Publications

Whenever possible, the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) publishes its most important research findings in leading peer-reviewed journals and prestigious series. The Institute's own Working Paper Series (with in-house peer review and language editing) underscores this mission. The ABI publishes the International Quarterly for Asian Studies, a leading, peer-reviewed academic journal for Asian research.

Publications

Platzhalter Online-Publikation, Blog-Artikel, op-ed
Online-Publikation, Blog-Artikel, op-ed
Lambert, Laura
FluchtforschungsBlog
2023
Caroline Mbinkar, / James Angove / Roxana Willis

Armed rebellion has grown in the anglophone regions of Cameroon since civilian protests were suppressed in 2016/17 by the majority francophone state. This paper explores how the moral economy of violence makes intelligible a different motivational structure: one where people act first-and-foremost for the interest of a collective cause that ensures group survival. The authors argue that when actors contravene this collectivist logic, their acts occur outside of the moral economy of violence.

2023

The contributors of this issue offer ways to think through the relationships between research ethics, power, violence, inequalities, institutions and pedagogy in various volatile research contexts and institutional frameworks.

2023
Adama Ousmanou,

Cameroon’s Anglophone regions have been in a state of violent unrest since October 2016 which resulted in more than 765,000 displaced civilians, who fled to the Francophone parts of the country or to neighbouring Nigeria. Adama Ousmanou sheds light on life of those in the Far North of Cameroon, which since 2013 has been significantly affected by violence perpetrated by the Islamic terrorist organisation Boko Haram itself.

2023

This Special Issue presents a series of insightful papers across a range of empirical sites that illuminate not only that profound change is underway with the (uncertain) rise of China and the global reach of its infrastructural projects amidst planetary phase shift, but also how that is currently unfolding.

2023
David Drew, / Kim Schumann / Michaela Pelican / Sina Plücken

Michaela Pelican et al. recently published a paper that adds an additional perspective by exploring the so-far underrepresented voices of members of the Mbororo ethnic minority who, individually and collectively, have been targeted by extreme speech and acts of violence by the separatist forces.

2023
Michaela Pelican,

Michaela Pelican recently published a paper that introduces a mini-series of ABI working papers addressing the Anglophone conflict in Cameroon.

2023

This Special Issue presents a series of insightful papers across a range of empirical sites that illuminate not only that profound change is underway with the (uncertain) rise of China and the global reach of its infrastructural projects amidst planetary phase shift, but also how that is currently unfolding.

2023

This issue underscores the importance of dress, bodily deportment, fashion and etiquette, analysing how these have been intrinsic to the performance of social, political, cultural, religious and gendered identities, and in challenging the status quo. The focus here is on how dress and fashion are marshalled for the performance of collective action, socio-political dissent, alternative politics and identity politics.

2023
Platzhalterbild Monographie (Wiss.)
Monographie (Wiss.)
Jenss, Dr. Alke
Paramilitaries, crime, and tens of thousands of disappeared persons—the so-called war on drugs has perpetuated violence in Latin America, at times precisely in regions of economic growth. Legal and illegal economy are difficult to distinguish. A failure of state institutions to provide security for its citizens does not sufficiently explain this. Selective Security in the War on Drugs analyzes authoritarian neoliberalism in the war on drugs in Colombia and Mexico.
2022
Platzhalterbild Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)
Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)
Dickow, Dr. Helga
Contemporary Journal of African Studies (CJAS)
In this article, referring to a unique dataset of five Chadian cities, Helga Dickow shows that Islamist fundamentalism is most prominent among those persons who benefit most from the present regime.
2022
Platzhalterbild Monographie (Wiss.)
Monographie (Wiss.)
PD Dr. Rother, Stefan
2022
Platzhalterbild Beitraege zu Konferenzen
Beiträge zu Konferenzen
Schütze, Dr. Benjamin
HUMSS Colloquium
Countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa are pursuing ambitious targets for a transition from fossil fuels to renewables. While this shift marks an important point of transition, the region’s political economy is still predominantly analysed through the prism of fossil fuels and state-centric approaches. Authoritarian power is widely understood as directly linked to the diffusion of oil revenues and the ways in which states use these to reinforce authoritarian rule.
2022
Platzhalterbild Beitraege zu Konferenzen
Beiträge zu Konferenzen
Schütze, Dr. Benjamin
Online seminar
Countries throughout the MENA are pursuing ambitious targets for a transition from fossil fuels to renewables. While the latter’s distributed nature offers a possibility for more democratic, inclusive and independent (energy) politics, transregionally connected authoritarian elites attempt to transform it into concentrated forms of political and economic power.
2022
Platzhalterbild Beitraege zu Konferenzen
Beiträge zu Konferenzen
Schütze, Dr. Benjamin
Ukraine@War monitor
2022
Platzhalterbild Beitraege zu Konferenzen
Beiträge zu Konferenzen
Schütze, Dr. Benjamin
Infrastructural power at global frontiers: prospects for conflict and peace
2022
Platzhalterbild Beitraege zu Konferenzen
Beiträge zu Konferenzen
Schütze, Dr. Benjamin / Dr. Cinzia Bianco / Prof. Dr. Natalie Koch / Dr. Rainer Quitzow / Prof. Dr. Eckart Woertz
Gulf hydrogen horizons
This webinar examines the recent interest in hydrogen energy among political and economic leaders in the oil and gas producing states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The region has seen many new “post-oil” energy investments over the past decade, but hydrogen energy has recently spiked in interest among Gulf oil and gas producers – especially among the state-owned hydrocarbon giants in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The event begins with a presentation from Prof.
2022
Platzhalterbild Beitraege zu Konferenzen
Beiträge zu Konferenzen
Schütze, Dr. Benjamin
19 Minuten bei 19 Grad
2022
Platzhalterbild Berichte, Studien, Policy Paper, Workingpaper
Berichte, Studien, Policy Paper, Workingpaper
Schütze, Dr. Benjamin / Prof. Eckart Woertz
How can triangular cooperation (TC) between the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU) contribute to energy transitions and development in the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region? This report analyses the opportunities and risks of this cooperation constellation in several key sectors and countries.
2022
Platzhalterbild Weitere Artikel, Konferenzberichte, Lexikonartikel und Laenderberichte
Weitere Artikel, Konferenzberichte, Lexikonartikel und Länderberichte
Dickow, Dr. Helga
welt-sichten
2022
Platzhalterbild Beitrag Sammelband/ Buchkapitel (Wiss.)
Beitrag Sammelband/ Buchkapitel (Wiss.)
Lambert, Laura
Von Moria bis Hanau. Brutalisierung und Widerstand. Grenzregime 4
2022
Platzhalterbild Beitraege zu Konferenzen
Beiträge zu Konferenzen
Zanker, Dr. Franzisca
VAD Konferenz
2022
Platzhalterbild Beitraege zu Konferenzen
Beiträge zu Konferenzen
Zanker, Dr. Franzisca
VAD Konferenz
2022
Platzhalterbild Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)
Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)
Wetterich, Cita (Universität Freiburg),
Journal of Intercultural Studies
10.1080/07256868.2023.2149477
Since 2014, there has been an increase in non-governmental Search and Rescue activities (SAR) on the Central Mediterranean Route (CMR). Scholarly attention has focused on refugees’ and migrants’ lived experiences on the route. When engaging with non-governmental SAR ships, recent migration scholarship mostly concentrated on their function to rescue and to be a symbol for political activism. What is currently missing is a thorough exploration of rescue ships exceeding their function to rescue through the lens of humanitarian action.
2022
Platzhalterbild Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)
Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)
Willers, Dr. Susanne
Social Inclusion
10.17645/si.v10i4.5739
This article aims to analyse the difficulties Central American refugee women face when applying for refugee protection in Mexico and how they negotiate survival during this process. Claiming refugee protection is an important legal mechanism to ensure survival, but managing this process successfully is difficult, not only because of the bureaucratic complexities but also because of structural and political constraints.
2022