New book
Judaism in Motion. The Making of Same-Sex Parenthood in Israel
30.11.2021
In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes…
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New book
Gender in Research and Politics. Developments, Intersections and Perspectives
16.11.2021
This book provides an overview of the theories and concepts, with which social scientists approach gender in their research, as well as case studies from the fields of anthropology, history, political…
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Prix Jean Widmer
Pour un article en sciences sociales publié par une jeune
chercheuse ou un jeune chercheur
19.04.2019
Le prix Jean Widmer, décerné par l'Université de Fribourg (Suisse) et doté
de 5'000 francs suisses, récompense un article en sciences sociales
publié par une jeune chercheuse ou un jeune chercheur, apportant…
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Postliberation Eritrea
The Catch-22 of Resistance: Jokes and the Political Imagination of Eritrean Conscripts
02.11.2018
David Bozzini's contribution in a book edited by Tekle Mariam Woldemikael on Postliberation Eritrea is available online
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Project
Law of the Land: Restitution Practices in the New South Africa
08.05.2018
Olaf Zenker's research project on "Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State" is currently featured in an article of the Journal "Research Features".
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Publication
Utopia and Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of rural spaces
16.04.2018
Andrea Boscoboinik, Hana Horáková and Robin Smith co-edited a collection of ethnographies that seek to unpack the uneasy relationship between utopia and rural spaces in the context of global pressures.
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Publication
The Fines and the Spies: Fears of State Surveillance in Eritrea and in the Diaspora
20.03.2018
David Bozzini's contribution in this new book called "Affective States. Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions" and edited book by Mateusz Laszczkowski and Madeleine Reeves.
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New book
The State and the Paradox of Customary Law in Africa
20.03.2018
Olaf Zenker co-edited with Markus V. Hoehne a new book which offers important insights into the divergent strategies used by African officials in handling this paradox of customary law and, somehow, getting…
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