Doctorate
2023
Cosby, Renata
The flash performance of Swissness. The performance and defence of identity in German-Speaking Switzerland: "People just don't do that"
Klaue, Léa
Between resilience and vulnerability: Audiovisual research with working children and adolescents in the urban Bolivian context
2022
Jallo, Zainabu
The Sacred and the Spectacular: Diasporic Consciousness through the Material Culture of Brazilian Candomblé
Santer, Kiri Olivia
Bordering Responsibility. The Unaccountable Politics of Migration Control in the Central Mediterranean
Jana Thierfelder
The Beauty of Data Collection. A Comparative Study of the Role of Notation Systems within Field Studies
2021
Aeberli, Annina
The Power of Ontologies: The Duty to Take Care of the Land and the Ancestors among the Kenyah
Mooser, Sandra
«LOOK, THIS IS US!» Nollywood-inspired migrant filmmaking in switzerland
Schneider, Lysann
Land use change and resource management. Impacts on migration and climate in northeast Tizimín, Yucatán
Leitenberg, Danaé Athalie
"In and Out of Time": Tourism, Belonging and Inequality in the Swiss Alps
2020
Aubry, Gilles
Sonic Pluralism. An Artistic Research on Postcolonial Aurality, Embodiment, and Ecological Voices in Morocco
Gmür, Desirée
"Grapping the female commons: Gendered outcomes of commons and resilience grabbing by large-scale land acquisitions for forest plantations in Kilolo district, Iringa region, Tanzania"
Imhof, Christoph
"Living the Opposite Sex. Trans Journeys in Southern Spain"
Lindt, Angela
"The Ambiguous Forces of Law. Judicialization of Mining Conflicts in Peru"
Marti, Simone
"Innere Grenzziehungen. Das Feld der Nothilfe im schweizerischen Asylsystem"
Niederberger, Thomas Ibrahim Immanuel
"Autonomy in the Amazon: The Emergence of the ‘Gobierno Territorial Autónomo de la Nación Wampís’ in Northern Peru"
2019
Perl, Gerhild
"Traces of Death. Exploring Affective Responsiveness Across the Spanish-Moroccan Sea"
Schwaller, Corinne
"Navigating Precarity. Fragile Livelihoods, Meanings of Work, and Aspirational Expectations of Highly Educated Young Adults in Barcelona."
2018
Affolter, Simon
"Prekarität und Interdependenz auf dem Gemüsefeld. Die Verschränkung von Grenzregime und (globaler) Landwirtschaft im Schweizer Gemüsebau"
Dale, Cyprianus
"Development as Self-Determination: Endogenous Transformation and the Role of Christianity in West Papua"
Käser, Fabian
Ethnography of Peasant Engagement in Food Systems
Lanz, Kristina
"Institutional change, gender and power relations. Case study of a "best practice" lange-scale land aquisition in Ghana"
Ombere, Stephen Okumu
"Local Perceptions of Social Protection Schemes in Maternal Health in Kenya: Ethnography in Coastal Kenya"
Rehsmann, Julia
"Waiting for a Liver: Manipulation, Magic, and Time in Transplant Medicine"
Wolf, Anna-Lena
"The Moral Economy of Tea Production. An Ethnography"
2017
Chabeda-Barthe, Jemaiyo Anne
"Ethic Conflict, Personhood and Impacts on gendered agrarian reform among the Ogiek, Kikuyu and Kalenjin": Institutional Change for governance of land and related resouces in Kenya
Siegl, Veronika
Fragile Truths. The Ethical Labour of Doing Trans-/National Surrogacy in Russia
van Loyen, Ulrich
Die Möglichkeit einer Stadt. Eine ethnographie neapolitanischer Totenkulte
Affolter, Laura
Patterns of Practice and the Role of Institutional Habitus: Asylum Decision-Making in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration
Kuster, Reto
Under the Forest Canopy. Resources, Representation and Conflict in the Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Svaton, Carla Jana
"Die Integrierten": Eine Ethnographie der Übersetzungs- und Inskriptionsprozesse einer "integrativen Volksschule"
2016
Loher, David
The Limits of Control. Transnational Migration Trajectories of Clandestine Tunisian Migrants and Assisted Return Between Governed Voluntariness and Repression.
2015
Eid, Ramez
Towards Democratic Sustainability: Constitutionality in two UNESCO Protected Areas in the Mediterranean
Lustenberger, Sibylle
Kinship, Reproduction, and Homosexuality: A Perspective on Jewish Israeli Society
2014
Dankwa, Serena Owusua
“Doing Everything Together“ – Female Friendship and Same‐Sex Intimacy in Postcolonial Ghana.
Faye, Papa
Democratizing Forestry: Decentralization and Constitutionality in two Interventions in Senegal
Kobi, Madlen
Constructing, Creating, and Contesting Cityscapes. A Socio-Anthropological Approach to Urban Transformation in Southern Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China
Santschi, Martina
Encountering and ‘capturing’ hakuma: Negotiating statehood and authority in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal State, South Sudan
2013
Zurschmitten Raaflaub, Sabine
Staging Difference. Interreligious Dynamics among Kempo Manggarai Catholics and Muslims in post-Suharto Indonesia.
Bikketi, Edward Matata
The Role of Social Capital in Social Learning Processes for Soil and Water Management Innovations: The Case of Eastern and Western Regions of Kenya.
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