Christiane Brosius

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Christiane Brosius (* 1966 ) is a German ethnologist and South Asian scholar . Since 2009 she has held a professorship for visual and media ethnology at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (HCTS).

Live and act

Christiane Brosius studied art education , art history and cultural anthropology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Study stays at Oxford Brookes University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London were supplemented by work stays in the field of museum education in Edinburgh, London and Frankfurt. In 2000, Brosius was at Werner Schiffauer at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) on comparative cultural and social anthropology on media production in Hindu nationalism doctorate . In the same year she received a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Gutenberg University in Mainz , where she worked as part of the DFG- funded theatricality program. Researched theater as a cultural model in comparative cultural studies on the subject of colonialism and the representation of Oceania in early films (1900–1931).

From 2002 to 2009 Brosius was an assistant in the Department of Ethnology at the South Asia Institute at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 2005 she worked as a visiting associate professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi . In 2008 he completed his habilitation in social anthropology at Heidelberg University. In 2009, as part of the Excellence Initiative, she was offered a call to Heidelberg University for the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a global context .

From 2002 to 2009 Brosius was also a member and project manager of the Collaborative Research Center on Ritual Dynamics (SFB 619). In 2015 she was a Senior Fellow at the European Institute of the University of Basel in the Global Aging program on the subject of "Intergenerational perspectives on aging in urbanizing Nepal" and in 2016 she was made a Fellow of the Marsilius College of the University of Heidelberg.

From 2013 to 2016 Christiane Brosius was the project leader of the EU project Creating the 'New' Asian Woman: Entanglements of Urban Space, Cultural Encounters and Gendered Identities in Shanghai and Delhi, funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) . Since 2016 she has been part of the DAAD project New Directions in 'Active Aging' and 'Age-Friendly Culture' in India and Germany .

Research priorities

In her research, Christiane Brosius focuses on popular culture and contemporary art as well as new media in Nepal and India. Play Urban Studies , Life Course Research and migration a central role. Recent research on urban change, cultural heritage and the earthquake in Nepal in 2015 analyzes the handling of social, cultural and natural resources; a work that has led to collaborations with urban geographers and historians, urban planners and architects in Germany, India and Nepal at the University of Heidelberg. Older research work on emotion cultures in urban India and media representations of Hindu nationalism are now being continued by newer projects (e.g. 'Manly Matters. Representations of Maleness in South Asian Popular Visual Practice', Tasveerghar). Her research on visual and media anthropology , urban research and migration is reflected in various, mostly research-based, courses.

Fonts

Monographs

  • 2010: India's Middle Class. New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity. New Delhi, London, New York: Routledge (out of print; second edition and paperback edition with additional introduction: January 2014).
  • 2005: Empowering Visions. The Politics of Representation in Hindu Nationalism. London: Anthem Press.
  • 1997: Art as a space for thinking. On Aby Warburg's concept of education. Pfaffenweiler, Centaurus publishing company.

Edited books and journal articles (selection)

  • 2017: with Sanjeev Maharjan: Breaking Views. Engaging Art in Post-Earthquake Nepal. Kathmandu: Himal Books / Social Science Baha (with contributions by Dina Bangdel, Sheelasha Rajbhandari and Hit Man Gurung), ISBN 978-9937-597-37-1 (paperback) ISBN 978-9937-597-38-8 (hardcover)
  • 2017: Art in the Aftermath of a Catastrophe. Gazing, walking, participating in the city. In: Christiane Brosius, Sanjeev Maharjan: Breaking Views. Engaging Art in Post-Earthquake Nepal. Kathmandu: Himal Books / Social Science Baha: pp. 107-136
  • 2016: Regulating access and mobility of single women in a 'world class'- city. Gender and inequality in Delhi, India. In: Ulrike Gerhard et al. (Ed.): Urban Inequality in the Creative City. Issues, approaches, comparisons. Palgrave McMillan: pp. 239-260, ISBN 978-1-349-95114-7 .
  • 2016: with Tina Schilbach: special edition Mind the Gap. Thinking about in-Between Spaces in Delhi and Shanghai. City, Culture and Society Volume 7, Number 4, December 2016, pp. 1-6.
  • 2015: with Sumathi Ramaswamy, Yousuf Saeed (Ed.): Visual Homes, Image Worlds. Essays from Tasveer Ghar, the House of Pictures. Delhi: Yoda Press.
  • 2015: Emplacing and Excavating the City. Art, Ecology and Public Space in New Delhi. In: Journal of Transcultural Studies Number 1, 2015, pp. 75–125.
  • 2015: Globalized emotions and media worlds: multi-local and multimedia ethnography in urban India. In: Martin Zillinger, Cora Bender (Hrsg.): Medienethnographie. A manual. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, pp. 187-207.
  • 2014: with Yousuf Saeed: South Asia's Islamic Shrines and Transcultural Visuality. Ten multimedia essays published on the Online Platform The Visual Pilgrim. Mapping Popular Visuality and Devotional Media
  • 2013: as editor, together with Axel Michaels, Paula Schrode: Ritual und Ritualdynamik. Keywords, theories, discussions. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht / UTB Verlag

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uni Heidelberg: Cluster Asia and Europe - Uni Heidelberg: Curriculum vitae - Prof. Dr. Christiane Brosius. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Cultural Studies Collaborative Research Center on Ritual Dynamics: Home. Retrieved March 17, 2017 (English).
  3. ^ Philipp Freiberger: Current Fellows - University of Heidelberg. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Main research areas. Retrieved March 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Brosius, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and South Asian scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1966