‘Belonging’ is a fundamental aspect of human life. People’s increasing mobility and global dis-, and replacement in the context of recurring environmental, political and humanitarian crises profoundly shape the experience, interpretation, and negotiation of belonging. At the 2017 conference of…
Refuge Europe at its Limits? Limits and Contradictions of the Political and Moral Ideal – Conference report
For the first time in over sixty years Germany has seen the rise of a far-right party to the Bundestag, drastically reshaping its political landscape. Following the last federal elections, the party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has become the third…
Transnational Scientific Projects and Racial Politics: The KEMRI Six Case Against the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Contemporary Kenya
“In 1989 the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), one of Africa’s leading health research institutions, formed a landmark partnership with the Wellcome Trust, one of the largest global funders of health research, and the University of Oxford, one of the…
Die Ärzteschaft türkischer Herkunft und die „Entdeckung des türkischen Patienten“ – zur Ethnisierung der Gesundheitsversorgung in (West-)Deutschland
Im gesundheitswissenschaftlichen Diskurs werden Patient/innen mit einem sogenannten Migrationshintergrund heute als eine Gruppe gesehen, deren medizinische Versorgung besondere Anforderungen an das deutsche Gesundheitssystem stellt. Teils werden sie auch zu den vulnerablen Patientengruppen gezählt, weil sie aufgrund belastender Migrationserfahrungen oder sozioökonomischer…
Enacting the homosexual body: The Turkish military’s practice of “proving” homosexuality through rectal examinations
The practice of rectal examinations in the Turkish military made international news (e.g. Gaytimes 2015) when it was abolished in November 2015. Before the amendment, gay men had to endure rectal examinations and provide photographic material of themselves during intercourse…
Cancer, Care and Hope – A Hospital Ethnography on Palliative Care in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The emergence of hospices and palliative care in Africa during the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been tied to the fact that patients were dying from HIV/AIDS in large numbers due to the non-availability of ART at the…