College of Fellows

Global Encounters: Neighbourhoods

Neighbourhoods are increasingly understood, within many branches of scholarship from urban planning to oral histories and archaeology, as places of global encounters. The Global Encounters Fellows cohort in 2024 brings together scholars working on one or more of the following research questions: How are local neighbourhoods global? What guarantees cohesion in neighbourhoods, and how do they deal with conflict and contradiction? What forms of proximity, privacy or distance are needed to make neighbourhoods exist? What conceptual instruments (narrative, political, juridical, governmental, praxeological, religious, etc.) are utilized to make sense of a neighbourhood? What temporal scales are employed to imagine and narrate neighbourhoods, and what spatial models (geographic, architectural, planning-based) serve the work of reflection and articulation? How do forces of globalization, migration and digitalization transform ways of doing and thinking neighbourhood? What notions of homogeneity or heterogeneity underpin ideas of neighbourhood? Are neighbourhoods significantly different from each other whether situated in the North or the South – or within overlapping interzones (e.g. the North in the South)? Are these categories of any utility in conceptualizing the neighbourhood to come? What are the parameters of a neighbourhood-studies that is equipped to deal with the challenges of the mid-21st century?

News

CfP: 21. März 2025 – Workshop: Neighbourhood and Policing

The idea of neighbourhood has been studied from various perspectives including geography (Keller, 1968; Morris & Hess, 1975; Chaskin, 1995), spatial (Suttles, 1972; Galster, 2019), urban planning/designer (Kallus & Law-Yone, 2000; Colquhoun, 1985; Lynch, 1960) and sociology (Hunter, 1974, 1979). A few scholars have also attempted to integrate social and geographical perspectives to understand the idea of the neighbourhood (Hallman, 1984; Warren, 1981; Downs, 1981). The neighbourhood is not just understood as a territorial boundary but also considered as a series of overlapping social networks (Castells, 1997; Schoenberg, 1979) and their role is to promote a sense of community and social cohesion (Forrest & Kearns, 2001) and a sense of identity (Morrison, 2003). However, the idea of neighbourhood is understudied and less explored from a policing perspective. Find more on CfP here.

Events

Venue and date: University of Tübingen, Villa Köstlin/Großer Senat, 30 – 31 January 2025

30 - 31 January 2025
Global Encounters Workshop
The Complexities and Dynamics of Social Interaction and Encounters in Neighborhoods

The College of Fellow's Focus Group Neighbourhoods and the Global Encounters Platform at the University of Tübingen are organizing a two-day international workshop in January 2025 to provide an interdisciplinary platform for academics, researchers, policymakers, activists, and professionals to reevaluate the ways of doing and thinking in the neighborhood. It seeks to sharpen the sociological, anthropological, historical, philosophical, cultural, religious, linguistic, and economic dimensions of the complexities and dynamics of social interaction in neighborhoods considering spatiality, temporality, and the agency of change and resistance.

26 April 2024
Global Encounters Workshop "Neighbourhoods"

Date and time: 26 April, 12-15 h
Location: Alte Aula
Topic: Global Encounter Workshop "Neighbourhoods"

In the summer semester, the College of Fellows, together with the Global Encounters Platform, welcomes four new Global Encounters Fellows to Tübingen, who work together and with other Fellows and Tübingen scholars in a Focus Group "Neighbourhoods".

People

Deep Chand
Global Encounters
Sociology
2024

Fellowship: Global Encounters Fellowship
Affiliation (host institution, host scholar): Institute of Sociology, hosted by Prof. Dr. Bani Gill
Stay in Tübingen (from – until): April 2024 – September 2025
Research Project: Neighbourhood and Social Cohesion: Police, Protest, and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act [CAA] in India
Research Areas: State, Police, Sociology of Policing, Citizenship and Democracy, Belonging and Neighborhood, Caste and Education, Ethnography

Publications: 

  1. Chand, D. (2024). (Re)-production of Caste in the Classroom: A Dalit Perspective, Higher Education (Accepted).
  2. Chand, D. (2023). (Re)-production of Caste Prejudices: Viva-Voce Examination in Higher Education in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. In Dhaneshwar Bhoi & Hugo Gorringe (Eds.), Caste in Everyday Life: Experience and Affect in India. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
  3. Chand, D. (2019). “Equal opportunities in Education: A perspective from below.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage) 11(1): 55-61. [with Sailu Karre]
  4. Chand, D. (2017). “Parents’ Perception and Experiences of Scheduled Caste Students in Access to Higher Education.” Indian Journal of Dalit and Tribal Social Work 4 (1): 49-86.  
  5. Chand, D. (2017). “Critique of Brahmanical Hegemony: Understanding Indian Caste System through Gramsci.” Journal of Social and Economic Studies XXVII (1): 76-88.
Contact: deep01492spam prevention@gmail.com
Activities at the College of Fellows: Research and Teaching, Research workshop, Participating in GTURN lecture series and South Asia reading group
About: I have an MA and M.Phil. in Social Science from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India. I recently completed my PhD in Sociology from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, with a grade of magna cum laude distinction. I am trained in ethnography, discourse analysis and ethnomethodology. My areas of research include State, Police, Sociology of Policing, Citizenship and Democracy, Belonging and Neighborhood, Caste and Education, Ethnography. I have published my research work in national and international academic journals. I have presented my research at the University of Porto, Portugal, the International Studies Association, Nashville, USA and the World Congress of Sociology organised by the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Melbourne, Australia. I also participate in "Varieties of Ethnographic Research", initiated by the Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers (GRADE). 
 

Cansu Civelek
Global Encounters
Sociology
2024

Fellowship: Global Encounters Fellowship
Affiliation (host institution, host scholar): Sociology Department, hosted by Prof. Boris Nieswand and Dr. Gani Bill
Stay in Tübingen (from – until): April 2024 – September 2025
Research Project: Entangled processes of urban ruination, dispossession, and depoliticization : A spatio-temporal analysis of the Karapınar neighborhood in Eskişehir, Turkey
Research Areas: Urban studies, migration, politicization

Publications:

  1. 2023 Beyond Lawfare: An Analysis of Law’s Temporality through Russian-doll Urbanization from Turkey. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12543
  2. 2020 Tackling participation beyond the theses of neoliberal urban governance or citizen empowerment. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, Special Issue [The Contemporary Turkish State: The Changing Landscape of Political Economy in Turkey] 49(1-2): 39-83. ISSN 0894-6019
  3. 2019 Urban renewal with dancing and music”?: The renewal-machine’s struggle to organize hegemony. Focaal Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 84: 47-61. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2019.840104
Contact: civelekcansuspam prevention@gmail.com
About: Cansu Civelek graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. She received her master’s degree from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna with a thesis entitled “‘Regeneration on Site’ or Rent-Driven Urban Renewal? An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Karapınar Valley Urban Regeneration Project in Eskişehir, Turkey”. In 2015, she independently financed her first documentary film, “Warning Karapınar! Voices from an Urban Regeneration,” which was derived from her master’s thesis. In 2020, she received her doctoral degree from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, with a dissertation entitled “Non-spectacular Policy-making: Urban Governance, Silence, and Dissent in an Abortive Renewal Project in Eskişehir, Turkey.” As a post-doctoral researcher at the Democracy Institute of the Central European University, she focused on her book project titled “Igniting the Spark of the Political,” examining urban policy-making and governance practices of Eskişehir’s municipal government while addressing questions of collective silence and (de)politicization.
With a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Tübingen's Global Encounters Program, she is developing a research project on neighborhoods of Eskişehir where Afghan refugees reside. The aim is to comprehend the interactions between refugee newcomers and long-standing residents, as well as the mechanisms of claim-making employed by both groups.
 

Olisa Godson Muojama
Global Encounters
History
2024

Fellowship: Global Encounters Fellowship
Affiliation (host institution, host scholar): Institute of Didactics of History and Public History, hosted by Prof. Dr. Bernd-Stefan Grewe
Stay in Tübingen (from – until): April 2024 – September 2025
Research Project: Neighbourhood Encounters in Anglo-German Colonial Frontiers in West Africa, 1884-1914
Research Areas: Global History, Colonial History, International Political Economy, Intellectual History

Publications: 

  1. Olisa Muojama.‘Victims of Nationality: German Civilian Internment in British West Africa during the Second World War.’ Journal of World History Vol. 37. No. 3 (Sept. 2024)
  2. Mattin Biglari and Olisa Muojama, ‘Global Histories of Environment and Labour in Asia and Africa.’ In Emily O’Gorman, William San Martin, Mark Carey, Sandra Swart. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History (Oxon and New York: Routledge 2024), 247-260
  3. Gertschen, A. and Olisa Muojama, ‘Multinational Enterprises.’ In Unger, C. R.; Borowy, I. and Pernet, C. A. The Routledge Handbook on the History of Development (Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2022). 278-296.
  4. Olisa Muojama, ‘Cocoa Marketing Board and Sustainable Cocoa Economy in Colonial Nigeria. African Economic History Vol.47. No.1 (2019): 1-31 
Contact: olisamuospam prevention@gmail.com
Activities at the College of Fellows: At the College of Fellows, I will form a focus group with the other Global Encounters Fellows. I will also collaborate with the members of Global Encounters platform and become part of the College’s academic life. 
I will work for 12 months analyzing the data generated from the field work and from the archives to posit my research questions, with the help of my host, Prof. Dr. Bernd-Stefen Grewe. I will consult the University library, as well as company and national archives in Berlin/Koblenz. I will also write out manuscripts on the proposed research project for consideration for publication in high impact journal, and continue to work on my larger project.  I will make presentation of my project to the university community for a feedback an input of other fellows and scholars. 
About: Dr. Olisa Godson MUOJAMA is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His research cuts across African History, global history, economic history, and colonial history. He is a fellow of Global Encounters, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany (2024-2025). He was a Fellow in Global History at the Munich Centre for Global History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (2022). He was a Laurette of the Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal (2016). He was also a Fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) from 2011 to 2012. He is the Principal Investigator/Principal Faculty in Nigeria of the Global History Lab (GHL), University of Cambridge, formerly of Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. He is the author of The Nigerian Cocoa Industry and the International Economy in the 1930s: A World-Systems Approach. He has also published in specialist journals such as African Economic History 47, no.1 (2019): 1-31 (Wisconsin) and Journal of World History 35, no. 3 (2024, upcoming). His current post-doctoral research is on Deutsch-Westafricanisches Begenungen, 1840-1990.
Fellow Profile

Murtala Ibrahim
Global Encounters
Political Science
2024

Fellowship: Global Encounters Fellowship
Affiliation (host institution, host scholar): Institute of Political Science, hosted by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hasenclever
Stay in Tübingen (from – until): 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
Research Project: The Middle East Geopolitics of Religion and the Emergence of Global Salafi and Shia Identities in the Anguwan Rogo Neighborhood of Jos, Nigeria 
Research Areas: Anthropology of religion and politics of religion

Publications: 

  1. Ibrahim, M. (2022): Sensational Piety: Practices of Mediation in the Nigerian Pentecostal and Islamic Religious Movement. London: Bloomsbury Publishers. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/sensational-piety-9781350282308/ - Refereed articles
  2. Ibrahim, M. (2022). Theoretical exploration of literature on Pentecostalism and media in Africa. Religion Compass, e12452. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12452
  3. Ibrahim, M. (2022). The clash of sound, image and light: Inter- and intra-religious entanglements and contestations during Mawlūd celebrations in the city of Jos, Nigeria. Africa, 92(5), 759-779. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972022000663.
  4. Ibrahim, M. (2020). Spatial Piety: Shia Religious Processions and the Politics of Contestation of Public Space in Northern Nigeria. In: Balkenhol, M., van den Hemel, E., Stengs, I. (eds) The Secular Sacred. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38050-2_5
  5. Ibrahim, M. (2020). "The Sites of Divine Encounter: Affective Religious Spaces and Sensational Practices in Christ Embassy and NASFAT in the City of Abuja", Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes, Hansjörg Dilger, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Durham. NC. Duke University Press. Pp. 78-97. doi.org/10.1215/9781478007166-005
  6. Ibrahim, M. (2017). Oral transmission of the sacred: Preaching in Christ Embassy and NASFAT in Abuja. Journal of Religion in Africa, 47(1), 
    108-131. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340100
Contact: mubraheemspam prevention@gmail.com
Activities at the College of Fellows: 
• Data analysis, background research, and annotated bibliography
• Writing of two articles to be published in peer journals
• Working on new project proposal through collaboration with colleagues
• Presenting my research at the College of Fellows and at least two international conferences
About: 
Trained in Religious Studies (University of Jos, Nigeria), I received my Ph.D. at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University in 2017. After concluding a one-year research fellowship at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Freie University Berlin, I became a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University from 2020 to 2023.
 

Jun-Prof. Dr. Bani Gill

Soziologie/Urban Futures of the Global South (Host)

Prof. Dr. Bernd-Stefan Grewe

Institute of Didactics of History and Public History  (Host)

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hasenclever

Platform Global Encounters (Host)

Prof. Dr. Boris Nieswand

Sociology (Host)

Matthias Bornemann

Platform Global Encounters

Dr. Sara Bangert

College of Fellows