Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan

Profil

• 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

• Eurasian Studies and Beyond - Implementing the Structured Ph.D. Programme. A Joint Initiative by Nazarbayev University, Astana, and Humboldt University, Berlin

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  Förderer: Volkswagen Stiftung Zeitraum: 02/2018 - 05/2024 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. phil. Ingeborg Baldauf, Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan

• GRK 2248/2: "Global Intellectual History - Transfers, Ideenzirkulation, Akteure (18.-20. Jahrhundert)"

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  Förderer: DFG Graduiertenkolleg Zeitraum: 10/2021 - 12/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Hannes Grandits

• GRK 2248: Global Intellectual History – Transfers, Ideenzirkulation, Akteure (18.-20. Jahrhundert)

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  Förderer: DFG Graduiertenkolleg Zeitraum: 04/2017 - 03/2026 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad

• Translocal Goods - Education, work and commodities between Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, China and the Arab Emirates

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  Förderer: Volkswagen Stiftung Zeitraum: 04/2013 - 01/2018 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan

• Wege zur Professionalisierung von muslimischen Frauen in Asien: Rekonfigurationen von religiösem Wissen, Geschlecht und Konnektivität

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  Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 08/2020 - 04/2024 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs

• Science & Startups Berlin

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  10 Treffer61.5%
  • Zuwendung im Rahmen des Programms „exist – Existenzgründungen aus der Wissenschaft“ aus dem Bundeshaushalt, Einzelplan 09, Kapitel 02, Titel 68607, Haushaltsjahr 2026, sowie aus Mitteln des Europäischen Strukturfonds (hier Euro-päischer Sozialfonds Plus – ESF Plus) Förderperiode 2021-2027 – Kofinanzierung für das Vorhaben: „exist Women“
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    61.5%

• Johannesstift Diakonie Proclusio gGmbH

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  9 Treffer55.7%
  • Professionalisierung in der Deutsch-als-Zweitsprache-Förderung für geflüchtete Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten
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    55.7%

• Local Governments for Sustainability

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  24 Treffer54.2%
  • „BiodivERsA-Verbundvorhaben: Grün-Blaue Infrastruktur für lokale Lösungen in komplexen sozioökologischen Systemen (ENABLE), Teilvorhaben: Fallstudienkontext und Co-design Workshops zur Identifizierung lokaler Policy- Lösungsansätze.“
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    54.2%
  • Integrated Urban Food Policies – Developing Sustainability Co-Benefits, Spatial Linkages, Social Inclusion and Sectoral Connections To Transform Food Systems in City-Regions (FoodCLIC)
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    52.4%

• WISTA-Management GmbH

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  3 Treffer53.2%
  • Wissenschaftliche Begleitung einer Machbarkeitsstudie zur Etablierung eines Technologieparks (AcademCity) in Kooperation mit der Kyiv Academic University (KAU) der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Ukraine (NASU)
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    53.2%

• Shenzen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden

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  8 Treffer52.5%
  • EU: CLEARING HOUSE – Collaborative Learning in Research, Information-Sharing and Governance on How Urban Forest-Based Solutions Support Sino-European Urban Futures
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    52.5%

• Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature et de ses Ressources

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  8 Treffer52.5%
  • EU: CLEARING HOUSE – Collaborative Learning in Research, Information-Sharing and Governance on How Urban Forest-Based Solutions Support Sino-European Urban Futures
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    52.5%

• Centro de Investigacion Ecologica Y Aplicaciones Forestales Consorcio

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  8 Treffer52.5%
  • EU: CLEARING HOUSE – Collaborative Learning in Research, Information-Sharing and Governance on How Urban Forest-Based Solutions Support Sino-European Urban Futures
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    52.5%

• Sihtasutus Teaduskeskus

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  1 Treffer52.4%
  • Ark of Inquiry: Inquiry Activities for Youth over Europe
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    52.4%

• L'Ecole de l'ADN

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  1 Treffer52.4%
  • Ark of Inquiry: Inquiry Activities for Youth over Europe
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    52.4%

• Organisation der Vereinten Nationen für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur

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  1 Treffer52.4%
  • Ark of Inquiry: Inquiry Activities for Youth over Europe
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    52.4%

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

  2014

  Mobilities · 55 Zitationen · 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 · 37 Zitationen · 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.

• 8 Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector

  2018

  30 Zitationen · DOI

• Studying Islam Abroad:

  2017

  University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks · 15 Zitationen · DOI

• Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

  2020

  12 Zitationen · DOI

  This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women’s lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experiences of female pilgrims to Mecca and other pilgrimage sites, and how these are embedded in historical and current contexts of globalisation and transnational mobility. This volume will be relevant to a broad audience of researchers across pilgrimage, gender, religious, and Islamic studies.

• Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector

  2017

  Central Asian Affairs · 8 Zitationen · DOI

  Linking Central Asian and Gulf studies, this article explores how young, well-educated, and multilingual Tajiks involved in Dubai’s various business fields create, shape, and draw on a sense of cosmopolitanism to convert their uncertain status as “Tajik migrants” into that of economically autonomous “Muslim businessmen.” Specifically, Tajik migrants mobilize religion to claim belonging to Dubai as a “Muslim place,” while they simultaneously make sense of their experiences as Central Asian labor migrants in Russia and pious Muslim travelers in secular Tajikistan. “Playing cosmopolitan” is a transnational social project that merges the political project of branding the Arabian Gulf with the lived realities of a culturally diverse mercantile Persian Gulf. Thus, Tajik Muslims engage in alternative forms of belonging abroad. Pointing to the mutual conditionality of longing and belonging in migrant cosmopolitanism, the article offers a nuanced picture of everyday life in Dubai that goes beyond the “spectacularity” of the city, challenging the prevailing representation of Tajik Muslims’ engagement in transnational Islam as a security matter only.

• 9. iPhones, Emotions, Mediations: Tracing Translocality in the Pious Endeavours of Tajik Migrants in the United Arab Emirates

  2018

  Open Book Publishers · 7 Zitationen · DOI

  This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates.

• Introduction – Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus: A Translocal Perspective

  2018

  Open Book Publishers · 6 Zitationen · DOI

  This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates.

• Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas : Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus

  2018

  6 Zitationen

  This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates.Illuminating translocality as a productive concept for studying cross‐regional connectivities and networks, this volume is an important contribution to a lively field of academic discourse. Following new directions in Area Studies, the chapters aim to overcome ‘territorial containers’ such as the nation‐state or local community, and instead emphasize the significance of processes of translation and negotiation for understanding how meaningful localities emerge beyond conventional boundaries.Structured by the four themes ‘crossing boundaries’, ‘travelling ideas’, ‘social and economic movements’ and ‘pious endeavours’, this volume proposes three conceptual approaches to translocality: firstly, to trace how it is embodied, narrated, virtualized or institutionalized within or in reference to physical or imagined localities; secondly, to understand locality as a relational concept rather than a geographically bounded unit; and thirdly, to consider cross‐border traders, travelling students, business people and refugees as examples of non-elite mobilities that provide alternative ways to think about what ‘global’ means today.Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas will be of interest to students and scholars of the anthropology, history and sociology of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as for those interested in new approaches to Area Studies.

• 2. Crossing Economic and Cultural Boundaries: Tajik Middlemen in the Translocal Dubai Business Sector

  2018

  Open Book Publishers · 5 Zitationen · DOI

  This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates.

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

  2017

  3 Zitationen · 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.

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

  2018

  1 Zitationen · 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.

• A Material Geography of ‘Dubai Business’

  2021

  DOI

  Tracing the circulation of Korans donated by Saudi Arabia across multiple migratory contexts in the United Arab Emirates, Tajikistan, and beyond, and understanding their transfiguration from a sacred text into a prestigious consumer good, this chapter explores the materialities and immaterialities of Tajik migrant religious, economic and social worlds that meet and intertwine in the context of 'Dubai business'. Giving impetus to a stronger consideration of the material turn in the research on translocality and transregionality, the chapter illustrates how cultural imaginaries, while travelling via prestigious commodities across geographical regions, and socio-economic contexts mesh with spatial ideas of urbanism, cosmopolitanism, and piety. In the worlds of Dubai's transregional trading business, tourism and charity, an exclusive notion of 'bourgeois Islam' is fabricated -a contested assemblage of knowledge, lifestyle aspirations, cultural hegemony, and social distinctedness, through which Tajik migrants re-fashion an elitist Muslim self along different notions of mobility, work and belonging.

• Introduction

  2020

  DOI

  This chapter introduces the book’s major aim: a reconfiguration of our understanding of modern Muslim pilgrimage through the lens of women’s new mobilities. Taking the pilgrimage to Mecca as a distinctively Muslim contribution to globalization with far-reaching political, economic and social ramifications, it provides a theoretical reflection on the interplay between Muslim women’s physical and social mobility, and its embeddedness in the various social relations, identifications and power structures that shape women’s life-worlds. It does so by drawing on and introducing the wide variety of women’s hajj and other Muslim pilgrimage practices and experiences discussed in the anthropological and historical case studies in the volume. The chapter argues that combining gender theory with mobility studies and an everyday religion approach helps to better understand the agency of female pilgrims as mobile actors who appropriate, re-negotiate and re-create authoritative ways of performing and making sense of various pilgrimage traditions. Moreover, it introduces Muslim women’s pilgrimage worlds as a cross-cutting research theme that contributes to pilgrimage research and Muslim travel and mobility studies in general, and offers new perspectives and insights in the field of Muslim pilgrimage studies in particular.

• Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas

  2018

  edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin) · DOI

  This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates. Illuminating translocality as a productive concept for studying cross‐regional connectivities and networks, this volume is an important contribution to a lively field of academic discourse. Following new directions in Area Studies, the chapters aim to overcome ‘territorial containers’ such as the nation‐state or local community, and instead emphasize the significance of processes of translation and negotiation for understanding how meaningful localities emerge beyond conventional boundaries. Structured by the four themes ‘crossing boundaries’, ‘travelling ideas’, ‘social and economic movements’ and ‘pious endeavours’, this volume proposes three conceptual approaches to translocality: firstly, to trace how it is embodied, narrated, virtualized or institutionalized within or in reference to physical or imagined localities; secondly, to understand locality as a relational concept rather than a geographically bounded unit; and thirdly, to consider cross‐border traders, travelling students, business people and refugees as examples of non-elite mobilities that provide alternative ways to think about what ‘global’ means today. Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas will be of interest to students and scholars of the anthropology, history and sociology of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as for those interested in new approaches to Area Studies.

• Preface

  2018

  Open Book Publishers · DOI

  This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates.

• Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies

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

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• Freie Universität Berlin

  GRK 2248/2: "Global Intellectual History - Transfers, Ideenzirkulation, Akteure (18.-20. Jahrhundert)"

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• Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

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• Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung

  GRK 2248: Global Intellectual History – Transfers, Ideenzirkulation, Akteure (18.-20. Jahrhundert)

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• Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

  GRK 2248: Global Intellectual History – Transfers, Ideenzirkulation, Akteure (18.-20. Jahrhundert)

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• Universität Leipzig

  GRK 2248: Global Intellectual History – Transfers, Ideenzirkulation, Akteure (18.-20. Jahrhundert)

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• Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien

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

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Name

Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan

Titel

Prof. Dr.

Fakultät

Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Institut

Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

Arbeitsgruppe

Transregionale Zentralasienstudien

Telefon

+49 30 2093-66052

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