Lisa Jenny Krieg
Biographic Data
| ID | 648892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Jenny Krieg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Krieg |
| SIGNATURE | KRIEG L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dead Sea and Arava Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3657-9443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Elusive Encounters With Geckos, Or, How to Cross the Human-Reptile Divide
In multispecies ethnographies, the question of how to encounter the ‘Other’ is urgent and challenging. Debates about alterity and difference, and different ontologies have informed such debates, and they become even more pressing in ethnographic encounters with nonhuman others, where not only culture and language are a factor contributing to difference, but divides between taxonomic categories. This article focuses on the role of strangeness in e…
Protocol
A s a multispecies scholar and environmental anthropologist following Phelsuma day geckos around Germany and the Indian Ocean, my quest is to understand how these small lizards tie into large webs of human-nature relationship, globalization, technological progress, and ecological crisis.Besides the scientists that I interviewed in German labs, Mauritian universities, and island nature reserves, the geckos themselves are protagonists of my ethnogr…
Endangered, Invasive, Pet, Commodity
Day geckos of the genus Phelsuma are small green lizards, originating in the Western Indian Ocean. As curious and cosmopolitan animals, they were and are involved in flows of translocal circulation, intertwining human and nonhuman agency in shaping their environments in significant ways – despite their obvious smallness. Transforming from scientific specimen into species, into terrarium pet, and then further into either endangered and invasive sp…
Caring for Strangers
Commonly seen as either dangerous or unsocial, reptiles represent a kind of alterity that is often deemed categorically different from warm-blooded mammals. In the village of Manapany-les-Bains, however, on the island of La Réunion in the Western Indian Ocean, care for the endangered gecko species Phelsuma inexpectata has taken an unexpected turn: initiated by a local NGO, village residents have declared their private gardens a gecko-friendly zon…
Entangling (non)human isolation and connectivity
This article discusses the Mauritian offshore islet and nature reserve Ile aux Aigrettes as an example of how the tension between isolation and connectivity of small islands plays out in the context of nature conservation. Combining approaches from island studies, anthropology, and geography, and based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the article enquires into how 'pristine' nature on Ile aux Aigrettes is produced. It shows how the selec…
Anthropology with algorithms
Based on a study of more than twenty thousand reports on drug experiences from the online drug education portal Erowid, this article argues that the integration of ethnographic methods with computational methods and digital data analysis, including so-called big data, is not only possible but highly rewarding. The analysis of 'natively' digital data from sites like Facebook, message boards, and web archives can offer glimpses into worlds of pract…
It was horrible, but we live now
Based on an ethnographic field study in a museum and an evening high school in Cologne, this paper discusses experiences of young German adults in everyday encounters with the Holocaust, which are oft en accompanied by feelings of discomfort. Considering the Holocaust as an uncanny, strange matter contributes to understanding that distance and proximity are key factors in creating uncomfortable encounters. Distance from the Holocaust reduces disc…
‘It's a real Totschlag-Argument ’
The Holocaust, a significant moral principle for contemporary Germany, is embedded in a politically and emotionally charged discourse of remembering and forgetting. German politicians and young German adults often perceive the Holocaust as a threat associated with guilt, and call it , killer‐phrase, or , bludgeon. This paper analyses how the Holocaust is endowed with agency, and how demands to control its powers are aligned with this. Some young …
Entangling (non)human isolation and connectivity
This article discusses the Mauritian offshore islet and nature reserve Ile aux Aigrettes as an example of how the tension between isolation and connectivity of small islands plays out in the context of nature conservation. Combining approaches from island studies, anthropology, and geography, and based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the article enquires into how 'pristine' nature on Ile aux Aigrettes is produced. It shows how the selec…
Anthropology with algorithms
Based on a study of more than twenty thousand reports on drug experiences from the online drug education portal Erowid, this article argues that the integration of ethnographic methods with computational methods and digital data analysis, including so-called big data, is not only possible but highly rewarding. The analysis of 'natively' digital data from sites like Facebook, message boards, and web archives can offer glimpses into worlds of pract…
Caring for Strangers
Commonly seen as either dangerous or unsocial, reptiles represent a kind of alterity that is often deemed categorically different from warm-blooded mammals. In the village of Manapany-les-Bains, however, on the island of La Réunion in the Western Indian Ocean, care for the endangered gecko species Phelsuma inexpectata has taken an unexpected turn: initiated by a local NGO, village residents have declared their private gardens a gecko-friendly zon…
It was horrible, but we live now
Based on an ethnographic field study in a museum and an evening high school in Cologne, this paper discusses experiences of young German adults in everyday encounters with the Holocaust, which are oft en accompanied by feelings of discomfort. Considering the Holocaust as an uncanny, strange matter contributes to understanding that distance and proximity are key factors in creating uncomfortable encounters. Distance from the Holocaust reduces disc…
‘It's a real Totschlag-Argument ’
The Holocaust, a significant moral principle for contemporary Germany, is embedded in a politically and emotionally charged discourse of remembering and forgetting. German politicians and young German adults often perceive the Holocaust as a threat associated with guilt, and call it , killer‐phrase, or , bludgeon. This paper analyses how the Holocaust is endowed with agency, and how demands to control its powers are aligned with this. Some young …
It was horrible, but we live now
Based on an ethnographic field study in a museum and an evening high school in Cologne, this paper discusses experiences of young German adults in everyday encounters with the Holocaust, which are oft en accompanied by feelings of discomfort. Considering the Holocaust as an uncanny, strange matter contributes to understanding that distance and proximity are key factors in creating uncomfortable encounters. Distance from the Holocaust reduces disc…
Anthropology with algorithms
Based on a study of more than twenty thousand reports on drug experiences from the online drug education portal Erowid, this article argues that the integration of ethnographic methods with computational methods and digital data analysis, including so-called big data, is not only possible but highly rewarding. The analysis of 'natively' digital data from sites like Facebook, message boards, and web archives can offer glimpses into worlds of pract…
Entangling (non)human isolation and connectivity
This article discusses the Mauritian offshore islet and nature reserve Ile aux Aigrettes as an example of how the tension between isolation and connectivity of small islands plays out in the context of nature conservation. Combining approaches from island studies, anthropology, and geography, and based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the article enquires into how 'pristine' nature on Ile aux Aigrettes is produced. It shows how the selec…
Endangered, Invasive, Pet, Commodity
Day geckos of the genus Phelsuma are small green lizards, originating in the Western Indian Ocean. As curious and cosmopolitan animals, they were and are involved in flows of translocal circulation, intertwining human and nonhuman agency in shaping their environments in significant ways – despite their obvious smallness. Transforming from scientific specimen into species, into terrarium pet, and then further into either endangered and invasive sp…
Caring for Strangers
Commonly seen as either dangerous or unsocial, reptiles represent a kind of alterity that is often deemed categorically different from warm-blooded mammals. In the village of Manapany-les-Bains, however, on the island of La Réunion in the Western Indian Ocean, care for the endangered gecko species Phelsuma inexpectata has taken an unexpected turn: initiated by a local NGO, village residents have declared their private gardens a gecko-friendly zon…
Protocol
A s a multispecies scholar and environmental anthropologist following Phelsuma day geckos around Germany and the Indian Ocean, my quest is to understand how these small lizards tie into large webs of human-nature relationship, globalization, technological progress, and ecological crisis.Besides the scientists that I interviewed in German labs, Mauritian universities, and island nature reserves, the geckos themselves are protagonists of my ethnogr…
Elusive Encounters With Geckos, Or, How to Cross the Human-Reptile Divide
In multispecies ethnographies, the question of how to encounter the ‘Other’ is urgent and challenging. Debates about alterity and difference, and different ontologies have informed such debates, and they become even more pressing in ethnographic encounters with nonhuman others, where not only culture and language are a factor contributing to difference, but divides between taxonomic categories. This article focuses on the role of strangeness in e…
Sociology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Animal and Plant Science Education (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gecko (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works)