Tilo Grätz
Biographic Data
| ID | 85514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tilo Grätz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tilo |
| FAMILY NAME | Grätz |
| SIGNATURE | GRÄTZ T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9652-456X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
"Internet in Nairobi, Kenia - Medienaneignung als Konstruktion" von Johanna Rieß: Eine Rezension von Tilo Grätz
Dies ist eine Rezension über das Buch "Internet in Nairobi, Kenia - Medienaneignung als Konstruktion" von Johanna Rieß, erschienen im Transcript Verlag, 2019, 318 Seiten, ISBN: 978-3-8376-4684-9
Christian religious radio production in Benin: The case of Radio Maranatha
The author focuses on a Christian broadcaster in Parakou, northern Benin, and analyses its main production structures, its programming, and the actors and their motives involved. It demonstrates how religious media, themselves an assemblage of institutions, actors, significations and infrastructures, participate in consituting the religious domain. Religious culture in Parakou and, more generally, in Benin is not dictated by religious authorities…
Ressourcenkonflikte und Autochthonie - Diskurse in Westafrika am Beispiel des handwerklichen Gold abbaus im Nordwesten Benins sowie im Südwesten Malis
Author: Grätz, Tilo; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2014; Title: Ressourcenkonflikte und Autochthonie-Diskurse in Westafrika am Beispiel des handwerklichen Goldabbaus im Nordwesten Benins sowie im Südwesten Malis
Radio Call-In Shows on Intimate Issues in Benin: Crossroads of Sentiments
The article focuses on the growing prevalence of radio call-in shows in the Republic of Benin that discuss topics such as sexuality and intimacy that are taboo in other settings. The popularity of this emerging format exemplifies current processes of appropriation of electronic media in West Africa, including its impact on contemporary public communication. The article argues that the current public prominence of these programs corresponds to con…
Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Radio advertising and entrepreneurial conjunctions in Benin: Producers, Styles and Technologies
This article explores the increasing importance of advertising in African electronic media, exemplified by radio commercials in the Republic of Benin. It will analyse the various types and formats, contents, and main actors involved in the making of these promotional audio productions (in a wide sense), as well as their relevance to the daily programme schedules and budgets of the respective radio stations. Furthermore, it will address the modes …
New media entrepreneurs and changing styles of public communication in Africa: Introduction
This introductory article sketches the background of contemporary changes in African mediascapes against which we develop our central concepts of new (individual or collective) media entrepreneurs as well as new media experiences, both brought about by new modes of appropriating media technologies. The individual authors, through case studies, investigate various new pathways of individual and collective media engagement, and explore particular m…
Dimensionen medialer Nähe am Beispiel des Radios in Benin
Paroles de vie: Christian radio producers in the Republic of Benin
In the Republic of Benin, we are currently witnessing an enormous proliferation of religious radio broadcasting in various forms, especially with regard to Pentecostal churches. Apart from already established Christian broadcasters such as Radio Immaculée Conception, Radio Alléluia or Radio Maranatha, operating on a regional or even on a national scale, various smaller groups and individual pastors, mainly from evangelical and Charismatic churche…
Contemporary African mediascapes: New actors, genres and communication spaces
Dévi & his Men The Rise & Fall of a Vigilante Movement in Benin
Domesticating Vigilantism in Africa
An unprecedented overview of anthropological and political science research on vigilantism in Africa which makes an important and innovative contribution to current discussions on the relationship between violent self-justice andstate and non-state agencies. Self-justice and legal self-help groups have been gaining importance throughout Africa. The question of who is entitled to formulate 'legal principles', enact 'justice', police 'morality' and…
Global indigenous media: Cultures, poetics, and politics edited by Wilson, Pamela and Michelle Stewart
Signal and noise: Media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria by Larkin, Brian
Les nouveaux urbains dans l’espace Sahara-Sahel. Un cosmopolitisme par le bas edited by Boesen, Elisabeth and Laurence Marfaing
Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature. E…
Les frontières de l'orpaillage en Afrique occidentale
L’article explore la situation de frontière pionnière mise en place par des orpailleurs en Afrique de l’Ouest. Depuis les années 80, la vague de l’orpaillage liée à la mise en valeur des nouveaux gisements ou la revalorisation des anciens sites d’or, permet d’observer l’émergence d’une culture des camps miniers itinérants. Selon l’état des ressources, les orpailleurs ainsi que les commerçants qui leur sont associés se déplacent d’un site à l’autr…
Gold Trading Networks and the Creation of Trust: A Case Study from Northern Benin
The paper provides insights into an illicit trading system and explores the logics that contribute to its proliferation. It joins the literature on informal trading networks and revises conventional wisdom about what is necessary to sustain them. Gold traders have established intricate webs of relations based on personal dyadic affiliations. These extended networks are very heterogeneous, involving a multitude of actors, spanning regional, ethnic…
Les chercheurs d'or et la construction d'identités de migrants en Afrique de l'Ouest
Depuis le milieu des années 1980, l'extraction artisanale de l'or a connu un regain en Afrique de l'Ouest, induisant des migrations de travail et la création de sites sociaux particuliers à proximité des zones aurifères. Ce texte décrit l'émergence d'une identité socioprofessionnelle spécifique liée à cette activité, qui transcende appartenance ethnique et statut de migrant en mobilisant des répertoires d'actions et de styles sémantiques spécifiq…
Gold-mining and risk management: A case study from Northern Benin
Gold miners in Northern Benin are exposed to physical risks as well as economic risks of uncertain yields. The interrelatedness of different types of risk, both in their perception and in the coping strategies, will be addressed in this paper. It also challenges theoretical perspectives on risk that assume coherent world-views and highlights processes of communication and group behaviour
La rébellion de Kaba (1916-1917) dans l'imaginaire politique au Bénin
L'auteur tente de montrer comment une tradition nationale, créée surtout après 1972 au Bénin et composée de « petites traditions », fait l'objet d'une redivision. Les interprétations de l'histoire et les imageries identitaires reprennent de l'importance au niveau local ; elles font partie d'une production de localité, par exemple par les leaders des partis politiques en quête d'une base locale de pouvoir. Partant du cas d'une rébellion antifrança…
La muséification sur place
Museumfying" on the Spot. - The symbolic and especially political aspects corne under discussion that are often neglected in descriptions of the creation of cultural institutions in Africa. The initiative to build a multi-storey museum came out of plans drawn up by two local politicians. It involved funds from the state, the subprefecture's budget and a national program for creating jobs. Local personalities used the museum to boost their own pre…
Gold Trading Networks and the Creation of Trust: A Case Study from Northern Benin
The paper provides insights into an illicit trading system and explores the logics that contribute to its proliferation. It joins the literature on informal trading networks and revises conventional wisdom about what is necessary to sustain them. Gold traders have established intricate webs of relations based on personal dyadic affiliations. These extended networks are very heterogeneous, involving a multitude of actors, spanning regional, ethnic…
Gold-mining and risk management: A case study from Northern Benin
Gold miners in Northern Benin are exposed to physical risks as well as economic risks of uncertain yields. The interrelatedness of different types of risk, both in their perception and in the coping strategies, will be addressed in this paper. It also challenges theoretical perspectives on risk that assume coherent world-views and highlights processes of communication and group behaviour
Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Les chercheurs d'or et la construction d'identités de migrants en Afrique de l'Ouest
Depuis le milieu des années 1980, l'extraction artisanale de l'or a connu un regain en Afrique de l'Ouest, induisant des migrations de travail et la création de sites sociaux particuliers à proximité des zones aurifères. Ce texte décrit l'émergence d'une identité socioprofessionnelle spécifique liée à cette activité, qui transcende appartenance ethnique et statut de migrant en mobilisant des répertoires d'actions et de styles sémantiques spécifiq…
New media entrepreneurs and changing styles of public communication in Africa: Introduction
This introductory article sketches the background of contemporary changes in African mediascapes against which we develop our central concepts of new (individual or collective) media entrepreneurs as well as new media experiences, both brought about by new modes of appropriating media technologies. The individual authors, through case studies, investigate various new pathways of individual and collective media engagement, and explore particular m…
Paroles de vie: Christian radio producers in the Republic of Benin
In the Republic of Benin, we are currently witnessing an enormous proliferation of religious radio broadcasting in various forms, especially with regard to Pentecostal churches. Apart from already established Christian broadcasters such as Radio Immaculée Conception, Radio Alléluia or Radio Maranatha, operating on a regional or even on a national scale, various smaller groups and individual pastors, mainly from evangelical and Charismatic churche…
Radio Call-In Shows on Intimate Issues in Benin: Crossroads of Sentiments
The article focuses on the growing prevalence of radio call-in shows in the Republic of Benin that discuss topics such as sexuality and intimacy that are taboo in other settings. The popularity of this emerging format exemplifies current processes of appropriation of electronic media in West Africa, including its impact on contemporary public communication. The article argues that the current public prominence of these programs corresponds to con…
Radio advertising and entrepreneurial conjunctions in Benin: Producers, Styles and Technologies
This article explores the increasing importance of advertising in African electronic media, exemplified by radio commercials in the Republic of Benin. It will analyse the various types and formats, contents, and main actors involved in the making of these promotional audio productions (in a wide sense), as well as their relevance to the daily programme schedules and budgets of the respective radio stations. Furthermore, it will address the modes …
Global indigenous media: Cultures, poetics, and politics edited by Wilson, Pamela and Michelle Stewart
La rébellion de Kaba (1916-1917) dans l'imaginaire politique au Bénin
L'auteur tente de montrer comment une tradition nationale, créée surtout après 1972 au Bénin et composée de « petites traditions », fait l'objet d'une redivision. Les interprétations de l'histoire et les imageries identitaires reprennent de l'importance au niveau local ; elles font partie d'une production de localité, par exemple par les leaders des partis politiques en quête d'une base locale de pouvoir. Partant du cas d'une rébellion antifrança…
La muséification sur place
Museumfying" on the Spot. - The symbolic and especially political aspects corne under discussion that are often neglected in descriptions of the creation of cultural institutions in Africa. The initiative to build a multi-storey museum came out of plans drawn up by two local politicians. It involved funds from the state, the subprefecture's budget and a national program for creating jobs. Local personalities used the museum to boost their own pre…
La rébellion de Kaba (1916-1917) dans l'imaginaire politique au Bénin
L'auteur tente de montrer comment une tradition nationale, créée surtout après 1972 au Bénin et composée de « petites traditions », fait l'objet d'une redivision. Les interprétations de l'histoire et les imageries identitaires reprennent de l'importance au niveau local ; elles font partie d'une production de localité, par exemple par les leaders des partis politiques en quête d'une base locale de pouvoir. Partant du cas d'une rébellion antifrança…
Les chercheurs d'or et la construction d'identités de migrants en Afrique de l'Ouest
Depuis le milieu des années 1980, l'extraction artisanale de l'or a connu un regain en Afrique de l'Ouest, induisant des migrations de travail et la création de sites sociaux particuliers à proximité des zones aurifères. Ce texte décrit l'émergence d'une identité socioprofessionnelle spécifique liée à cette activité, qui transcende appartenance ethnique et statut de migrant en mobilisant des répertoires d'actions et de styles sémantiques spécifiq…
Gold-mining and risk management: A case study from Northern Benin
Gold miners in Northern Benin are exposed to physical risks as well as economic risks of uncertain yields. The interrelatedness of different types of risk, both in their perception and in the coping strategies, will be addressed in this paper. It also challenges theoretical perspectives on risk that assume coherent world-views and highlights processes of communication and group behaviour
Les frontières de l'orpaillage en Afrique occidentale
L’article explore la situation de frontière pionnière mise en place par des orpailleurs en Afrique de l’Ouest. Depuis les années 80, la vague de l’orpaillage liée à la mise en valeur des nouveaux gisements ou la revalorisation des anciens sites d’or, permet d’observer l’émergence d’une culture des camps miniers itinérants. Selon l’état des ressources, les orpailleurs ainsi que les commerçants qui leur sont associés se déplacent d’un site à l’autr…
Gold Trading Networks and the Creation of Trust: A Case Study from Northern Benin
The paper provides insights into an illicit trading system and explores the logics that contribute to its proliferation. It joins the literature on informal trading networks and revises conventional wisdom about what is necessary to sustain them. Gold traders have established intricate webs of relations based on personal dyadic affiliations. These extended networks are very heterogeneous, involving a multitude of actors, spanning regional, ethnic…
Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature. E…
Les nouveaux urbains dans l’espace Sahara-Sahel. Un cosmopolitisme par le bas edited by Boesen, Elisabeth and Laurence Marfaing
Dévi & his Men The Rise & Fall of a Vigilante Movement in Benin
Domesticating Vigilantism in Africa
An unprecedented overview of anthropological and political science research on vigilantism in Africa which makes an important and innovative contribution to current discussions on the relationship between violent self-justice andstate and non-state agencies. Self-justice and legal self-help groups have been gaining importance throughout Africa. The question of who is entitled to formulate 'legal principles', enact 'justice', police 'morality' and…
Global indigenous media: Cultures, poetics, and politics edited by Wilson, Pamela and Michelle Stewart
Signal and noise: Media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria by Larkin, Brian
Paroles de vie: Christian radio producers in the Republic of Benin
In the Republic of Benin, we are currently witnessing an enormous proliferation of religious radio broadcasting in various forms, especially with regard to Pentecostal churches. Apart from already established Christian broadcasters such as Radio Immaculée Conception, Radio Alléluia or Radio Maranatha, operating on a regional or even on a national scale, various smaller groups and individual pastors, mainly from evangelical and Charismatic churche…
Contemporary African mediascapes: New actors, genres and communication spaces
Dimensionen medialer Nähe am Beispiel des Radios in Benin
Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Radio advertising and entrepreneurial conjunctions in Benin: Producers, Styles and Technologies
This article explores the increasing importance of advertising in African electronic media, exemplified by radio commercials in the Republic of Benin. It will analyse the various types and formats, contents, and main actors involved in the making of these promotional audio productions (in a wide sense), as well as their relevance to the daily programme schedules and budgets of the respective radio stations. Furthermore, it will address the modes …
New media entrepreneurs and changing styles of public communication in Africa: Introduction
This introductory article sketches the background of contemporary changes in African mediascapes against which we develop our central concepts of new (individual or collective) media entrepreneurs as well as new media experiences, both brought about by new modes of appropriating media technologies. The individual authors, through case studies, investigate various new pathways of individual and collective media engagement, and explore particular m…
Christian religious radio production in Benin: The case of Radio Maranatha
The author focuses on a Christian broadcaster in Parakou, northern Benin, and analyses its main production structures, its programming, and the actors and their motives involved. It demonstrates how religious media, themselves an assemblage of institutions, actors, significations and infrastructures, participate in consituting the religious domain. Religious culture in Parakou and, more generally, in Benin is not dictated by religious authorities…
Ressourcenkonflikte und Autochthonie - Diskurse in Westafrika am Beispiel des handwerklichen Gold abbaus im Nordwesten Benins sowie im Südwesten Malis
Author: Grätz, Tilo; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2014; Title: Ressourcenkonflikte und Autochthonie-Diskurse in Westafrika am Beispiel des handwerklichen Goldabbaus im Nordwesten Benins sowie im Südwesten Malis
Radio Call-In Shows on Intimate Issues in Benin: Crossroads of Sentiments
The article focuses on the growing prevalence of radio call-in shows in the Republic of Benin that discuss topics such as sexuality and intimacy that are taboo in other settings. The popularity of this emerging format exemplifies current processes of appropriation of electronic media in West Africa, including its impact on contemporary public communication. The article argues that the current public prominence of these programs corresponds to con…
"Internet in Nairobi, Kenia - Medienaneignung als Konstruktion" von Johanna Rieß: Eine Rezension von Tilo Grätz
Dies ist eine Rezension über das Buch "Internet in Nairobi, Kenia - Medienaneignung als Konstruktion" von Johanna Rieß, erschienen im Transcript Verlag, 2019, 318 Seiten, ISBN: 978-3-8376-4684-9
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (5 works) · Art (5 works)