Julia Nina Baumann

Who Cares When Academia Doesn’t? 
The Hidden Infrastructures of Care and Academic Kinship within academic cultures of no-feeling
Abstract The article asks: Who cares when academia doesn’t? Who makes ethnographic knowledge production possible, and what becomes visible when we look beyond “the other” in the field to those sustaining researchers at home? At the same time, care is unequally distributed and can itself reproduce burdens and inequalities. Recognising these hidden infrastructures therefore means […]

Contesting academic cultures of power abuse
Trigger Warning: This article addresses power abuse in academia and describes some such extreme boundary violations explicitly and in detail.1[1] Abstract: The author examines how, under which promoting conditions academic power abuse takes place and how this behaviour is gradually “normalized” by academic structures and discourses. Drawing on ethnographic data from her research, next to […]

Forschen@home? Das sozial- und kulturanthropologische „Home Office“ in der „Corona-Krise“
Das „Home Office“ der Autorin, Foto: JB privat. Während sich immer mehr Menschen in das Zoom-Meeting einloggen werden die Anzeigebilder immer kleiner. Bald muss ich mehrfach scrollen um einen Überblick über die über sechzig Teilnehmer*innen zu bekommen. In den winzigen Bildern erkenne ich bei Manchen Ausschnitte aus ihren Privatwohnungen: Ich sehe Familienfotos an den Wänden, […]