Nanna Schneidermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 106098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nanna Schneidermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneidermann |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIDERMANN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8505-3915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women who pay their own brideprice: Reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry
In Uganda, the 'traditional' wedding, wherein a groom brings money and gifts to his father-in-law's home, has long been understood as the ultimate demonstration of a man's social maturity. Yet masculine adulthood is becoming increasingly elusive as weddings become more difficult to afford. Widespread unemployment has rendered most young men unable to fund the rituals while weddings themselves have become exceptionally lavish: brideprice payments …
The Intimate Infopolitics of Township Sociality in Cape Town: Mobile Phones, Mothers, and Respectability
How are young women's access to and the use of mobile media technologies negotiated and distributed at the urban margins of the tech revolution? This article explores questions and contestations of the legitimate use of phones among women living in township areas on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. I introduce the concept of "intimate infopolitics" to highlight how mobile phones are given meaning and negotiated by and through intimate re…
Moral urban citizenship and the youth problem in a Danish ghetto
Purpose This article examines the interventions from municipality, state and other actors in the Gellerup estate, a Danish “ghetto” by focusing on the youth problem and its construction, by examining a cross-disciplinary academic workshop intending to “solve the youth problem” of the estate. Design/methodology/approach The article is based on the two authors' participation in the academic workshop, as well as their continued engagement with the G…
Surviving in Overcome Heights: Living in and alongside crisis in Cape Town
What can surviving in Overcome Heights teach us about the concept of crisis? In the multi-ethnic informal settlement in Cape Town, residents faced multiple and continuously unfolding emergencies during our ethnographic, participatory fieldwork in 2018 and 2019. By taking an inductive approach to crisis, we explore the layered nature of crisis and foreground a sensitivity towards how differently positioned actors have distinct modes of being the p…
Marriage as a Connector: A Conversation about Spatial and Temporal Scales of Partnership and Self-accomplishment in Kenya and Uganda
East African families are heterogeneous institutions, fluid and in transformation. The region is home to a range of competing and sometimes contradictory value systems, with a variety of ethics, codes and practices regarding such matters as marriage, divorce and bridewealth. The intertwining of multiple value systems, together with demographic shifts, intermarriages, dynamics of internal and international migration and new professional avenues ha…
Distance/Relation: Doing Fieldwork with Social Media
As social media become part of everyday lives across the world, ethnographers are confronted with questions about how to approach the field ‘online’ and what kinds of data social media might generate in research projects that do not have media as their field of inquiry. Based on 16 months of fieldwork among young music artists in Uganda, this article demonstrates how doing fieldwork with social media can shape the research process, both in and ou…
Qui cuisine, qui mange: Les artistes, courtiers culturels des campagnes électorales en Ouganda
Généralement, l'agencéité politique des musiciens en Afrique a été analysée en termes de patronage, comme une forme de soutien ou de protestation envers les leaders politiques. Pourtant, l'implication des jeunes musiciens ougandais dans les campagnes électorales de 2011 et 2016 ne peut être qualifiée ni d'activisme politique, ni de clientélisme ou de relations commerciales. Pour comprendre cette agencéité politique ambiguë, je propose la notion d…
Mic Power: Public' connections through the hip hop nation in Kampala
Hip hop culture has been celebrated in the media and scholarship as a universal youth language, part of a global hip hop nation, and a type of counter-public. This article examines the everyday meanings and practices of hip hop among hip hop activists in Kampala, Uganda, specifically within the Batuuze rap group. Rather than portraying hip hop as a counter-public of the disempowered, I argue that the Batuuze engagement is based on what I call mor…
Mic Power: Public' connections through the hip hop nation in Kampala
Hip hop culture has been celebrated in the media and scholarship as a universal youth language, part of a global hip hop nation, and a type of counter-public. This article examines the everyday meanings and practices of hip hop among hip hop activists in Kampala, Uganda, specifically within the Batuuze rap group. Rather than portraying hip hop as a counter-public of the disempowered, I argue that the Batuuze engagement is based on what I call mor…
Distance/Relation: Doing Fieldwork with Social Media
As social media become part of everyday lives across the world, ethnographers are confronted with questions about how to approach the field ‘online’ and what kinds of data social media might generate in research projects that do not have media as their field of inquiry. Based on 16 months of fieldwork among young music artists in Uganda, this article demonstrates how doing fieldwork with social media can shape the research process, both in and ou…
Women who pay their own brideprice: Reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry
In Uganda, the 'traditional' wedding, wherein a groom brings money and gifts to his father-in-law's home, has long been understood as the ultimate demonstration of a man's social maturity. Yet masculine adulthood is becoming increasingly elusive as weddings become more difficult to afford. Widespread unemployment has rendered most young men unable to fund the rituals while weddings themselves have become exceptionally lavish: brideprice payments …
Qui cuisine, qui mange: Les artistes, courtiers culturels des campagnes électorales en Ouganda
Généralement, l'agencéité politique des musiciens en Afrique a été analysée en termes de patronage, comme une forme de soutien ou de protestation envers les leaders politiques. Pourtant, l'implication des jeunes musiciens ougandais dans les campagnes électorales de 2011 et 2016 ne peut être qualifiée ni d'activisme politique, ni de clientélisme ou de relations commerciales. Pour comprendre cette agencéité politique ambiguë, je propose la notion d…
Mic Power: Public' connections through the hip hop nation in Kampala
Hip hop culture has been celebrated in the media and scholarship as a universal youth language, part of a global hip hop nation, and a type of counter-public. This article examines the everyday meanings and practices of hip hop among hip hop activists in Kampala, Uganda, specifically within the Batuuze rap group. Rather than portraying hip hop as a counter-public of the disempowered, I argue that the Batuuze engagement is based on what I call mor…
Qui cuisine, qui mange: Les artistes, courtiers culturels des campagnes électorales en Ouganda
Généralement, l'agencéité politique des musiciens en Afrique a été analysée en termes de patronage, comme une forme de soutien ou de protestation envers les leaders politiques. Pourtant, l'implication des jeunes musiciens ougandais dans les campagnes électorales de 2011 et 2016 ne peut être qualifiée ni d'activisme politique, ni de clientélisme ou de relations commerciales. Pour comprendre cette agencéité politique ambiguë, je propose la notion d…
Distance/Relation: Doing Fieldwork with Social Media
As social media become part of everyday lives across the world, ethnographers are confronted with questions about how to approach the field ‘online’ and what kinds of data social media might generate in research projects that do not have media as their field of inquiry. Based on 16 months of fieldwork among young music artists in Uganda, this article demonstrates how doing fieldwork with social media can shape the research process, both in and ou…
Marriage as a Connector: A Conversation about Spatial and Temporal Scales of Partnership and Self-accomplishment in Kenya and Uganda
East African families are heterogeneous institutions, fluid and in transformation. The region is home to a range of competing and sometimes contradictory value systems, with a variety of ethics, codes and practices regarding such matters as marriage, divorce and bridewealth. The intertwining of multiple value systems, together with demographic shifts, intermarriages, dynamics of internal and international migration and new professional avenues ha…
Moral urban citizenship and the youth problem in a Danish ghetto
Purpose This article examines the interventions from municipality, state and other actors in the Gellerup estate, a Danish “ghetto” by focusing on the youth problem and its construction, by examining a cross-disciplinary academic workshop intending to “solve the youth problem” of the estate. Design/methodology/approach The article is based on the two authors' participation in the academic workshop, as well as their continued engagement with the G…
Surviving in Overcome Heights: Living in and alongside crisis in Cape Town
What can surviving in Overcome Heights teach us about the concept of crisis? In the multi-ethnic informal settlement in Cape Town, residents faced multiple and continuously unfolding emergencies during our ethnographic, participatory fieldwork in 2018 and 2019. By taking an inductive approach to crisis, we explore the layered nature of crisis and foreground a sensitivity towards how differently positioned actors have distinct modes of being the p…
The Intimate Infopolitics of Township Sociality in Cape Town: Mobile Phones, Mothers, and Respectability
How are young women's access to and the use of mobile media technologies negotiated and distributed at the urban margins of the tech revolution? This article explores questions and contestations of the legitimate use of phones among women living in township areas on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. I introduce the concept of "intimate infopolitics" to highlight how mobile phones are given meaning and negotiated by and through intimate re…
Women who pay their own brideprice: Reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry
In Uganda, the 'traditional' wedding, wherein a groom brings money and gifts to his father-in-law's home, has long been understood as the ultimate demonstration of a man's social maturity. Yet masculine adulthood is becoming increasingly elusive as weddings become more difficult to afford. Widespread unemployment has rendered most young men unable to fund the rituals while weddings themselves have become exceptionally lavish: brideprice payments …
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)