Joachim Otto Habeck

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Joachim Otto Habeck is a German ethnologist specializing in Siberia and the arctic region of Russia , Mongolia and post-socialist societies in Europe.

Life

Habeck studied geography , ethnology and history at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 2004 from the Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge with a thesis on the Komi in northern Russia . From 2003 to 2014 he was the coordinator of the Siberia Center at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale). Since 2014 he has been a full professor at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg .

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In the 1990s, Joachim Otto Habeck researched the settling down of the Evenks in central Siberia, the reindeer herding of the northern Komi and later the current situation of the population, among others. a. Youngster, in the city of Novosibirsk . In his habilitation thesis (2014) he deals with the institution of culture in Russia. With colleagues at the Siberia Center, he carried out a research project on the plurality of lifestyles in Russia (publication 2019). Another focus of his research is the relationship between land use (animal husbandry) and permafrost against the background of climate change. Habeck is a founding member of the "Permafrost and Culture" working group of the International Permafrost Association. Research results published in English, Russian, German and other languages.

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Monographs
  • Settlement and settling of Siberian reindeer nomads: Settlement structure and settlement history in the Evenk Autonomous Okrug. Lienau, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-9803396-6-1 .
  • What it Means to Be a Herdsman: The Practice and Image of Reindeer Husbandry among the Komi of Northern Russia. Lit, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8045-1 (dissertation).
  • The house of culture in Russia: Post-socialist cultural work between ideal and neglect . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2712-1 .
Editing
  • with Brian Donahoe: Reconstructing the House of Culture: Community, Self, and the Makings of Culture in Russia and Beyond. Berghahn, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-85745-275-7 .
  • with Wieland Hintzsche: The exploration of Siberia in the 18th century: Contributions of the German-Russian encounters in the Francke Foundations . Publication of the Francke Foundations in Halle, Halle / Saale 2012, ISBN 978-3-939922-28-5 .
  • with Judith Miggelbrink, Nuccio Mazzullo and Peter Koch: Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces: Productions and Cognitions , Ashgate, Farnham 2013, ISBN 978-1-4094-6458-7 .
  • Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North . Open Book Publishers, Cambridge 2019. ISBN 978-1-78374-717-7 .

Web links

  • Joachim Otto Habeck on the website of the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siberian Studies Center (completed project at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
  2. ↑ Personalia , January 2014, No. 58, University of Hamburg website, accessed on July 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ Sarah Strand: Action Groups. April 27, 2011, accessed July 11, 2020 .
  4. ^ Publication list JO Habeck , University of Hamburg
personal data
SURNAME Habeck, Joachim Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century