E Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 53797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7010-5957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Theorizing diasporic sociology
From the Objects to the Actors of Restitution: Jewish Agency in the Nazi-Era Looted Art and Artefact Restitution Field
Scholarship on the restitution of art and artefacts looted during the Nazi era has predominantly focused on objects rather than the actors who have shaped this field. This article adopts an actor-oriented approach to examine the agency of Jewish cultural brokers formative to restitution processes since the 1950s. Drawing on interviews conducted with fifteen Jewish cultural brokers from 2022 to 2025 and archival research at the Leo Baeck Institute…
The politics of death: Multiculturalism and the afterlives of Muslims in Europe
In this special issue, we examine the politics of death through a multicultural lens, focusing on empirical examples that help us to sharpen theories of inclusion and exclusion in Europe. We propose the politics of death as a multidimensional concept centred around processes of recognition and accommodation, which are shaped by (legal) regulations and cultural and religious norms. While both recognition and accommodation have been theorized and e…
Towards multicultural memory: Struggles over a Muslim cemetery in post-Civil War Asturias, Spain
This article traces struggles over a Muslim cemetery in post-Civil War Asturias, Spain, highlighting the centrality of multicultural memory in creating an inclusive contemporary society. Drawing on theories of multiculturalism put forth by Civil Sphere Theory and the British School of Multiculturalism, we shed light on the bifurcating cultural narrative of the civil (victim) and uncivil (perpetrator) and its grasp on collective memory, complicati…
Another Fateful Triangle: Jews, Muslims, Europe
This paper argues that Jews–Muslims–Europe is a fateful triangle, in which identities and identifications both inform and form one another. It draws on interview-based research at the Jewish Museum Berlin to showcase how Jewish and Muslim positionalities have become entwined in the context of contemporary Berlin, Germany, and Europe. At the same time, it showcases how the positionality of strangerhood can provide a critical perspective for unders…
Citizen Stranger: Contemporary German Muslim Intellectuals, Twentieth-Century German Jewish Intellectuals, and a Politics of Relationality
Jews and Muslims in Europe have faced a similar othering in modernity. As insider-outsiders, they are both what we term citizen strangers: even with legal inclusions, they remain culturally set apart. German Jewish intellectuals since the end of the nineteenth century and German Muslim intellectuals today have recognized their marginal positionalities, but also drew/draw on these positionalities as a critical resource for addressing social inequa…
Theorizing “new ethnicities” in diasporic Europe: Jews, Muslims and Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall's concept of "new ethnicities" theorizes (post)migrant belonging by centering not on the power of othering, but rather on the agentive force of diasporic groups to contend with their essentialization and marginalization. While rooted in Black transatlantic experiences of colonialism and slavery, "new ethnicities" provides a conceptual platform from which those more broadly marginalized in the diasporic context of Europe may speak and …
What’s ethnicity got to do with it? Religious and racial politics in Europe
Drawing on sociology, anthropology, constitutional law, and political philosophy, this issue explores how the concept of ethnicity functions as a salient category for understanding the experiences of minorities in Europe today. It considers ethnicity as a powerful means of self-identification and the assertion of differences between as well as within ethnic groups. This issue engages the tension between group-based stigmatization on the one hand,…
Characterization of Ad Libitum Use Behavior of On! Nicotine Pouches
Objectives: Actual use of nicotine pouch products is not well studied. The objectives of this study were to characterize on ® nicotine pouch (Test Products (TP)) use behavior, including association with cigarette and smokeless tobacco (ST) product use. Methods: Adults who smoke cigarettes (AS) and/or adults who use ST (ASTU) (N=1147) that were not planning to quit and had expressed interest in trying and using TP after a 5-day trial were offered …
Introduction: Decolonizing the metropolis
Debates over borders and belonging in the post-imperial age have focused on the nation-state, with identifications and rights situated in a national sphere of citizenship.The unsettledness of contemporary European societies that has developed not only against, but also through colonial and imperial endeavours reveals the incapacity of national framings to fully make sense of plurality, including both the structural constraints on and the agency o…
Enlivening the ‘open city’: From a politics of divisibility to the making of Muslim cityzens in Berlin
In this piece, Becker explores how, in facing the failure of national belonging, specifically a politics of divisibility that sets them negatively apart from the German mainstream, Muslim Berliners enliven ‘cityzenship’: that is, they turn to the city itself as a place of identification and self-articulation. They do so by engaging with and shaping what Richard Sennett calls ‘the open city’, a city that is open to pluralism and plural encounters …
Classifying Muslims: Contextualizing Religion and Race in the United Kingdom and Germany
Since the late 20th century, public discourse in Muslim-minority countries has centered around the question of how to classify Muslims. In this paper, we compare the state, academic, and self-classification of Muslims in two countries: the United Kingdom and Germany. We propose that the historical experience of anti-Semitism makes religion a more salient master category to understand Muslims in Germany, while the history of both anti-Semitism and…
Struggles for Horizontal Identification: Muslims, Jews, and the Civil Sphere in Germany
Muslims across Europe have been labeled as uncivil since the migration waves of postcolonial and guestworker migrants in the mid-20th century. In this paper, I bring the Muslim experience in the German capital into conversation with Civil Sphere Theory (CST), which analyzes how senses of cultural boundedness are supported, shaped, and contested through the interrelations between the institutions of civil society and social movements aimed at expa…
Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe
Incivility and danger: Theorizing a Muslim undercaste in Europe
Positing Muslim positionality in Europe as an undercaste helps to make sense of how cultural stratification, rooted in associations with incivility, has resulted in deep and unrelenting inequalities experienced by diverse Muslims. Based on two years of ethnographic research with a Muslim community in Berlin as well as a survey of secondary research, this paper both theorizes and empirically showcases the process by which Muslims have become synon…
The Ethical Substance of Salvation: Materiality and Religious Rejection of the World in a London Mosque
Materiality has been largely left out of the study of Muslim life in Europe, and limited to an etic rather than emic approach. In this paper, I analyse a conservative London mosque community (the East London Mosque) that depends on the material--what I term "ethical substance"--to reinforce its ascetic rejection of the world. Drawing from five months of ethnographic research in this mosque, I examine three aspects of materiality--clothing, the mo…
Tour-guiding as a pious place-making practice: The case of the Sehitlik Mosque, Berlin
Good Mosque, Bad Mosque: Boundaries to Belonging in Contemporary Germany
How do Muslim institutions in Europe relate to national and European values? How do they visibly challenge boundaries that other/exclude Islam? This analysis identifies two factors that result in the acceptance or rejection of mosques, showing the boundary work at play in this process: (1) the ability of Muslim leadership to achieve a positive visibility of the mosque through the performance and staging of key German civic ideals; and (2) the rol…
Late Quaternary valley and slope deposits and their palaeoenvironmental significance in the Upper Congo Basin, Central Africa
Little of Italy? Assumed ethnicity in a New York City neighbourhood
Utilizing the case study of Albanian Kosovars employed in the restaurant business in Little Italy, New York, this paper introduces the concept of assumed ethnicity. This concept describes one ethnic group strategically presenting itself as another ethnic group, neither assimilating into mainstream society ethnicity nor validating place of origin ethnicity. Such assumed ethnicity is outwardly expressed (assumed) by the ethnic group in question, as…
Acceptability and Feasibility of Cash Transfers for HIV Prevention Among Adolescent South African Women
Interventive assessment with children and their parents in group meetings: Professional training and storybook feedback
This article describes how psychology interns and their supervisors assess and intervene with children and their parents through 12 sessions, some with the child, some with the parents, and some with all the parties. Our orientation, is developmental, and existential/phenomenological in its emphasis on families’ lived relations. We include a sample feedback storybook, and the findings of a follow‐up survey
Social-ecological research - conceptual framework for a new funding policy Synopsis of the Report for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
A psychophysical analysis of perceived satiety: Its relation to consumatory behavior and degree of overweight
Luxus und Luxussteuer. F. Marbach
A psychophysical analysis of perceived satiety: Its relation to consumatory behavior and degree of overweight
Little of Italy? Assumed ethnicity in a New York City neighbourhood
Utilizing the case study of Albanian Kosovars employed in the restaurant business in Little Italy, New York, this paper introduces the concept of assumed ethnicity. This concept describes one ethnic group strategically presenting itself as another ethnic group, neither assimilating into mainstream society ethnicity nor validating place of origin ethnicity. Such assumed ethnicity is outwardly expressed (assumed) by the ethnic group in question, as…
Good Mosque, Bad Mosque: Boundaries to Belonging in Contemporary Germany
How do Muslim institutions in Europe relate to national and European values? How do they visibly challenge boundaries that other/exclude Islam? This analysis identifies two factors that result in the acceptance or rejection of mosques, showing the boundary work at play in this process: (1) the ability of Muslim leadership to achieve a positive visibility of the mosque through the performance and staging of key German civic ideals; and (2) the rol…
Theorizing “new ethnicities” in diasporic Europe: Jews, Muslims and Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall's concept of "new ethnicities" theorizes (post)migrant belonging by centering not on the power of othering, but rather on the agentive force of diasporic groups to contend with their essentialization and marginalization. While rooted in Black transatlantic experiences of colonialism and slavery, "new ethnicities" provides a conceptual platform from which those more broadly marginalized in the diasporic context of Europe may speak and …
What’s ethnicity got to do with it? Religious and racial politics in Europe
Drawing on sociology, anthropology, constitutional law, and political philosophy, this issue explores how the concept of ethnicity functions as a salient category for understanding the experiences of minorities in Europe today. It considers ethnicity as a powerful means of self-identification and the assertion of differences between as well as within ethnic groups. This issue engages the tension between group-based stigmatization on the one hand,…
Introduction: Decolonizing the metropolis
Debates over borders and belonging in the post-imperial age have focused on the nation-state, with identifications and rights situated in a national sphere of citizenship.The unsettledness of contemporary European societies that has developed not only against, but also through colonial and imperial endeavours reveals the incapacity of national framings to fully make sense of plurality, including both the structural constraints on and the agency o…
Tour-guiding as a pious place-making practice: The case of the Sehitlik Mosque, Berlin
Towards multicultural memory: Struggles over a Muslim cemetery in post-Civil War Asturias, Spain
This article traces struggles over a Muslim cemetery in post-Civil War Asturias, Spain, highlighting the centrality of multicultural memory in creating an inclusive contemporary society. Drawing on theories of multiculturalism put forth by Civil Sphere Theory and the British School of Multiculturalism, we shed light on the bifurcating cultural narrative of the civil (victim) and uncivil (perpetrator) and its grasp on collective memory, complicati…
The politics of death: Multiculturalism and the afterlives of Muslims in Europe
In this special issue, we examine the politics of death through a multicultural lens, focusing on empirical examples that help us to sharpen theories of inclusion and exclusion in Europe. We propose the politics of death as a multidimensional concept centred around processes of recognition and accommodation, which are shaped by (legal) regulations and cultural and religious norms. While both recognition and accommodation have been theorized and e…
Incivility and danger: Theorizing a Muslim undercaste in Europe
Positing Muslim positionality in Europe as an undercaste helps to make sense of how cultural stratification, rooted in associations with incivility, has resulted in deep and unrelenting inequalities experienced by diverse Muslims. Based on two years of ethnographic research with a Muslim community in Berlin as well as a survey of secondary research, this paper both theorizes and empirically showcases the process by which Muslims have become synon…
Luxus und Luxussteuer. F. Marbach
A psychophysical analysis of perceived satiety: Its relation to consumatory behavior and degree of overweight
Social-ecological research - conceptual framework for a new funding policy Synopsis of the Report for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Interventive assessment with children and their parents in group meetings: Professional training and storybook feedback
This article describes how psychology interns and their supervisors assess and intervene with children and their parents through 12 sessions, some with the child, some with the parents, and some with all the parties. Our orientation, is developmental, and existential/phenomenological in its emphasis on families’ lived relations. We include a sample feedback storybook, and the findings of a follow‐up survey
Acceptability and Feasibility of Cash Transfers for HIV Prevention Among Adolescent South African Women
Little of Italy? Assumed ethnicity in a New York City neighbourhood
Utilizing the case study of Albanian Kosovars employed in the restaurant business in Little Italy, New York, this paper introduces the concept of assumed ethnicity. This concept describes one ethnic group strategically presenting itself as another ethnic group, neither assimilating into mainstream society ethnicity nor validating place of origin ethnicity. Such assumed ethnicity is outwardly expressed (assumed) by the ethnic group in question, as…
Late Quaternary valley and slope deposits and their palaeoenvironmental significance in the Upper Congo Basin, Central Africa
Good Mosque, Bad Mosque: Boundaries to Belonging in Contemporary Germany
How do Muslim institutions in Europe relate to national and European values? How do they visibly challenge boundaries that other/exclude Islam? This analysis identifies two factors that result in the acceptance or rejection of mosques, showing the boundary work at play in this process: (1) the ability of Muslim leadership to achieve a positive visibility of the mosque through the performance and staging of key German civic ideals; and (2) the rol…
Tour-guiding as a pious place-making practice: The case of the Sehitlik Mosque, Berlin
The Ethical Substance of Salvation: Materiality and Religious Rejection of the World in a London Mosque
Materiality has been largely left out of the study of Muslim life in Europe, and limited to an etic rather than emic approach. In this paper, I analyse a conservative London mosque community (the East London Mosque) that depends on the material--what I term "ethical substance"--to reinforce its ascetic rejection of the world. Drawing from five months of ethnographic research in this mosque, I examine three aspects of materiality--clothing, the mo…
Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe
Incivility and danger: Theorizing a Muslim undercaste in Europe
Positing Muslim positionality in Europe as an undercaste helps to make sense of how cultural stratification, rooted in associations with incivility, has resulted in deep and unrelenting inequalities experienced by diverse Muslims. Based on two years of ethnographic research with a Muslim community in Berlin as well as a survey of secondary research, this paper both theorizes and empirically showcases the process by which Muslims have become synon…
Struggles for Horizontal Identification: Muslims, Jews, and the Civil Sphere in Germany
Muslims across Europe have been labeled as uncivil since the migration waves of postcolonial and guestworker migrants in the mid-20th century. In this paper, I bring the Muslim experience in the German capital into conversation with Civil Sphere Theory (CST), which analyzes how senses of cultural boundedness are supported, shaped, and contested through the interrelations between the institutions of civil society and social movements aimed at expa…
Characterization of Ad Libitum Use Behavior of On! Nicotine Pouches
Objectives: Actual use of nicotine pouch products is not well studied. The objectives of this study were to characterize on ® nicotine pouch (Test Products (TP)) use behavior, including association with cigarette and smokeless tobacco (ST) product use. Methods: Adults who smoke cigarettes (AS) and/or adults who use ST (ASTU) (N=1147) that were not planning to quit and had expressed interest in trying and using TP after a 5-day trial were offered …
Introduction: Decolonizing the metropolis
Debates over borders and belonging in the post-imperial age have focused on the nation-state, with identifications and rights situated in a national sphere of citizenship.The unsettledness of contemporary European societies that has developed not only against, but also through colonial and imperial endeavours reveals the incapacity of national framings to fully make sense of plurality, including both the structural constraints on and the agency o…
Enlivening the ‘open city’: From a politics of divisibility to the making of Muslim cityzens in Berlin
In this piece, Becker explores how, in facing the failure of national belonging, specifically a politics of divisibility that sets them negatively apart from the German mainstream, Muslim Berliners enliven ‘cityzenship’: that is, they turn to the city itself as a place of identification and self-articulation. They do so by engaging with and shaping what Richard Sennett calls ‘the open city’, a city that is open to pluralism and plural encounters …
Classifying Muslims: Contextualizing Religion and Race in the United Kingdom and Germany
Since the late 20th century, public discourse in Muslim-minority countries has centered around the question of how to classify Muslims. In this paper, we compare the state, academic, and self-classification of Muslims in two countries: the United Kingdom and Germany. We propose that the historical experience of anti-Semitism makes religion a more salient master category to understand Muslims in Germany, while the history of both anti-Semitism and…
Another Fateful Triangle: Jews, Muslims, Europe
This paper argues that Jews–Muslims–Europe is a fateful triangle, in which identities and identifications both inform and form one another. It draws on interview-based research at the Jewish Museum Berlin to showcase how Jewish and Muslim positionalities have become entwined in the context of contemporary Berlin, Germany, and Europe. At the same time, it showcases how the positionality of strangerhood can provide a critical perspective for unders…
Citizen Stranger: Contemporary German Muslim Intellectuals, Twentieth-Century German Jewish Intellectuals, and a Politics of Relationality
Jews and Muslims in Europe have faced a similar othering in modernity. As insider-outsiders, they are both what we term citizen strangers: even with legal inclusions, they remain culturally set apart. German Jewish intellectuals since the end of the nineteenth century and German Muslim intellectuals today have recognized their marginal positionalities, but also drew/draw on these positionalities as a critical resource for addressing social inequa…
Theorizing “new ethnicities” in diasporic Europe: Jews, Muslims and Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall's concept of "new ethnicities" theorizes (post)migrant belonging by centering not on the power of othering, but rather on the agentive force of diasporic groups to contend with their essentialization and marginalization. While rooted in Black transatlantic experiences of colonialism and slavery, "new ethnicities" provides a conceptual platform from which those more broadly marginalized in the diasporic context of Europe may speak and …
What’s ethnicity got to do with it? Religious and racial politics in Europe
Drawing on sociology, anthropology, constitutional law, and political philosophy, this issue explores how the concept of ethnicity functions as a salient category for understanding the experiences of minorities in Europe today. It considers ethnicity as a powerful means of self-identification and the assertion of differences between as well as within ethnic groups. This issue engages the tension between group-based stigmatization on the one hand,…
From the Objects to the Actors of Restitution: Jewish Agency in the Nazi-Era Looted Art and Artefact Restitution Field
Scholarship on the restitution of art and artefacts looted during the Nazi era has predominantly focused on objects rather than the actors who have shaped this field. This article adopts an actor-oriented approach to examine the agency of Jewish cultural brokers formative to restitution processes since the 1950s. Drawing on interviews conducted with fifteen Jewish cultural brokers from 2022 to 2025 and archival research at the Leo Baeck Institute…
The politics of death: Multiculturalism and the afterlives of Muslims in Europe
In this special issue, we examine the politics of death through a multicultural lens, focusing on empirical examples that help us to sharpen theories of inclusion and exclusion in Europe. We propose the politics of death as a multidimensional concept centred around processes of recognition and accommodation, which are shaped by (legal) regulations and cultural and religious norms. While both recognition and accommodation have been theorized and e…
Towards multicultural memory: Struggles over a Muslim cemetery in post-Civil War Asturias, Spain
This article traces struggles over a Muslim cemetery in post-Civil War Asturias, Spain, highlighting the centrality of multicultural memory in creating an inclusive contemporary society. Drawing on theories of multiculturalism put forth by Civil Sphere Theory and the British School of Multiculturalism, we shed light on the bifurcating cultural narrative of the civil (victim) and uncivil (perpetrator) and its grasp on collective memory, complicati…
Theorizing diasporic sociology
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works)