H Drotbohm
Biographic Data
| ID | 51453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Drotbohm |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Drotbohm |
| SIGNATURE | DROTBOHM H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9436-9137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Repair
‘Repair’ has emerged as a key concept in contemporary anthropology, invoked across domains as diverse as technological maintenance, post-conflict reconciliation, ecological restoration, and affective healing. This entry provides an overview of how anthropologists have thought about repair, tracing its conceptual genealogies and exploring its manifestations in four central domains: Technological and infrastructural; social and political; environme…
Afterword
This commentary engages with the theoretical implications of human–plant intimacies for migration and mobility studies. Departing from anthropocentric paradigms, it draws on the special issue's ethnographic accounts to foreground the relational, affective, and political dimensions of human–plant entanglements in contexts of displacement. Plants emerge here not as passive background elements but as co-constitutive agents in processes of emplacemen…
Pelas penumbras do cuidado
Este artigo explora as dimensões centrais de diferentes formas de cuidado assimétrico que recaem sobre competências de organizações da sociedade civil que se sobrepõem. O artigo tem como base um trabalho antropológico de campo realizado no Brasil, especificamente na cidade de São Paulo, e acompanha migrantes que chegam e se integram em diferentes pontos de recepção, incluindo Organizações Não-Governamentais (ONGs) ligadas a Igrejas, organizações …
Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves
Interrogating what constitutes "good parenting" captures and reflects multiple debates within and across different societies, milieus, and power constellations. In this Special Issue, Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves, we bring together seven articles and a commentary that tackle how people move through the labyrinth of diverse knowledge formations and when they reproduce themselves as "good" via their own considerations of parentin…
Categories as learning practice
Along the twilights of care
This article explores central dimensions of different forms of asymmetric care that fall between the competences of overlapping civil society organizations. Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in São Paulo, Brazil, the article follows migrants arriving and integrating across different nodes of reception, including church-based NGOs, humanitarian organizations, and activist housing projects. Overlaps between these different forms of recep…
Rethinking affects of care through power
This introduction outlines the contemporary emergence of new forms of informal crisis-related care, which both complement and contradict classical forms of humanitarian assistance. The introduction traces the spread, blurring, and differentiation of novel forms of non-state assistance and support against the backdrop of increasingly widespread criticism of large-scale international aid. Tackling regimes of care beyond the exceptionality of a cris…
Care Beyond Repair
To care about and for others—that is other people, collectivities, plants, animals, or the climate—is a mundane and ubiquitous act. At some point in life, almost every human being needs to be cared for, encounters care, and eventually provides care. In anthropology, the critical notion of care provides an analytic tool for seriously considering life’s contingencies and for understanding the ways that people ascribe meaning to different kind of ac…
O Cuidado além do Reparo
Importar-se com os outros e cuidar dos outros - sejam outras pessoas, coletividades, plantas, animais ou o clima - é um ato cotidiano e recorrente. Em algum momento da vida, quase todos os seres humanos precisam ser cuidados, são cuidados e, por fim, cuidam. Na antropologia, a noção crítica de cuidado constitui uma ferramenta analítica para considerar seriamente as contingências da vida e para compreender os modos como as pessoas atribuem sentido…
Beyond Repair
A shifting yet grounded transnational social field
In this article, we draw on the volatile complexity of African migrant trajectories in Central America to broaden the scope of transnational scholarship. These trajectories are characterised by mobilities as well as immobilities, taking shape in particular local contexts. By focusing on the interplays between displacement and emplacement that are part of these trajectories, we aim to increase our understanding of the extent to which migrants stil…
Die Grenzen der Solidarität
This paper uses the COVID-19 pandemic to reflect on the relationship between governance and solidarity. It considers how a social model based on self-regulating individuals has been complemented by a new form of state dirigisme reliant on evocations of solidarity. However, this configuration may be approaching the limits of its viability. Given that governance relies on the robust internalization and execution of both care and control and on an e…
The Event in Migrant Categorization
The categories that define people on the move must be understood as unstable, contingent, and provisional processes. This paper contributes to a growing body of scholarship that explores the lived complexities of migrant categorization and their social implications. Based on fieldwork in Brazil and Central America, the paper investigates the processual character of categorization by intertwining temporal and spatial dimensions, focusing on specif…
Care and reunification in a Cape Verdean family
This article looks at the interaction between transnational family relationships, on the one hand, and family-related immigration policies, on the other. Taking the conflicting concerns that arose between administrative decision-makers and family members during an attempt to reunite a Cape Verdean family spread across several countries as an example, the questions of what 'family' means, what relationships are included and the nature of the relat…
Expecting justice
This commentary contextualizes Jacobs’ study as a contribution to a body of anthropological research concerned with theorizing the state, and more importantly concerned with closing the analytical gap between the study of state images (representations) on the one hand, and practices (everyday experiences of the state) on the other. The commentary sketches three further analytical dimensions that stand in relation thereto: an investigation of hist…
Celebrating Asymmetries
The Reversal of Migratory Family Lives
Deportation, as a coerced and involuntary mode of return migration, contradicts common assumptions and understandings of transnational livelihoods. This can be felt particularly strongly in the realm of the family—the social sphere where migration is facilitated and enacted. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in Cape Verdean transnational social fields, this paper applies a gendered perspective in examining how deportation affects individual po…
Deportation, Anxiety, Justice
This paper introduces a collection of articles that share ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between deportation, anxiety and justice. As a form of expulsion regulating human mobility, deportation policies may be justified by public authorities as measures responding to anxieties over (unregulated) migration. At the same time, they also bring out uncertainty and unrest to deportable/deported migrants and their families. Providing new …
"É como pertencer a um lugar que nunca foi seu." Deportados negociando imobilidade involuntária e condições de retorno a Cabo Verde
Baseado em pesquisa antropológica em Cabo Verde, um pequeno país insular no oeste africano, este capítulo trata da deportação de migrantes não cidadãos e seu retorno involuntário para seus países de origem. Esta ação estatal atualmente constitui um elemento importante na conexão de sociedades e práticas estatais principalmente na Europa ou na América do Norte, com a subsistência no chamado Sul Global. Enquanto alguns desses migrantes deportados p…
Mobility, Moralities and Motherhood
In this article we discuss how transnational motherhood is managed and experienced in contexts of uncertainty and conflicting pressures. We propose a conceptual approach and apply it to a specific case: female migration from Cape Verde to Europe and North America. The analysis is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors in Cape Verde and the diaspora over the past decade. We first address the ideal of and expectations to…
Ethnologie
On the durability and the decomposition of citizenship
This article explores the impact of deportation, a state practice increasingly applied by European and North American governments, on notions of sociality in transnational social fields. In particular, it concentrates on the dynamics between formal citizenship on the one hand and the moral economies of belonging and membership on the other. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in Cape Verde, where deportation is producing a new social minority, t…
Gossip and social control across the seas
In this article I make use of transnational Cape Verdean gossip in order to elaborate on social asymmetries between members of transnational families. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork carried out in Cape Verde, I reflect on the content of gossip stories as well as the motivations and reactions of those involved. Gender and resource inequalities are identified as the most prevalent issues, fixed on matters of intimacy, reciprocity, and transna…
Horizons of long-distance intimacies
This article examines the changing nature of long-distance intimacies within the context of migration from Cape Verde to Europe. Focusing on the dynamics of reciprocity and contribution between migrants and their families who remain in the archipelago, Drotbohm explores how these relationships are negotiated and maintained across geographical boundaries. The study highlights the tensions and disjunctures that arise as expectations and experiences…
Die Madonna, ihre Hautfarbe und ihr Kleid. Zur Markierung von Differenzlinien innerhalb der haitianischen Mission Montreals
Mobility, Moralities and Motherhood
In this article we discuss how transnational motherhood is managed and experienced in contexts of uncertainty and conflicting pressures. We propose a conceptual approach and apply it to a specific case: female migration from Cape Verde to Europe and North America. The analysis is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors in Cape Verde and the diaspora over the past decade. We first address the ideal of and expectations to…
Deportation, Anxiety, Justice
This paper introduces a collection of articles that share ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between deportation, anxiety and justice. As a form of expulsion regulating human mobility, deportation policies may be justified by public authorities as measures responding to anxieties over (unregulated) migration. At the same time, they also bring out uncertainty and unrest to deportable/deported migrants and their families. Providing new …
Horizons of long-distance intimacies
This article examines the changing nature of long-distance intimacies within the context of migration from Cape Verde to Europe. Focusing on the dynamics of reciprocity and contribution between migrants and their families who remain in the archipelago, Drotbohm explores how these relationships are negotiated and maintained across geographical boundaries. The study highlights the tensions and disjunctures that arise as expectations and experiences…
The Reversal of Migratory Family Lives
Deportation, as a coerced and involuntary mode of return migration, contradicts common assumptions and understandings of transnational livelihoods. This can be felt particularly strongly in the realm of the family—the social sphere where migration is facilitated and enacted. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in Cape Verdean transnational social fields, this paper applies a gendered perspective in examining how deportation affects individual po…
Gossip and social control across the seas
In this article I make use of transnational Cape Verdean gossip in order to elaborate on social asymmetries between members of transnational families. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork carried out in Cape Verde, I reflect on the content of gossip stories as well as the motivations and reactions of those involved. Gender and resource inequalities are identified as the most prevalent issues, fixed on matters of intimacy, reciprocity, and transna…
On the durability and the decomposition of citizenship
This article explores the impact of deportation, a state practice increasingly applied by European and North American governments, on notions of sociality in transnational social fields. In particular, it concentrates on the dynamics between formal citizenship on the one hand and the moral economies of belonging and membership on the other. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in Cape Verde, where deportation is producing a new social minority, t…
Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves
Interrogating what constitutes "good parenting" captures and reflects multiple debates within and across different societies, milieus, and power constellations. In this Special Issue, Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves, we bring together seven articles and a commentary that tackle how people move through the labyrinth of diverse knowledge formations and when they reproduce themselves as "good" via their own considerations of parentin…
A shifting yet grounded transnational social field
In this article, we draw on the volatile complexity of African migrant trajectories in Central America to broaden the scope of transnational scholarship. These trajectories are characterised by mobilities as well as immobilities, taking shape in particular local contexts. By focusing on the interplays between displacement and emplacement that are part of these trajectories, we aim to increase our understanding of the extent to which migrants stil…
Categories as learning practice
Care and reunification in a Cape Verdean family
This article looks at the interaction between transnational family relationships, on the one hand, and family-related immigration policies, on the other. Taking the conflicting concerns that arose between administrative decision-makers and family members during an attempt to reunite a Cape Verdean family spread across several countries as an example, the questions of what 'family' means, what relationships are included and the nature of the relat…
The Event in Migrant Categorization
The categories that define people on the move must be understood as unstable, contingent, and provisional processes. This paper contributes to a growing body of scholarship that explores the lived complexities of migrant categorization and their social implications. Based on fieldwork in Brazil and Central America, the paper investigates the processual character of categorization by intertwining temporal and spatial dimensions, focusing on specif…
Pelas penumbras do cuidado
Este artigo explora as dimensões centrais de diferentes formas de cuidado assimétrico que recaem sobre competências de organizações da sociedade civil que se sobrepõem. O artigo tem como base um trabalho antropológico de campo realizado no Brasil, especificamente na cidade de São Paulo, e acompanha migrantes que chegam e se integram em diferentes pontos de recepção, incluindo Organizações Não-Governamentais (ONGs) ligadas a Igrejas, organizações …
Die Grenzen der Solidarität
This paper uses the COVID-19 pandemic to reflect on the relationship between governance and solidarity. It considers how a social model based on self-regulating individuals has been complemented by a new form of state dirigisme reliant on evocations of solidarity. However, this configuration may be approaching the limits of its viability. Given that governance relies on the robust internalization and execution of both care and control and on an e…
Comment habiller la Vierge? Syncrétisme et anti-syncrétisme haïtien à Montréal
Nous basant sur une recherche ethnographique réalisée à Montréal, nous mettrons en lumière l’articulation entre les religions catholique et vaudou à partir d’une controverse ayant lieu au sein d’une mission catholique haïtienne montréalaise quant à la représentation pictographique de la Madone. Après un bref survol de l’immigration haïtienne à Montréal, sera abordée la multiplication des champs religieux en contexte migratoire à travers le concep…
Comment habiller la Vierge? Syncrétisme et anti-syncrétisme haïtien à Montréal
Nous basant sur une recherche ethnographique réalisée à Montréal, nous mettrons en lumière l’articulation entre les religions catholique et vaudou à partir d’une controverse ayant lieu au sein d’une mission catholique haïtienne montréalaise quant à la représentation pictographique de la Madone. Après un bref survol de l’immigration haïtienne à Montréal, sera abordée la multiplication des champs religieux en contexte migratoire à travers le concep…
Die Madonna, ihre Hautfarbe und ihr Kleid. Zur Markierung von Differenzlinien innerhalb der haitianischen Mission Montreals
Matory, J. Lorand
Anthropos , Seite 278 - 280
Of Spirits and Virgins
So far religious encounters in migratory settings have been largely examined in relation to the pluralizing of religious cultures, the emerging of syncretisms as well as religious conversions. However, many migrants choose to live more than one religion at the same time and integrate themselves into several religious communities with different and sometimes opposing religious agendas. This article concentrates on the Haitian migrant community in …
Travelling Spirits
Gossip and social control across the seas
In this article I make use of transnational Cape Verdean gossip in order to elaborate on social asymmetries between members of transnational families. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork carried out in Cape Verde, I reflect on the content of gossip stories as well as the motivations and reactions of those involved. Gender and resource inequalities are identified as the most prevalent issues, fixed on matters of intimacy, reciprocity, and transna…
Horizons of long-distance intimacies
This article examines the changing nature of long-distance intimacies within the context of migration from Cape Verde to Europe. Focusing on the dynamics of reciprocity and contribution between migrants and their families who remain in the archipelago, Drotbohm explores how these relationships are negotiated and maintained across geographical boundaries. The study highlights the tensions and disjunctures that arise as expectations and experiences…
Ethnologie
On the durability and the decomposition of citizenship
This article explores the impact of deportation, a state practice increasingly applied by European and North American governments, on notions of sociality in transnational social fields. In particular, it concentrates on the dynamics between formal citizenship on the one hand and the moral economies of belonging and membership on the other. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in Cape Verde, where deportation is producing a new social minority, t…
Mobility, Moralities and Motherhood
In this article we discuss how transnational motherhood is managed and experienced in contexts of uncertainty and conflicting pressures. We propose a conceptual approach and apply it to a specific case: female migration from Cape Verde to Europe and North America. The analysis is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors in Cape Verde and the diaspora over the past decade. We first address the ideal of and expectations to…
"É como pertencer a um lugar que nunca foi seu." Deportados negociando imobilidade involuntária e condições de retorno a Cabo Verde
Baseado em pesquisa antropológica em Cabo Verde, um pequeno país insular no oeste africano, este capítulo trata da deportação de migrantes não cidadãos e seu retorno involuntário para seus países de origem. Esta ação estatal atualmente constitui um elemento importante na conexão de sociedades e práticas estatais principalmente na Europa ou na América do Norte, com a subsistência no chamado Sul Global. Enquanto alguns desses migrantes deportados p…
The Reversal of Migratory Family Lives
Deportation, as a coerced and involuntary mode of return migration, contradicts common assumptions and understandings of transnational livelihoods. This can be felt particularly strongly in the realm of the family—the social sphere where migration is facilitated and enacted. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in Cape Verdean transnational social fields, this paper applies a gendered perspective in examining how deportation affects individual po…
Deportation, Anxiety, Justice
This paper introduces a collection of articles that share ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between deportation, anxiety and justice. As a form of expulsion regulating human mobility, deportation policies may be justified by public authorities as measures responding to anxieties over (unregulated) migration. At the same time, they also bring out uncertainty and unrest to deportable/deported migrants and their families. Providing new …
Celebrating Asymmetries
Expecting justice
This commentary contextualizes Jacobs’ study as a contribution to a body of anthropological research concerned with theorizing the state, and more importantly concerned with closing the analytical gap between the study of state images (representations) on the one hand, and practices (everyday experiences of the state) on the other. The commentary sketches three further analytical dimensions that stand in relation thereto: an investigation of hist…
Die Grenzen der Solidarität
This paper uses the COVID-19 pandemic to reflect on the relationship between governance and solidarity. It considers how a social model based on self-regulating individuals has been complemented by a new form of state dirigisme reliant on evocations of solidarity. However, this configuration may be approaching the limits of its viability. Given that governance relies on the robust internalization and execution of both care and control and on an e…
The Event in Migrant Categorization
The categories that define people on the move must be understood as unstable, contingent, and provisional processes. This paper contributes to a growing body of scholarship that explores the lived complexities of migrant categorization and their social implications. Based on fieldwork in Brazil and Central America, the paper investigates the processual character of categorization by intertwining temporal and spatial dimensions, focusing on specif…
Care and reunification in a Cape Verdean family
This article looks at the interaction between transnational family relationships, on the one hand, and family-related immigration policies, on the other. Taking the conflicting concerns that arose between administrative decision-makers and family members during an attempt to reunite a Cape Verdean family spread across several countries as an example, the questions of what 'family' means, what relationships are included and the nature of the relat…
A shifting yet grounded transnational social field
In this article, we draw on the volatile complexity of African migrant trajectories in Central America to broaden the scope of transnational scholarship. These trajectories are characterised by mobilities as well as immobilities, taking shape in particular local contexts. By focusing on the interplays between displacement and emplacement that are part of these trajectories, we aim to increase our understanding of the extent to which migrants stil…
Care Beyond Repair
To care about and for others—that is other people, collectivities, plants, animals, or the climate—is a mundane and ubiquitous act. At some point in life, almost every human being needs to be cared for, encounters care, and eventually provides care. In anthropology, the critical notion of care provides an analytic tool for seriously considering life’s contingencies and for understanding the ways that people ascribe meaning to different kind of ac…
O Cuidado além do Reparo
Importar-se com os outros e cuidar dos outros - sejam outras pessoas, coletividades, plantas, animais ou o clima - é um ato cotidiano e recorrente. Em algum momento da vida, quase todos os seres humanos precisam ser cuidados, são cuidados e, por fim, cuidam. Na antropologia, a noção crítica de cuidado constitui uma ferramenta analítica para considerar seriamente as contingências da vida e para compreender os modos como as pessoas atribuem sentido…
Beyond Repair
Along the twilights of care
This article explores central dimensions of different forms of asymmetric care that fall between the competences of overlapping civil society organizations. Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in São Paulo, Brazil, the article follows migrants arriving and integrating across different nodes of reception, including church-based NGOs, humanitarian organizations, and activist housing projects. Overlaps between these different forms of recep…
Rethinking affects of care through power
This introduction outlines the contemporary emergence of new forms of informal crisis-related care, which both complement and contradict classical forms of humanitarian assistance. The introduction traces the spread, blurring, and differentiation of novel forms of non-state assistance and support against the backdrop of increasingly widespread criticism of large-scale international aid. Tackling regimes of care beyond the exceptionality of a cris…
Afterword
This commentary engages with the theoretical implications of human–plant intimacies for migration and mobility studies. Departing from anthropocentric paradigms, it draws on the special issue's ethnographic accounts to foreground the relational, affective, and political dimensions of human–plant entanglements in contexts of displacement. Plants emerge here not as passive background elements but as co-constitutive agents in processes of emplacemen…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)