Martin Sökefeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 107180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Sökefeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Sökefeld |
| SIGNATURE | SÖKEFELD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 274 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ethnographische Feldforschung: Eine Einführung
What is participant observation? How do you conduct an open interview? What potential ethical dilemmas do you need to be prepared for when conducting field research? How do you evaluate the data you have collected? This book answers these and many other questions. From reflecting on ethnographic representations to various methods of collecting and evaluating ethnographic data to ethnographic writing, its fifteen chapters offer students from vario…
Anthropology of Gilgit-Baltistan: Introduction
Anthropology of Gilgit-Baltistan: Introduction
Disaster and (im)mobility: Restoring mobility in Gojal after the Attabad landslide: A visual essay
Disaster and (im)mobility: Restoring mobility in Gojal after the Attabad landslide: A visual essay
The affective economy of removal: Ethnographic perspectives on deportation and (In)voluntary return
Letting Die: The Spectacle of Deporting Afghans from Germany
Around 30,000 Afghans have been denied protection in Germany and are categorised as ausreisepflichtig (required to leave the country). Of these, just over 1,000 people have been removed over the four years that removals were implemented, and that at extraordinary costs. For all who are categorised as ‘deportable’, this was a constant source of fear and insecurity – never knowing who would be next on the list. This article outlines the German poli…
Sterben lassen: Das Spektakel der Abschiebung von Afghan:innen aus Deutschland
In Deutschland erhielten ungefähr 30.000 Afghan:innen keinen Schutzstatus, und sie wurden als ausreisepflichtig eingestuft. Von ihnen sind in den letzten vier Jahren, in denen Sammelabschiebungen mittels Charterflügen vollzogen wurden, tatsächlich nur etwas mehr als 1000 Menschen tatsächlich außer Landes gebracht worden – und das zu außerordentlichen Kosten. Für alle, die als abschiebefähig kategorisiert wurden, waren Abschiebungen ein ständiger …
The Power of Lists: IDPs and Disaster Governmentality after the Attabad Landslide in Northern Pakistan
This article analyses the political consequences of a large-scale landslide that hit Gojal in the high-mountain region of northern Pakistan in 2010. It destroyed parts of several villages and impeded access to the area for years. The article follows a list of internally displaced persons (IDPs) that was created as part of disaster governance. The list separates some affected persons from others, allocating them particular resources. Drawing on Ja…
Taghm: The sowing festival in Gojal
This essay is a reflection on the sowing festival taghm which marks the beginning of the agricultural season in Gojal in the Karakorum Mountains of Pakistan. While doing research on the consequences of the Attabad landslide (Sökefeld 2012, 2014), I took the opportunity to observe taghm three times in Gulmit, the central place of Gojal
Identity in Anthropology
Identity is a key term in anthropology but it is also a contested one, dealing with the question of who we are in relation to others. It relates, on the one hand, to categories of the individual or sameness with oneself and, on the other, to collective distinctions of otherness. It is both a practice and a process of cognitive classification. It is fluid and transcends boundaries but, to a certain degree, has to be stable in order for others to i…
Aleviten in Deutschland: Identitätsprozesse Einer Religionsgemeinschaft in der Diaspora
Jammu and Kashmir – boundaries and movements
On 22 November 2009, the news blog Pamir Times published the following news item: Reacting very strongly to the statement of Pakistani prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, in which he had said that
Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life: Perspectives across Asia
Conflicts are everyday situations and experiences with which people have to cope.Focusing on particularly conflict-prone parts of Asia, the contributions to this book analyze the dynamics of conflicts from the perspectives of the actors involved, and pay particular attention to aspects like mobilization, exclusion, segregation, the role of institutions and the construction of antagonistic identities.The book gathers case studies based on long-ter…
Inhalt
Einleitung: Aleviten in Deutschland - von takiye zur alevitischen Bewegung
Seit gut vier Jahrzehnten, seit dem Beginn der Arbeitsmigration aus der Turkei, leben Aleviten in Deutschland, aber erst seit wenigen Jahren geniesen sie eine begrenzte Wahrnehmung in der Offentlichkeit. Den wohl endgultigen Durchbruch zu groserer Bekanntheit erreichten die Aleviten erst zum Jahreswechsel 2007/08, als sie mit einer Grosdemonstration in Koln, vielen kleineren Veranstaltungen im ganzen Land, mit Klagen und Presseerklarungen unubers…
Die Autorinnen und Autoren
Glossar
Backmatter
Sind Aleviten Muslime? Die alevitische Debatte über das Verhältnis von Alevitentum und Islam in Deutschland
Response to Jean-Pierre Warnier: Changing Generations in Anthropology - So What
Ahmed, Amineh: Sorrow and Joy among MuslimWomen
Anthropos , Seite 570 - 571
Zum Paradigma kultureller Differenz
Mobilizing in transnational space: A Social Movement Approach to the Formation of Diaspora
In this article I suggest analysing the formation of diaspora communities as an instance of mobilization processes thereby countering essentialist concepts of diaspora that reify notions of belonging and the‘roots’of migrants in places of origin. Taking the imagination of a transnational community and a shared identity as defining characteristics of diaspora and drawing on constructivist concepts of identity, I argue that the formation of diaspor…
From Colonialism to Postcolonial Colonialism: Changing Modes of Domination in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
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Jenseits des Paradigmas kultureller Differenz: Neue Perspektiven auf Einwanderer aus der Türkei
Zwar ist in den letzten Jahren der Konsens gewachsen, dass Deutschland ein Einwanderungsland ist, aber der Blick auf Migranten hat sich dadurch nicht wesentlich geändert. Auf der Basis des Paradigmas kultureller Differenz gelten sie nach wie vor als die Anderen, die Fremden. Doch die Fremdheit der Migranten als eine Prämisse der Debatte über Einwanderung in Deutschland verstellt den Blick für eine sehr vielfältige und gar nicht unbedingt fremde L…
Alevis in Germany and the Politics of Recognition
Migration has been among the most decisive influences shaping contemporary German society, deeply influencing not only economics and demography but also societal discourse and political practice. Legal issues concerning foreigners and immigration have been hotly debated in German society and have played a central role in many elections at both federal and provincial levels. Recognition is an issue at the heart of these concerns. How are migrants …
Mobilizing in transnational space: A Social Movement Approach to the Formation of Diaspora
In this article I suggest analysing the formation of diaspora communities as an instance of mobilization processes thereby countering essentialist concepts of diaspora that reify notions of belonging and the‘roots’of migrants in places of origin. Taking the imagination of a transnational community and a shared identity as defining characteristics of diaspora and drawing on constructivist concepts of identity, I argue that the formation of diaspor…
Debating Self, Identity, and Culture in Anthropology
This paper explores relations between "identity" and "self"-concepts that tend to be approached separately in anthropological discourse. In the conceptualization of the self, the "Western" self, characterized as autonomous and egocentric, is generally taken as a point of departure. Non-Western (concepts of) selves-the selves of the people anthropology traditionally studies-are defined by the negation of these qualities. Similar to anthropological…
The affective economy of removal: Ethnographic perspectives on deportation and (In)voluntary return
From Colonialism to Postcolonial Colonialism: Changing Modes of Domination in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Alevism Online: Re-Imagining a Community in Virtual Space
Just like physical space, cyberspace, the cultural and social space evolving on the basis of computer-mediated communication, has differentiated into a number of different landscapes (Kollock and Smith, "Communities in Cyberspace"), such as electronic bulletin boards, discussion lists, chat rooms, and homepages, each offering its respective resources, lines of communication, and ecological niches to a rapidly increasing number of users or "cyber-…
Rumours and Politics on the Northern Frontier: The British, Pakhtun Wali and Yaghestan
This paper deals with the British policy towards an area adjacent to the Gilgit Agency on the 'northern frontier' of British India during the years of 1914 and 1915. It highlights some aspects of the relationships between the British and the inhabitants of this area which was called 'Yaghestan' at that time. But my purpose is not simply to offer a contribution to the regional history of a rather neglected part of the Western Himalaya in colonial …
The Power of Lists: IDPs and Disaster Governmentality after the Attabad Landslide in Northern Pakistan
This article analyses the political consequences of a large-scale landslide that hit Gojal in the high-mountain region of northern Pakistan in 2010. It destroyed parts of several villages and impeded access to the area for years. The article follows a list of internally displaced persons (IDPs) that was created as part of disaster governance. The list separates some affected persons from others, allocating them particular resources. Drawing on Ja…
Jammu and Kashmir – boundaries and movements
On 22 November 2009, the news blog Pamir Times published the following news item: Reacting very strongly to the statement of Pakistani prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, in which he had said that
Alevis in Germany and the Politics of Recognition
Migration has been among the most decisive influences shaping contemporary German society, deeply influencing not only economics and demography but also societal discourse and political practice. Legal issues concerning foreigners and immigration have been hotly debated in German society and have played a central role in many elections at both federal and provincial levels. Recognition is an issue at the heart of these concerns. How are migrants …
Jenseits des Paradigmas kultureller Differenz: Neue Perspektiven auf Einwanderer aus der Türkei
Zwar ist in den letzten Jahren der Konsens gewachsen, dass Deutschland ein Einwanderungsland ist, aber der Blick auf Migranten hat sich dadurch nicht wesentlich geändert. Auf der Basis des Paradigmas kultureller Differenz gelten sie nach wie vor als die Anderen, die Fremden. Doch die Fremdheit der Migranten als eine Prämisse der Debatte über Einwanderung in Deutschland verstellt den Blick für eine sehr vielfältige und gar nicht unbedingt fremde L…
Identity in Anthropology
Identity is a key term in anthropology but it is also a contested one, dealing with the question of who we are in relation to others. It relates, on the one hand, to categories of the individual or sameness with oneself and, on the other, to collective distinctions of otherness. It is both a practice and a process of cognitive classification. It is fluid and transcends boundaries but, to a certain degree, has to be stable in order for others to i…
Debating Self, Identity, and Culture in Anthropology
This paper explores relations between "identity" and "self"-concepts that tend to be approached separately in anthropological discourse. In the conceptualization of the self, the "Western" self, characterized as autonomous and egocentric, is generally taken as a point of departure. Non-Western (concepts of) selves-the selves of the people anthropology traditionally studies-are defined by the negation of these qualities. Similar to anthropological…
Religion og mangfoldigheden af identiteter
The conceptualization of identity proposed in this article is in terms of plurality, difference and intersectionality, which certainly disfavours essentialism. However, it highlights agency as the ability to act reflexively within settings of crosscutting identifications. This agency includes the ability to imagine and engage essentialised identities, momentarily dissimulating intersecting identifications. This article will stress that we have to…
Alevism Online: Re-Imagining a Community in Virtual Space
Just like physical space, cyberspace, the cultural and social space evolving on the basis of computer-mediated communication, has differentiated into a number of different landscapes (Kollock and Smith, "Communities in Cyberspace"), such as electronic bulletin boards, discussion lists, chat rooms, and homepages, each offering its respective resources, lines of communication, and ecological niches to a rapidly increasing number of users or "cyber-…
Rumours and Politics on the Northern Frontier: The British, Pakhtun Wali and Yaghestan
This paper deals with the British policy towards an area adjacent to the Gilgit Agency on the 'northern frontier' of British India during the years of 1914 and 1915. It highlights some aspects of the relationships between the British and the inhabitants of this area which was called 'Yaghestan' at that time. But my purpose is not simply to offer a contribution to the regional history of a rather neglected part of the Western Himalaya in colonial …
Alevis in Germany and the Politics of Recognition
Migration has been among the most decisive influences shaping contemporary German society, deeply influencing not only economics and demography but also societal discourse and political practice. Legal issues concerning foreigners and immigration have been hotly debated in German society and have played a central role in many elections at both federal and provincial levels. Recognition is an issue at the heart of these concerns. How are migrants …
Jenseits des Paradigmas kultureller Differenz: Neue Perspektiven auf Einwanderer aus der Türkei
Zwar ist in den letzten Jahren der Konsens gewachsen, dass Deutschland ein Einwanderungsland ist, aber der Blick auf Migranten hat sich dadurch nicht wesentlich geändert. Auf der Basis des Paradigmas kultureller Differenz gelten sie nach wie vor als die Anderen, die Fremden. Doch die Fremdheit der Migranten als eine Prämisse der Debatte über Einwanderung in Deutschland verstellt den Blick für eine sehr vielfältige und gar nicht unbedingt fremde L…
From Colonialism to Postcolonial Colonialism: Changing Modes of Domination in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mobilizing in transnational space: A Social Movement Approach to the Formation of Diaspora
In this article I suggest analysing the formation of diaspora communities as an instance of mobilization processes thereby countering essentialist concepts of diaspora that reify notions of belonging and the‘roots’of migrants in places of origin. Taking the imagination of a transnational community and a shared identity as defining characteristics of diaspora and drawing on constructivist concepts of identity, I argue that the formation of diaspor…
Zum Paradigma kultureller Differenz
Inhalt
Einleitung: Aleviten in Deutschland - von takiye zur alevitischen Bewegung
Seit gut vier Jahrzehnten, seit dem Beginn der Arbeitsmigration aus der Turkei, leben Aleviten in Deutschland, aber erst seit wenigen Jahren geniesen sie eine begrenzte Wahrnehmung in der Offentlichkeit. Den wohl endgultigen Durchbruch zu groserer Bekanntheit erreichten die Aleviten erst zum Jahreswechsel 2007/08, als sie mit einer Grosdemonstration in Koln, vielen kleineren Veranstaltungen im ganzen Land, mit Klagen und Presseerklarungen unubers…
Die Autorinnen und Autoren
Glossar
Backmatter
Sind Aleviten Muslime? Die alevitische Debatte über das Verhältnis von Alevitentum und Islam in Deutschland
Response to Jean-Pierre Warnier: Changing Generations in Anthropology - So What
Ahmed, Amineh: Sorrow and Joy among MuslimWomen
Anthropos , Seite 570 - 571
Aleviten in Deutschland: Identitätsprozesse Einer Religionsgemeinschaft in der Diaspora
Jammu and Kashmir – boundaries and movements
On 22 November 2009, the news blog Pamir Times published the following news item: Reacting very strongly to the statement of Pakistani prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, in which he had said that
Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life: Perspectives across Asia
Conflicts are everyday situations and experiences with which people have to cope.Focusing on particularly conflict-prone parts of Asia, the contributions to this book analyze the dynamics of conflicts from the perspectives of the actors involved, and pay particular attention to aspects like mobilization, exclusion, segregation, the role of institutions and the construction of antagonistic identities.The book gathers case studies based on long-ter…
Taghm: The sowing festival in Gojal
This essay is a reflection on the sowing festival taghm which marks the beginning of the agricultural season in Gojal in the Karakorum Mountains of Pakistan. While doing research on the consequences of the Attabad landslide (Sökefeld 2012, 2014), I took the opportunity to observe taghm three times in Gulmit, the central place of Gojal
Identity in Anthropology
Identity is a key term in anthropology but it is also a contested one, dealing with the question of who we are in relation to others. It relates, on the one hand, to categories of the individual or sameness with oneself and, on the other, to collective distinctions of otherness. It is both a practice and a process of cognitive classification. It is fluid and transcends boundaries but, to a certain degree, has to be stable in order for others to i…
Letting Die: The Spectacle of Deporting Afghans from Germany
Around 30,000 Afghans have been denied protection in Germany and are categorised as ausreisepflichtig (required to leave the country). Of these, just over 1,000 people have been removed over the four years that removals were implemented, and that at extraordinary costs. For all who are categorised as ‘deportable’, this was a constant source of fear and insecurity – never knowing who would be next on the list. This article outlines the German poli…
Sterben lassen: Das Spektakel der Abschiebung von Afghan:innen aus Deutschland
In Deutschland erhielten ungefähr 30.000 Afghan:innen keinen Schutzstatus, und sie wurden als ausreisepflichtig eingestuft. Von ihnen sind in den letzten vier Jahren, in denen Sammelabschiebungen mittels Charterflügen vollzogen wurden, tatsächlich nur etwas mehr als 1000 Menschen tatsächlich außer Landes gebracht worden – und das zu außerordentlichen Kosten. Für alle, die als abschiebefähig kategorisiert wurden, waren Abschiebungen ein ständiger …
The Power of Lists: IDPs and Disaster Governmentality after the Attabad Landslide in Northern Pakistan
This article analyses the political consequences of a large-scale landslide that hit Gojal in the high-mountain region of northern Pakistan in 2010. It destroyed parts of several villages and impeded access to the area for years. The article follows a list of internally displaced persons (IDPs) that was created as part of disaster governance. The list separates some affected persons from others, allocating them particular resources. Drawing on Ja…
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