Petra Kuppinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 86838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petra Kuppinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petra |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuppinger |
| SIGNATURE | KUPPINGER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5777-8126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Second-Hand Cultures and Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing, and Care
Second-Hand Cultures and Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing, and Care
Introduction
Incidental sustainability? Notes from a thrift store in Germany
This article introduces Fairkauf, a charitable thrift store, in Stuttgart, Germany and analyzes its work and participation in alternative economies of reuse, repair, repurposing, sharing, and care, and the store's contributions to ecological and social sustainability. Thrift stores are contemporary responses to overproduction, hyper-consumption, social inequality, and ecological degradation. This article provides a nuanced ethnographic descriptio…
Emergent Spaces
Emergent Spaces
The 2019 Sunta Mentoring Program
Introduction
Piously creative
Much has been said in recent years about Muslims in Europe. Most debates focus on controversies to do with Islam. Less is written about the creative contributions of pious Muslims to culture and society. This paper examines creative contributions of pious Muslims in Stuttgart, Germany. Over the past half century, Muslims have become creative urban contributors, cultural producers and stakeholders. Analysing exemplary artistic and creative context…
Religion, art and creativity in the global city
Sunta President's Report
Sunta's Newly Elected Board Members
Faithfully Urban
Pools, Piety, and Participation
This paper introduces the Muslim Women's Sports Club (MWSC) in Stuttgart, Germany and analyzes this club's role and contribution in the construction of urban citizenship. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I illustrate that this club is a vibrant space of civic participation. I argue that associations like this sports club are crucial sites of Muslim civic engagement where individuals configure forms of religiously circumscribed citizenship. The cl…
A Neighborhood Shopping Street and the Making of Urban Cultures and Economies in Germany
This paper examines the cultural, social, and economic contributions of multi–ethnic neighborhood businesses to the transformation of German cityscapes. The diversity on N–Street in Stuttgart has been at the forefront of urban transformations and cultural production. I show that neighborhood stores and shopping streets are sites of urban experiments and cultural beginnings which produce new authenticities in the face of rapid urban homogenization…
One mosque and the negotiation of German Islam
In the last half century (pious) Muslims and their communities have become integral parts of German cities. They are creative cultural producers and religiously inspired urban citizens. Mosques are central nodes in urban Muslim religious and cultural geographies where believers negotiate pious identities and lifeworlds, configure pious public personae and modes of civic participation. In this paper I introduce the Al-Nour Mosque as a unique node …
Flexible topographies
This paper examines transient and semi-permanent Muslim spaces, their social construction, use, and relevance for diverse pious Muslims in Stuttgart, Germany. I describe the location, creation, negotiation, and maintenance of such spaces and analyze their position and contribution to a larger urban Muslim social geography. Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork in Stuttgart, Germany, I illustrate how individuals mark or inhabit spaces m…
Mosques and Minarets
The role and position of Muslims in Germany has been a controversial topic for years. This unresolved conflict manifests itself most acutely in controversies over the construction or renovation of mosques or mosque facilities. In this article, I examine two such controversies. I focus on themes of civic participation and visibility, to illustrate how mosque conflicts, regardless of their final outcomes, constitute important elements of Muslim loc…
Cinderella Wears a Hijab
This article examines lifeworlds and transformations in multiethnic and multireligious neighborhoods in Germany. The author illustrates how by way of minute everyday interactions and encounters, individuals and groups experience each other and devise new practices that aim to accommodate the cultural and religious needs of all involved. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Stuttgart, this article argues that neighborhood spaces, everyday encounters…
Crushed? Cairo’s Garbage Collectors and Neoliberal Urban Politics
For decades Cairo’s solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl. zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the zabaleen’s work has increasingly been pushed aside, as aspects of their services were contracted to multinational companies. This article argues that, with their continued presence, activities, and savvy understanding of urban dynamics, marginalized groups like the garbage …
A Certain Age
A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of its Intellectuals . R. Mrázek . Durham : Duke University Press , 2010 . xiii + 310 pp., illustr., notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 978-0822346852. USD $89.95 (Hc.); ISBN 978-0822346975. USD $24.95 (Pb.) In A Certain Age, Rudolf Mrázek takes his readers to distant times and spaces that nonetheless feel strangely familiar. Based on interviews, or more precisely long open-ended conversations with e…
Himmelstochter
Hülya Kandemir’s book, Himmelstochter (Daughter of heaven), chronicles her transformation from a well-known regional pop singer to a pious Muslima in Germany. Kandemir describes her turn to Islam and the ensuing fine-tuned construction of a modern pious Muslim subjectivity in the contexts of a growing Muslim German public sphere, Muslim German cultural production, and the public sphere at large. Kandemir’s transformation unfolds in Germany in the…
Between Islam and anti-globalization
Political Life in Cairo's New Quarters
Nominalism and Essentialism in Urban Anthropology
AS A REACTION to the essentialist perspectives of mid-century anthropology, proponents of postmodernism and others have viewed the conventional categories, such as cultures, communities, and ethnic groups as reifications. The critique of Wirthian urbanism which preceded the current period fits this pattern. The paper will deal with how postmodernist anthropologists have dealt with the urban and how, despite the critique, an essentialist view of u…
Exclusive Greenery
This paper examines the construction and marketing of recent upscale gated communities on the Egyptian capital's desert outskirts. Discussing questions of design and their use in promotional materials, I show how global inventories of architecture and social lifestyles are inserted in concrete local marketing contexts. While some of this marketing and subsequently some communities are successful, I argue that many aspects of projects are flawed i…
Flexible topographies
This paper examines transient and semi-permanent Muslim spaces, their social construction, use, and relevance for diverse pious Muslims in Stuttgart, Germany. I describe the location, creation, negotiation, and maintenance of such spaces and analyze their position and contribution to a larger urban Muslim social geography. Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork in Stuttgart, Germany, I illustrate how individuals mark or inhabit spaces m…
Mosques and Minarets
The role and position of Muslims in Germany has been a controversial topic for years. This unresolved conflict manifests itself most acutely in controversies over the construction or renovation of mosques or mosque facilities. In this article, I examine two such controversies. I focus on themes of civic participation and visibility, to illustrate how mosque conflicts, regardless of their final outcomes, constitute important elements of Muslim loc…
Cinderella Wears a Hijab
This article examines lifeworlds and transformations in multiethnic and multireligious neighborhoods in Germany. The author illustrates how by way of minute everyday interactions and encounters, individuals and groups experience each other and devise new practices that aim to accommodate the cultural and religious needs of all involved. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Stuttgart, this article argues that neighborhood spaces, everyday encounters…
Globalization And Exterritoriality in Metropolitan Cairo
Rapid construction of new spaces like hotels, malls, private clubs, and gated communities in Greater Cairo, Egypt produces structures disconnected spatially and conceptually from most of the existing urban fabric. Their spatial concepts and practices, as well as architectural forms and expertise, are based largely on globally available models. Planning and construction are guided by the search for security in the face of real or imagined fear of …
Introduction
Pools, Piety, and Participation
This paper introduces the Muslim Women's Sports Club (MWSC) in Stuttgart, Germany and analyzes this club's role and contribution in the construction of urban citizenship. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I illustrate that this club is a vibrant space of civic participation. I argue that associations like this sports club are crucial sites of Muslim civic engagement where individuals configure forms of religiously circumscribed citizenship. The cl…
One mosque and the negotiation of German Islam
In the last half century (pious) Muslims and their communities have become integral parts of German cities. They are creative cultural producers and religiously inspired urban citizens. Mosques are central nodes in urban Muslim religious and cultural geographies where believers negotiate pious identities and lifeworlds, configure pious public personae and modes of civic participation. In this paper I introduce the Al-Nour Mosque as a unique node …
Crushed? Cairo’s Garbage Collectors and Neoliberal Urban Politics
For decades Cairo’s solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl. zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the zabaleen’s work has increasingly been pushed aside, as aspects of their services were contracted to multinational companies. This article argues that, with their continued presence, activities, and savvy understanding of urban dynamics, marginalized groups like the garbage …
Introduction
A Neighborhood Shopping Street and the Making of Urban Cultures and Economies in Germany
This paper examines the cultural, social, and economic contributions of multi–ethnic neighborhood businesses to the transformation of German cityscapes. The diversity on N–Street in Stuttgart has been at the forefront of urban transformations and cultural production. I show that neighborhood stores and shopping streets are sites of urban experiments and cultural beginnings which produce new authenticities in the face of rapid urban homogenization…
Himmelstochter
Hülya Kandemir’s book, Himmelstochter (Daughter of heaven), chronicles her transformation from a well-known regional pop singer to a pious Muslima in Germany. Kandemir describes her turn to Islam and the ensuing fine-tuned construction of a modern pious Muslim subjectivity in the contexts of a growing Muslim German public sphere, Muslim German cultural production, and the public sphere at large. Kandemir’s transformation unfolds in Germany in the…
The Giza Pyramids
IN THE NINETEENTH century a growing sense emerged among Europeans that the pyramids were "theirs." Combined with emerging lifestyles of travel and entertainment the Giza Pyramids were integrated into an emerging global touristic map. With the advent of colonial occupation, the pyramids were slowly woven into the modern cityscape of Cairo which in turn engendered changes in the surrounding landscape. Issues of free access, convenience and the comf…
Introduction
Incidental sustainability? Notes from a thrift store in Germany
This article introduces Fairkauf, a charitable thrift store, in Stuttgart, Germany and analyzes its work and participation in alternative economies of reuse, repair, repurposing, sharing, and care, and the store's contributions to ecological and social sustainability. Thrift stores are contemporary responses to overproduction, hyper-consumption, social inequality, and ecological degradation. This article provides a nuanced ethnographic descriptio…
Piously creative
Much has been said in recent years about Muslims in Europe. Most debates focus on controversies to do with Islam. Less is written about the creative contributions of pious Muslims to culture and society. This paper examines creative contributions of pious Muslims in Stuttgart, Germany. Over the past half century, Muslims have become creative urban contributors, cultural producers and stakeholders. Analysing exemplary artistic and creative context…
Between Islam and anti-globalization
Space, social reproduction and food security in Cairo/Egypt
Space, social reproduction and food security in Cairo/Egypt
Giza Spaces
The Giza Pyramids
IN THE NINETEENTH century a growing sense emerged among Europeans that the pyramids were "theirs." Combined with emerging lifestyles of travel and entertainment the Giza Pyramids were integrated into an emerging global touristic map. With the advent of colonial occupation, the pyramids were slowly woven into the modern cityscape of Cairo which in turn engendered changes in the surrounding landscape. Issues of free access, convenience and the comf…
Introduction
Exclusive Greenery
This paper examines the construction and marketing of recent upscale gated communities on the Egyptian capital's desert outskirts. Discussing questions of design and their use in promotional materials, I show how global inventories of architecture and social lifestyles are inserted in concrete local marketing contexts. While some of this marketing and subsequently some communities are successful, I argue that many aspects of projects are flawed i…
Globalization And Exterritoriality in Metropolitan Cairo
Rapid construction of new spaces like hotels, malls, private clubs, and gated communities in Greater Cairo, Egypt produces structures disconnected spatially and conceptually from most of the existing urban fabric. Their spatial concepts and practices, as well as architectural forms and expertise, are based largely on globally available models. Planning and construction are guided by the search for security in the face of real or imagined fear of …
Nominalism and Essentialism in Urban Anthropology
AS A REACTION to the essentialist perspectives of mid-century anthropology, proponents of postmodernism and others have viewed the conventional categories, such as cultures, communities, and ethnic groups as reifications. The critique of Wirthian urbanism which preceded the current period fits this pattern. The paper will deal with how postmodernist anthropologists have dealt with the urban and how, despite the critique, an essentialist view of u…
Political Life in Cairo's New Quarters
Between Islam and anti-globalization
Himmelstochter
Hülya Kandemir’s book, Himmelstochter (Daughter of heaven), chronicles her transformation from a well-known regional pop singer to a pious Muslima in Germany. Kandemir describes her turn to Islam and the ensuing fine-tuned construction of a modern pious Muslim subjectivity in the contexts of a growing Muslim German public sphere, Muslim German cultural production, and the public sphere at large. Kandemir’s transformation unfolds in Germany in the…
A Certain Age
A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of its Intellectuals . R. Mrázek . Durham : Duke University Press , 2010 . xiii + 310 pp., illustr., notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 978-0822346852. USD $89.95 (Hc.); ISBN 978-0822346975. USD $24.95 (Pb.) In A Certain Age, Rudolf Mrázek takes his readers to distant times and spaces that nonetheless feel strangely familiar. Based on interviews, or more precisely long open-ended conversations with e…
Cinderella Wears a Hijab
This article examines lifeworlds and transformations in multiethnic and multireligious neighborhoods in Germany. The author illustrates how by way of minute everyday interactions and encounters, individuals and groups experience each other and devise new practices that aim to accommodate the cultural and religious needs of all involved. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Stuttgart, this article argues that neighborhood spaces, everyday encounters…
Crushed? Cairo’s Garbage Collectors and Neoliberal Urban Politics
For decades Cairo’s solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl. zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the zabaleen’s work has increasingly been pushed aside, as aspects of their services were contracted to multinational companies. This article argues that, with their continued presence, activities, and savvy understanding of urban dynamics, marginalized groups like the garbage …
A Neighborhood Shopping Street and the Making of Urban Cultures and Economies in Germany
This paper examines the cultural, social, and economic contributions of multi–ethnic neighborhood businesses to the transformation of German cityscapes. The diversity on N–Street in Stuttgart has been at the forefront of urban transformations and cultural production. I show that neighborhood stores and shopping streets are sites of urban experiments and cultural beginnings which produce new authenticities in the face of rapid urban homogenization…
One mosque and the negotiation of German Islam
In the last half century (pious) Muslims and their communities have become integral parts of German cities. They are creative cultural producers and religiously inspired urban citizens. Mosques are central nodes in urban Muslim religious and cultural geographies where believers negotiate pious identities and lifeworlds, configure pious public personae and modes of civic participation. In this paper I introduce the Al-Nour Mosque as a unique node …
Flexible topographies
This paper examines transient and semi-permanent Muslim spaces, their social construction, use, and relevance for diverse pious Muslims in Stuttgart, Germany. I describe the location, creation, negotiation, and maintenance of such spaces and analyze their position and contribution to a larger urban Muslim social geography. Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork in Stuttgart, Germany, I illustrate how individuals mark or inhabit spaces m…
Mosques and Minarets
The role and position of Muslims in Germany has been a controversial topic for years. This unresolved conflict manifests itself most acutely in controversies over the construction or renovation of mosques or mosque facilities. In this article, I examine two such controversies. I focus on themes of civic participation and visibility, to illustrate how mosque conflicts, regardless of their final outcomes, constitute important elements of Muslim loc…
Faithfully Urban
Pools, Piety, and Participation
This paper introduces the Muslim Women's Sports Club (MWSC) in Stuttgart, Germany and analyzes this club's role and contribution in the construction of urban citizenship. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I illustrate that this club is a vibrant space of civic participation. I argue that associations like this sports club are crucial sites of Muslim civic engagement where individuals configure forms of religiously circumscribed citizenship. The cl…
Sunta's Newly Elected Board Members
Piously creative
Much has been said in recent years about Muslims in Europe. Most debates focus on controversies to do with Islam. Less is written about the creative contributions of pious Muslims to culture and society. This paper examines creative contributions of pious Muslims in Stuttgart, Germany. Over the past half century, Muslims have become creative urban contributors, cultural producers and stakeholders. Analysing exemplary artistic and creative context…
Religion, art and creativity in the global city
Sunta President's Report
The 2019 Sunta Mentoring Program
Introduction
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · History (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Islam (6 works)