Publikationen

For years, migrants from Zimbabwe have been undergoing xenophobic policies and discourses in South Africa and Botswana. This article demonstrates how the South African government has utilized the pandemic to further feed into these policies and discourses. From official statements to social media campaigns, the pandemic has been used as an opportunity for South Africa first discourse to grow and “coronationalism” to emerge, while depicting migrant communities, especially from Zimbabwe, as a risk to the public health.

Andreas Mehler, Denis M. Tull and Miriam Glund have recently published a workingpaper in which they examine the motivations that underpin the organisation and dynamics of political dialogue in responding to political crisis in Africa. For this they explored comparatively the two recent cases Mali and Cameroon.

Helga Dickow, Nadia Beider and Yonatan Gez wrote a paper in response to the scarcity of literature on “religious nones” - who are not affiliated with any religious tradition - in sub-Saharan Africa, offering an overview of this understudied subject and pointing towards avenues for future research.

"New Area Studies and Southeast Asia" is the title of the recently published issue of the International Quarterly for Asian Studies, edited by Claudia Derichs, Jörn Dosch, Conrad Schetter and Uwe Skoda.

This working paper presents the experiences of four individual researchers who introspect on issues of insiderness, outsiderness and privilege in academia. Those researchers are from different regions of the world and with different positionalities, who carry out research in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. All of them are currently based at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute.

"Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia, Part II" is the title of the recently published issue of the International Quarterly for Asian Studies, edited by Claudia Derichs, Jörn Dosch, Conrad Schetter, Uwe Skoda.

"Perspectives on Field Research in Security-Sensitive Spaces - Insights from China and the Southern Mediterranean Area" is the title of the recently published working paper by Julia Gurol and Cita Wetterich.

"Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia" is the title of the recently published issue of the International Quarterly for Asian Studies, edited by Claudia Derichs, Jörn Dosch, Conrad Schetter, Uwe Skoda.

"Violence, Mobility and Labour Relations in Asia" is the title of the recently published issue of the International Quarterly for Asian Studies, edited by Claudia Derichs, Jörn Dosch, Conrad Schetter, Uwe Skoda.

"The Ambiguities of Cohabitation: Religious Attitudes between Tolerance and Fundamentalism in Chad" is the title of the recently published working paper by Helga Dickow.

In unregelmäßigen Abständen erexcheinen Working Papers der Mitarbeiter zu aktuellen Forschungsvorhaben.