Recent Publications and Lectures

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(2021) Environmental Activism and the 'Political Right'. Forum 'New Climate Change Activism', Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 29(1): 235-237 [Open Access]

(2020) Neotraditional Authority Contested: the Corporatization of Tradition and the Quest for Democracy in the Topnaar Traditional Authority, Namibia. Africa 90(2): 318-338 [Open Access]

(2020) Violence, Autochthony and Identity Politics in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa): a Processual Perspective on Local Political Dynamics. African Studies Review 63(3): 540-559 [Open Access]

(2020) On Being a Father in the Field: Mobility, Distance, and Closeness. In: Braukmann, F. / Haug, M. / Metzmacher, K. & Stolz, R. (eds.) Being a Parent in the Field: Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork. Bielefeld: transcript; 209-222

(2019) Who are the "Conservative Others"? Comparative Perspectives on Cultural and Local Belonging. Plenary Session "Populist Persuasions", DGSKA Tagung 2019 "Das Ende der Aushandlungen?", Universität Konstanz

(2019) Die "Grauzonen" staatlicher Herrschaft. Soziopolis: Gesellschaft beobachten. Buchforum zu "Scott, J.C. (2019) Die Mühlen der Zivilisation. Eine Tiefengeschichte der frühesten Staaten. Berlin: Suhrkamp"

(2019) The Current Debate on Neotraditional Authority in South Africa: Notes on the Legitimacy and Rise of Intermediaries. In: Hüsken, T. / Solyga, A. / Badi, D. (eds.) The Multiplicity of Orders and Practices. A Tribute to Georg Klute. Köln: Köppe; 111-133

(2018) The Struggle over Neotraditional Authority: Power, Legitimacy and Democracy in South Africa and Namibia (Habilitationsschrift, Universität zu Köln)

(2018) Rezension zu "Hochschild, A.R. (2016) Strangers in their own land. Anger and mourning on the American right. New York & London: The New Press." Sociologus 68(1): 97–100

(2016) Neither Despotic nor Civil: the Legitimacy of Chieftaincy in its Relationship with the ANC and the State in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). In: The Journal of Modern African Studies 54(1): 117–143

(2015) Basislegitimität der widerständigen Gewalt und Kleiner Krieg in KwaZulu-Natal, Südafrika. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 140(2): 159–176

(2015) University of Cologne Forum "Ethnicity as a Political Resource" (ed.) Ethnicity as a Political Resource. Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods. Bielefeld: transcript (co-editors: S. Albiez-Wieck, A. Becker, A. Manke, M. Pelican, A. Sáez-Arance, T. Schwarz, S. Steinberger, T. Widlok) [Open Access]