Wie fühlt sich dein Körper an, während du diesen Text liest? Gibt es eine (körperliche) Resonanz in dir? Wo und wie nimmst du diese wahr? Diese Fragen haben…
Dass ich einmal an diesem Schreibtisch im ZtG sitzen würde, habe ich im Oktober 1997 bei meinem Start ins Gender Studies-Studium nicht geahnt. Ja, ich wusste zu diesem…
On October 16th, 2024, I found myself unemployed. While some say unemployment can be a time to relax and catch up on sleep, this really wasn’t the case.…
Mit dem FID Gender wird gegenwärtig eine gemeinsame Infrastruktur für die Fachcommunity der Gender Studies aufgebaut. Der Fachinformationsdienst für die Gender Studies soll Forschende in allen Phasen …
Writing from experiences of harassment, surveillance, and sexualised misrecognition during fieldwork in a highly militarised context, Anya Evans foregrounds the ethnographer’s body as a central site o…
Emanuelle Roth critically examines how institutional risk frameworks reshape ethnographic practice through her experience of being recalled from doctoral fieldwork in Guinea after disclosing a pregnan…
Drawing on her Master’s fieldwork in Leipzig, Salma Moustafa Khalil reflects on how orientalism, gender, and racialised assumptions shape ethnographic encounters when a Middle Eastern woman conducts r…
This post reflects on contemporary challenges in ethnographic research, foregrounding the everyday ethical, emotional, and institutional pressures that shape fieldwork practice. The post Gender and da…
In Tribal Reawakening and the Future of State-Building in Kuwait and Qatar, Maryam Al-Kuwari challenges the assumption that modern state-building has diminished the relevance of tribal identities in…
Aysel brought out her candles wrapped in stretch wrap and put them on the coffee table in the middle of our interview. She was very proud of showing…
My friend and colleague Kevin Ming has published his new book, The Art of Getting By: Wisdom and Resilience from China’s Migrant Women (Algora Publishing 2026). Here is…
Es ist sechs Monate nach dem 12-Tage-Krieg der USA und Israel im Iran und zwei vor dem erneuten Kriegsanfang im Februar 2026. Zwei Wochen dauert es, bis der…
July is South Asian Heritage Month in the UK and worldwide, celebrating the history and culture of the region and its influence in Britain. To mark the occasion,…
Pass, Pose, Performance. Von NYC nach Berlin: Eine Reise der Entstehung eigener widerständiger Räume bis zur Etablierung von Ballroom im Unisaal. Die Ballroom-Culture ist eine Subkultur, die ihre…
For the second part of this two-part interview, visiting scholars Elif Gül and Melina Gioconda Davis sat down to discuss the research projects that brought them to the…
For the first part of this two-part interview, visiting scholars Elif Gül and Melina Gioconda Davis sat down to discuss the research projects that brought them to the…
By Nancy Hakizimana – The first man in recorded history did not pursue the first woman. He did not write her a letter, he did not rehearse a…
While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of…
Natürlich stapeln sich auch auf meinem Schreibtisch Bücher, und natürlich blicke ich (oft zu lange) auf einen Computerbildschirm. Das Besondere an meinem Schreibtisch in der Theologischen Fakultät in…
This article examines the flight of Israeli women and children after 7 October 2023 as a form of crisis-driven mobility that remains largely invisible to refugee and migration…
Canal do Búfalo[1] was a prominent Brazilian online community in the 2010s, composed almost entirely of men. In this forum, members symbolically identify themselves as “buffaloes,” drawing inspiratio…
Get it out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy by Andréa Becker (New York University Press: 2025) Hysterectomy is the most common gynecological procedure worldwide, yet until recently only…
Dokumente abzulegen, auszusortieren und in Ordner-Ordnung zu bringen, das war und ist keine besonders attraktive Aufgabe für mich. Aber ich kam nicht drumherum. Nach fast 35 Jahren als…
Joginder Kaur (54) had no formal schooling. For her, phone calls always meant pressing the green button to receive a call. Dialling numbers or navigating menus were not…