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Gendered realms: Species of spaces in the city of Mazār-i Šarīf, Northern Afghanistan
(2014-04)
This paper is an attempt at an inventory — alas, certainly not as poetic as Perec's. A number of distinctive spaces in urban Mazār-i Šarīf are described, each of which is deeply affected by gender divides. The inquiry ...
The Anxiety of Development: Megaprojects and the Politics of Place in Gwadar, Pakistan
(2013-01)
This working paper explores the social geography of anticipation, desire, exclusion, and control that has emerged as a result of Baloch fishermen’s entanglement with the Pakistani government’s plans to develop a large ...
How migrants made their way: The role of pioneering migrants and solidarity networks of the Wakhi of Gojal (Northern Pakistan) in shaping the dynamics of rural-urban migration
(2013-07)
In this working paper, I investigate the role which solidarity networks based on different types of shared identities, perceived relatedness and kinship affiliations played for enabling, shaping, facilitating and intensifying ...
Shift and Drift in Hazara Ethnic Consciousness: The Impact of Conflict and Migration
(2012-09-27)
The paper argues that ethnicity and ethnic consciousness among the Hazaras is inexorably linked with the emergence of the Afghan state in the end of the nineteenth century and the crisis and instability that it has gone ...
Translocal Lives: Patterns of Migration in Afghanistan
(2012-01-03)
We generally associate civil wars with flows of refugees. We tend to give much less consideration to the way in which patterns of migration that arise as a result of violent conflicts, especially long-lasting ones, take ...
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 ...
Beyond the Google ngram viewer: bibliographic databases and journal archives as tools for the quantitative analysis of scientific and meta-scientific concepts
(2017-08)
In the last years the Google Ngram Viewer has become a popular tool for quick and
dirty analyses of how certain concepts emerge and develop over time. So far most
scholars using this tool do not reflect on its methodological ...
Study of Selected Livestock Innovations in Ethiopia
(2020-07)
Ethiopia is endowed with significant livestock resources and holds the largest livestock population in Africa, estimated at around 60 million cattle, 60 million sheep and goats, 52 million chickens, 4.5 million camels, 10 ...
Bioökonomie in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Eine Studie zur Neuausrichtung der NRW Bioökonomiestrategie ; Abschlussbericht
(2021-09-28)
Um die Eckpunkte einer neuen Bioökonomiestrategie NRW zielgruppengerecht zu formulieren, sollten im Rahmen dieser Studie lokale Potenziale und bioökonomische Initiativen auf Kreisebene identifiziert werden. Für einen ...
Youth aspirations, perceptions of farming, and migration decisions in rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Further empirical evidence from Ethiopia
(2020-05)
The study discusses the aspirations and preferences of youth in rural sub-Saharan Africa using a large-scale SMS-based survey data and complements it with an investigation on the causal effects of adolescent aspirations ...