Olaf Zenker - Projects
Own Projects
Current Projects
- Land restitutions and moral modernity of the new South African State
- 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 Porojects
- The future preparedness: histories of unpreparedness, zoonotic disease outbreaks and the anthropology of open preparedness - Dr. Sung-Joon Park
- Reconsidering the Canon of Law in Nigeria - Dr. des. Anna-Lena Wolf
- Labour Governance in the Shipping Industry: An Anthropological Study of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 - Dr. Luisa Piart
- An Ethnography of Programming: Migration management and the digitalization of legal-bureaucratic processes in Germany - Dr. Timm Sureau
Current Dissertations / Promotion Projects
- Rights, Worth and Distribution Patterns of Land Ownership: An Ethnography of State Data Infrastructures in Germany - Felicitas Sommer
- Vision of Visibility – Politics of Women’s Rights and Development in Lebanon - Sirin Knecht
- Land Restitution and Traditional Authorities in South Africa - Jonathan H. M. Kempen
- 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
- (Re)Doing Asylum in Externalization Policies: The Case of Niger - Laura Lambert
- Making Somaliland: Popular Culture, Identity and National Consciousness - Joseph Serunkuma
- Historical creolization and contemporary belonging in Ziguinchor (Senegal) - Jonas Klee
- Resistance of the Hamar to the Development Imperatives of the Ethiopian State: An Ethnographic Analysis - Yohannes Yitbarek Ejigu
Completed Dissertation / Promotion Projects
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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 - Who plans small towns and how? Multiple Orders of worth in spatial planning at the local level in Sichuan, China - Lisa Melcher
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Gadaa Reconsidered: The Structurationist
Approach to Understand the Social System of the
Borana Oromo of Southern Ethiopia - Alemayehu
Debelo Jorgo -
Zeruzeru and Diverse Shades of Difference. A
Study of People with Albinism in Tanzania -
Giorgio Brocco