Sophie Roche
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Roche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Roche |
| SIGNATURE | ROCHE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-5196-4139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Scharrer, Tabea, Birgit Glorius, J. Olaf Kleist und Marcel Berlinghoff (Hrsg.)
Commentary on Anthony Good’s ‘Interpretation, Translation, and Confusion in Refugee Status Determination Procedures’
Konfliktforschung in der Ethnologie — Eine Einführung
Gewalttätige Konflikte, wie etwa Bürgerkriege oder Revolutionen, sind Momente, in denen soziale Spannungen innerhalb einer Gesellschaft sichtbar werden. Die Ethnologie beschäftigt sich seit ihren Ursprüngen damit, wie Konflikte in unterschiedlichen Gemeinschaften entstehen und welche Auswirkungen sie haben. Wenn in Asylverfahren über Schutzbedürftigkeit und Bleiberecht von Geflüchteten entschieden wird, sind Ethnolog:innen daher beratend tätig. S…
Domesticating Youth
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against Sars-CoV-2
Background A safe and efficacious vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), if deployed with high coverage, could contribute to the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in a pooled interim analysis of four trials. Methods This analysis includes data from four ongoing blinded, randomised, controlled trials done across the UK, Brazil, and South Afri…
The Shamaness in Asia
This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and shamanism that has often been neglected in previous accounts. An international range of contributors cover a broad geographical scope, ranging from Siberia to South Asia, and Iran to Japan. Several key themes are considered, including the role of bureaucratic established religions in integrating, chal…
Infection and mortality of healthcare workers worldwide from Covid-19
Female Shamanism in Asia
The shamaness at the threshold
The conflicts between forms of shamanism and bureaucratically integrated religious practice seem to be almost a constant of historical encounters. Controlling beliefs and practices of a population over which empires and nation states expand was, and still is, considered a crucial part of state-building processes and a feature of modernization, where regimes of signs have to be checked and sanitized for the smooth functioning of the state machiner…
The Faceless Terrorist
The Faceless Terrorist
"How could a person portrayed as a terrorist by the Tajik state also be seen as a mujahid fighter in Islam and be a cousin all at the same time? It this just a matter of perspective and conceptualization? To believe in the protection of concepts to safeguard groups and individuals from the uncertain character of the world, is to deny the existence of chance and the contradictions in life. This book uses approaches from existential anthropology to…
Relation as Operations of Experiences
Environmental Configurations
Among the many consequences of Iran’s suffering from water shortage in recent decades, the major river of Isfahan city, Zayandeh Rud, has dried out. While experts observe this issue through environmental discourses and local farmers engage in political protests, citizens phrase the loss of the river as a cultural catastrophe. Within the environmental configuration that includes the river, historical buildings, parks, fauna, flora and humans, habi…
Status Translation
For migrants coming from Central Asia to Moscow, the Cathedral Mosque functions as a central hub to organise their life in the Russian capital. The reason for this is not predominantly their faith or religion. Rather, this place of worship opens a space in which these mostly Tajik people translate their status from that of a stranger exposed to xenophobia and distrust to the respected position of a proper Muslim
The Fabric of Answer
The fabric of answer ( fabrika javob ) refers to the efforts of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security to respond to discussions in the media as well as among people (rumors). Its primary goal is to shape the outside facade of the country and shut down, ridicule or negate critical and dissident speech. The main goal is to work on the image ( imijsoz ) of the country, which is done by exploiting the notions of vatan (homeland) and mill…
The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan
A sound family for a healthy nation
Since independence in 1991, Central Asian countries have put great effort into creating their respective national narratives, which are often based on an ethnic imagination. In Tajikistan this included the idea of shaping society via the family unit. Increasingly, motherhood became the focus of attention, which was made possible by merging two concepts. On the one hand, women are considered as “cultured” and educated people who the Soviet Union f…
Twenty-five Somonis for a Good Future
In Tajikistan the concept of “womanhood” developed in the Soviet period remains at odds with local conceptions of gender roles. These competing forms of female agency force young women to creatively shape their future, drawing on the paradigm of womanhood that befits their life-world. Here, we see how young women take their future into their own hands, in a society that scrutinizes female behavior and seems to restrict women’s agency. Recognizing…
Splendeurs et misères de la psychiatrie
En 1952, Esprit publiait un numéro spécial sur la « Misère de la psychiatrie ». La revue a ensuite accompagné les évolutions du métier, du traitement de la folie, de l'ouverture des asiles à la montée en puissance des neurosciences
Domesticating Youth
Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a “youth bulge” increases the potential for conflict or whether it represents a chance to accumulate wealth and push forward social and technological developments. This book introduces the discuss…
Continuities and disruptions in Islamic education
The circumstances in which Islam has been able to survive the atheistic policies of the Soviet Union have been much debated throughout the last two decades. The study of authorities and institutions has highlighted numerous well-known successful religious authorities and groups that maintained religious networks throughout that period. However, many religious individuals have found navigating this period more problematic. What about those student…
Wedding rituals and the struggle over national identities
International audience
The Changing Sex Ratios at Birth During the Civil War in Tajikistan
Sex ratios at birth are known to change during wars or shortly after. This study investigated changes in sex ratios during the civil war that occurred in Tajikistan after the dismantling of the Soviet Union. This civil war was particularly bloody and long lasting, and had many demographic consequences. According to vital registration data, some 27,000 persons died in excess of previous trends during the civil war period (1992-1997), and total mor…
From youth bulge to conflict
Youth' is an ambivalent concept that is situationally and emically specific. This article discusses socio-demographic approaches to youth and applies the 'youth bulge' argument – which claims that a society with a high percentage of youth has an increased risk for violent conflicts – to the Central Asian context, more precisely to the early Komsomol and the former combatants in civil war Tajikistan. Based on ethnographic material, I analyse vangu…
A sound family for a healthy nation
Since independence in 1991, Central Asian countries have put great effort into creating their respective national narratives, which are often based on an ethnic imagination. In Tajikistan this included the idea of shaping society via the family unit. Increasingly, motherhood became the focus of attention, which was made possible by merging two concepts. On the one hand, women are considered as “cultured” and educated people who the Soviet Union f…
Wedding rituals and the struggle over national identities
International audience
From youth bulge to conflict
Youth' is an ambivalent concept that is situationally and emically specific. This article discusses socio-demographic approaches to youth and applies the 'youth bulge' argument – which claims that a society with a high percentage of youth has an increased risk for violent conflicts – to the Central Asian context, more precisely to the early Komsomol and the former combatants in civil war Tajikistan. Based on ethnographic material, I analyse vangu…
The Fabric of Answer
The fabric of answer ( fabrika javob ) refers to the efforts of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security to respond to discussions in the media as well as among people (rumors). Its primary goal is to shape the outside facade of the country and shut down, ridicule or negate critical and dissident speech. The main goal is to work on the image ( imijsoz ) of the country, which is done by exploiting the notions of vatan (homeland) and mill…
Twenty-five Somonis for a Good Future
In Tajikistan the concept of “womanhood” developed in the Soviet period remains at odds with local conceptions of gender roles. These competing forms of female agency force young women to creatively shape their future, drawing on the paradigm of womanhood that befits their life-world. Here, we see how young women take their future into their own hands, in a society that scrutinizes female behavior and seems to restrict women’s agency. Recognizing…
The Changing Sex Ratios at Birth During the Civil War in Tajikistan
Sex ratios at birth are known to change during wars or shortly after. This study investigated changes in sex ratios during the civil war that occurred in Tajikistan after the dismantling of the Soviet Union. This civil war was particularly bloody and long lasting, and had many demographic consequences. According to vital registration data, some 27,000 persons died in excess of previous trends during the civil war period (1992-1997), and total mor…
From youth bulge to conflict
Youth' is an ambivalent concept that is situationally and emically specific. This article discusses socio-demographic approaches to youth and applies the 'youth bulge' argument – which claims that a society with a high percentage of youth has an increased risk for violent conflicts – to the Central Asian context, more precisely to the early Komsomol and the former combatants in civil war Tajikistan. Based on ethnographic material, I analyse vangu…
Wedding rituals and the struggle over national identities
International audience
Continuities and disruptions in Islamic education
The circumstances in which Islam has been able to survive the atheistic policies of the Soviet Union have been much debated throughout the last two decades. The study of authorities and institutions has highlighted numerous well-known successful religious authorities and groups that maintained religious networks throughout that period. However, many religious individuals have found navigating this period more problematic. What about those student…
Domesticating Youth
Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a “youth bulge” increases the potential for conflict or whether it represents a chance to accumulate wealth and push forward social and technological developments. This book introduces the discuss…
Twenty-five Somonis for a Good Future
In Tajikistan the concept of “womanhood” developed in the Soviet period remains at odds with local conceptions of gender roles. These competing forms of female agency force young women to creatively shape their future, drawing on the paradigm of womanhood that befits their life-world. Here, we see how young women take their future into their own hands, in a society that scrutinizes female behavior and seems to restrict women’s agency. Recognizing…
Splendeurs et misères de la psychiatrie
En 1952, Esprit publiait un numéro spécial sur la « Misère de la psychiatrie ». La revue a ensuite accompagné les évolutions du métier, du traitement de la folie, de l'ouverture des asiles à la montée en puissance des neurosciences
A sound family for a healthy nation
Since independence in 1991, Central Asian countries have put great effort into creating their respective national narratives, which are often based on an ethnic imagination. In Tajikistan this included the idea of shaping society via the family unit. Increasingly, motherhood became the focus of attention, which was made possible by merging two concepts. On the one hand, women are considered as “cultured” and educated people who the Soviet Union f…
Status Translation
For migrants coming from Central Asia to Moscow, the Cathedral Mosque functions as a central hub to organise their life in the Russian capital. The reason for this is not predominantly their faith or religion. Rather, this place of worship opens a space in which these mostly Tajik people translate their status from that of a stranger exposed to xenophobia and distrust to the respected position of a proper Muslim
The Fabric of Answer
The fabric of answer ( fabrika javob ) refers to the efforts of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security to respond to discussions in the media as well as among people (rumors). Its primary goal is to shape the outside facade of the country and shut down, ridicule or negate critical and dissident speech. The main goal is to work on the image ( imijsoz ) of the country, which is done by exploiting the notions of vatan (homeland) and mill…
The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan
The Faceless Terrorist
The Faceless Terrorist
"How could a person portrayed as a terrorist by the Tajik state also be seen as a mujahid fighter in Islam and be a cousin all at the same time? It this just a matter of perspective and conceptualization? To believe in the protection of concepts to safeguard groups and individuals from the uncertain character of the world, is to deny the existence of chance and the contradictions in life. This book uses approaches from existential anthropology to…
Relation as Operations of Experiences
Environmental Configurations
Among the many consequences of Iran’s suffering from water shortage in recent decades, the major river of Isfahan city, Zayandeh Rud, has dried out. While experts observe this issue through environmental discourses and local farmers engage in political protests, citizens phrase the loss of the river as a cultural catastrophe. Within the environmental configuration that includes the river, historical buildings, parks, fauna, flora and humans, habi…
The Shamaness in Asia
This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and shamanism that has often been neglected in previous accounts. An international range of contributors cover a broad geographical scope, ranging from Siberia to South Asia, and Iran to Japan. Several key themes are considered, including the role of bureaucratic established religions in integrating, chal…
Infection and mortality of healthcare workers worldwide from Covid-19
Female Shamanism in Asia
The shamaness at the threshold
The conflicts between forms of shamanism and bureaucratically integrated religious practice seem to be almost a constant of historical encounters. Controlling beliefs and practices of a population over which empires and nation states expand was, and still is, considered a crucial part of state-building processes and a feature of modernization, where regimes of signs have to be checked and sanitized for the smooth functioning of the state machiner…
Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against Sars-CoV-2
Background A safe and efficacious vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), if deployed with high coverage, could contribute to the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in a pooled interim analysis of four trials. Methods This analysis includes data from four ongoing blinded, randomised, controlled trials done across the UK, Brazil, and South Afri…
Domesticating Youth
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
Konfliktforschung in der Ethnologie — Eine Einführung
Gewalttätige Konflikte, wie etwa Bürgerkriege oder Revolutionen, sind Momente, in denen soziale Spannungen innerhalb einer Gesellschaft sichtbar werden. Die Ethnologie beschäftigt sich seit ihren Ursprüngen damit, wie Konflikte in unterschiedlichen Gemeinschaften entstehen und welche Auswirkungen sie haben. Wenn in Asylverfahren über Schutzbedürftigkeit und Bleiberecht von Geflüchteten entschieden wird, sind Ethnolog:innen daher beratend tätig. S…
Scharrer, Tabea, Birgit Glorius, J. Olaf Kleist und Marcel Berlinghoff (Hrsg.)
Commentary on Anthony Good’s ‘Interpretation, Translation, and Confusion in Refugee Status Determination Procedures’
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Soviet and Russian History (7 works) · History (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works)