Forschungsprojekte

Post-Feminist Riders: Non-Male Motorcyclists in Turkey

Dissertation

Melissa Sivri

Einrichtung: Political and Social Sciences
Institut/Seminar: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich: Gender, Body, Sexuality
Fachgruppe: Law, Economics and Social Sciences
Stand: Laufend

Post-Heroism: Heroic Masculinities in Post-9/11 US Literature and Visual Culture

Dissertation

Dr. Ahu Tanrisever

Einrichtung: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich: Graduate School of North American Studies
Fachgruppe: Humanities
Fachliche Zuordnung: Literary Science
Fachliche Zuordnung 2: Cultural Studies
Beginn: 2010
Ende: 2014
Stand: Abgeschlossen
Kurzbeschreibung: In times of crisis, society turns to its heroes. But what functions do hero figures serve? How are representations of masculinity both symbols and participants within greater cultural struggles over dominance and marginalization? What can heroes tell us about ongoing economic, political, and social debates and transformations in contemporary USA? Regarding 9/11 as a catalytic rather than a cataclysmic event for US masculinities, this study invites its readers to take a second look at the cultural landscape of heroism in the new millennium. Through readings of contemporary US literature and film centered on the three most controversial heroic figures of our times – fathers, warriors, and vigilantes – this book challenges the thesis of an overall post-9/11 white masculinist backlash. Via the figure of the post-hero, we see shifts in the conceptualization of US individualism in the twenty-first century, displaying growing notions of communality, vulnerability, and class awareness.
Publikationen: https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm;jsessionid=E441D6C94C9B81F4022178065D101D3D.prod-worker1?query=idn%3D1072183838&cqlMode=true&method=simpleSearch

Postkolonialismus in zeitgenössischer Kunst und kultureller Politik in Marokko

Post-Doc Project

Dr. Sarah Dornhof (Post-Doc)

Einrichtung: History and Cultural Studies
Institut/Seminar: Art History
Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich: Department of African Arts
Fachgruppe: Humanities
Fachliche Zuordnung: Art History
Finanzierung: DAAD P.R.I.M.E.
Beginn: 2016
Stand: Abgeschlossen
Kurzbeschreibung: Im Mittelpunkt des Projektes stehen transnationale Kunst und kulturelle Politiken als Bereiche räumlicher und zeitlicher Neukonfiguration des Postkolonialen in Marokko. Das Postkoloniale - als Bezeichnung einer Ordnung, die einerseits auf der geopolitischen Unterscheidung und einem hierarchischen Machtgefälle zwischen dem Westen und dem Nicht-Westen beruht, und andererseits diese Opposition zwischen Westen und Nicht-Westen permanent durchkreuzt und verunsichert - ist sowohl Bedingung transnationaler Kunst als auch materielles Ergebnis eben solcher Kunst. Die Forschung richtet sich auf die Art, in der kulturelle Politiken in der Intersektionalität von Gender, Religion, Ethnizität, Sprache, Klasse und Nationalität Blickregime verändern, in denen sich Ebenen der Sichtbarkeit, der Repräsentation und der Subjektivierung überkreuzen. Der Begriff des Blickregimes umfasst – ähnlich wie der des Dispositivs – die komplexen materiellen Bedingungen, die bestimmte Sichtweisen und Sichtbarkeiten möglich machen. Er betont Verschränkungen, Übergänge und wechselseitige Veränderungen von Blicken und Realitätsvorstellungen, von Bildern und Narrativen, von Kunst und Politik, und macht diese Verschränkungen analysierbar. Das Projekt untersucht anhand von Beispielen aus Film, Theater und Malerei auf welche Weisen hegemoniale Bilder und orientalistische Traditionen in unterschiedlichen transnationalen Formationen sowohl reproduziert als auch verändert werden.
Homepage 2: geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de

Precarity and Biography: Filipino Seafarers Negotiating Job Insecurity in the Global Maritime Industry

Research Project

Dr. Roderick Galam

Einrichtung: Political and Social Sciences
Institut/Seminar: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich: Department of Sociology
Fachgruppe: Law, Economics and Social Sciences
Stand: Laufend
Schlagworter: Global maritime industry; Filipino seafarers; precarity; future; job insecurity; biography; labor outsourcing
Kurzbeschreibung: Work is intimately linked to people’s identity and agency. It provides them with a means to realize aspirations and life goals, and to fulfil their responsibilities to other people. It helps define their social position and standing and provides a way by which people negotiate their present and future. Precarity erodes this link. What happens when work becomes a source of insecurity? How do workers negotiate their present and future when periods of employment are always followed by periods of unemployment and the threat of never being employed again is constant? Drawing on the literature on precarity in flexible capitalism and on social navigation, this project will examine how Filipino seafarers negotiate precarity and its consequences on their lives. The ‘precariatization’ of seafarer employment that followed in the wake of the shipping industry’s globalization and neoliberlization has diminished seafarers’ capacity to plot their spatial, temporal, and socio-material locations and changed the conditions that frame their negotiation of their present and future. But questions about the relation between their precarious work and biography remain scarcely studied. Studies that have examined the precarious condition of workers in globalization and neoliberalization, and the consequences of this insecurity on the career prospects, trajectories, lives, and character of workers have focused mainly on those working in the financial, banking, or other service-oriented sectors of the economy. Very few have looked at the condition of seafarers. The few studies that have framed the situation of seafarers within the discourse of precarity have focused mainly on health and safety and have not explicitly examined how the lives of seafarers and the families who depend on them are affected by precarious employment, by how precarity reorganizes or destabilizes the material, social, and economic foundations of their identities and lives. This project seeks to address this lacuna by focusing on the case of Filipino seafarers who comprise almost 30 percent of all seafarers in the world. Empirical research for this study will be conducted in Manila. The fieldwork includes interviews with seafarers, their wives, children, and other family members who depend on them; Philippine government officials; representatives of employment agencies (known in the shipping world as crewing agencies); and staff of non-government organizations focused on maritime industry issues. The research also includes conducting non-participant observations of pre-departure orientation programs for seafarers as well as an ethnographic study of Filipino seafarers looking for work at what has been called "the seafarers' market" in Manila.

PrEP-ing at the end of HIV/AIDS: An anthropological study of Combination Prevention and PrEP in Argentina

Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger

Einrichtung: Political and Social Sciences
Institut/Seminar: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich: Medical Anthropology
Fachgruppe: Women and Gender research
Stand: Laufend
Mitarbeiter*innen: Hansjörg Dilger
Schlagworter: Medical Anthropology, Global Health, Critical Medical Anthropology, Power Relations, Globalization, Health Systems
Homepage: polsoz.fu-berlin.de

PrEPped Intimacies from Berlin: Pharmaceutical HIV-Prophylaxis and Biopolitical Hopes in Transnational Colombia

Research Project

Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger, Max Schnepf (WiMi)

Einrichtung: Political and Social Sciences
Institut/Seminar: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich: Medical Anthropology
Fachgruppe: Law, Economics and Social Sciences
Stand: Laufend
Schlagworter: Medical Ethnology, Medical Anthropology, Ethnography, Pandemic, Infectious Diseases, Migration, Health Care, Global Health
Kurzbeschreibung: The working group Medical Anthropology | Global Health conducts multiple ethnographic and medical anthropological research projects, including studies on COVID-19 mobility regimes, zoonotic infections, health capacity building, medical migration, and health care provision in various global contexts.
Homepage: polsoz.fu-berlin.de

PrEPped Intimacies in Berlin: Affective Ambivalences and Embodied Subjects in Biomedical HIV-Prevention

Research Project

Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger, Max Schnepf (WiMi)

Einrichtung: Political and Social Sciences
Institut/Seminar: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fachgruppe: Law, Economics and Social Sciences
Beginn: 2022
Ende: 2024
Stand: Abgeschlossen
Email: max.schnepf@fu-berlin.de
Homepage: polsoz.fu-berlin.de

Pressefotografie und Migration. Die Ikonografie von Migrantinnen und Migranten in der Presseberichterstattung über den Integrationsgipfel und der Deutschen Islamkonferenz

Dissertation

Julia Kloppenburg

Einrichtung: Political and Social Sciences
Institut/Seminar: Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich: Journalism
Fachgruppe: Law, Economics and Social Sciences
Stand: Abgeschlossen
Homepage 2: polsoz.fu-berlin.de

Primitivist Homopoetics: Comrades and Colonists of Gay Liberation, 1870-1970

Dr. Ben Miller

Einrichtung: History and Cultural Studies
Institut/Seminar: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich: History of Global Sciences
Fachgruppe: Humanities
Stand: Laufend
Kurzbeschreibung: The adoption of primitivist and occultist tropes to create universalizing and historicizing myths has been a present, even dominant, element in the broad and evolving global movements for homosexual emancipation and gay liberation, including parts of those movements often not analyzed together due to spatial or temporal distance. Those tropes have provided labor roles for their adopters by rooting emergent sexualities within socially reproductive roles and rituals in so-called “primitive” societies. Departing from recent historical and theoretical literature on anthropology’s accidental encoding of subaltern lifeworlds into metropolitan modernities and the relationship between sodomy restrictions and the transition to capitalism, I propose to research and write a global history of this method of self-fashioning, which I call “primitivist homopoetics,” beginning with the 1869 coining of the term “Homosexualität” in Germany (concurrent with the founding of the first professional organizations for anthropology in Germany) and then tracking the evolution of these ideas in dialogue between Europe, the United States, and racialized communities in the Americas and the Global South through the mid-1990s. This history connects these practices’ development in the metropolis (and inherent, if incomplete, encoding and transmission of non-state lifeworlds and methods of social reproduction) to the emergence and institutionalization of decolonial queer theory and queer of color critiqueat the end of the 20th century.
Email: ben.miller@fu-berlin.de
Homepage: geschkult.fu-berlin.de

PROALMEX: Gendersensible Nachhaltigkeitsforschung in Lateinamerika, Mexiko – Deutschland

Research Project

Univ. - Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig, Dr. Sabina García Peter, PD. Dr. Martha Zapata Galindo

Einrichtung: Institute for Latin American Studies
Fachgruppe: Law, Economics and Social Sciences
Beginn: 2012
Ende: 2013
Stand: Abgeschlossen

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Post-Heroism: Heroic Masculinities in Post-9/11 US Literature and Visual Culture

Postkolonialismus in zeitgenössischer Kunst und kultureller Politik in Marokko

Precarity and Biography: Filipino Seafarers Negotiating Job Insecurity in the Global Maritime Industry

PrEP-ing at the end of HIV/AIDS: An anthropological study of Combination Prevention and PrEP in Argentina

PrEPped Intimacies from Berlin: Pharmaceutical HIV-Prophylaxis and Biopolitical Hopes in Transnational Colombia

PrEPped Intimacies in Berlin: Affective Ambivalences and Embodied Subjects in Biomedical HIV-Prevention

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Primitivist Homopoetics: Comrades and Colonists of Gay Liberation, 1870-1970

PROALMEX: Gendersensible Nachhaltigkeitsforschung in Lateinamerika, Mexiko – Deutschland