world war, but one that should concern us all: The War in Ukraine from a Vietnamese perspective
Blog | March 2022
Samuel Sami Everett

Samuel Sami Everett

Teaching Virtual Interreligious Ethnography in a Pandemic
Blog | February 2022
Arndt Emmerich

Arndt Emmerich

Language change and persistence within Turkish mosques in Germany
Blog | January 2022
Farhan Samanani

Farhan Samanani

Rehumanising scholarship
Talking Humanities 
Blog | December 2021
Yulia Egorova

Yulia Egorova

Solidarity and Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in the UK
Blog | December 2021
Dekel Peretz

Dekel Peretz

Innovating Interfaith Dialogue between Jews and Muslims in Berlin
Blog | November 2021
Jie Kang

Jie Kang

Retirement of Peter van der Veer on 31.05.2021
Blog | July 2021
Jeremy F. Walton

Jeremy F. Walton

Pavelić’s Ghost Sidecar
Blog | June 2021
Ajay Gandhi

Ajay Gandhi

Is Indian capitalism really designed to enhance public welfare? Scroll.in 
Blog | March 2021
Artem Galushko

Artem Galushko

The female silhouette of the Belarusian uprising
Blog | November 2020
Barbara von Rütte

Barbara von Rütte

Decentralise the Procedure but not the Law? Cautionary Lessons from Switzerland’s Multilevel Citizenship Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT)
Blog | August 2020
Jeremy F. Walton

Jeremy F. Walton

Four Days Quarantine in an Ankara Hospital, or, Disciplinary Power in the Time of Covid-19 American Ethnologist
Blog | July 2020
Irfan Ahmad

Irfan Ahmad

How “A Burning” grapples with India’s current political reality
The Caravan
Blog | June 2020
Çiçek Ilengiz

Çiçek Ilengiz

Magical afterlives in post-genocidal Turkey
Allegralabrotory
Blog | May 2020
MPI MMG Senior Research Partner Robin Cohen (Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford)

MPI MMG Senior Research Partner Robin Cohen (Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford)

Mobility after Covid-19: From ‘globubble’ to ‘slowbubble’
Blog | May 2020
Irfan Ahmad

Irfan Ahmad

A critical tribute to sociologist Yogendra Singh (1932-2020) — as a teacher, and his thoughts as a scholar Firstpost
Blog | May 2020
Jeremy F. Walton

Jeremy F. Walton

space, place The Immanent Frame
Blog | May 2020
Jeremy F. Walton

Jeremy F. Walton

To Steward Unruly Imperial Pasts TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
Blog | May 2020
Çiçek İlengiz

Çiçek İlengiz

Commodifying and Generating Spiritual Love: The Love Pilgrimage of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi (1207-1273) The Sociological Review
Blog | May 2020
Megha Amrith

Megha Amrith

Enduring indifference and the vital labour of migrant domestic workers Identities COVID-19 Blog Series
Blog | April 2020
Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer

Global Breathing
Blog | April 2020
Steven Vertovec

Steven Vertovec

Low-skilled migrants after COVID-19: Singapore futures? COMPAS Coronavirus and Mobility Forum
Blog | April 2020
Tinashe Chimbidzikai

Tinashe Chimbidzikai

Virus, curse or prophecy? African Pentecostals making sense of the COVID-19 pandemic ASCL Africanist Blog
Blog | April 2020
Ayelet Shachar

Ayelet Shachar

Borders in the Time of COVID-19 Ethics & International Affairs
Blog | March 2020
Irfan Ahmad

Irfan Ahmad

Citizen Amendment Act is Confirmation of India as a Hindu Nation-State Berkley Forum
Blog | March 2020
Zhen Ma

Zhen Ma

Chinese Black humor in a Time of Crisis and Despair
Blog | February 2020
Dora Sampaio

Dora Sampaio

‘Boa viagem’ (or ‘visa trips’): on migration, separation, and faith
Blog | December 2019
Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer

Spirit The Immanent Frame
Blog | November 2019
Jie Kang

Jie Kang

70th anniversary - Patriotism becomes fashionable in China
Blog | October 2019
Megha Amrith

Megha Amrith

Waiting for Sundays. Fieldwork reflections
Blog | October 2019
Leilah Vevaina

Leilah Vevaina

Giving, time, and a wish The Immanent Frame
 Blog | September 2019
Megha Amrith and Dora Sampaio

Megha Amrith and Dora Sampaio

Reflections on the ‘Grey is the New Pink: Moments of Ageing’ Exhibition
Blog | July 2019
Shahd Wari, Somayeh Chitchian, and Maja Momic

Shahd Wari, Somayeh Chitchian, and Maja Momic

INSIDE OUT – OUTSIDE IN. Shifting Architectures of Refugee (In)habitation
Blog | July 2019
Michael Stasik

Michael Stasik

Les bus ghanéens, entre attente, ruses et petits arrangements Le Monde Afrique
 Blog | May 2019
Patrice Ladwig

Patrice Ladwig

Fieldnote 3: Buddhism, booming businesses and the ritual economy in urban Laos Max-Cam
Blog | March 2019
Farhan Samanani

Farhan Samanani

“All organizing is disorganizing”
Blog | May 2019
Miriam Schader

Miriam Schader

Du bist nicht #vonhier, oder? Kommentar zur aktuellen „Heimat“- und „Herkunfts“debatte
Blog | March 2019
Samuel D. Schmid, European University Institute

Samuel D. Schmid, European University Institute

“The Local Citizenship Crisis in Switzerland”
Blog | February 2019
Patrick Eisenlohr, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen

Patrick Eisenlohr, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen

“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
Bob White

Bob White

Do Policies Have Worlds? Some Reflexions on “Integration” and Local Governance
Blog | December 2018
Stefan Schlegel

Stefan Schlegel

Eine direkte Demokratie wird in der globalisierten Rechtsordnung erwachsen: Die Schweiz nach der Selbstbestimmungs­initiative Verfassungsblog
 Blog | December 2018
Derek Denman

Derek Denman

Off-Center Inquiry
Blog | December 2018
Jeremy F. Walton

Jeremy F. Walton

Lessons of an Eccentric Perspective on Empire
Blog | December 2018
Steven Vertovec

Steven Vertovec

The public understanding of migration
Blog | December 2018
Megha Amrith

Megha Amrith

Ageing in a Time of Mobility: An Introduction
Blog | December 2018
Dora Sampaio

Dora Sampaio

(Im)mobilities of transnational ageing care: negotiating separation, solidarity and conflict within Brazilian families Blog | December 2018
Victoria K. Sakti

Victoria K. Sakti

Portraits of Ageing in Displacement: East Timorese Diasporas in Indonesia
Blog | December 2018
Nele Wolter

Nele Wolter

Constructing Livelihoods: Older Cameroonians in Times of Mobility
Blog | December 2018
Megha Amrith

Megha Amrith

Ageing Bodies: Retiring from Temporary Lives
Blog | December 2018
Christine Lang, Jens Schneider, Andreas Pott

Christine Lang, Jens Schneider, Andreas Pott

#MeTwo – und die Frage, was sozialen Aufstieg in der deutschen Einwanderungsgesellschaft so schwer macht
Blog | December 2018
Farhan Samanani

Farhan Samanani

Race in Britain: inequality, identity, belonging Cumberland Lodge
Blog | November 2018
Stefan Schlegel

Stefan Schlegel

„Festung Europa“. Es wird Zeit für ein anderes Bild Geschichte der Gegenwart
Blog | September 2018
Miriam Schader, Tim Rohmann, Sybille Münch

Miriam Schader, Tim Rohmann, Sybille Münch

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

Maximilian Scholz

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

Stefan Schlegel

Was kann die offene Gesellschaft dem chauvinistischen Nationalismus entgegensetzen? Der Tagesspiegel
July 2018
Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer

Crossing and conversion: Conclusion SSRC Forums
Blog | July 2018
Benjamin Boudou

Benjamin Boudou

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

Dana Schmalz

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

Miriam Schader

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

Martijn van den Brink

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

Michael Stasik

Diversity, anthropologically studied
Blog | June 2018
Jie Kang

Jie Kang

Workshop on “Chinese Religions in the Age of Massive Urbanization”
Blog | June 2018
Sonja Moghaddari

Sonja Moghaddari

Fieldnotes on interpretation and the limits of activist-research
Blog | June 2018
Liza Wing Man Kam

Liza Wing Man Kam

Shinto Shrines in Taiwan 101: Art Exhibition in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Blog | June 2018
Dana Schmalz

Dana Schmalz

Weshalb man Asylsuchende nicht an der Grenze abweisen kann Verfassungsblog
 Blog | June 2018
Dana Schmalz

Dana Schmalz

Weshalb man Asylsuchende nicht an der Grenze abweisen kann, Teil 2 Verfassungsblog
 Blog | June 2018
Martijn van den Brink, Dimitry Kochenov

Martijn van den Brink, Dimitry Kochenov

A Critical Perspective on “Associate EU Citizenship” Brexit Institute News

 Blog | May 2018
Irfan Ahmad

Irfan Ahmad

Twentieth-Century Faces of Anthropology’s Holism Renewing Political Anthropology
Anthropology News
 Blog | May 2018
Michalis Moutselos, Christian Jacobs, Julia Martínez-Ariño, Maria Schiller, Karen Schönwälder, Alexandre Tandé

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
 Blog | May 2018
Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer

The Dead and the Living
Blog | April 2018
Giulia Carabelli

Giulia Carabelli

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
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Irfan Ahmad

Is Political Anthropology Dead? Renewing Political Anthropology
Anthropology News
 Blog | February 2018
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Nerges Azizi, Dana Schmalz

Advertizing against Asylum Thoughts on the “Rumours about Germany” Campaign
Blog | January 2018
<span lang="EN-US">Elena Gadjanova<br /></span>

Elena Gadjanova

Kenya’s 2017 Election Devolution, Uncertainty, and Unpredictable Electorates
Blog | August 2017
<span lang="EN-US">Miloš Jovanović</span>

Miloš Jovanović

Tianjin’s Imperial Discomfort
Blog | August 2017
<span lang="EN-US">Giulia Carabelli<br /></span>

Giulia Carabelli

Trieste is Sissi with Piercings and Blue Hair
Blog | June 2017
Ying Diao

Ying Diao

Echoes of History: Chinese Poetry at the Angel Island Immigration Station
Blog | May 2017
<span lang="EN-US">Piro Rexhepi<br /></span>

Piro Rexhepi

Europe wrote the book on demonising refugees, long before Trump read it The Guardian
 Blog | February 2017
Jeremy F. Walton

Jeremy F. Walton

Post-Imperial Peregrinations (On the Origins of Empires of Memory)
Blog | February 2017
Stefan Schlegel

Stefan Schlegel

“I want my entry tickets back!”

Blog | September 2016
Michalis Moutselos

Michalis Moutselos

Banlieues and the terrorist enemy within
Blog | November 2015
Léonie Newhouse

Léonie Newhouse

Come Tomorrow
Blog | October 2015
Anderson Blanton

Anderson Blanton

A Machine for the Production of Gods SSRC Forums

 Blog | August 2015
Annelies Kusters

Annelies Kusters

Regulations versus hierarchies: Commuters creating inhabitable worlds in the Mumbai suburban trains Somatosphere
 Blog | May 2015
Susanne Wessendorf

Susanne Wessendorf

Commonplace diversity: stable and peaceful relations across myriad differences in Hackney LSE
 Blog | February 2015
Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer

Religious Diversity in Singapore
Blog | November 2014
Naomi Hellmann

Naomi Hellmann

China’s stained glass windows
Blog | October 2014
Annelies Kusters

Annelies Kusters

Preparing to capture the use of gesture in Mumbai
Blog | April 2014
Elena Gadjanova

Elena Gadjanova

From Accra to Bolgatanga and back: reflections on a month spent in Ghana

 Blog | March 2014
Roschanack Shaery

Roschanack Shaery

Hizbullah Between Islamism and Imperialism: Romanticizing Violence, Idealizing Categories?
Blog | February 2014
Steven Vertovec

Steven Vertovec

Reading ‘super-diversity’
Blog | February 2014
Dan Smyer Yu

Dan Smyer Yu

Rethinking of Social Scientific Study of Religion – metanotes from the field, summer 2013
Blogs | November 2013
Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer

Master Yang’s Lingering Power SSRC Forums

 Blog | September 2013
Junjia Ye

Junjia Ye

Notes on the Familiar Stranger: thinking through ambivalent encounters in public spaces. Part One.
Blog | August 2013
Angie Heo

Angie Heo

Icons and Iconoclasm: Dying to the World
Blog | June 2013
Laavanya Kathiravelu

Laavanya Kathiravelu

Urban Friendship Networks as “Communities of Convenience” FASS Cities Research Cluster Blog
 Blog | May 2013
Dan Smyer Yu

Dan Smyer Yu

Practicing Public Anthropology with Khenpo Sodargye
Blog | April 2013
Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer

The Prayer Blog: The Ritual Location of Prayer SSRC Forums

 Blog | March 2013
Dan Smyer Yu

Dan Smyer Yu

Fieldworking with Khenpo Sodargye – The Charismatic Mind of a Modern Buddhist Thinker
Blog | February 2013
Paul Becker

Paul Becker

Kazan - City of cultures
Blog | January 2013
Jörg Hüttermann

Jörg Hüttermann

Good and evil in a sufficiently unsuccessful interview
Blog | November 2012
Dan Smyer Yu

Dan Smyer Yu

Ensouling the Mountain. Dan Smyer Yu on Film Making

 Blog | October 2012
Dan Smyer Yu

Dan Smyer Yu

Thoughts from Shanghai’s Bund
Blog | September 2012
Jayeel Serrano Cornelio

Jayeel Serrano Cornelio

Youth studies and emancipation
Blog | July 2012
Dan Smyer Yu

Dan Smyer Yu

Embrace. Dan Smyer Yu on film making
Blog | June 2012
Raji Matshedisho

Raji Matshedisho

Reflections on video log
Blog | February 2012
Nathaniel Roberts

Nathaniel Roberts

Time, order, and the ethical in the production of ethnographic knowledge
Blog | January 2012
Laavanya Kathiravelu

Laavanya Kathiravelu

Fieldwork at ‘home’
Blog | October 2011
Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer

After 9/11
Blog | September 2011
Vibha Joshi

Vibha Joshi

An anthropologist among believers
Blog | June 2011
Stefan Lindemann

Stefan Lindemann

Being ‘in between’ – the challenges of doing medium-N research
Blog | April 2011
Daniel Audéoud

Daniel Audéoud

Checking the signs
Blog | December 2010
Robin Cohen

Robin Cohen

Emphatic beginnings: from culture contact to creolization
Blog | October 2010
Steven Vertovec

Steven Vertovec

Diversity, cosmopolitans and locals
Blog | September 2010
Justine Buck Quijada

Justine Buck Quijada

Ties that bind: the emotional entanglements of ethnography
Blog | August 2010
Dorottya Nagy

Dorottya Nagy

Social sciences, theology and many coffee cups
Blog | June 2010
Jovan Maud

Jovan Maud

Windows to a virtual field
Blog | April 2010
Yuqin Huang

Yuqin Huang

Christianity, space and gender in the Chinese Christian community in the UK: tracing a trajectory
Blog | March 2010
Sophorntavy Vorng

Sophorntavy Vorng

Angst and Enlightenment in the City of Angels
Blog | February 2010
Alexander Horstmann

Alexander Horstmann

Doing fieldwork with religious missionary networks
Blog | January 2010
Boris Nieswand

Boris Nieswand

Anthropology on the threshold. Ethnographic infiltration of a public organisation
Blog | November 2009
Franziska Meissner

Franziska Meissner

On research and festivities
Blog | October 2009
Gabriele Alex

Gabriele Alex

Ominous illness initiators – Germans, Indians and in-laws
Blog | August 2009
Tilmann Heil

Tilmann Heil

Anthropological Travel: between institutional support and the perils of paperwork
Blog | June 2009
Monika Palmberger

Monika Palmberger

Losing Track of Time and Other Side Effects of Pursuing a Doctorate
Blog | May 2009
Sören Petermann

Sören Petermann

Advantages and disadvantages of a secondary analysis
Blog | April 2009
Susanne Wessendorf

Susanne Wessendorf

Doing fieldwork with busy people
Blog | March 2009
Goran Janev

Goran Janev

Searching for multicultural El Dorado
Blog | February 2009
Boris Nieswand

Boris Nieswand

Waiting ... how to get field access to a public administration
Blog | January 2009
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