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Reflections on Migration Dynamics in Northern Ghana from the ‘Crossroads Perspective’
(2016-02)
The paper analyses mobility patterns in Northern Ghana while reflecting also on my ‘positionality’ as researcher from the area thus critically analysing mobility patterns and processes of negotiating social boundaries and ...
China Kazakhs' emigration to Kazakhstan from a modernity perspective
(2016-04)
This paper discusses the current situation of China Kazakhs' emigration to Kazakhstan from a modernity perspective. My aim is to rethink modernity in the Chinese context and its impact on Kazakhs in Xinjiang, to discuss ...
Boundaries and Identities: The Case of Gilgit-Baltistan
(2016-06)
The main argument of the paper is that the absence of Gilgit-Baltistan in the power dispensation and state structure of Pakistan has created a power vacuum in the society, which is gradually filled by sectarian forces, ...
Beyond kinship and tribe: New forms of solidarity and interest representation in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan
(2016-12)
In this paper, I show that the establishment of unauthorized settlements on government land in the newly urbanizing peripheries of Jalalabad – the second-fastest growing city of Afghanistan – corresponded with the emergence ...
Politische Demokratie und die funktionale Differenzierung der Gesellschaft
(2016-03)
Der Text untersucht die Entstehung und Durchsetzung von Demokratie aus den politischsozialen Ordnungen heraus, die das spätmittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Europa
bestimmt hatten. Er skizziert diese Ordnungen am ...
The logic of the Soviet organisational society: political control, the Soviet village, and world society
(2016-05)
The paper describes and discusses the variant of societal differentiation that evolved under the Soviet regime. My argumentation starts with the assumption of Socialism as a program with a universal, function system-exceeding ...
America and Europe in the twenty-first century
(2016)
Die Briten haben für einen Austritt aus der Europäischen Union gestimmt. Die „Brexit“- Debatte steht symbolisch für die Europa und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika umwälzenden populistischen Kräfte. Misstrauen gegenüber ...
Movement, security and media
(2016)
Die Ankunft zahlreicher Menschen an den südlichen Küsten von Europa ist zu einem wichtigen Thema für die Europäische Union und deren an das Mittelmeer angrenzende Mitgliedsstaaten geworden. Die bisher durchgeführten Maßnahmen ...