Jürgen Schaflechner
Biographic Data
| ID | 889274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jürgen Schaflechner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jürgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaflechner |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFLECHNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4430-2567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘YouTube Judaism’ in Pakistan, The self-discovery of the Bene Ephraim
The Toxic Reigns of Resentment: Robert Pfaller
The Toxic Reigns of Resentment: Peter Sloterdijk
Res(s)ent(i)ment and Nonaffirmative Creativity: Hindu Minorities in Pakistan as Conceptual Personae
In recent years, the concepts of resentment and ressentiment have experienced a resurgence within journalistic and academic spheres. Events such as Brexit, the Trump presidency, and the rise of right-wing governments in Europe have reignited discourse on these and similar emotions, often as tools to interpret diverse forms of behavior. Both terms have largely been framed through Euro- and US-centric model cases. Whereas resentment tends to addres…
Res(s)sent(i)ment: Concept, Signifier, and Reclaimability
The Toxic Reigns of Resentment: Wendy Brown
Tactics for Becoming Visible: South Asian Minorities in the Times of Communicative Capitalism
We explore the tactics of becoming visible and their relationship to alleviating or exacerbating precarious forms of life for minorities in South Asia. These tactics emerge from and respond to three interdependent moments: The frames that define how minorities can become visible, the interplay between limits and thresholds of visibility, and how capture fragments articulations and makes them easy to appropriate
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism
With the help of multi-sited ethnography in Israel and Pakistan, this paper looks at the history of antisemitism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. I show that while antisemitism is widespread in parts of Pakistani society today, it was not the reason why most of Karachi’s Jews left the country in the 1960s or the 1970s. In the paper, I explore possible explanations for the rise of antisemitism in parts of Pakistan’s society
Krav Maga: History, Representation, and Globalization of a Self-Defense System from Israel
Martial Arts Studies publishes the highest quality academic work on any aspect of martial arts studies. It aspires to stimulate and enrich the development of research and scholarship in martial arts studies by publishing the highest quality interdisciplinary work in the emergent field
Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech
Betwixt and Between: Hindu Identity in Pakistan and ‘Wary and Aware’ Public Performances
The following article introduces Pakistan’s Hindu community and shows how the group represents itself through and within the country’s public spheres. In a first step, the paper reveals the ways in which Hinduism and its followers are portrayed in government schoolbooks, Urdu pulp fiction and religious literature. Through such media, the category ‘Pakistani Hindu’ emerges as caught between religious and nationalist discourses. In a second step, t…
Hinglaj Devi: Solidifying Hindu Identity at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan
By exploring the features of Hinglaj Devi, the most important Hindu pilgrimage site in Pakistan, this article reveals how one local caste's version became hegemonic at Hinglaj and has today become practically synonymous with the "real" or the "actual" tradition of the goddess. Mainly utilizing my ethnographic material, this article describes how the increasingly plural religious landscapes at Hinglaj-seen in the vast crowds the annual festivals a…
Hinglaj Devi
The shrine of the Goddess Hinglaj is located in the desert of Balochistan, Pakistan, about 215 kilometers west of the city of Karachi. Notwithstanding its ancient Hindu and Muslim history, the establishment of an annual festival at Hinglaj took place only recently, “invented” in the mid-1980s. Only after the construction of the Makran Coastal Highway (MCH), a road that now—coincidentally—connects the formerly distant desert shrine with urban Paki…
The Struggle Over Truth
In the first chapter, the author evaluates the various possibilities to engage with the empirical material collected for this book. Due to the shrine’s new accessibility, paired with its recent institutionalization, many formerly disconnected practices and narratives started to meet on a regular basis. Doing fieldwork at the site, together with engaging with a variety of texts and other media, the author was confronted with the question of how to…
(Un)necessary Hardships in “Getting There”
Chapter 4 uses modern-day case studies and extensive fieldwork to depict the current situation for those undertaking the pilgrimage. It shows how the construction of the MCH brought about a modernization of transportation to the shrine and also a renaissance of the walking practice to Hinglaj. It demonstrates how the infrastructure that developed along with the MCH, easier access to water, and a reduced chance of becoming lost in the desert have …
Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan
About two hundred kilometers west of the city of Karachi, in the desert of Baluchistan, Pakistan, sits the shrine of the Hindu Goddess Hinglaj. Despite the temple's ancient Hindu and Muslim history, an annual festival at Hinglaj has only been established within the last three decades, in part because of the construction of the Makran Coastal Highway, which connects the distant rural shrine with urban Pakistan. Now, an increasingly confident minor…
Krav Maga: History, Representation, and Globalization of a Self-Defense System from Israel
Martial Arts Studies publishes the highest quality academic work on any aspect of martial arts studies. It aspires to stimulate and enrich the development of research and scholarship in martial arts studies by publishing the highest quality interdisciplinary work in the emergent field
Betwixt and Between: Hindu Identity in Pakistan and ‘Wary and Aware’ Public Performances
The following article introduces Pakistan’s Hindu community and shows how the group represents itself through and within the country’s public spheres. In a first step, the paper reveals the ways in which Hinduism and its followers are portrayed in government schoolbooks, Urdu pulp fiction and religious literature. Through such media, the category ‘Pakistani Hindu’ emerges as caught between religious and nationalist discourses. In a second step, t…
Hinglaj Devi: Solidifying Hindu Identity at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan
By exploring the features of Hinglaj Devi, the most important Hindu pilgrimage site in Pakistan, this article reveals how one local caste's version became hegemonic at Hinglaj and has today become practically synonymous with the "real" or the "actual" tradition of the goddess. Mainly utilizing my ethnographic material, this article describes how the increasingly plural religious landscapes at Hinglaj-seen in the vast crowds the annual festivals a…
Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan
About two hundred kilometers west of the city of Karachi, in the desert of Baluchistan, Pakistan, sits the shrine of the Hindu Goddess Hinglaj. Despite the temple's ancient Hindu and Muslim history, an annual festival at Hinglaj has only been established within the last three decades, in part because of the construction of the Makran Coastal Highway, which connects the distant rural shrine with urban Pakistan. Now, an increasingly confident minor…
Hinglaj Devi
The shrine of the Goddess Hinglaj is located in the desert of Balochistan, Pakistan, about 215 kilometers west of the city of Karachi. Notwithstanding its ancient Hindu and Muslim history, the establishment of an annual festival at Hinglaj took place only recently, “invented” in the mid-1980s. Only after the construction of the Makran Coastal Highway (MCH), a road that now—coincidentally—connects the formerly distant desert shrine with urban Paki…
The Struggle Over Truth
In the first chapter, the author evaluates the various possibilities to engage with the empirical material collected for this book. Due to the shrine’s new accessibility, paired with its recent institutionalization, many formerly disconnected practices and narratives started to meet on a regular basis. Doing fieldwork at the site, together with engaging with a variety of texts and other media, the author was confronted with the question of how to…
(Un)necessary Hardships in “Getting There”
Chapter 4 uses modern-day case studies and extensive fieldwork to depict the current situation for those undertaking the pilgrimage. It shows how the construction of the MCH brought about a modernization of transportation to the shrine and also a renaissance of the walking practice to Hinglaj. It demonstrates how the infrastructure that developed along with the MCH, easier access to water, and a reduced chance of becoming lost in the desert have …
Betwixt and Between: Hindu Identity in Pakistan and ‘Wary and Aware’ Public Performances
The following article introduces Pakistan’s Hindu community and shows how the group represents itself through and within the country’s public spheres. In a first step, the paper reveals the ways in which Hinduism and its followers are portrayed in government schoolbooks, Urdu pulp fiction and religious literature. Through such media, the category ‘Pakistani Hindu’ emerges as caught between religious and nationalist discourses. In a second step, t…
Hinglaj Devi: Solidifying Hindu Identity at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan
By exploring the features of Hinglaj Devi, the most important Hindu pilgrimage site in Pakistan, this article reveals how one local caste's version became hegemonic at Hinglaj and has today become practically synonymous with the "real" or the "actual" tradition of the goddess. Mainly utilizing my ethnographic material, this article describes how the increasingly plural religious landscapes at Hinglaj-seen in the vast crowds the annual festivals a…
Krav Maga: History, Representation, and Globalization of a Self-Defense System from Israel
Martial Arts Studies publishes the highest quality academic work on any aspect of martial arts studies. It aspires to stimulate and enrich the development of research and scholarship in martial arts studies by publishing the highest quality interdisciplinary work in the emergent field
Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism
With the help of multi-sited ethnography in Israel and Pakistan, this paper looks at the history of antisemitism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. I show that while antisemitism is widespread in parts of Pakistani society today, it was not the reason why most of Karachi’s Jews left the country in the 1960s or the 1970s. In the paper, I explore possible explanations for the rise of antisemitism in parts of Pakistan’s society
Tactics for Becoming Visible: South Asian Minorities in the Times of Communicative Capitalism
We explore the tactics of becoming visible and their relationship to alleviating or exacerbating precarious forms of life for minorities in South Asia. These tactics emerge from and respond to three interdependent moments: The frames that define how minorities can become visible, the interplay between limits and thresholds of visibility, and how capture fragments articulations and makes them easy to appropriate
The Toxic Reigns of Resentment: Robert Pfaller
The Toxic Reigns of Resentment: Peter Sloterdijk
Res(s)ent(i)ment and Nonaffirmative Creativity: Hindu Minorities in Pakistan as Conceptual Personae
In recent years, the concepts of resentment and ressentiment have experienced a resurgence within journalistic and academic spheres. Events such as Brexit, the Trump presidency, and the rise of right-wing governments in Europe have reignited discourse on these and similar emotions, often as tools to interpret diverse forms of behavior. Both terms have largely been framed through Euro- and US-centric model cases. Whereas resentment tends to addres…
Res(s)sent(i)ment: Concept, Signifier, and Reclaimability
The Toxic Reigns of Resentment: Wendy Brown
‘YouTube Judaism’ in Pakistan, The self-discovery of the Bene Ephraim
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Hinduism (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works)