Dr. Manuel Dieterich

2026

The Crisis of Representation and the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies (with Boris Nieswand). In: Dahinden, Janine / Pott, Andreas (Eds.) Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies. Pitfalls and Alternatives. Cham: Springer, 97-114 (Online). 

2025

Reproducing Racism – Between Shame and Reflexivity. Trialog 154-155, 64-68 (Online). 

How does moralization work? Exploring the operational logics of morality. International Sociology 40 (4), S. 483-496 (with Boris Nieswand and Damián Omar Martínez) (Online). 

2024

Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa). Ethnography 0(0) (with Damián Omar Martínez and Boris Nieswand) (Online).  

Integrationismus als moralische Rechtfertigungsordnung. In:  Lange, Jan / Liebig, Manuel / Räuchle, Charlotte (Eds.) Lokale Wissensregime der Migration. Akteur*innen, Praktiken, Ordnungen. (with Boris Nieswand) Wiesbaden: Springer, 51-81.

2023

Kriminelle, Junkies und andere Bösewichte. Sicherheitswissen und moralische Grenzziehungen in Johannesburg, Murcia und Santiago de Chile. In: Frie, Ewald / Meier, Mischa / Dürr, Renate / Franke, Astrid / Patzold, Steffen / Nieswand, Boris / Rhiem, Max (Eds.) Krisen anders Denken. Wie Menschen mit Bedrohungen umgegangen sind und was wir daraus lernen können. (with Damián Omar Martínez and Boris Nieswand) Berlin: Propyläen, 210-224.

Urban Threat Figurations. Boundary-Making in and across Unequal Neighborhoods. ZfS 52 (2), 157-171.

2022

Bruchlinien stadtverwalterischer Legitimität. Überlegungen zu Rechtfertigungsnarrativen am Beispiel migrationsbezogener Partizipationsformate. In: Jan Lange / Manuel Dieterich (Eds.) Stadt – Migration – Moral. Analysen zur lokalen Moralisierung der Migration. 
(with Jan Lange) Tübingen: TVV Verlag, 93-111.

Stadt – Migration – Moral. Zur Einführung. In: Jan Lange / Manuel Dieterich (Eds.) Stadt – Migration – Moral. Analysen zur lokalen Moralisierung der Migration. (with Jan Lange) Tübingen: TVV Verlag, 9-23.

2021

Borders and the Production of Ill-Being. (An Invitation for) a Global Conversation. Anthropological Theory Commons. (with Claire Bullen, Polina Manolova, Damián Omar Martínez and Boris Nieswand), 2021 (Online) 

Spaltung zeigen?! Ein Diskussionsbeitrag zur Moralisierung politischer Debatten, in: BedenkZeiten, 25.01.2021 (Online)

2020

Wohl denen, die sich integrieren! Integrationismus als moralische Ordnung, in: Michael Spieker & Christian Hofmann (Eds.): Integration. Teilhabe und Zusammenleben in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Baden-Baden 2020, 115–132 (with Elif Alp-Marent & Boris Nieswand).

Reflexive Migrationsforschung. Zur Etablierung eines neuen Forschungsparadigmas, in: Migration und Soziale Arbeit 42, 2/2020, 146–152 (with Boris Nieswand).

Überengagement durch Moralisierung. Selbst- und Fremdidentifikationen in einem kommunalen Streit um eine Flüchtlingsunterbringung, in: Berliner Debatte Initial 31, 2/2020, 74–85.

Corona-Krise und Moralisierungen, in: Soziologieblog, 13.05.2020 (Online).

Alternativlose Alternative?! Eine Annäherung an den Erfolg der AfD, in: Soziologieblog, 12.04.2020 (Online).

2019

Moralisierung eines Konflikts. Eine lokale Auseinandersetzung zwischen Stadtverwaltung und Anwohnendeninitiative um den Neubau einer Anschlussunterbringung für Geflüchtete, in: Z'Flucht – Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung 3, 1/2019, 44–70.

2016

Das seh ich erst, wenn ich’s glaube. Das Paradigma kultureller Differenz am Beispiel des Diskurses über die Ereignisse am Kölner Hauptbahnhof in der Silvesternacht, in: Soziologieblog, 29.09.2016 (Online).

2025

How does moralization work? Exploring the operational logics of morality. Special Thematic Section of International Sociology (40) 4, guest editors with Boris Nieswand and Damián Omar Martínez. (Online Zugriff). 

2022

Stadt – Migration – Moral. Analysen zur lokalen Moralisierung der Migration. Editor with Jan Lange. Tübingen: TVV Verlag.

2021 

Borders and the Production of Ill-Being - Open Debate Series. Guest editors with Claire Bullen, Polina Manolova, Damián Omar Martínez and Boris Nieswand, Anthropological Theory Commons, 2021 (Online) 

2017

Legitimierung und Delegitimierung von Kritik. Eine empirische Untersuchung eines Konflikts um den Neubau einer Flüchtlingsanschlussunterbringung. Masterarbeit, Institut für Soziologie der Universität Tübingen 2017 (Online-Zugriff).

Vermessen und Teilen. Praktiken und Diskurse des Teilens digitaler Selbstvermessungsdaten. Tübingen 2017 (with Kaan Atanisev, Lukas Dawgiert, Thomas Lauterwasser, Max Leckert, Matthias Leger, Alexander Orlowski, Susanne Panzitta, Sebastian Steidle & Maria Tiede) (Online-Zugriff) 

2022

Rezension: Anxious Joburg: the Inner Lives of a Global South City. Hrsg. Nicky Falkof und Cobus van Staden. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 108, 80-86.

2016

Tagungsbericht: Threat and Order, Existence and Power. An Interdisciplinary Symposium, 24.–25.09.2015 Tübingen, in: H-Soz-Kult, 19.01.2016 (Online).

• “Figuration Analysis of Neighborhoods.” Presentation (with Boris Nieswand) at the Spring Academy ‘Figurations of the Precarious in the Global South’, April 14, 2026, University of Tübingen. 

• “Empathy Walls. Moral Communities and Neighborly Boundary-Making Processes.” Presentation at the LoKoNet Conference “Konflikt –Raum –Emotionen: Lokale Konflikte verstehen und bearbeiten”, February 26, 2026, University of Applied Sciences Erfurt. 

• “The Moral Order of Neighborhoods: Insights from Mindalore (Johannesburg) into Moral Boundary-Making and Neighborly Cohabitation.” Presentation at the Global Encounters Workshop “The Complexities and Dynamics of Social Interaction and Encounters in Neighborhoods”, January 30, 2025, University of Tübingen.

• „Protokategorien im Prozess moralisch-affektualen Klassifizierens“ (Protocategories in Processes of Moral-Affective Classification). Presentation (with Boris Nieswand) at the DGS Section Conference „Klassen, Klassifikationen, Klassifizierungen“, September 24, 2024, University of Osnabrück.

• “The Operational Logic of Racism: Afrikaners in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Presentation at the conference “Between Emotion and Reason: Exploring the Operational Logic of Morality”, May 11, 2023, University of Tübingen.

• “Moral-Emotional Neighborhoods: Local Processes of Boundary-Making.” Presentation at the RN37 Urban Sociology Conference “Seeing Like a City / Seeing the City Through”, October 5, 2022, Humboldt University of Berlin.

• “Moral Expectations towards the State: Civic Belonging in Johannesburg and Murcia.” Presentation (with Damián Martínez and Boris Nieswand) at the 41st DGS Congress „Polarisierte Welten“, September 28, 2022, University of Bielefeld.

• „Bedrohungen und Begegnungen. Gewalt und die Affizierung urbaner Diversitätskonfigurationen“ (Threats and Encounters: Violence and the Affecting of Urban Configurations of Diversity). Presentation at the 41st DGS Congress „Polarisierte Welten“, September 27, 2022, University of Bielefeld.

• “Re-name the Street: Symbolic Recognition and Civic Belonging in Murcia and Johannesburg.” Presentation (with Damián Martínez and Boris Nieswand) in the lecture series „Urbanity in Global Perspective“, July 1, 2022, University of Tübingen.

• “A Reflexive Stance Towards Asymmetries.” Presentation at the VAD Conference “Africa-Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives”, June 8, 2022, Freiburg i.Br. (online).

• “Moral Neighborhoods: Segregation through Threats.” Presentation at the workshop „Urban Diversity and Threat in Contexts of Social Mobilization. Temporal, Political and Moral Dimensions“, March 25, 2022, Peñalolén, Santiago de Chile (online).

• “Deep Story of Right-Wing Afrikaners: Understanding the Nexus of History, Emotions and Morality.” Presentation at the 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) “Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures”, September 1, 2021, Barcelona (online).

• “The Reflexive Turn and the Crisis of Representation in Migration Studies.” Presentation (with Boris Nieswand) at the 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference, session “Reflexivities in Migration Studies: Pitfalls and Alternatives (Session 1)”, July 9, 2021, Luxembourg (online).

• “Moral Expectations Towards the State.” Presentation (with Damián Martínez and Boris Nieswand) at the conference of the Swiss Sociological Association, June 30, 2021, Geneva (online).

• “Corona at Work: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in Bedrohten Ordnungen“ (Corona at Work: Academic Work in ‘Threatend Orders‘). Presentation (with Boris Nieswand) at the EKW institute colloquium „Krise – Katastrophe – Bedrohte Ordnungen“, January 14, 2021, University of Tübingen (online).

• “Threat Figurations in Neighborly Coexistence: The Cases of Soul City and Mindalore in Johannesburg.” Presentation at the “Southern Africa City Studies Conference”, August 31–September 4, 2020, Wits University, Johannesburg (online).

• “Threats and Moralizations in Unequal and Diverse Neighborhoods: The Case of Soul City and Mindalore.” Presentation at the workshop “Neighborhoods, Diversity and Threat: Different Perspectives from Current Urban Research Projects”, March 12–13, 2020, Wits University, Johannesburg.

• „Macht – Moral – (Un-)Sichtbarkeit. Moralische Dimensionen der (Un-)Sichtbarkeit von Geflüchteten am Beispiel eines Konflikts um den Neubau einer Anschlussunterbringung“ (Power – Morality – (In)Visibility: Moral Dimensions of the (In)Visibility of Refugees in a Conflict over the Construction of Refugee Housing). Presentation at the workshop „Un-/Sichtbarkeit der Migration. Zugänge der visuellen Anthropologie“, August 1–3, 2019, LMU Munich.

• „Bruchlinien stadtverwalterischer Legitimität. Überlegungen zu Rechtfertigungsnarrativen an Beispielen migrationsbezogener Partizipationsformate“ (Fault Lines of Municipal Legitimacy: Reflections on Narratives of Justification in Migration-Related Participation Formats). Presentation (with Jan Lange) at the conference „Stadt – Migration – Moral. Ethnographische Zugriffe auf lokale Rechtfertigungsordnungen“, April 11, 2019, University of Tübingen.

• „Moral in einem Konflikt im Kontext von Flüchtlingsunterkünften“ (Morality in a Conflict in the Context of Refugee Accommodation). Presentation at the workshop „Integration von Geflüchteten: Praxis trifft Wissenschaft“, September 28, 2018, District Office Tübingen.

• Spring School „Schreiben in der Qualitativen Forschung“ (Writing in Qualitative Research) (co-organized with Ursula Offenberger, Barbara Stauber, and Sophie Fecht), April 9–10, 2026, University of Tübingen.

• Workshop “Narrating the City” (co-organized with Claire Bullen and Bani Gill), February 12, 2026, University of Tübingen.

• Ad hoc group “Of Time and the City” (co-organized with Bani Gill and Boris Nieswand) at the 42nd DGS Congress “Transitionen”, September 24, 2025, University of Duisburg.

• G-TURN Colloquium “Global Urban Transformations in the 21st Century” (co-organized with Claire Bullen, Bani Gill, Yewon Lee, and Boris Nieswand). April-July 2025, hybrid event, University of Tübingen.

• Institute Colloquium Sociology “Inequalities, Conflicts and Gender” (co-organized with Annelen Fritz, Marie-Fleur Philipp, and Hanna Wierenga). April-July 2025, University of Tübingen.

• Lecture series / Colloquium “Urbanities in a Global Perspective: Crises, Changes, and Continuities” (co-organized with Claire Bullen, Bani Gill, Yewon Lee, and Boris Nieswand). October 2024-Feburary 2025, hybrid event, University of Tübingen.

• Lecture series / Colloquium “Urbanities in a Global Perspective: Crises, Changes, and Continuities” (co-organized with Claire Bullen, Bani Gill, Yewon Lee, and Boris Nieswand). April-July 2024, hybrid event, University of Tübingen.

• Conference “Between Emotion and Reason: Exploring the Operational Logic of Morality” (co-organized with Damián Martínez and Boris Nieswand), May 11–12, 2023, University of Tübingen.

• Panel “Urban Moral Economies and the Sociology of Polarization in Global Perspective” of the Section Development Sociology & Social Anthropology (co-organized with Damián Martínez and Boris Nieswand) at the 41st DGS Congress “Polarisierte Welten”, September 28, 2022, University of Bielefeld.

• Lecture series „Urbanity in Global Perspective“ (co-organized with Damián Martínez and Boris Nieswand). July-December 2022, hybrid event, University of Tübingen.

• International workshop „Urban Diversity and Threat in Contexts of Social Mobilization. Temporal, Political and Moral Dimensions“ (co-organized with Damián Martínez, Eduardo Bernal, and Boris Nieswand), March 24–25, 2022, Peñalolén, Santiago de Chile.

• „Polizei:Gewalt. Analysen & Kritiken“ (Police:Violence. Analyses & Critiques), (co-organized with Konstantin Decker and Christoph Feucht), February-March 2021, online event series of Kritische Uni Tübingen.

• “Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: A Global Conversation”. Panel at the International Forum 2020 “Wellbeing and Subjectivities across the Global South / Futures under Construction”, July 9, 2020, University of Tübingen.

• International workshop “Neighborhoods, Diversity and Threat: Different Perspectives from Current Urban Research Projects” (co-organized with Damián Martínez and Boris Nieswand), March 12–13, 2020, Wits University, Johannesburg.

• „Fallstricke der Identitätspolitik“ (Pitfalls of Identity Politics) (co-organized with Martin Groß), October 23, 2019, as part of the series „Soziologie im Gespräch“, Institute of Sociology, University of Tübingen.

• International Summer School “Problematizing Morality: Ethnographic Approaches to the Normative Dimensions of Everyday Life” (co-organized with Lukas Fehr, Moritz Fischer, Jan Hinrichsen, Damián Martínez, and Franziska Veit), September 24–27, 2019, University of Tübingen.

• Summer School „Schreiben in der Qualitativen Forschung“ (Writing in Qualitative Research) (co-organized with Jörg Strübing, Ursula Offenberger, and Barbara Stauber), July 29–30, 2019, University of Tübingen.

• Lecture series „Feminismus und Materialismus“ (Feminism and Materialism) of Kritische Uni Tübingen, May-June 2019, (co-organized with Konstantin Decker, Lisa Neher, Paul Schreiber, Felix Schreiber, and Philipp Roggenkamp), University of Tübingen.

• Spring School „Qualitativ Forschen“ (Doing Qualitative Research) (co-organized with Jörg Strübing, Ursula Offenberger, and Barbara Stauber), April 11–12, 2019, University of Tübingen.

• Conference „Stadt – Migration – Moral. Ethnographische Zugriffe auf lokale Rechtfertigungsordnungen“ (City – Migration – Morality: Ethnographic Approaches to Local Orders of Justification) (co-organized with Jan Lange), April 11–12, 2019, University of Tübingen.

• Talk „Der Krieg im Jemen“ (The War in Yemen) by Jacqueline Andres, organized within Kritische Uni Tübingen, July 4, 2018, University of Tübingen.

• Ad hoc group „Krisen, Prozesse, Potentiale“ (Crises, Processes, Potentials) (co-organized with Simon Scholz) at the 37th DGS Congress, October 2014, Trier.

• Member of the organizing committee of the 5th Student Sociology Congress „Denken über(-)denken“ (Rethinking Thinking), 2015, Tübingen (responsibilities included PR, program organization, and ad hoc group at the 2014 DGS Congress).

SoSe 26: BA-Seminar “Methodenpraktisches Seminar: Ethnografie einer Straße” + BA-Seminar “Soziologisch Denken”
WS 25/26: BA-Seminar “Einführung in die Stadtforschung” + BA-Seminar “Soziologisch Denken”
SoSe 25: MA-Seminar “Neighborhoods and Diversity” + BA-Seminar “Soziologisch Denken” 
WS 24/25: BA-Seminar “Soziologisch Denken”
SoSe 24: BA-Seminar "Methodenpraktisches Seminar: Urbane Ethnografie. Beobachten, reflektieren, theoretisieren" 
SoSe 19: MA-Seminar "Urbanität in Theorie und Praxis. Soziologische Zugänge zur Stadt" 
WS 18/19: BA-Seminar "Mikrosoziologie: Ethnografie urbaner Interaktionen" 
SoSe 18: MA-Seminar "Theorien zur Staatlichkeit" 
WS 17/18: BA-Seminar "Mikrosoziologie: Interaktion und Protest"