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 Porojects
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Reconsidering the canon of law:
Legal change and divine agency in Catholic canon law - Dr. 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 - “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
- African Studies in Germany through the Lens of Critical Race Theory - Dr. Yusuf Serunkuma
Current Dissertations / Promotion Projects
- Land Restitution and Traditional Authorities in South Africa - Jonathan H. M. Kempen
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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 - Historical creolization and contemporary belonging in Ziguinchor (Senegal) - Jonas Klee
- 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
Completed Dissertation / Promotion Projects
- (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
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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 -
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
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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