Minh Nguyen

Session 9 | 18 Jan 2024 | Decolonising the Social Sciences, Decolonising Universities: What it Might Mean and how it Could Work
A conversation between Tobias Werron and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, moderated by Minh Nguyen (Bielefeld University)
This session brings a social anthropologist, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, and a sociological theorist, Tobias Werron, into dialogue on the question of what decolonisation means for them in teaching and practicing social theories and in the production of knowledge within anthropology and the university. According to Tobias Werron, the Western tradition of sociological theories resolves around two […]

Field of Exceptional Uncertainty.
The Challenges of Early-Career Anthropologists in the Wake of the Corona Pandemic
A position paper by Minh Nguyen (Bielefeld University) and Thomas Stodulka (Freie Universität Berlin) based on discussion at the German Anthropological Association’s Autumn Academy Fieldwork Meets Crisis on 21-23 October 2020, with additional inputs by Julia Nina Baumann (Freie Universität Berlin), Mercedes Figueroa Espejo (Freie Universität Berlin), Ulrike Luttenberger (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris), and Lena […]