Katharina Schramm
Biographic Data
| ID | 589191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharina Schramm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharina |
| FAMILY NAME | Schramm |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRAMM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9275-6387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Knowing - Unknowing: African Studies at the Crossroads
Repurposing mines for renewable energy: Socio-environmental implications for local communities in Australia and Germany
The demand for low-carbon energy to tackle the climate crisis requires large swathes of land to develop renewable energy infrastructure, such as wind, solar, geothermal, hydrogen, or pumped hydro. Claiming to avoid encroaching on already occupied landscapes where different forms of tenure exist, the energy industry is increasingly targeting closed and abandoned mine areas. This transformation not only promises to mitigate or address the ecologica…
Fire is good to think with: Protest as a mode of theorizing
This article discusses the South African student movement of 2015/2016 through the lens of fire. At the peak of the movement, campuses were literally burning, and the universities became a major site of struggle over decolonization and social justice. These protests have drawn together matters of knowledge, representation, and memory with issues of inequality, discrimination, and race. Zooming in on fire as a contradictory force - destructive and…
Thinking as Moving – Knowledge Practices and Decolonial Frames in African Studies
Introduction: Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission
Race, Genealogy, and the Genomic Archive in Post-apartheid South Africa
From the early 2000s onward, scientists, politicians, and intellectuals have presented the South African gene pool as a new archive for the new nation, suggesting a non-racial unity in diversity through common human origins. In this discourse, population genomics and genetic ancestry allude to metaphors of shared kinship to overcome the legacies of race. However, a focus on the underlying practices of measuring and classification reveals how the …
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour
Encountering the Face-Unraveling Race
Stuck in the Tearoom: Facial Reconstruction and Postapartheid Headache
This article examines a project of facial reconstruction of human remains from an archaeological excavation that took place in 1994 in the inner city of Cape Town, South Africa. The initiators of the project envisioned it as an opportunity to translate the power of scientific knowledge to a lay audience, conveying a postapartheid, postracial vision of unity in diversity. However, this translation failed, and the faces got stuck in limbo. I demons…
Diasporic Citizenship under Debate: Law, Body, and Soul
In this paper I explore the nexus of slavery, diaspora, and citizenship through the close examination of the complex negotiations of "diasporic citizenship" in Ghana. Over the past 25 years, Ghana has been a major site for diasporic homecoming, both in terms of tourism and repatriation. This movement has been accompanied by multiple demands and promises of citizenship. I discuss three dimensions of citizenship that speak to the problematics of in…
Doing race in Europe: Contested Pasts and Contemporary Practices
In this introduction to the special section on 'Doing Race in Europe' we take up the notion of race as an 'absent presence' to deal with two related issues. First, we consider the historically contested position of race in the discipline of anthropology. Second, we think through the notion of an 'absent presence' conceptually and methodologically so as to develop a relational approach enabling us to analyse race in practice. We take as a point of…
Claiming citizenship rights through the body multiple
What have affirmative action policies, categorization of care needs, plastic surgery, forensic identification of dead bodies and age assessments of refugees in common? They all determine recognition and access to resources and rights via the body. In the introduction to this special issue, the editors emphasize that the body only becomes distinct and significant when it is put in relation to historically and geographically differing norms and sta…
Sorting, typing, classifying
Introduction: Voice, noise and silence. Resonances of political subjectivities
Nash, Catherine: Genetic Geographies - The Trouble with Ancestry
Anthropos , Seite 343 - 344
Slave Route Projects: Tracing the Heritage of Slavery in Ghana
This chapter focuses on recent efforts of representing the history of slavery in Ghana. It focuses on two heritage projects that play a role in the recent upsurge of interest in the northern slave sites. In the official representations of the history of slavery in northern Ghana, as they are presented by the Ghana Tourist Board via local tour guides, this fact is either downplayed or ignored. The memory work that the project attempts to stimulate…
Casts, bones and DNA: Interrogating the relationship between science and postcolonial indigeneity in contemporary South Africa
This paper discusses the articulation and complex enactment of postcolonial indigeneity, commonly referred to as Khoesan revivalism in contemporary South Africa. Through a close examination of the "substances of indigeneity," i.e. body casts, human remains and DNA, it interrogates the partial imbrication of past and present scientific and classificatory practices with contemporary political and affective identifications. It argues that, in this c…
Enacting Differences, Articulating Critique: Recent Approaches to Race in the Social Analysis of Science and Technology
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, the problem of race has been an important object of study in the history of science, and the history of physical anthropology and human biology
Wie Phönix aus der Asche: Klassifikation, Erinnerungspolitik und Populationsgenetik in Südafrika
Im Mittelpunkt dieses Artikels steht eine populationsgenetische Stichprobe im südafrikanischen Simon’s Town, die im Rahmen des globalen Genographic Project erhoben wurde. Simon’s Town war während der Apartheid besonders stark von Zwangsumsiedlungen der nicht-weißen Bevölkerung betroffen. Nach 1994 fanden sich einige der ehemaligen BewohnerInnen zum Project Phoenix zusammen, um an das Leben im Ort und die Gewalterfahrung der Vertreibungen zu erinn…
On Liberalism, Identity Politics, and Race Trouble: What Future for South African Anthropology
Topologies of Race: Doing territory, population and identity in Europe
Territorial borders just like other boundaries are involved in a politics of belonging, a politics of "us" and "them". Border management regimes are thus part of processes of othering. In this article, we use the management of borders and populations in Europe as an empirical example to make a theoretical claim about race. We introduce the notion of the phenotypic other to argue that race is a topological object, an object that is spatially and t…
Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe
In many European countries, the explicit discussion of race as a biological phenomenon has long been avoided. This has not meant that race has become obsolete or irrelevant all together. Rather, it is a slippery object that keeps shifting and changing. To understand its slippery nature, we suggest that race in Europe is best viewed as an absent presence, something that oscillates between reality and nonreality, which appears on the surface and th…
Probst, Peter
Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
The Slaves of Pikworo: Local Histories, Transatlantic Perspectives
This article examines the trans/formation of a memorial landscape of slavery and the slave trade in Ghana's Upper East Region. It focuses on a former slave camp (Pikworo), which is closely associated with late-nineteenth-century slave raids that play an important role in local memorial and ritual practices. Recently, however, Pikworo has been represented as part of the transatlantic slave route, so as to attract an African American audience. Here…
Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe
In many European countries, the explicit discussion of race as a biological phenomenon has long been avoided. This has not meant that race has become obsolete or irrelevant all together. Rather, it is a slippery object that keeps shifting and changing. To understand its slippery nature, we suggest that race in Europe is best viewed as an absent presence, something that oscillates between reality and nonreality, which appears on the surface and th…
Thinking through Political Subjectivity
In the introduction to this special volume the editors focus on the analytical value of "political subjectivities" in emergent social fields that are characterized by multiple diasporic overlaps. They emphasize the central role played by various forms of governance in producing, confirming and contesting politics of transnational incorporation and diasporic participation and consider how these political projects often target members of historical…
Topologies of Race: Doing territory, population and identity in Europe
Territorial borders just like other boundaries are involved in a politics of belonging, a politics of "us" and "them". Border management regimes are thus part of processes of othering. In this article, we use the management of borders and populations in Europe as an empirical example to make a theoretical claim about race. We introduce the notion of the phenotypic other to argue that race is a topological object, an object that is spatially and t…
Claiming citizenship rights through the body multiple
What have affirmative action policies, categorization of care needs, plastic surgery, forensic identification of dead bodies and age assessments of refugees in common? They all determine recognition and access to resources and rights via the body. In the introduction to this special issue, the editors emphasize that the body only becomes distinct and significant when it is put in relation to historically and geographically differing norms and sta…
Encountering the Face-Unraveling Race
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour
You have your own history. Keep your hands off ours!' On being rejected in the field
Cet article explore quelques uns des defis methodologiques et theoriques qui apparaissent dans des contextes de recherche ou l'anthropologue est categoriquement importun. A partir d'episodes significatifs tires de son propre travail de terrain sur le retour d'Africains americains dans leur pays d'origine (Ghana), l'auteur discute le caractere a double tranchant du positionnement en tant que placement structurel et agencement individuel -pour le c…
Diasporic Citizenship under Debate: Law, Body, and Soul
In this paper I explore the nexus of slavery, diaspora, and citizenship through the close examination of the complex negotiations of "diasporic citizenship" in Ghana. Over the past 25 years, Ghana has been a major site for diasporic homecoming, both in terms of tourism and repatriation. This movement has been accompanied by multiple demands and promises of citizenship. I discuss three dimensions of citizenship that speak to the problematics of in…
Doing race in Europe: Contested Pasts and Contemporary Practices
In this introduction to the special section on 'Doing Race in Europe' we take up the notion of race as an 'absent presence' to deal with two related issues. First, we consider the historically contested position of race in the discipline of anthropology. Second, we think through the notion of an 'absent presence' conceptually and methodologically so as to develop a relational approach enabling us to analyse race in practice. We take as a point of…
Casts, bones and DNA: Interrogating the relationship between science and postcolonial indigeneity in contemporary South Africa
This paper discusses the articulation and complex enactment of postcolonial indigeneity, commonly referred to as Khoesan revivalism in contemporary South Africa. Through a close examination of the "substances of indigeneity," i.e. body casts, human remains and DNA, it interrogates the partial imbrication of past and present scientific and classificatory practices with contemporary political and affective identifications. It argues that, in this c…
Stuck in the Tearoom: Facial Reconstruction and Postapartheid Headache
This article examines a project of facial reconstruction of human remains from an archaeological excavation that took place in 1994 in the inner city of Cape Town, South Africa. The initiators of the project envisioned it as an opportunity to translate the power of scientific knowledge to a lay audience, conveying a postapartheid, postracial vision of unity in diversity. However, this translation failed, and the faces got stuck in limbo. I demons…
Introduction: Voice, noise and silence. Resonances of political subjectivities
Pan‐Africanism as a resource: The W. E. B. DuBois Memorial Centre for Pan‐African Culture in Ghana1
This article deals with the recent homecoming of African Americans to Ghana and the resulting heritage politics, as it unfolds between the Ghanaian state on the one hand and Diasporan visitors and repatriates on the other. Through the concrete encounter with the 'motherland', homecoming ceases to be an imaginary construction, but is rather turned into a contested practice. Whereas the notion of a united 'African family' is rhetorically shared by …
The Slaves of Pikworo: Local Histories, Transatlantic Perspectives
This article examines the trans/formation of a memorial landscape of slavery and the slave trade in Ghana's Upper East Region. It focuses on a former slave camp (Pikworo), which is closely associated with late-nineteenth-century slave raids that play an important role in local memorial and ritual practices. Recently, however, Pikworo has been represented as part of the transatlantic slave route, so as to attract an African American audience. Here…
Negotiating Race: Blackness and Whiteness in the Context of Homecoming to Ghana
This article aims to analyse the dynamics of the making and unmaking of racial identities by looking at the ways in which the issue of race is debated in the context of historical and more recent return movements of African Americans to Ghana. The discourse surrounding the return, or homecoming as it is commonly phrased, is determined by notions of an African family and Black kinship. In official rhetoric, race is represented as an irrefutable re…
Leaving area studies behind: The challenge of diasporic connections in the field of African studies
In recent years, diaspora has become one of the key terms of social analysis in various fields. Emphasizing the multiple trajectories out of which present identities – inasmuch as political or economic realities – are forged, the concept forces us to reconsider the scope of classical area studies (and associated disciplinary boundaries) in radical terms. The article looks at the colonial foundations of African Studies as area studies and examines…
Sorting, typing, classifying
On Liberalism, Identity Politics, and Race Trouble: What Future for South African Anthropology
Das Joseph-Project: Das Joseph-Project
Fire is good to think with: Protest as a mode of theorizing
This article discusses the South African student movement of 2015/2016 through the lens of fire. At the peak of the movement, campuses were literally burning, and the universities became a major site of struggle over decolonization and social justice. These protests have drawn together matters of knowledge, representation, and memory with issues of inequality, discrimination, and race. Zooming in on fire as a contradictory force - destructive and…
Pan‐Africanism as a resource: The W. E. B. DuBois Memorial Centre for Pan‐African Culture in Ghana1
This article deals with the recent homecoming of African Americans to Ghana and the resulting heritage politics, as it unfolds between the Ghanaian state on the one hand and Diasporan visitors and repatriates on the other. Through the concrete encounter with the 'motherland', homecoming ceases to be an imaginary construction, but is rather turned into a contested practice. Whereas the notion of a united 'African family' is rhetorically shared by …
You have your own history. Keep your hands off ours!' On being rejected in the field
Cet article explore quelques uns des defis methodologiques et theoriques qui apparaissent dans des contextes de recherche ou l'anthropologue est categoriquement importun. A partir d'episodes significatifs tires de son propre travail de terrain sur le retour d'Africains americains dans leur pays d'origine (Ghana), l'auteur discute le caractere a double tranchant du positionnement en tant que placement structurel et agencement individuel -pour le c…
Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism, and the Transformation of Knowledge (review)
Leaving area studies behind: The challenge of diasporic connections in the field of African studies
In recent years, diaspora has become one of the key terms of social analysis in various fields. Emphasizing the multiple trajectories out of which present identities – inasmuch as political or economic realities – are forged, the concept forces us to reconsider the scope of classical area studies (and associated disciplinary boundaries) in radical terms. The article looks at the colonial foundations of African Studies as area studies and examines…
Das Joseph-Project: Das Joseph-Project
Highland homecomings: Genealogy and heritage tourism in the Scottish diaspora - By Paul Basu
Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission
Negotiating Race: Blackness and Whiteness in the Context of Homecoming to Ghana
This article aims to analyse the dynamics of the making and unmaking of racial identities by looking at the ways in which the issue of race is debated in the context of historical and more recent return movements of African Americans to Ghana. The discourse surrounding the return, or homecoming as it is commonly phrased, is determined by notions of an African family and Black kinship. In official rhetoric, race is represented as an irrefutable re…
Sankɔfa-Interpretationen: Schwarze Selbst(er)findung zwischen Vergangenheitsbezug und Zukunftsorientierung
“In der Vergangenheit liegt die Zukunft“ oder “Nur wer seine Vergangenheit kennt, kann seine Zukunft gestalten“ – so wird das adinkra -Symbol sankɔfa häufig gedeutet. Ursprünglich im Kontext der Akan-chieftaincy verankert, hat es mittlerweile eine Popularität erlangt, die weit über den lokalen Kontext hinausweist. Sankɔfa gilt als Schlüsselreferenz für einen positiven Vergangenheits- und Traditionsbezug und wird folglich nicht nur ästhetisch, son…
The Slaves of Pikworo: Local Histories, Transatlantic Perspectives
This article examines the trans/formation of a memorial landscape of slavery and the slave trade in Ghana's Upper East Region. It focuses on a former slave camp (Pikworo), which is closely associated with late-nineteenth-century slave raids that play an important role in local memorial and ritual practices. Recently, however, Pikworo has been represented as part of the transatlantic slave route, so as to attract an African American audience. Here…
Thinking through Political Subjectivity
In the introduction to this special volume the editors focus on the analytical value of "political subjectivities" in emergent social fields that are characterized by multiple diasporic overlaps. They emphasize the central role played by various forms of governance in producing, confirming and contesting politics of transnational incorporation and diasporic participation and consider how these political projects often target members of historical…
Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Topologies of Race: Doing territory, population and identity in Europe
Territorial borders just like other boundaries are involved in a politics of belonging, a politics of "us" and "them". Border management regimes are thus part of processes of othering. In this article, we use the management of borders and populations in Europe as an empirical example to make a theoretical claim about race. We introduce the notion of the phenotypic other to argue that race is a topological object, an object that is spatially and t…
Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe
In many European countries, the explicit discussion of race as a biological phenomenon has long been avoided. This has not meant that race has become obsolete or irrelevant all together. Rather, it is a slippery object that keeps shifting and changing. To understand its slippery nature, we suggest that race in Europe is best viewed as an absent presence, something that oscillates between reality and nonreality, which appears on the surface and th…
Probst, Peter
Enacting Differences, Articulating Critique: Recent Approaches to Race in the Social Analysis of Science and Technology
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, the problem of race has been an important object of study in the history of science, and the history of physical anthropology and human biology
Wie Phönix aus der Asche: Klassifikation, Erinnerungspolitik und Populationsgenetik in Südafrika
Im Mittelpunkt dieses Artikels steht eine populationsgenetische Stichprobe im südafrikanischen Simon’s Town, die im Rahmen des globalen Genographic Project erhoben wurde. Simon’s Town war während der Apartheid besonders stark von Zwangsumsiedlungen der nicht-weißen Bevölkerung betroffen. Nach 1994 fanden sich einige der ehemaligen BewohnerInnen zum Project Phoenix zusammen, um an das Leben im Ort und die Gewalterfahrung der Vertreibungen zu erinn…
On Liberalism, Identity Politics, and Race Trouble: What Future for South African Anthropology
Slave Route Projects: Tracing the Heritage of Slavery in Ghana
This chapter focuses on recent efforts of representing the history of slavery in Ghana. It focuses on two heritage projects that play a role in the recent upsurge of interest in the northern slave sites. In the official representations of the history of slavery in northern Ghana, as they are presented by the Ghana Tourist Board via local tour guides, this fact is either downplayed or ignored. The memory work that the project attempts to stimulate…
Casts, bones and DNA: Interrogating the relationship between science and postcolonial indigeneity in contemporary South Africa
This paper discusses the articulation and complex enactment of postcolonial indigeneity, commonly referred to as Khoesan revivalism in contemporary South Africa. Through a close examination of the "substances of indigeneity," i.e. body casts, human remains and DNA, it interrogates the partial imbrication of past and present scientific and classificatory practices with contemporary political and affective identifications. It argues that, in this c…
Nash, Catherine: Genetic Geographies - The Trouble with Ancestry
Anthropos , Seite 343 - 344
Introduction: Voice, noise and silence. Resonances of political subjectivities
Doing race in Europe: Contested Pasts and Contemporary Practices
In this introduction to the special section on 'Doing Race in Europe' we take up the notion of race as an 'absent presence' to deal with two related issues. First, we consider the historically contested position of race in the discipline of anthropology. Second, we think through the notion of an 'absent presence' conceptually and methodologically so as to develop a relational approach enabling us to analyse race in practice. We take as a point of…
Claiming citizenship rights through the body multiple
What have affirmative action policies, categorization of care needs, plastic surgery, forensic identification of dead bodies and age assessments of refugees in common? They all determine recognition and access to resources and rights via the body. In the introduction to this special issue, the editors emphasize that the body only becomes distinct and significant when it is put in relation to historically and geographically differing norms and sta…
Sorting, typing, classifying
Sociology (25 works) · History (15 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works)