Nasima Selim
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 649478 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nasima Selim |
| PRENOMES | Nasima |
| SOBRENOME | Selim |
| ASSINATURA | SELIM N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | BRAC University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6626-762X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Breathing Hearts
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to 'breathe well' along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white…
Multilingual Encounters beyond (Research) Collaboration
This paper reflects on anthropology's public role in the aftermath of Germany's so-called "refugee crisis" of 2015. Media and political discussions clearly showed that the dominant (German) culture/Kultur discourse had been primarily based on nineteenth-century evolutionist ideas, structural racism, and growing right-wing populism rather than on established anthropological insights into cultural identity, gender, religion, transnational realities…
The Politics of Breathing Troubles in Covid-19
Breathing trouble' refers both to a biopolitical process and a metaphor for the current global condition. This Position Piece draws inspiration from the 'universal right to breathe' frame suggested by Joseph-Achille Mbembe (2021a) to discuss pandemic inequalities in Kolkata (India) from a location in the global north, Berlin (Germany), where the author currently lives and works. Drawing from the circumstances surrounding the interruption of my fi…
Flourishing
Health and the capacity to flourish are deeply intertwined. For members of vulnerable migrant groups, systemic inequalities and structural forms of marginalisation and exclusion create health risks, impede access to needed care and interfere with the ability to achieve one’s full potential. Migrants often have limited access to healthcare, and they frequently are portrayed as less deserving than others of the resources needed to lead a healthy an…
Letter from the (un)seen virus
Letter from the (un)seen virus: (post) humanist perspective in corona times Dear humans, you cannot see me with naked eyes, 1 and yet you can no longer ignore my existence (Figure My official title is long: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). I am also known as nCoV, the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, or simply Corona. In early December 2019, I was making the usual rounds in a Wuhan food market in Hubei province in China. The m…
Learning the Elsewhere of 'Inner Space
How is access to the Elsewhere facilitated through affective pedagogy in a contemporary Sufi setting in Germany? This article draws analytical lessons from Inayati healing seminars that took place in the summer of 2013. Participants were instructed to feel the Elsewhere of 'inner space' in the material/corporeal realities by attuning to breath, sonic resonance, collective movement, and attentive listening. The affective pedagogy of the teacher ex…
Spirit and mind
Coming Together in the So-Called Refugee Crisis
In 2015, Germany entered what would later become known as the ‘refugee crisis’. The Willkommenskultur (welcoming culture) trope gained political prominence and met with significant challenges. In this article, we focus on a series of encounters in Berlin, bringing together refugee newcomers, migrants, activists and anthropologists. As we thought and wrote together about shared experiences, we discovered the limitations of the normative assumption…
Affective Scholarship
This article discusses the potential of fieldworkers' affects as epistemic processes. It showcases lessons from long-term fieldwork in diverse geographical locations (Indonesia, Germany, and Tanzania) and insights from our affective inquiries into coming of age on the streets, Sufism, and antiretroviral HIV-therapy. Inspired by ethnographic writings relating to psychological anthropology and the "affective turn," we propose epistemic affects as a…
Patients and agents
McDonaldization without a McDonald's
Bangladesh is one of the few developing countries where there is no McDonald's and yet the process of “McDonaldization” is in full progress. This paper explores the food consumption practices of a group of affluent university-educated urban youth in Bangladesh to illustrate this process of McDonaldization. Based on in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, document review, informal observation and content analysis of…
Mixing methods, tasting fingers
This article was published in the HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory [ © 2011 School of Social and Political Sciences ] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau1.1.009\tThe Journal's website is at: http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/view/hau1.1
An extraordinary truth? The Ādam “suicide” notes from Bangladesh
In 2007, nine members of the Ādam family committed suicide in a small town of Bangladesh. They had left suicide notes inside the house. The Ādams believed in an anti-Islamic faith, the Ādam “religion,” founded by the father, Abdul Ādam, who had died seven years ago. Only one of the members of the Ādam family is still alive, a daughter who was not part of the mass suicide. Most newspapers in the country reported the incident, but few journalists e…
Impact of flooding on feeding practices of infants and young children in Dhaka, Bangladesh Slums
Previous research has shown that urban slums are hostile environments for the growth of infants and young children (IYC). Flooding is a hazard commonly found in Dhaka slums (Bangladesh) which negatively impacts IYC's nutritional and health status. This paper aims 1) to identify the impact of flooding on IYC's feeding practices, and 2) to explore the coping strategies developed by caregivers. Qualitative data (participant observation and semi-stru…
Mixing methods, tasting fingers
This article reports on an ethnographic experiment. Four finger eating experts and three novices sat down for a hot meal and ate with their hands. Drawing on the technique of playing with the familiar and the strange, our aim was not to explain our responses, but to articulate them. As we seek words to do so, we are compelled to stretch the verb “to taste.” Tasting, or so our ethnographic experiment suggests, need not be understood as an activity…
Affective Scholarship
This article discusses the potential of fieldworkers' affects as epistemic processes. It showcases lessons from long-term fieldwork in diverse geographical locations (Indonesia, Germany, and Tanzania) and insights from our affective inquiries into coming of age on the streets, Sufism, and antiretroviral HIV-therapy. Inspired by ethnographic writings relating to psychological anthropology and the "affective turn," we propose epistemic affects as a…
Learning the Elsewhere of 'Inner Space
How is access to the Elsewhere facilitated through affective pedagogy in a contemporary Sufi setting in Germany? This article draws analytical lessons from Inayati healing seminars that took place in the summer of 2013. Participants were instructed to feel the Elsewhere of 'inner space' in the material/corporeal realities by attuning to breath, sonic resonance, collective movement, and attentive listening. The affective pedagogy of the teacher ex…
McDonaldization without a McDonald's
Bangladesh is one of the few developing countries where there is no McDonald's and yet the process of “McDonaldization” is in full progress. This paper explores the food consumption practices of a group of affluent university-educated urban youth in Bangladesh to illustrate this process of McDonaldization. Based on in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, document review, informal observation and content analysis of…
An extraordinary truth? The Ādam “suicide” notes from Bangladesh
In 2007, nine members of the Ādam family committed suicide in a small town of Bangladesh. They had left suicide notes inside the house. The Ādams believed in an anti-Islamic faith, the Ādam “religion,” founded by the father, Abdul Ādam, who had died seven years ago. Only one of the members of the Ādam family is still alive, a daughter who was not part of the mass suicide. Most newspapers in the country reported the incident, but few journalists e…
Impact of flooding on feeding practices of infants and young children in Dhaka, Bangladesh Slums
Previous research has shown that urban slums are hostile environments for the growth of infants and young children (IYC). Flooding is a hazard commonly found in Dhaka slums (Bangladesh) which negatively impacts IYC's nutritional and health status. This paper aims 1) to identify the impact of flooding on IYC's feeding practices, and 2) to explore the coping strategies developed by caregivers. Qualitative data (participant observation and semi-stru…
Mixing methods, tasting fingers
This article was published in the HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory [ © 2011 School of Social and Political Sciences ] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau1.1.009\tThe Journal's website is at: http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/view/hau1.1
McDonaldization without a McDonald's
Bangladesh is one of the few developing countries where there is no McDonald's and yet the process of “McDonaldization” is in full progress. This paper explores the food consumption practices of a group of affluent university-educated urban youth in Bangladesh to illustrate this process of McDonaldization. Based on in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, document review, informal observation and content analysis of…
Patients and agents
Coming Together in the So-Called Refugee Crisis
In 2015, Germany entered what would later become known as the ‘refugee crisis’. The Willkommenskultur (welcoming culture) trope gained political prominence and met with significant challenges. In this article, we focus on a series of encounters in Berlin, bringing together refugee newcomers, migrants, activists and anthropologists. As we thought and wrote together about shared experiences, we discovered the limitations of the normative assumption…
Affective Scholarship
This article discusses the potential of fieldworkers' affects as epistemic processes. It showcases lessons from long-term fieldwork in diverse geographical locations (Indonesia, Germany, and Tanzania) and insights from our affective inquiries into coming of age on the streets, Sufism, and antiretroviral HIV-therapy. Inspired by ethnographic writings relating to psychological anthropology and the "affective turn," we propose epistemic affects as a…
Spirit and mind
Letter from the (un)seen virus
Letter from the (un)seen virus: (post) humanist perspective in corona times Dear humans, you cannot see me with naked eyes, 1 and yet you can no longer ignore my existence (Figure My official title is long: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). I am also known as nCoV, the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, or simply Corona. In early December 2019, I was making the usual rounds in a Wuhan food market in Hubei province in China. The m…
Learning the Elsewhere of 'Inner Space
How is access to the Elsewhere facilitated through affective pedagogy in a contemporary Sufi setting in Germany? This article draws analytical lessons from Inayati healing seminars that took place in the summer of 2013. Participants were instructed to feel the Elsewhere of 'inner space' in the material/corporeal realities by attuning to breath, sonic resonance, collective movement, and attentive listening. The affective pedagogy of the teacher ex…
Flourishing
Health and the capacity to flourish are deeply intertwined. For members of vulnerable migrant groups, systemic inequalities and structural forms of marginalisation and exclusion create health risks, impede access to needed care and interfere with the ability to achieve one’s full potential. Migrants often have limited access to healthcare, and they frequently are portrayed as less deserving than others of the resources needed to lead a healthy an…
The Politics of Breathing Troubles in Covid-19
Breathing trouble' refers both to a biopolitical process and a metaphor for the current global condition. This Position Piece draws inspiration from the 'universal right to breathe' frame suggested by Joseph-Achille Mbembe (2021a) to discuss pandemic inequalities in Kolkata (India) from a location in the global north, Berlin (Germany), where the author currently lives and works. Drawing from the circumstances surrounding the interruption of my fi…
Multilingual Encounters beyond (Research) Collaboration
This paper reflects on anthropology's public role in the aftermath of Germany's so-called "refugee crisis" of 2015. Media and political discussions clearly showed that the dominant (German) culture/Kultur discourse had been primarily based on nineteenth-century evolutionist ideas, structural racism, and growing right-wing populism rather than on established anthropological insights into cultural identity, gender, religion, transnational realities…
Mixing methods, tasting fingers
This article reports on an ethnographic experiment. Four finger eating experts and three novices sat down for a hot meal and ate with their hands. Drawing on the technique of playing with the familiar and the strange, our aim was not to explain our responses, but to articulate them. As we seek words to do so, we are compelled to stretch the verb “to taste.” Tasting, or so our ethnographic experiment suggests, need not be understood as an activity…
Breathing Hearts
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to 'breathe well' along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white…
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