Valerie Hänsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 198482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Hänsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hänsch |
| SIGNATURE | HÄNSCH V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich, Germany [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0401-0623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar: Experiencing Displacement, Reviving Life
In this photographic essay, I explore the aesthetics and experiences of displacement among peasants in rural northern Sudan who were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003-2009 Merowe Dam construction project. The radically changing environment shaped people's perception of displacement as they attempted to stay and revive life in their homeland on the shores of the expanding reservoir. In this essay, I try to evoke the sensory…
The Anthropologist's Video Camera as Stage: Forced Displacement and Production of Audio-visual Witnessing in Northern Sudan
In this article, I explore how Sudanese communities have attempted to visually document, witness and communicate a silenced history of forced displacement. Thousands of peasants in rural Northern Sudan were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003-2009 Merowe Dam construction project. My aim is to examine both the complex local interactions with and appropriations of the anthropologist's video camera, which, in the relational pro…
Temporalities of waiting in Africa
Ethnographic accounts of Africa in the late 20th century described a continent in which people were seemingly waiting endlessly for a future that would not come (Ferguson 1999; Piot 2010). Driven b
Vertreibung und Widerstand im sudanesischen Niltal: Ein Staudammprojekt und der Versuch zu bleiben
Die Aufstauung des Nils durch den Bau des Merowe-Damms im Nordsudan zwang tausende Manasir-Bewässerungsbäuerinnen und -bauern zur Flucht in die angrenzenden Wüsten. Trotz der radikalen sozial-umweltlichen Transformationen und einer ungewissen Zukunft versuchen die Niltalbewohner*innen, ein bäuerliches Leben weiterzuführen. Während sich andere Studien zu Vertreibungen meist mit Migration und Umsiedlungen befassen, setzt die Autorin hier einen ande…
On patience: Perseverance and imposed waiting during dam-induced displacement in Northern Sudan
In this paper, I explore patience as an attitude towards imposed waiting in uncertainty among peasants in rural Northern Sudan who were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003–2009 Merowe dam construction project. My aim is to examine the complex temporalities that appear in the politics of displacement. I show how such temporal alterations were related to the implementation of a large infrastructural project and to the shaping …
On Visual Evidence: Picturing Forced Displacement in Northern Sudan
Uncertain Future(s): Perceptions on Time between the Immediate and the Imagined
In this special issue, we explore the pivotal role that the future as a social perception of time and temporality plays in dealings with uncertainty. There are four linkages between uncertainty and future, as the chapters in this special issue show: Firstly, visions of the future result from current and past interpretations of culturally embedded everyday lives. Secondly, a multitude of co-existing models of time is possible. Thirdly, actors adju…
Temporalities of waiting in Africa
Ethnographic accounts of Africa in the late 20th century described a continent in which people were seemingly waiting endlessly for a future that would not come (Ferguson 1999; Piot 2010). Driven b
On patience: Perseverance and imposed waiting during dam-induced displacement in Northern Sudan
In this paper, I explore patience as an attitude towards imposed waiting in uncertainty among peasants in rural Northern Sudan who were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003–2009 Merowe dam construction project. My aim is to examine the complex temporalities that appear in the politics of displacement. I show how such temporal alterations were related to the implementation of a large infrastructural project and to the shaping …
The Anthropologist's Video Camera as Stage: Forced Displacement and Production of Audio-visual Witnessing in Northern Sudan
In this article, I explore how Sudanese communities have attempted to visually document, witness and communicate a silenced history of forced displacement. Thousands of peasants in rural Northern Sudan were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003-2009 Merowe Dam construction project. My aim is to examine both the complex local interactions with and appropriations of the anthropologist's video camera, which, in the relational pro…
On Visual Evidence: Picturing Forced Displacement in Northern Sudan
Uncertain Future(s): Perceptions on Time between the Immediate and the Imagined
In this special issue, we explore the pivotal role that the future as a social perception of time and temporality plays in dealings with uncertainty. There are four linkages between uncertainty and future, as the chapters in this special issue show: Firstly, visions of the future result from current and past interpretations of culturally embedded everyday lives. Secondly, a multitude of co-existing models of time is possible. Thirdly, actors adju…
Vertreibung und Widerstand im sudanesischen Niltal: Ein Staudammprojekt und der Versuch zu bleiben
Die Aufstauung des Nils durch den Bau des Merowe-Damms im Nordsudan zwang tausende Manasir-Bewässerungsbäuerinnen und -bauern zur Flucht in die angrenzenden Wüsten. Trotz der radikalen sozial-umweltlichen Transformationen und einer ungewissen Zukunft versuchen die Niltalbewohner*innen, ein bäuerliches Leben weiterzuführen. Während sich andere Studien zu Vertreibungen meist mit Migration und Umsiedlungen befassen, setzt die Autorin hier einen ande…
On patience: Perseverance and imposed waiting during dam-induced displacement in Northern Sudan
In this paper, I explore patience as an attitude towards imposed waiting in uncertainty among peasants in rural Northern Sudan who were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003–2009 Merowe dam construction project. My aim is to examine the complex temporalities that appear in the politics of displacement. I show how such temporal alterations were related to the implementation of a large infrastructural project and to the shaping …
Temporalities of waiting in Africa
Ethnographic accounts of Africa in the late 20th century described a continent in which people were seemingly waiting endlessly for a future that would not come (Ferguson 1999; Piot 2010). Driven b
The Anthropologist's Video Camera as Stage: Forced Displacement and Production of Audio-visual Witnessing in Northern Sudan
In this article, I explore how Sudanese communities have attempted to visually document, witness and communicate a silenced history of forced displacement. Thousands of peasants in rural Northern Sudan were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003-2009 Merowe Dam construction project. My aim is to examine both the complex local interactions with and appropriations of the anthropologist's video camera, which, in the relational pro…
Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar: Experiencing Displacement, Reviving Life
In this photographic essay, I explore the aesthetics and experiences of displacement among peasants in rural northern Sudan who were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003-2009 Merowe Dam construction project. The radically changing environment shaped people's perception of displacement as they attempted to stay and revive life in their homeland on the shores of the expanding reservoir. In this essay, I try to evoke the sensory…
Sociology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Displacement (psychology (2 works)