Joachim Otto Habeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 131634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joachim Otto Habeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joachim Otto |
| FAMILY NAME | Habeck |
| SIGNATURE | HABECK J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1485-3699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adapting in polycrisis: Ensuring access to land as a polysolution for Arctic reindeer herding
Current global socio-environmental changes challenge human societies and give rise to new adaptation needs also for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs). Based on participatory workshops with Sámi and Finn reindeer herders we examined adaptation challenges for reindeer herding in a situation characterized by complex, intertwined and unpredictable risks framed as polycrisis. We found that increasing the possibilities of reindeer herder…
A new scenario architecture to capture granularity of governance within and across Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
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Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Jürgen Jensen (1938-2025)
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From a Cut to a Tag: Formalization of Reindeer Marking Practice by the State and its Consequences in the North of European Russia and Western Siberia
Taking the practices of reindeer ear- and fur-marking in northern European Russia and Western Siberia as its primary focus, this article analyses modifications of informal “traditional” practices as a part of their appropriation by state institutions and highly bureaucratized state-owned enterprises. The practice of making and reading ear- and fur-marks is highly situated and workable only when embedded in a wider web of social communication. Ana…
Ruinen und Lost Places: Konturen eines transdisziplinären Forschungsfelds
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Ruinen und Vergessene Orte: Materialität Im Verfall - Nachnutzungen - Umdeutungen
Reconstructing the House of Culture: Community, Self, and the Makings of Culture in Russia and Beyond
Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, and the social consequences of economic transition— these are critical issues in the social anthropology of Russia and other postsocialist countries. Engaged in the negotiation of all these is the House of Culture, which was the key institution for cultural activities and implementation of state cultural po…
Introduction. Cultivation, Collective, and the Self
Private-in-the-Collective: Comparing the History and Legacy of Sovkhoism in Poland and Germany
This contribution seeks to compare the different preconditions and historical dynamics of socialist agriculture in two adjacent regions (northwest Poland and northeast Germany), along with the ways socialist agriculture is remembered and valorized nowadays. Based on interviews and written sources on agricultural history, the author sketches out divergent trajectories of sovkhoism. Comparing the two cases, the author examines how skill, spatial di…
Soils of the Cryolithozone and the Traditional Land Use of the Indigenous Populations of North-Eastern European Russia and Western Siberia: Research Problem Statement
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Introduction: Feminist approaches and the study of gender in Arctic social sciences
Notwithstanding the gradual intensification of contacts across the different parts of the circumpolar North, research on gender in the Arctic is still a fragmented field – not the least because of language barriers. The four cases presented here, all from the Far North of Russia, are intended to complement research on gender in North America and the Nordic countries. We also hope they will encourage wider use of feminist approaches in geography a…
Frozen-Ground Cartoons”: Permafrost comics as an innovative tool for polar outreach, education, and engagement
Permafrost occupies 20 million square kilometres of Earth’s high-latitude and high-altitude landscapes. These regions are sensitive to climate change and human activities; hence, permafrost research is of considerable scientific and societal importance. However, the results of this research are generally not known by the general public. Communicating scientific concepts is an increasingly important task in the research world. Different ways to en…
Permafrost livelihoods: A transdisciplinary review and analysis of thermokarst-based systems of indigenous land use
In a context of scientific and public debates on permafrost degradation under global climate change, this article provides an integrated review and analysis of environmental and socio-economic trends in a subarctic region. It focuses on Sakha (Yakut) animal husbandry as an example of indigenous land use. Within Sakha-Yakutia’s boreal forests, animal husbandry takes place in thermokarst depressions containing grassland areas (alaas) that formed in…
Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces: Productions and Cognitions
Angst in the City
Gesamtausgabe der Etnoscripts 2016:18(1)
From Siberia with Love or Angst in the City? On the Idea of Merging Research Projects in Novosibirsk and Co-Teaching in Hamburg and Berlin
Angst in the City is the title that the authors of these lines chose for a jointresearch project and seminar looking into expressions of emotion and socialexclusion in diverse urban environments. The title serves as a shorthand forapprehensive feelings that individuals or groups perceive when physically orimaginarily finding themselves in certain spaces in the fabric of the city thatthey inhabit. The concept of fear will be discussed in more deta…
Fences, private and public spaces, and traversability in a Siberian city
Siberian Automobility Boom: From the Joy of Destination to the Joy of Driving There
On summer Fridays, hundreds of people from Novosibirsk, Siberia undertake an eight-hour drive to the Altai Mountains only to drive back on Sunday. Rather than mountaineering, many of these tourists spend their time there relaxing in a sauna or preparing barbecue, i.e. doing things they could easily do much closer to their hometown. Exploring this somewhat bizarre pattern of weekend travel ethnographically, while simultaneously placing it in the g…
Introduction: Experience and Emotion in Northern Mobilities
This introduction opens a special section on emotional and experiential aspects of travel in Northern and Siberian landscapes. Conventional representations of the Arctic as a frontier have foregrounded the difficulties and risks of travel. The collection of articles presented here serves to complement this perspective, exploring both negative and positive connotations of travel. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork in Greenland and Siberia, aut…
Hangover
Even though hangover is a widespread phenomenon in many societies, it has received very scant systematic attention in social sciences. This article is based on publications from different disciplines (medicine, cultural history, social anthropology, sociology, etc.), my own observations, and interviews with fellow social anthropologists. After a general outline of the phenomenon, I will focus on some psychological aspects of hangover: guilt and v…
Das Kulturhaus in Russland: Postsozialistische Kulturarbeit zwischen Ideal und Verwahrlosung
Kultur ist in Russland nicht nur ein abstraktes gesellschaftliches Ideal - Kultur soll am eigenen Leib erfahren und durch gemeinsame Choreographien zur Aufführung gebracht werden. Kulturhäuser sind Orte hoheitlich verordneter Ästhetik ebenso wie Bühnen der künstlerischen »Arbeit an sich selbst«. Dieses Buch veranschaulicht, wie die staatlich orchestrierte Kulturarbeit in der russischen Provinz das Ende des Sozialismus überdauert hat und welche äs…
Reconstructing the house of culture: Community, self, and the makings of culture in Russia and beyond
Size and Place in the Construction of Indigeneity in the Russian Federation
Within the Russian Federation there are nearly 200 recognized "nationalities," approximately 130 of which could claim to be "indigenous." However, only 45 peoples are officially recognized as "indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Russian Federation" and thereby qualify for the rights, privileges, and state support earmarked for indigenous peoples. This status is conditioned upon a maximum group size of 50,000. While experts insist that this n…
Siberian Automobility Boom: From the Joy of Destination to the Joy of Driving There
On summer Fridays, hundreds of people from Novosibirsk, Siberia undertake an eight-hour drive to the Altai Mountains only to drive back on Sunday. Rather than mountaineering, many of these tourists spend their time there relaxing in a sauna or preparing barbecue, i.e. doing things they could easily do much closer to their hometown. Exploring this somewhat bizarre pattern of weekend travel ethnographically, while simultaneously placing it in the g…
Introduction: Experience and Emotion in Northern Mobilities
This introduction opens a special section on emotional and experiential aspects of travel in Northern and Siberian landscapes. Conventional representations of the Arctic as a frontier have foregrounded the difficulties and risks of travel. The collection of articles presented here serves to complement this perspective, exploring both negative and positive connotations of travel. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork in Greenland and Siberia, aut…
Fences, private and public spaces, and traversability in a Siberian city
Experience, Movement and Mobility: Komi Reindeer Herders' Perception of the Environment
On the basis of fieldwork among Komi reindeer herders in the north of Russia, the author discusses the concepts of movement and mobility. In the first part, he describes reindeer herders' migrations from an outsider's point of view, which reflects the conventional academic approach to the theme of pastoralists' mobility. Komi reindeer husbandry may be described as a transhumant system with protracted linear migrations. In the second part, he trie…
Frozen-Ground Cartoons”: Permafrost comics as an innovative tool for polar outreach, education, and engagement
Permafrost occupies 20 million square kilometres of Earth’s high-latitude and high-altitude landscapes. These regions are sensitive to climate change and human activities; hence, permafrost research is of considerable scientific and societal importance. However, the results of this research are generally not known by the general public. Communicating scientific concepts is an increasingly important task in the research world. Different ways to en…
Perceived and Measured Levels of Environmental Pollution: Interdisciplinary Research in the Subarctic Lowlands of Northeast European Russia
Using interdisciplinary field research in the Usa Basin, northeast European Russia, we compared local inhabitants' perception of environmental problems with chemical and remote-sensing signatures of environmental pollution and their local impacts. Extensive coal mining since the 1930s around Inta and Vorkuta has left a legacy of pollution, detected by measuring snowpack, topsoil, and lichen chemistry, together with remote-sensing techniques and a…
Introduction: Growing research on youth in Siberia
This special issue of Sibirica comprises a selection of papers presented at the conference “'Everything is still before you“: being young in Siberia today' (Halle, November 2003). This introduction opens with a short review of the conventional social-sciences approach toward youth (especially indigenous youth) as an 'object of concern'. A brief summary of the subsequent papers follows, highlighting several crosscutting themes: (1) the concept of …
Editors' foreword
This special issue of Sibirica is guest-edited by Joachim Otto Habeck, and the Editors applaud his work to bring together this excellent group of papers resulting from a conference he organized at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Dr Habeck is Coordinator of the Siberian Studies Centre at the MPI, which is now well established as a key institution in the anthropology of Siberia. The conference included scholars f…
Experience, Movement and Mobility: Komi Reindeer Herders' Perception of the Environment
On the basis of fieldwork among Komi reindeer herders in the north of Russia, the author discusses the concepts of movement and mobility. In the first part, he describes reindeer herders' migrations from an outsider's point of view, which reflects the conventional academic approach to the theme of pastoralists' mobility. Komi reindeer husbandry may be described as a transhumant system with protracted linear migrations. In the second part, he trie…
Perceived and Measured Levels of Environmental Pollution: Interdisciplinary Research in the Subarctic Lowlands of Northeast European Russia
Using interdisciplinary field research in the Usa Basin, northeast European Russia, we compared local inhabitants' perception of environmental problems with chemical and remote-sensing signatures of environmental pollution and their local impacts. Extensive coal mining since the 1930s around Inta and Vorkuta has left a legacy of pollution, detected by measuring snowpack, topsoil, and lichen chemistry, together with remote-sensing techniques and a…
Russia gets the blues: Music, culture, and community in unsettled times - By Michael Urban with Andrei Evdokimov
Size and Place in the Construction of Indigeneity in the Russian Federation
Within the Russian Federation there are nearly 200 recognized "nationalities," approximately 130 of which could claim to be "indigenous." However, only 45 peoples are officially recognized as "indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Russian Federation" and thereby qualify for the rights, privileges, and state support earmarked for indigenous peoples. This status is conditioned upon a maximum group size of 50,000. While experts insist that this n…
Does Life Make More Sense Now? Young People's Life Projects and the New Feeling of Stability in Russia
While most inhabitants of the Russian Federation remember the 1990s as a period of "mess", the early 2000s are commonly being associated with economic growth, more reliable household income and a higher degree of "stability" in general. The author tries to explore in various regional settings how the political idea of "stability" articulates with young people's expectations about their future. The basis for this exploration is a twofold assumptio…
Reconstructing the House of Culture
Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, and the social consequences of economic transition— these are critical issues in the social anthropology of Russia and other postsocialist countries. Engaged in the negotiation of all these is the House of Culture, which was the key institution for cultural activities and implementation of state cultural po…
Reconstructing the house of culture: Community, self, and the makings of culture in Russia and beyond
Das Kulturhaus in Russland: Postsozialistische Kulturarbeit zwischen Ideal und Verwahrlosung
Kultur ist in Russland nicht nur ein abstraktes gesellschaftliches Ideal - Kultur soll am eigenen Leib erfahren und durch gemeinsame Choreographien zur Aufführung gebracht werden. Kulturhäuser sind Orte hoheitlich verordneter Ästhetik ebenso wie Bühnen der künstlerischen »Arbeit an sich selbst«. Dieses Buch veranschaulicht, wie die staatlich orchestrierte Kulturarbeit in der russischen Provinz das Ende des Sozialismus überdauert hat und welche äs…
Siberian Automobility Boom: From the Joy of Destination to the Joy of Driving There
On summer Fridays, hundreds of people from Novosibirsk, Siberia undertake an eight-hour drive to the Altai Mountains only to drive back on Sunday. Rather than mountaineering, many of these tourists spend their time there relaxing in a sauna or preparing barbecue, i.e. doing things they could easily do much closer to their hometown. Exploring this somewhat bizarre pattern of weekend travel ethnographically, while simultaneously placing it in the g…
Introduction: Experience and Emotion in Northern Mobilities
This introduction opens a special section on emotional and experiential aspects of travel in Northern and Siberian landscapes. Conventional representations of the Arctic as a frontier have foregrounded the difficulties and risks of travel. The collection of articles presented here serves to complement this perspective, exploring both negative and positive connotations of travel. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork in Greenland and Siberia, aut…
Hangover
Even though hangover is a widespread phenomenon in many societies, it has received very scant systematic attention in social sciences. This article is based on publications from different disciplines (medicine, cultural history, social anthropology, sociology, etc.), my own observations, and interviews with fellow social anthropologists. After a general outline of the phenomenon, I will focus on some psychological aspects of hangover: guilt and v…
Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces: Productions and Cognitions
Angst in the City
Gesamtausgabe der Etnoscripts 2016:18(1)
From Siberia with Love or Angst in the City? On the Idea of Merging Research Projects in Novosibirsk and Co-Teaching in Hamburg and Berlin
Angst in the City is the title that the authors of these lines chose for a jointresearch project and seminar looking into expressions of emotion and socialexclusion in diverse urban environments. The title serves as a shorthand forapprehensive feelings that individuals or groups perceive when physically orimaginarily finding themselves in certain spaces in the fabric of the city thatthey inhabit. The concept of fear will be discussed in more deta…
Fences, private and public spaces, and traversability in a Siberian city
Permafrost livelihoods: A transdisciplinary review and analysis of thermokarst-based systems of indigenous land use
In a context of scientific and public debates on permafrost degradation under global climate change, this article provides an integrated review and analysis of environmental and socio-economic trends in a subarctic region. It focuses on Sakha (Yakut) animal husbandry as an example of indigenous land use. Within Sakha-Yakutia’s boreal forests, animal husbandry takes place in thermokarst depressions containing grassland areas (alaas) that formed in…
Introduction: Feminist approaches and the study of gender in Arctic social sciences
Notwithstanding the gradual intensification of contacts across the different parts of the circumpolar North, research on gender in the Arctic is still a fragmented field – not the least because of language barriers. The four cases presented here, all from the Far North of Russia, are intended to complement research on gender in North America and the Nordic countries. We also hope they will encourage wider use of feminist approaches in geography a…
Frozen-Ground Cartoons”: Permafrost comics as an innovative tool for polar outreach, education, and engagement
Permafrost occupies 20 million square kilometres of Earth’s high-latitude and high-altitude landscapes. These regions are sensitive to climate change and human activities; hence, permafrost research is of considerable scientific and societal importance. However, the results of this research are generally not known by the general public. Communicating scientific concepts is an increasingly important task in the research world. Different ways to en…
Soils of the Cryolithozone and the Traditional Land Use of the Indigenous Populations of North-Eastern European Russia and Western Siberia: Research Problem Statement
. , . - -
Private-in-the-Collective: Comparing the History and Legacy of Sovkhoism in Poland and Germany
This contribution seeks to compare the different preconditions and historical dynamics of socialist agriculture in two adjacent regions (northwest Poland and northeast Germany), along with the ways socialist agriculture is remembered and valorized nowadays. Based on interviews and written sources on agricultural history, the author sketches out divergent trajectories of sovkhoism. Comparing the two cases, the author examines how skill, spatial di…
Reconstructing the House of Culture: Community, Self, and the Makings of Culture in Russia and Beyond
Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, and the social consequences of economic transition— these are critical issues in the social anthropology of Russia and other postsocialist countries. Engaged in the negotiation of all these is the House of Culture, which was the key institution for cultural activities and implementation of state cultural po…
Introduction. Cultivation, Collective, and the Self
Ruinen und Lost Places: Konturen eines transdisziplinären Forschungsfelds
Geography (12 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)