Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan

Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan erforscht aktuell transnationale Verflechtungen, Ideenzirkulation und die Rolle von Religion in der beruflichen Professionalisierung, mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Zentralasien und dem Nahen Osten. Für Unternehmen und Organisationen mit internationalen Aktivitäten liefert ihre Arbeit tiefgehende Einblicke in kulturelle Dynamiken, Identitätsbildung und lokale Perspektiven auf globale Infrastrukturprojekte wie die Neue Seidenstraße. Dies ist insbesondere für Branchen relevant, die in diesen Regionen operieren oder mit diversifizierten, migrantischen Bevölkerungsgruppen interagieren. Ihre Expertise liegt in der qualitativen Analyse sozialer und kultureller Prozesse sowie in der Dekonstruktion eurozentrischer Wissensbestände.

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• 20. Korean Studies Graduate Students Convention (KSGSC)

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  Förderer: Sonstige internationale Geldgeber Zeitraum: 02/2026 - 01/2027 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan, Tobias Stefan

• co2libri

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  Förderer: Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Zeitraum: 07/2022 - 12/2025 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs, Ph.D. Rosa Cordillera Castillo, Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan, Prof. Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu, Prof. Dr. phil. Susanne Gehrmann

• De:link//Re:link: Lokale Perspektiven auf transregionale Ver- und Entkopplungsprozesse

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  Förderer: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt Zeitraum: 04/2021 - 06/2024 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs

• The Institutionalization of Mobility: Well-being and Social Hierarchies in Central Asian Translocal Livelihoods

  2014

  Mobilities · DOI

  In the wider scientific debate, post-Soviet Central Asia has been primarily known for the question in what ways this region currently experiences a ‘New Great Game’ of geostrategy and resource-competition. In contrast to that, ethnographic research on the various cross-border mobilities, networks and identifications of non-elite actors from countries such as Kyrgyzstan or Tajikistan has set off only recently. Proposing a conceptual approach based on ‘translocality’ and ‘livelihood’, this article presents in-depth case studies which explore how Central Asians engage in ‘business-making’, ‘evolve’ their Muslim piety, transgress rural–urban boundaries and experience ethnic marginalization in between ‘home’ and cities in Russia, China or Egypt. We show how mobility is institutionalized, i.e. how within these ‘translocal livelihoods’ geographic relocations do not only combine with social mobility, but that assessments on personal well-being and the orientation on cultural norms also draw on somebody’s particular position within social hierarchies of gender and generation.

• The manufacturing of Islamic lifestyles in Tajikistan through the prism of Dushanbe's bazaars

  2016

  Central Asian Survey · DOI

  This article traces the multiple ways of ‘manufacturing’ Islamic lifestyles in the urban environment of Tajikistan's capital city, Dushanbe. The city's bazaars serve as a lens through which to observe the conjunction of its booming trade business with Dubai alongside its growing Islamic commodity culture and a religious reformism that is inspired by the materiality and non-materiality of a progressive and hybrid Dubai Islam. Bringing together long-distance trade, urban consumption practices and new forms of public piety in the mobile livelihood of three bazaar traders and sellers, the article provides insights into how the commodification of Islam informs notions of urbanity and modernity in Tajikistan. These notions correspond to the launching of urban renewal and the meta-narrative of Dushanbe's future as a modern city on the rise. Furthermore, the article illustrates the ways in which Dushanbe's Muslims turn bazaars into an urban laboratory for religious agency and cultural identities.