Publications

Energy Security in Eastern Europe since Decoupling from Russia: The Fragile Balance between Geopolitics, National Politics and Vernacular Perceptions, KonKoop In:Security Report 2/2024

Sophie Lambroschini , Nadja Douglas, Michael LaBelle, Vineta Kleinberga, Ana Otilia Nuțu, Andrian Prokip

Nazan Maksudyan & Hilal Alkan (2024): Exile and fieldwork as liminal conditions: Leonore Kosswig’s life and research in Turkey, 1937–1973

Nazan Maksudyan , Hilal Alkan

https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2024.2406599

This paper looks into the life and ethnographic work of Leonore Kosswig (1904–1973), who lived in Turkey as a German exile from 1937 until her death in 1973. While her husband, Curt Kosswig was invited to Istanbul University as a full professor, Leonore had no institutional affiliation. However, she traveled with her husband around Anatolia and joined his fieldwork, during which she developed an interest in local customs and the daily life of villagers and nomadic tribes. Leonore decided to stay in Turkey after Curt’s return to Germany in 1955. Her excellent command of Turkish and former experience in fieldwork allowed her to become one of the first women to conduct ethnographic research in Turkey. Until her death, she pursued several pioneering research projects on wedding customs, tablet weaving, nomadic life, and ownership signs. Relying on her research publications and ego-documents, we employ a biographical approach to articulate upon her liminal existence in exile. In dialogue with research on twentieth century forced migrations that engage with the concepts of in-betweenness and liminality, we address Leonore’s liminal existences on the edge of two worlds on numerous planes. In particular, we argue that Kosswig’s liminality was reflected on her exilic existence in Istanbul as a foreign woman; her ethnographic research agenda into liminal geographic locations, marginalized communities, and disappearing cultural artifacts; and her gendered navigation of foreignness and nativeness.

Geographische Zeitschrift Band 112, September 2024, Heft 3-4 Erscheinungsdatum: 26.09.2024

Yann Calbérac , Mélina Germes

A Radical Concern: Advocacy for an Ingenious Anthropology of Music

Denis Laborde

https://newdiversities.mmg.mpg.de/?page_id=22776

https://hal.science/hal-04708375

In three steps, this paper suggests erecting ingenuity as a tool of investigation: Ethnomusicology in migration contexts, Strategies and tactics, Categorical assignments. Ingenuity is not to be understood as a gap in epistemic devices but as an instrument that unleashes the gaze, as a tool that aims to ensure the accuracy of observation reports, and especially as a generator of indignation that may take us out of our “comfort zone.” A comfort zone is to be understood here as a knowledge configuration that encourages us to think from established categories that assign people to the place provided for them by existing devices, forgetting to take into account the ways these categories are instituted. This leads us to pay attention to the “categorical service” that ethnomusicology’s conceptual frameworks provide to our ways of thinking.

2/2023: Jüdische Sprachkritik nach dem Holocaust

Aurélia Kalisky

https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2023

Herausgeber:innen: Nicolas Berg, Elisabeth Gallas, Aurélia Kalisky

The genocidal disruption of Johannes Jacob Manissadjian’s (1862–1942) lifework: a biographical approach to mass violence and indigenous knowledge production

Nazan Maksudyan

Relying on a biographical approach that reconstructs the life and work of Johannes [Hovhanness/Յովհաննէս] Jakob [Hagop/Յակոբ] Manissadjian [Manisacıyan/Մանիսաճեան] (1862–1942), a highly successful scientist at the Anatolia College (Merzifon/Marsovan/Մարզվան), who established a meteorological station and a natural history museum with an extensive collection of specimens, the paper traces the routes of disappearance, dispersal and ruination of indigenous lives, people, and knowledge within the context of the Armenian genocide. Drawing on documents from Ottoman, German, and American archives, I stress the potential of biographical methods to study the processes and structures of mass violence targeting the Ottoman Armenians, as well as to foreground the agency and subjectivity of genocide survivors. The article also focuses on post-genocide scientific (dis)engagements of Manissadjian in light of Theodor W. Adorno’s ‘after Auschwitz’ discussions and from the perspective of indigenous knowledge production. In particular, his two ‘archival acts’ in the post-genocide context, the ‘Catalogue’ of the collection of the Anatolia College Museum that he prepared as ‘the former Curator’ and his small pamphlet entitled Proverbs of Turkey, which provided an ethnographic portrait of Anatolia, were his humble acts of saving a treasure trove of knowledge that was in danger of becoming debris.

Rethinking Governance in Times of Multiple Crises

Ulrike Zeigermann , Friedemann Melcher , Gabriel Bartl , Katrin Herms , Judith Nora Hardt , Sebastian Suttner, Mara Linden, Raffaele Alberto Ventura, Anselm Vogler, Alex Stanley, Theresa Zimmermann, Sofia Kabbej

https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04643847v1

The publication stems from a workshop that sought to critically rethink governance in times of multiple crises by assessing the crisis responses of political decision- makers, scientific experts and society at large in the context of climate change and pandemics. The workshop was funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and the Franco-German Research Center for Social Sciences and Humanities Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) and it was organized in cooperation with Sciences Po, Paris. It brought together scholars from different academic traditions in an interdisciplinary and interactive work environment to exchange theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to researching multiple crises.

Aux sources de la folie

Romain Tiquet

https://journals.openedition.org/sources/1413

Les contributions de ce dossier font dialoguer historien·nes et anthropologues pour faire entendre le quotidien de la folie à travers des archives institutionnelles et personnelles, des entretiens et témoignages, des observations et photographies – mais aussi à travers des absences et des refus. Les six articles proposent un parcours allant de l’Afrique occidentale française à l’Algérie, au Gabon et au Ghana contemporains, en passant par l’Algérie coloniale et la Haute Volta des années 1970.
Cette diversité de contextes permet d’insister sur la complémentarité et/ou la concurrence des représentations médicales et non-médicales de la folie, y compris celles formulées par les personnes atteintes de troubles psychiatriques et de leur entourage. Le numéro donne ainsi à voir une pluralité de dispositifs (médicaux, judiciaires, religieux ou rituels), de connaissances et d’espaces de prise en charge de la folie afin de rendre compte de la complexité des parcours de vie. En déconstruisant les formes d’intimité tissées avec les enquêté·es, nous interrogeons finalement en quoi la réflexivité méthodologique contribue au renouvellement du socle épistémologique de l’étude de la folie en Afrique.

Relations interdites Prisonniers de guerre français et femmes allemandes pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Gwendoline Cicottini

Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, 1,3 millions de prisonniers français se retrouvent sur le territoire du Reich. Gwendoline Cicottini aborde l’histoire peu connue des « relations interdites » entre ces prisonniers de guerre français et des civiles allemandes. Dès 1939, de tels contacts sont proscrits par le décret du Verbotener Umgang mit Kriegsgefangenen, pour des raisons de sécurité militaire et au nom de l’idéologie raciale nationale-socialiste. Cet ouvrage montre l’écart entre la norme et les pratiques individuelles, reflétant la difficulté de contrôler la population civile en période de conflit. Grâce à un corpus conséquent de dossiers judiciaires, mais aussi des entretiens qui redonnent la parole aux acteurs de cette histoire passée sous silence, l’historienne retrace ces relations, depuis les conditions de la rencontre amoureuse jusqu’au devenir des « enfants de la guerre ».

Au croisement de l’histoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, de la micro-histoire, du genre et du droit, son étude permet de mieux comprendre le fonctionnement de l’appareil judiciaire nazi et la situation des captifs français, mais aussi le quotidien d’une société civile en guerre marquée par de profondes mutations, le rôle de la sexualité et la fonction dévolue au corps des femmes. Elle contribue à aborder la guerre autrement, par le biais d’une histoire de l’intime, du sentiment et de la sexualité, et montre que ces relations interdites ont contribué à l’écriture d’une autre histoire des rapports franco-allemands qui contourne la volonté de l’État de contrôler les relations sociales et les corps de ses sujets.