Research projects
- Overview of current research projectsHide
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- Politics in a Moral Twilight: Vigilantism on the Margins of Peacebuilding, Human Rights, and the Sahel Crises (Melina C. Kalfelis)
- Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict (Andrea Behrends and other members of the network "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict")
- Cyrenaica Contested: Politics, Identity and Justice in Times of Turmoil (Thomas Hüsken, Amal Obeidi)
- Mobilities and Socialities: Covid-19 in the Drylands of Africa and Beyond (Andrea Behrends, Cyrus Samimi, Angela Kronenburg García, Joana Roque de Pinho)
- Saharagärten ("Saharan gardens")
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the family and work situation of members of the University of Bayreuth - CovCare@UBT (Erdmute Alber, Anna Madeleine Ayeh, Tabea Häberlein)
- (In)Security of the Kenyan Middle Classes: Social Mobility and the Fear of Falling (Lena Kroeker)
- Making a Living: Learning trajectories towards the ability to earn a livelihood (Erdmute Alber, Iris Clemens)
- Learning beyond the classroom: Coping with illiteracy in literate urban environments in Bolivia and Benin (Erdmute Alber, Carlos Kölbl)
- Karakul Circulations: Colonial Economies and the Un_Making of Disciplinary Knowledges in Germany and Namibia (Katharina Schramm, Memory Biwa)
- Planned obsolescence, circular economies and ecologies of electronic devices in transdisciplinary perspective (Uli Beisel)
- How Age Makes a Difference: Practices of Classification, Belonging and Political Subjectivity Among Young Refugees in Germany (Katharina Schramm, Sabine Netz)
- From social gaze to bureaucratic standards: Doing race in affirmative action practices in Brazil (Katharina Schramm, Sarah Lempp)
- Poetry as aesthetic practice. Form, experience, and life-world reference of language-aesthetic articulation in Madagascar and Tanzania (Markus Verne, Clarissa Vierke, Maike Meurer, Nikitta Adjirakor)
- Overview of completed research projectsHide
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- Disruptive processes in the electricity sector of Guinea-Bissau - a history of electrification, de-electrification and re-electrification - 1890 to 2020 (Manfred Stoppok) - completed 2023
- Development and Education in the Vernacular for Infants and Children (DEVI): Learning Cultures in a Rural Villages in West Africa (Erdmute Alber, Karen Wells, Peace Mamle Yoko Tetteh) - completed 2023
- Generational relations and intra-family resource flows in West Africa: a Benin – Togo comparison (Erdmute Alber, Tabea Häberlein) - completed 2021
- Political Orders in the Making: a Comparative Study of Emerging Forms of Political Organisation from Libya to Northern Mali (Georg Klute, Thomas Hüsken, Dida Badi, Amal El-Obeidi) - completed 2021
- Olfactories of Hygiene: Practices of bodily hygiene and smell during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and Turkey (Claudia Liebelt) - completed 2021
- Islam, Politics, and Society: Islamist Education and Epemistic Orientation in the Sudan (Bakheit Mohammed Nur) - completed 2020
- Migration control, forced immobility and violent mobilization in the border triangle of Burkina Faso, Benin and Niger (Uli Beisel, Martin Doevenspeck) - completed 2020
- Africa's future environment - concepts of appropriation and conservation of nature (Georg Klute, Michael Hauhs, Detlef Müller-Mahn)
- The Tubu Teda's customary law and its contribution to stability. A citizen-science approach (Tilman Musch)
- Middle Classes on the Rise (Erdmute Alber, Dieter Neubert, Lena Kroeker, Florian Stoll)
- Roadside and travel communities. Towards an understanding of the African long-distance road (Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour) - completed 2018
- Translating Global Health Technologies: Standardisation and organisational learning in health care provision in Uganda and Rwanda (Uli Beisel, Richard Rottenburg) - completed 2018
- Ästhetische Körpermodifikationen und Weiblichkeit in einer globalen Stadt: Kulturen der Schönheit in Istanbul (Claudia Liebelt) - completed 2018
- Kinship and politics: Rethinking a conceptual split and its epistemic implications in the social sciences (Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Tatjana Thelen) - completed 2017
- Raumvorstellungen und Autochthonie bei den Tubu in Ostniger (Georg Klute, Tilman Musch) - completed 2017 (in German language)
- Populäre Musik als existentielle Kategorie (Markus Verne) - completed 2015
- West African Marabouts in the Netherlands (Kurt Beck, Amber Gemmeke) - completed 2014 (in German language)
- Fußballmigration (Erdmute Alber und Christian Ungruhe) - completed 2013 (in German language)
- Local Strategies of Conflict Management (Georg Klute) - completed 2013
- African Political Cultures (Georg Klute, Elisio Macamo, Trutz v. Trotha, Thomas Hüsken, Raul Fernandes) completed 2013
- Kindspflegschaften (Jeannett Martin) - completed 2013 (in German language)
- Dynamische Vorstellungswelten im Lernprozess Migration (Kurt Beck, Magnus Treiber, Délia Nicoué) - completed 2012 (in German language)
- Das Äußere im Inneren (Kurt Beck, Paola Ivanov) - completed 2012 (in German language)
- Die Herausbildung nicht-staatlicher Formen (Georg Klute, Thomas Hüsken) - completed 2012 (in German language)
- Bedfords Aneignung (Kurt Beck) - completed 2009 (in German language)
- Familienstrukturen im Umbruch (Erdmute Alber) - completed 2007 (in German language)
- Transformationen sozialer Elternschaft (Erdmute Alber und Jeannett Martin) - completed 2007 (in German language)
- Die Turmspringer von Pentecost (Thomas Bargatzky und Thorolf Lipp) - completed 2005 (in German language)
- Wandel des Landrechts (Thomas Bargatzky, Hermann Hiery und Arno Pascht) - completed 2003 (in German language)
- Disruptive processes in the electricity sector of Guinea-Bissau - a history of electrification, de-electrification and re-electrification - 1890 to 2020 (Manfred Stoppok) - completed 2023