Tim Burger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Burger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Burger |
| SIGNATURE | BURGER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-2612-7886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vigilant Emigrants: Transatlantic Mobility and Class Formation between California and the Azores
This article examines the role of individual vigilance in the formation of class. Focusing on the upward social mobility of Azorean migrants, I show how being alert about one's sensed positionality orients and amplifies the generation of social class in a migratory setting. Over centuries, the Azores archipelago, situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, has been left behind by its residents in pursuit of better livelihoods elsewhere. The resulting t…
Horticulture as history making: Dense action on lost land among Azorean smallholders
Depopulation has become a landmark transformation across different rural areas, one that is often accompanied by collective experiences of abandonment, crisis, and deprivation. On the Azores archipelago, Portugal, people encounter demographic decline as a disorienting loss of familiarity with their environment and especially their horticultural plots. Azorean depopulation, then, is best framed as a spatial phenomenon. Islanders describe their gra…
Authors and Editors
Constructing the Field or Cementing It?: On Partnership, Method and the Hardening of Ethnography
The Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field beyond Research: A Festschrift in Honour of Martin Sökefeld
The Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field beyond Research
As ethnographic fieldwork blurs the boundaries between ›private‹ and ›professional‹ life, ethnographers always appear to be on duty, looking out for valuable encounters and waiting for the next moment of disclosure. Yet what lies in the gaps and pauses of fieldwork? The contributions in this volume dedicated to anthropologist Martin Sökefeld explore methodological and ethical dimensions of multi-sided ethnographic research. Based on diverse cases…
Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field Beyond Research
Introducing the Multi-Sided Ethnographer
Money in an Actant World: Comparative Notes on Currency, Agency and Sociality
Actor-network theory is an approach notable for distributing agency over a range of human and other-than-human actors hence questioning the existence of a given “society” and instead conceiving of materially heterogeneous collectives. So far, ANT has only shown fleeting interest in the study of money. This is surprising, given the literature emphasising the powerful, agency-bearing role ascribed to money in intersubjective relations and socioecon…
Men Who Shout at Goats: Agrarian Cultivation and Gendered Slaughter on an Azorean Island
Across many world regions, the informal slaughter of livestock occupies an important place in rural day-to-day realities. This article examines killing goats on São Jorge Island to show how attention to slaughter enhances our understanding of gendered selfhood, human-animal relations, and the impacts of depopulation. Building on ethnography of smallholder farmers who see their masculinity and livelihoods endangered by demographic decline, I argue…
Men Who Shout at Goats: Agrarian Cultivation and Gendered Slaughter on an Azorean Island
Across many world regions, the informal slaughter of livestock occupies an important place in rural day-to-day realities. This article examines killing goats on São Jorge Island to show how attention to slaughter enhances our understanding of gendered selfhood, human-animal relations, and the impacts of depopulation. Building on ethnography of smallholder farmers who see their masculinity and livelihoods endangered by demographic decline, I argue…
Money in an Actant World: Comparative Notes on Currency, Agency and Sociality
Actor-network theory is an approach notable for distributing agency over a range of human and other-than-human actors hence questioning the existence of a given “society” and instead conceiving of materially heterogeneous collectives. So far, ANT has only shown fleeting interest in the study of money. This is surprising, given the literature emphasising the powerful, agency-bearing role ascribed to money in intersubjective relations and socioecon…
Men Who Shout at Goats: Agrarian Cultivation and Gendered Slaughter on an Azorean Island
Across many world regions, the informal slaughter of livestock occupies an important place in rural day-to-day realities. This article examines killing goats on São Jorge Island to show how attention to slaughter enhances our understanding of gendered selfhood, human-animal relations, and the impacts of depopulation. Building on ethnography of smallholder farmers who see their masculinity and livelihoods endangered by demographic decline, I argue…
Authors and Editors
Constructing the Field or Cementing It?: On Partnership, Method and the Hardening of Ethnography
The Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field beyond Research: A Festschrift in Honour of Martin Sökefeld
The Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field beyond Research
As ethnographic fieldwork blurs the boundaries between ›private‹ and ›professional‹ life, ethnographers always appear to be on duty, looking out for valuable encounters and waiting for the next moment of disclosure. Yet what lies in the gaps and pauses of fieldwork? The contributions in this volume dedicated to anthropologist Martin Sökefeld explore methodological and ethical dimensions of multi-sided ethnographic research. Based on diverse cases…
Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field Beyond Research
Introducing the Multi-Sided Ethnographer
Vigilant Emigrants: Transatlantic Mobility and Class Formation between California and the Azores
This article examines the role of individual vigilance in the formation of class. Focusing on the upward social mobility of Azorean migrants, I show how being alert about one's sensed positionality orients and amplifies the generation of social class in a migratory setting. Over centuries, the Azores archipelago, situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, has been left behind by its residents in pursuit of better livelihoods elsewhere. The resulting t…
Horticulture as history making: Dense action on lost land among Azorean smallholders
Depopulation has become a landmark transformation across different rural areas, one that is often accompanied by collective experiences of abandonment, crisis, and deprivation. On the Azores archipelago, Portugal, people encounter demographic decline as a disorienting loss of familiarity with their environment and especially their horticultural plots. Azorean depopulation, then, is best framed as a spatial phenomenon. Islanders describe their gra…
Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Field (mathematics) (2 works) · History (2 works)