Graduate Student, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
Philipps University Marburg, Institut fur Politikwissenschaft
University of Oxford, Contemporary South Asia Studies
Thesis Title: How do strategic discourses combine with personal experiences to form Muslim belonging in a North Indian town? The politics and poetics of belonging
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Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
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I am a Doctoral Candidate in Social Anthropology (Universität Bielefeld) and Associate of the Contemporary South Asia Studies Programme (University of Oxford). In my studies, teaching and research, I explore the various relations between politics, religion and belonging and between development and violent conflict in South Asia. I am also interested in the effects of historically built-up bureaucratic cultures. My diploma thesis analyzed various connections between religious identities and political agency among Muslim peace activists in Gujarat (monograph forthcoming from Sage, New Delhi); after a Master's dissertation on India's diplomatic culture (published in Journal of International Relations), my PhD concerns the formation of Muslim identities in Lucknow under the working title "How do strategic discourses combine with personal experiences to form Muslim belonging in a North Indian town? The politics and poetics of belonging" (more on this in my Blog). In all this, I attempt to integrate sociological, anthropological and psychological approaches, working mostly in Hindi/Urdu.
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