Current projects at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies financed through external funding
African Languages and Linguistics
- Appropriation and diffusion of Nigerian media production in Kinshasa (DR Congo) in the context of linguistic and socio-cultural change (Project 2.3)
Teilprojekt von ceditraa
Projektteam: Axel Fanego Palat (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt), Nico Nassenstein, Artemis Saleh. Finanzierung: BMBF (Laufzeit: 2021 – 2024).
- Microvariation and youth language practices in Africa
Nico Nassenstein (PI) und Andrea Hollington (Postdoc) gemeinsam mit Hannah Gibson (University of Essex). Finanzierung: DFG-AHRC (Laufzeit ab 2021)
- Teilprojekt B02. Konturierung und Verwischung sprachlicher Humandifferenzierung. Ruander oder Burunder? im Sonderforschungsbereichs 1482 „Humandifferenzierung“ an der JGU Mainz. Projektleitung: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nico Nassenstein, Mitarbeiterin: Deborah Wockelmann. Finanzierung: DFG (Laufzeit: 2021 – 2025).
Anthropology
- The Management of Loss: Politics of Life and Death in Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm, Project member: Theresa Mentrup. Funded by: DFG (duration: 2022 - 2025).
- Subproject A01: Melanin Matters: Skin tone politics in Nigeria and beyond Sonderforschungsbereich 1482 "Humandifferenzierung", JGU Mainz. Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings, Project members: Marion Grimberg, M.A. und Christopher Hohl, M.A.. Funded by: DFG (duration: 2021 - 2025).
- Subproject B04: Providers and recipients of help. Human categorization between solidarity and differentiation in Portugal and Brazil
Sonderforschungsbereich 1482 "Humandifferenzierung", JGU Mainz. Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm, Mitarbeiterinnen: Elena Hernández and Elena Reichl. Funded by: DFG (duration: 2021 - 2025).
- Migration and Im/Mobility in the Global South during a Global Pandemic (DFG network)
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm and Prof. Dr. Antje Missbach (Universität Bielefeld). Funded by: DFG (duration: 2021 - 2024).
- CEDITRAA - Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia
RMU-Projekt, Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings, PIs: J.-P. Dr. Nico Nassenstein a. Prof. Dr. Ute Röschenthaler, Project coordination: Artemis Saleh und Tom Simmert, assoziiert: Dr. Hauke Dorsch. Funded by: BMBF (duration: 2021 - 2024).
- Religious diversity and tradition in Burkina Faso: historical and contemporary challenges (DivTradBF)
Project manager: Katrin Langewiesche and Alice Degorce. Funded by: DFG and ANR (duration: 2021 - 2024).
- Kinoerzählen in Ostafrika. Eine intermediale Praxis an der Schnittstelle von Film und mündlicher Erzählkunst, Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings with Dr. Claudia Böhme, Project member: Dr. Solomon Waliaula. Funded by: Thyssen-Stiftung (duration: 2021 – 2023).
- Police-translations – multilingualism and the everyday production of cultural difference
Project coordination: Dr. Jan Beek, Project members: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bierschenk, Dr. Annalena Kolloch, Prof. Dr. Bernd Meyer; Marcel Müller and Theresa Radermacher (associated PhD students). Funded by: DFG (duration: 2019 - 2022).
- Poesie als ästhetische Praxis. Form, Erfahrung und lebensweltlicher Bezug sprachästhetischer Artikulation in Madagaskar und Tansania
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Markus Verne; Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke, Bayreuth. Project members: Maike Meurer; Nikitta Adjirakor. Funded by the DFG (duration 2016 - 2022).