Forschung
Research Projects
2018-2023
"Urban Ecologies in Southeast Asia. Humans, Environment and Ghosts in the City". (German Research Foundation, DFG, Project Director)
2015-2018
"Plural Ecologies. Anthropological Perspectives
on Southeast Asia"
(German Research Foundation,
Member of the Research Network)
2015-2018
"Religion, Media and Materiality. Spiritual Economies in Southeast Asia." (German Research Foundation, Project Director)
2011-2015
„The Global Bazaar - Markets as places of economic and social inclusion” (German Research Foundation, Project Director)
2005-2010
“Transnational Networks, Religion and New Migration (German Research Foundation, Project Director)
2001-2005
“Transnational Religion – Women‘s Congregations as Actors in the Process of Globalization“. (German Research Foundation, with Prof. Dr. Ute Luig)
1998-2000
“Gender, Religion and Modernity”. (German Research Foundation, with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaschuba)
Regional interests/Fieldwork
- Vietnam/Southeast Asia
- Europe - Asia
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Germany
- USA
- India
Theoretical interests:
Media, Religion, Materiality
- Urban Ecologies
- Transnational Networks
- Religion and Migration
- Urban Anthropology
- Postsocialism
- Immigrant Entrepreneurship
- Markets and Diversity
- Gender Studies
- Second Generation Migrants
Fieldwork
2018
The Urban Sacred (Vietnam/Thailand October 2018-January 2019)
2018
Food for the Spirits. Vietnam ( March-May)
2017
Religion, Media, and Materialiy. Vietnam (3 months)
2016
Religion and Media/ Hanoi and HCM City (3 months)
2017
Religion, Media and Materiality. Hanoi (3 Months)
2016
Heritagization. Hanoi (3 Months)
2015
Marketplaces and Urban space. Hanoi and HCM City (3 months)
2012/13
Markets in Hanoi/Vietnam (5 months)
2012
Asia-Markets in Berlin, Warsaw and Prague (8 months)
2010/11
Multi-ethnic marketplaces in Berlin (4 months)
2008
Transnational religious networks (Buddhists, Pentecostals, Catholics, spirit possession rituals) in Vietnam (4 months) and Germany (4 months)
2007
Temples, Pagodas and Churches in Hanoi/Vietnam (two months) und in Berlin, Bremen, Leipzig, Hannover (3 months)
2005/2006
Religious, political and economic networks of migrants from Vietnam and Ghana in Germany (4 months)
1996 - 2004
in various branches of a globally connected multi-ethnic women´s congregation. Fieldwork in Germany (5 months), in the U.S., Chicago (4 months); India, (Bangalore and Tamil Nadu) (7 months); altogether 16 months
1991 - 1993
in a village in Hessen /Germany as part of the PhD project on “The Divided Village- Family, Kinship and two Contesting Male Singing Clubs” (24 months)
1985
in a German village, as part of the M.A. project: „Conflict und Integration“ (6 months)