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Published January 2024 Breathing Hearts
Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
Selim, N.
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published November 2023
Children are Everywhere
Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin
Joshi, M.
This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2023
That Sinking Feeling
On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System
Wellgraf, S.
Focusing on the emotions and affective states of students from poor migrant families, That Sinking Feeling presents a uniquely multi-layered ethnography on this under-represented area in the social and cultural sciences.
Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2023
Former Neighbors, Future Allies?
German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue
Weber, A. D. (ed)
Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnography’s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fields in the process.
Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2020
Punks and Skins United
Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture
Venstel, A.
Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2019
When Will We Talk About Hitler?
German Students and the Nazi Past
Oeser, A.
What do ordinary Germans think of their country’s Nazi past? Do young Germans just want to "move on?" Combining observation, interviews, and archival work, the studies conducted in this book explore these questions to reveal the complexity of history and how young Germans view Nazism’s place in contemporary society.
Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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Published March 2018
Back to the Postindustrial Future
An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City
Ringel, F.
Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany’s fastest shrinking city, not from the perspective of its past, but persistently from that of its future. Through an extensive ethnography of the city, it allows us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Published November 2016
Narratives in the Making
Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present
Gallinat, A.
This ethnography studies two very different institutions in one eastern German state taking divergent approaches to the past. While government organizations reliably depict the GDR as a dictatorship, one major regional newspaper focuses on the experiences and concerns of its readers—“memory work” that inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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Published May 2010
Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Transforming Place in a Unified Germany
Weszkalnys, G.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography
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