Magnus Treiber
Biographic Data
| ID | 839174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magnus Treiber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magnus |
| FAMILY NAME | Treiber |
| SIGNATURE | TREIBER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8347-2972 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In memoriam Hermann Amborn (1933–2024)
Aiding and Abetting: UK and US Complicity
Introducing the Anti-Refugee Machine
In their introduction to the special issue, the authors develop the Anti- Refugee Machine (ARM) framework and metaphor to illustrate how interventions intended to address forced migration often reinforce existing power structures. Beginning with an ethnographic case study on Eritrea, the authors draw on Ferguson's Anti-Politics Machine (1994) to argue that rather than alleviating poverty or addressing the root causes of migration, Global North in…
The Multi-Sided Ethnographer
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…
Fieldnotes
In this article Magnus Treiber looks back into his own PhD research in Asmara, Eritrea, to illustrate and discuss the role of ethnographic fieldnotes and diaries. Accompanying our developing thoughts these show how anthropology's arguments are built on an empirical base. Beyond the immediate field situation, fieldnotes allow to reflect on the conditions under which anthropologists are learning and rationalise our attempts to understand. Diaries a…
Hermann Amborn (1933–2024)
Nekrolog
Hardenberg, Roland, Josephus Platenkamp und Thomas Widlok (Hrsg.)
Introduction
To introduce this special issue of Modern Africa, the editors review Eritrea’s current condition and consider its historical roots: they place this Horn of Africa state in a broader historical context, one where neither relevant comparative cases nor past precedents are limited to its region. Hopes that were once invested in Eritrea as a model developmental state have now, thirty years since its independence, been thoroughly disappointed. The hum…
Entangled Paths through Different Times
Migration has played a key role in the history of the Horn of Africa. This article looks at the migration experiences of three Eritreans who left their region for a safer life elsewhere, each under unique circumstances. Gerezghier, in the 1960s, could rely on his personal skills and luck. Fidel, in the 1970s, could make use of emerging asylum procedures and Western countries' anticommunist refugee policies. Samrawit's fate was more challenging an…
The immediate, the exceptional and the historical
This article discusses the historical development and dialectical interconnections between migration from Eritrea and knowledge construction since the 1960s by academics, migrants and the refugee regime. We explore how knowledge about Eritrea is grounded in dynamics of immediacy: the direct experience of persecution and refuge; fieldwork on the ground; and the urgency of responding to refugee claims and crises. Refugee narratives must also demons…
Discussion Paper. The Anti-Refugee Machine
Tentative lifeworlds in Art Deco
After the end of the Ethiopian-Eritrean border war (1998–2000) life resumed in Asmara, where the young generation flocked to cafés, bars and nightclubs after work or study. During my ethnographic fieldwork (2001–2005) I identified three larger social milieus that pursued and staged their own ideas of a good life: the chic, the shabby and the pious. Until the 'political spring' of summer 2001, young people looked forward to building up promising l…
Abdulkader Saleh Mohammad, The Saho of Eritrea
Review
Lessons for Life
This chapter seeks to provide a deeper understanding of migration from Eritrea, a small country at the shores of the Red Sea, by following two young men, Biniam and Daniel, through parts of their difficult journey and giving an insight into their migration's context. None of the numerous Eritrean migrants in Khartoum stay legally in the Sudanese capital, as their yellow assigns them to one of the country's refugee camps. Eritrean migrants in Khar…
Urban Pollution
Introducing the Anti-Refugee Machine
In their introduction to the special issue, the authors develop the Anti- Refugee Machine (ARM) framework and metaphor to illustrate how interventions intended to address forced migration often reinforce existing power structures. Beginning with an ethnographic case study on Eritrea, the authors draw on Ferguson's Anti-Politics Machine (1994) to argue that rather than alleviating poverty or addressing the root causes of migration, Global North in…
Entangled Paths through Different Times
Migration has played a key role in the history of the Horn of Africa. This article looks at the migration experiences of three Eritreans who left their region for a safer life elsewhere, each under unique circumstances. Gerezghier, in the 1960s, could rely on his personal skills and luck. Fidel, in the 1970s, could make use of emerging asylum procedures and Western countries' anticommunist refugee policies. Samrawit's fate was more challenging an…
Urban Pollution
Lessons for Life
This chapter seeks to provide a deeper understanding of migration from Eritrea, a small country at the shores of the Red Sea, by following two young men, Biniam and Daniel, through parts of their difficult journey and giving an insight into their migration's context. None of the numerous Eritrean migrants in Khartoum stay legally in the Sudanese capital, as their yellow assigns them to one of the country's refugee camps. Eritrean migrants in Khar…
Abdulkader Saleh Mohammad, The Saho of Eritrea
Review
The immediate, the exceptional and the historical
This article discusses the historical development and dialectical interconnections between migration from Eritrea and knowledge construction since the 1960s by academics, migrants and the refugee regime. We explore how knowledge about Eritrea is grounded in dynamics of immediacy: the direct experience of persecution and refuge; fieldwork on the ground; and the urgency of responding to refugee claims and crises. Refugee narratives must also demons…
Discussion Paper. The Anti-Refugee Machine
Tentative lifeworlds in Art Deco
After the end of the Ethiopian-Eritrean border war (1998–2000) life resumed in Asmara, where the young generation flocked to cafés, bars and nightclubs after work or study. During my ethnographic fieldwork (2001–2005) I identified three larger social milieus that pursued and staged their own ideas of a good life: the chic, the shabby and the pious. Until the 'political spring' of summer 2001, young people looked forward to building up promising l…
Introduction
To introduce this special issue of Modern Africa, the editors review Eritrea’s current condition and consider its historical roots: they place this Horn of Africa state in a broader historical context, one where neither relevant comparative cases nor past precedents are limited to its region. Hopes that were once invested in Eritrea as a model developmental state have now, thirty years since its independence, been thoroughly disappointed. The hum…
Entangled Paths through Different Times
Migration has played a key role in the history of the Horn of Africa. This article looks at the migration experiences of three Eritreans who left their region for a safer life elsewhere, each under unique circumstances. Gerezghier, in the 1960s, could rely on his personal skills and luck. Fidel, in the 1970s, could make use of emerging asylum procedures and Western countries' anticommunist refugee policies. Samrawit's fate was more challenging an…
Hardenberg, Roland, Josephus Platenkamp und Thomas Widlok (Hrsg.)
The Multi-Sided Ethnographer
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…
Fieldnotes
In this article Magnus Treiber looks back into his own PhD research in Asmara, Eritrea, to illustrate and discuss the role of ethnographic fieldnotes and diaries. Accompanying our developing thoughts these show how anthropology's arguments are built on an empirical base. Beyond the immediate field situation, fieldnotes allow to reflect on the conditions under which anthropologists are learning and rationalise our attempts to understand. Diaries a…
Hermann Amborn (1933–2024)
Nekrolog
Introducing the Anti-Refugee Machine
In their introduction to the special issue, the authors develop the Anti- Refugee Machine (ARM) framework and metaphor to illustrate how interventions intended to address forced migration often reinforce existing power structures. Beginning with an ethnographic case study on Eritrea, the authors draw on Ferguson's Anti-Politics Machine (1994) to argue that rather than alleviating poverty or addressing the root causes of migration, Global North in…
In memoriam Hermann Amborn (1933–2024)
Aiding and Abetting: UK and US Complicity
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · African history and culture analysis (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Refugee (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)