Hansjörg Dilger

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Hansjörg Dilger (born June 11, 1968 in Ulm ) is an ethnologist and professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Free University of Berlin . His focus is on the areas of medical and religious anthropology as well as research into contemporary transformation and globalization processes in eastern and southern Africa. He has also worked on migration and refugee dynamics in Germany as well as on aspects of research ethics.

Life and research

Hansjörg Dilger studied ethnology, African and English studies at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin . In 2004 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the meaning and renegotiation of social relationships and on the formation of moral practice in the context of HIV / AIDS- related diseases and rural-urban migration in Tanzania . Between 1999 and 2002 he was funded by the German Research Foundation as a research assistant . He was also a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation (1999) and lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin (2003–2004). From 2005 to 2007 he was assistant professor (focus on African Health and Society ) at the University of Florida (Center for African Studies and Department of Anthropology) before joining Freie Universität in 2007 as junior professor (focus on Religious Diversity in Transnational Contexts ) Berlin returned. In 2013 he was appointed university professor for social and cultural anthropology. In 2014 Dilger taught as a visiting professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna ; He was also a visiting fellow at the African Center for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In 2015 he was a Residential Fellow at the Centro Incontri Humani in Ascona. From 2015 to 2019 he was chairman of the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology - the former German Society for Ethnology, which was renamed the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology in 2017 at its annual meeting at the Free University of Berlin .

In addition to the anthropology of medicine and religion, Dilger's research focuses on the anthropology of morality and (research) ethics, transnational mobility and globalization processes, as well as the anthropology of education and learning. In his medical-ethnological research he shed light on how massive experiences of illness and death in the context of HIV / AIDS led to the renegotiation of social and family relationships as well as of "traditional" rituals of mourning and burial. Furthermore, his research on Pentecostal churches and non-governmental organizations in Dar es Salaam focused on the dynamics of transnational integration and community building as well as charismatic healing practices and dealing with multiple understandings of disease and health. In his research on the ethnology of religion, Dilger shed light on processes of religious institutionalization with a view to educational institutions of the Catholic Church, Muslim reform organizations and a neo-Pentecostal church in Dar es Salaam. He examined the connection between learning moral values ​​and embodying socio-religious differences and situating these processes against the background of the colonial and post-colonial history of Christian-Muslim relations on the East African coast.

At the Free University of Berlin, Dilger is head of the Medical Anthropology department at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology. He led DFG-funded projects on the phenomenon of "professional patients" and the commodification of health in Egypt (2015-20), the medical migration of Nigerian doctors to the USA (2015-17), the bioprospection of medicinal plants and the associated negotiation of intellectual property rights ( 2010-13) as well as the relationship between masculinity (s) and HIV / AIDS in South Africa. From 2010 to 2012, as part of a project by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , he examined the experiences and practices of patients and their families in Tanzania associated with the introduction of antiretroviral drugs. In the Collaborative Research Center "Affective Societies: Dynamics of Coexistence in Moving Worlds", Dilger headed a sub-project from 2015 to 2019 on embodied emotions and affective belonging in two religious communities in the context of migration in Berlin. Since 2019 this sub-project has been investigating affective dynamics of governing religious diversity and the associated processes of inclusion and exclusion in urban space. Dilger has been coordinating the DFG-funded project "Religious Reforms, Christian and Muslim Development Organizations and the New Formation of the Public in Sub-Saharan Africa" ​​since 2017 (in collaboration with the University of Cape Town , the University of Dar es Salaam and the SOAS University of London ). He is also the Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, which was funded by the DFG's Excellence Initiative from 2007 to 2018.

From 2004 to 2010 Dilger was chairman of the Medical Anthropology working group in the German Society for Ethnology (since 2017 German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology). He is co-moderator of the blog Medical Anthropology published by the Medical Anthropology working group: Body, health and healing in a globalized world and since 2019 co-chair of the European network "Medical Anthropology Europe" within the European Association of Social Anthropologists . Since 2015 he has been a member of the editorial team of the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie .

The research collective "Women and Flight in Berlin", led by Hansjörg Dilger and Kristina Mashimi (formerly Dohrn), initiated by students and carried out in collaboration with the activist group International Women Space, was awarded the Margherita von Brentano Prize of the Free University of Berlin in 2017 excellent. The "Collective Polylog" - an association of refugee women from Syria, Iran, Iraq and Azerbaijan - that was created following this award; Students and lecturers at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin as well as members of the International Women Space - published the book "This is my story: women in conversation about flight and arrival" in 2019. This book documents seven conversations in which women talk in their respective mother tongue and in German about their lives and the (im) possibilities of arriving in Berlin.

Publications

  • Living with AIDS. Illness, Death and Social Relations in Africa. An ethnography . Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2004, ISBN 3-593-37716-0 .
  • As editor with Ute Luig: Morality, Hope and Grief: Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa . Berghahn Books, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-1-84545-663-4 .
  • As editor with Bernhard Hadolt: Medicine in Context: Illness and Health in a Networked World . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-57839-1 .
  • As editor with Abdoulaye Kane and Stacey Langwick: Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2012, ISBN 978-0-253-22368-5 .
  • As editor with Rijk van Dijk, Marian Burchardt and Thera Rasing: Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa: Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives . Ashgate, Surrey 2014, ISBN 978-1-4094-5669-8 .
  • As editor with Kristina Dohrn (and in collaboration with the International Women Space): Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin: Women's Perspectives and Experiences . Weißensee Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89998-242-8 .
  • With Hella von Unger and Michael Schönhuth: Ethics assessment in social and cultural research? A contribution to the debate from a sociological and ethnological point of view . In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 2016, 17 (3), Art. 20 (in German and English) online .
  • As a member of the Polylog collective: This is my story: women talking about escape and arrival . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-89771-255-3 .
  • As editor with Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt and Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon: Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes . Duke University Press, Durham, ISBN 978-1478005490 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Centro Incontri Humani
  2. ^ Working group Medical Anthropology in the German Society for Ethnology
  3. ↑ Blog Medical Ethnology: Body, Health and Healing in a Globalized World
personal data
SURNAME Dilger, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm