Do we have to be close to care? Not in today’s polymedia environments that facilitate co-presence across distance. Fascinating insights by Loretta Baldassar @uwanews from the @arc_gov_au “Ageing and New Media” project. With “digital kinning”, we can examine care across distance. https://t.co/cbcZco9QB2
Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften
Das Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften ist eines der führenden Zentren für die multidisziplinäre Erforschung der vielfältigen Formen von gesellschaftlicher Vielfalt in der aktuellen globalisierten Welt. Das Institut besteht aus drei unabhängigen Abteilungen: der Abteilung für religiöse Vielfalt, für soziokulturelle Vielfalt und für Ethik, Recht und Politik. mehr
Leibniz-Preis 2019 für Ayelet Shachar
Ayelet Shachar, Direktorin am Göttinger Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften (MPI-MMG), erhält den Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2019. Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) zeichnet die Politik- und Rechtswissenschaftlerin damit für ihre bahnbrechenden Arbeiten zu Staatsbürgerschaft und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen in multikulturellen Gesellschaften aus.
Fieldwork Photo Gallery
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(Congregational singing in the dedication of Shimen’gen Church, Fugong County, 27 July 2014. Photo: Ying Diao)
Das DATARAMA
A Multimedia-Tool for Research, Teaching and PresentationFor scientists who rely on visual data or data visualizations, the limitations of monitors, multiple monitor spans or projection facilities can present serious limitations for data gathering and the analysis and presentation of findings. Arising from MPI-MMG’s ‘GlobaldiverCities’ project, the Datarama is a unique research and presentation tool that provides a significant solution to the limitations of working with visual data.
Zeitschriftenartikel
Amrith, M. (2019). The substance of care: Ethical dilemmas in migrant medical labour. Ethnos, 1-17.
Carabelli, G. (2019). Habsburg coffeehouses in the shadow of the empire: Revisiting nostalgia in Trieste. History and Anthropology, 1-11.
Mohamed, S. (2019). Ethiopian image: face, trace, interiority. New Writing, 1-5.
Stasik, M. (2019). Les bus ghanéens, entre attente, ruses et petits arrangements. Le Monde Afrique, (May 2019).
Walton, J. F. (2019). Sanitizing Szigetvár: On the post-imperial fashioning of nationalist memory. History and Anthropology, 1-14.
Beiträge in Sammelbänden
Ahmad, I. (2019). Democracy as rumour: media, religion, and the 2014 Indian elections. In I. Ahmad, & P. Kanungo (Eds.), The algebra of warfare-welfare. A long view of India's 2014 election (pp. 55-90). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Mahadev, N. (2019). Secularism and religious modernity in Sri Lanka and Singapore: Trans-regional revivalism considered. In P. van der Veer, & K. Dean (Eds.), The secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia (pp. 287-311). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
van der Veer, P. (2019). The secular in India and China. In P. van der Veer, & K. Dean (Eds.), The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia (pp. 37-50). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Wang, X. (2019). “Folk Belief,” cultural turn of secular governance and shifting religious landscape in contemporary China. In P. van der Veer, & K. Dean (Eds.), The secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia (pp. 137-164). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Working Papers
WP 19-01 Ruma Chopra: Rethinking the historiography of coolie integration in British Caribbean cities download pdf
WP 19-02 Sakura Yamamura and Paul Lassalle: Approximating entrepreneurial superdiversity: reconceptualizing the superdiversity debate in ethnic minority entrepreneurship download pdf
WP 19-03 Steven Vertovec: Diversifications download pdf
Online-Medien
MPI-MMG linked journals
Congratulations to MPI MMG researcher Dr. Christine Lang, who received the Augsburg Science Award for Intercultural Studies 2019 for her dissertation “The Production of Diversity in Municipal Administrations: Change and Continuity of Organizations in the Migration Society”. The main focus of the study was on recruitment procedures in public administrations and the associated opportunities for people with a migration background. Lang found that hiring routines evolved especially when human resource personnel had trouble recruiting new staff and therefore tried to find new target groups. Political attempts to increase the proportion of employees with a migrant background, on the other hand, in some cases resulted in the reinforcement of stereotypes rather than their dismantling.
As emphasized by the Chairperson of the Jury Prof. Dr. mult. Eckhard Nagel, "The study by Dr. Christine Lang is highly relevant for our society and absolutely requires public perception and reflection". He also pointed out that for people with a migration background, being able to represent the authority of the state is an important element in improving their participation.
Christine Lang is currently investigating how civil society organizes around issues of migration and diversity in German and French cities: https://www.mmg.mpg.de/214050/cities-and-the-challenge-of-diversity.
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