Olaf Zenker - Projects
Own Projects
Current Projects
- Land Restitutions and Moral Modernity of the New South African State
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Compensation Through Expropriation Without Compensation? Land Reform and the Future of Redistributive Justice in South
Africa - Sentiments of Bureaucracies: Affektive Folgen der digitalen Transformation in der deutschen Migrationsverwaltung
Completed Projects
- Irish/Ness Is All Around Us: The Irish Language and Irish Identity in Catholic West Belfast
- Gerechtigkeitsgefühle und Transitional Justice: Affektive Transkulturalität in Verfahren des International Strafgerichtshofs
Supervised Projects
Current Postdoc- / Habilitation Projects
- Reconsidering the Canon of Law: Legal Change and Divine Agency in Catholic Canon Law - Dr. Anna-Lena Wolf
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Labour Governance in the Shipping Industry: An Anthropological Study of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 - Dr. Luisa
Piart - “How Democracies Know” - Dr. Alena Thiel
- Changing Politics Through Law: The Case of Nature’s Rights in Ecuador - Dr. Laura Affolter
- Seeking Justice Far from Home: A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Inquiry Into Diaspora Mobilizations in Sweden and Germany in the Aftermath of the Yazidi Genocide - Dr. Cansu Bostan
Current Dissertations / Promotion Projects
- More than Just Black - Gullah Geechee Revitalizationism and Identity Politics in Postliberal U.S. American Society - Raja-Léon Hamann
- Affective Digital Bureaucracies: Public Servants‘ Sentiments of Digital Transformation in Germany’s Migration Administration - Thomas Götzelmann
- On the Negotiation of Conviviality and Participation in the Post-migrant Urban Society of Frankfurt (Main) - Rebekka Schuster
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Just(ice) Tech and Data: Kenyan Justice Entrepreneurs’
Role in Creating and Defining Justice - Nicole Ahoya - An Ethnography of the Supporters of the Party Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in East Germany - Philipp Baum
Completed Postdoc- / Habilitation Projects
- An Ethnography of Programming: Migration Management and the Digitalization of Legal-Bureaucratic Processes in Germany - Dr. Timm Sureau
- African Studies in Germany Through the Lens of Critical Race Theory - Dr. Yusuf Serunkuma
- The Future Preparedness: Histories of Unpreparedness, Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks and the Anthropology of Open Preparedness - Dr. Sung-Joon Park
Completed Dissertation / Promotion Projects
- Land Restitution and Traditional Authorities in South Africa - Jonathan H. M. Kempen
- Historical Creolization and Contemporary Belonging in Ziguinchor (Senegal) - Jonas Klee
- (Re)Doing Asylum in Externalization Policies: The Case of Niger - Laura Lambert
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Rights, Worth and Distribution Patterns of Land Ownership: An Ethnography of State Data Infrastructures in Germany - Felicitas
Sommer - Making Somaliland: Popular Culture, Identity and National Consciousness - Joseph Serunkuma
- Vision of Visibility: Politics of Women’s Rights and Development in Lebanon - Sirin Knecht
- Resistance of the Hamar to the Development Imperatives of the Ethiopian State: An Ethnographic Analysis - Yohannes Yitbarek Ejigu
- Zeruzeru and Diverse Shades of Difference: A Study of People with Albinism in Tanzania - Giorgio Brocco
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Gadaa Reconsidered: The Structurationist
Approach to Understand the Social System of the Borana Oromo of Southern Ethiopia - Alemayehu Debelo Jorgo - Who Plans Small Towns and How? Multiple Orders of Worth in Spatial Planning at the Local Level in Sichuan, China - Lisa Melcher
- The Practical Logic of Political Activism and Its Shortcomings: A Comparative Ethnography of Two Activist Initiatives from Ljubljana, Slovenia and Berlin, Germany During and After the European ‘Refugee Crisis’ of 2015 - Ziga Podgornik Jakil