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Şahin-Mencütek, Z., & Balamir Coşkun, B. (2023). Refugees. In A. Özerdem, & A. E. Öztürk (Eds.), A Companion to Modern Turkey's Centennial. Political, Sociological, Economic and Institutional Transformations since 1923 (pp. ).: Edinburgh University Press.

Celebrates the evolution of modern Turkey – its past, current situation and potential future trajectories – from an interdisciplinary perspective 52 original chapters from an interdisciplinary group of world-leading scholars7 parts examine the founding of the republic; political ideologies in... more

Bales, M. (2023). Yemen: Civil War as a Driver of Regional Arms Dynamic. In M. Eslami, & A. V. Guedes Vieira (Eds.), The Arms Race in the Middle East (pp. 209-224).: Springer, Cham.

 Yemen has been at war since 2014. But decades of conflict between the north and the south and the Sa'ada wars between 2004 and 2010 had already led to a heavy militarization of Yemen. With the Houthis nationwide expansion of power, the arms dynamics within the country changed significantly.... more

Owino, E., Mkutu, K., & Enns, C. (2023). Large Infrastructure Projects and Cascading Land Grabs . In A. Neef, C. Ngin, T. Moreda, & S. Mollett (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing (pp. 345-357). London: Routledge.

From around the beginning of the current millennium, East Africa has been experiencing a wave of large-scale infrastructure expansion. Moreover, in anticipation of the new and improved market linkages that major infrastructure projects promise to bring, a rush to grab land alongside new and... more

Mielke, K., & Schetter, C. (2023). Afghanistan . In J. Oltmer, M. Berlinghoff, F. Düvell, U. Krause, & A. Pott (Eds.), Report Globale Flucht 2023 (pp. 174-182). Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag.

Flucht ist eine globale Herausforderung. Schon das 20. Jahrhundert galt als »Jahrhundert der Flüchtlinge«. Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts ist die Zahl der Schutzsuchenden keineswegs gesunken. Dazu tragen militärische Auseinandersetzungen und bewaffnete Konflikte ebenso bei wie der Zerfall von Staaten... more

Rudolf, M. (2023). Ostafrika - Migration und Flucht. In M. Berlinghoff, B. Glorius, J. Kleist, & T. Scharrer (Eds.), Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung - Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium (pp. forthcoming). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Since 2015, research on flight and refugees has experienced a boom in the German-speaking regions. This handbook opens up the field in its breadth and at the same time critically reflects on the state of research. Part I of the volume discusses the historical development of the research field, its... more

Schetter, C., Korf, B., & Frieters-Reermann, . (2022). Die Allgegenwärtigkeit von Gewalt. Zum Ort der Politischen Theorie jenseits der Moderne.. In W. Jung, J. Scheid, & N. Wernert (Eds.), Hochkultur und Gewalt – Haute culture et violence (pp. 21-37). Bonn: Bonn University Press.

The question of violence is one of the great questions of human history. The primal scene of violence is the biblical story of Cain and Abel and fratricide. This anthology deals with the connection between high culture and violence and was produced as part of the cooperation between the University... more

Şahin-Mencütek, Z. (2022). Voluntary and Forced Return Migration Under a Pandemic Crisis. In A. Triandafyllidou (Ed.), Migration and Pandemics. Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception (IMISCOE Research Series) (pp. 185-206). Cham: Springer.

The Covid-19 pandemic has an impact on migrants’ return desires and actual returns across the globe. Border closures in the face of pandemic lead to the panic mobility of those returning home. The ensuing lockdowns and economic difficulties restricted migrant workers’ access to income and... more

Gökalp Aras, N., Papatzani, E., Şahin-Mencütek, Z., Leivaditi, N., & Petracou, E. (2021). Governance of Refugee Protection: Challenges in Europe and Beyond. In S. Barthoma, & A. O. Cetrez (Eds.), RESPONDing to Migration. A Holistic Perspective on Migration Governance (pp. 123-146). Uppsala: Uppsala University.

What’s past’, as the famous line in Shakespeare’s The Tempest has it, ‘is prologue’. Just as this edited volume is being compiled in 2021—some six years after the 2015 refugee emergency—developments in Afghanistan and the Polish–Belarus border appear once again to be leading to a new migration... more

Kaya, A., Rottmann, S. B., Gökalp Aras, N., & Şahin-Mencütek, Z. (2021). Turkey: Border Management, Protection, Reception, and Integration of Refugees. In S. Barthoma, & A. O. Cetrez (Eds.), RESPONDing to Migration: A Holistic Perspective on Migration Governance (pp. 187-208). Uppsala: Uppsala University.

What’s past’, as the famous line in Shakespeare’s The Tempest has it, ‘is prologue’. Just as this edited volume is being compiled in 2021—some six years after the 2015 refugee emergency—developments in Afghanistan and the Polish–Belarus border appear once again to be leading to a new migration... more

von Boemcken, M., Boboyorov, H., & Bagdasarova, N. (2019). Living dangerously: Securityscapes of Lyuli and LGBT people in urban spaces of Kyrgyzstan. In E. Lemon (Ed.), Critical approaches to security in Central Asia (pp. 149-165). London/New York: Routledge.

Please find the book here. Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in people’s imaginations. When the region does attract international attention, it is often related to security issues, including terrorism, ethnic conflict and drug trafficking.This book brings together leading... more

Korf, B., Raeymaekers, T., Schetter, C., & Watts, M. J. (2018). Geographies of limited statehood. In T. Risse, T. A. Börzel, & A. Draude (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of governance and limited statehood (pp. 167-190). Oxford: Oxford Handbooks.

Starting from the presupposition that areas of limited statehood (ALS) are not ungoverned, but ‘differently’ governed, this chapter proposes a spatial grammar that analyses authority and governance as a socio-spatial relationship. This spatial grammar distinguishes four types of dynamic... more

Etzold, B. (2017). Mobility, space and livelihood trajectories. New perspectives on migration, translocality and place-making for livelihood studies. In L. de Haan (Ed.), Livelihoods and development – New perspectives (Brill Publications) (pp. 44-68). Leiden: Brill Publications.

People’s movements and their immobilities are structured by and structure specific livelihood trajectories and the places at the crossroads. This chapter connects livelihood studies to recent geographical research and draws on Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice as conceptual frame analysing the... more

Grawert, E. (2017). Defending economic privileges: The role of militaries in the Arab Spring. In U. Rabi, & A. Bouasria (Eds.), Lost in translation. New paradigms for the Arab Spring (pp. 54-77). Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.

Lost in Translation: New Paradigms for the Arab Spring is a contributory work by Middle East experts. As well as political and social analysis of the events and aftermath of the Arab Spring, the work provides a complex of paradigms (ranging from complexity studies to sport) which have thus far... more

Mutschler, M. (2017). Auf dem Weg zur flüchtigen Kriegführung? Flüchtige Moderne und Krieg im 21. Jahrhundert. In H. Ehrhart (Ed.), Krieg im 21. Jahrhundert. Konzepte, Akteure, Herausforderungen (pp. 56-70). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

War in the 21st century is more complex, volatile, society based and information intensive than ever before. One could simplify the description of waging war as different combinations of highly modern, traditional and asymmetric components, which, according to the postmodern maxim “anything goes”,... more

Mielke, K., & Hornidge, A.-K. (2017). Introduction: Knowledge production, area studies and the mobility turn. In K. Mielke, & A. Hornidge (Eds.), Area studies at the crossroads. Knowledge production after the mobility turn (pp. 3-26). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Mielke, K, & Hornidge, A.-K. (2017). Introduction: Knowledge Production, Area Studies and the Mobility Turn. In K. Mielke, & A.-K. Hornidge (Eds.), Area Studies at the Crossroads. Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn (pp. 3-26). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. more

Hornidge, A.-K., & Mielke, K. (2017). The art of science policy for 21st century area studies: Concluding reflections. In K. Mielke, & A. Hornidge (Eds.), Area studies at the crossroads. Knowledge production after the mobility turn (pp. 327-344). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hornidge, A.-K., & Mielke, K. (2017). The Art of Science Policy for 21st Century Area Studies: Concluding Reflections. In K. Mielke, & A.-K. Hornidge (Eds.), Area Studies at the Crossroads. Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn (pp. 327-344). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.  more

Mielke, K., & Wilde, A. (2017). The role of area studies in theory production. A differentiation of mid-range concepts and the example of social order. In K. Mielke, & A. Hornidge (Eds.), Area studies at the crossroads. Knowledge production after the mobility turn (pp. 159-176). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Mielke, K, & Wilde, A. (2017). The Role of Area Studies in Theory Production. A Differentiation of Mid-Range Concepts and the Example of Social Order. In K. Mielke, & A.-K. Hornidge (Eds.), Area Studies at the Crossroads. Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn (pp. 159-176). New York:... more

Etzold, B., & Mallick, B. (2016). Moving beyond the focus on environmental migration towards recognizing the normality of translocal lives: Insights from Bangladesh. In A. Milan, B. Schraven, K. Warner, & N. Cascone (Eds.), Migration, risk management and climate change: Evidence and policy responses (pp. 105-128). Basel, Switzerland: Springer.

In the popular debate about climate change and adaptation in Bangladesh, migration is most often framed in a negative light: People are fleeing due to environmental changes and are displaced in the wake of disasters. Mobility is largely seen as a reaction and migrants as more or less passive... more

Rudolf, M. (2016). Casamance secession: National narratives of marginalization and integration. In C. Højbjerg, J. Knörr, & W. Murphy (Eds.), Politics and policies in Upper Guinea Coast societies: Change and continuity (pp. 187-202). New York: Palgrave Macmillan US.

This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola... more

Cermeño, H., & Mielke, K. (2016). Cityscapes of Lahore: Reimagining the urban. In P. Vandal (Ed.), Peoples history of Pakistan (pp. 110-139). Lahore: THAAP Journal.

Cermeño, H., & Mielke, K. (2016). Cityscapes of Lahore: Reimagining the Urban. In P. Vandal (Ed.), Peoples History of Pakistan (pp. 110-139). Lahore: THAAP Journal.  more

Swatuk, L., & Wirkus, L. (2009). Transboundary water governance in Southern Africa: An indroduction. In L. Swatuk, & L. Wirkus (Eds.), Transboundary water governance in Southern Africa – Ecamining underexplored dimension (Reihe Sustainable Peace abd Global Security Governance) (pp. 11-29). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

This collection of Southern African case studies is intended to contribute to the burgeoning literature on transboundary water governance (TBWG) particularly as it applies to areas of the Global South. Specifically, the collection interrogates the idea of the ‘boundary’. Transboundary... more

Swatuk, L., & Wirkus, L. (2009). Transboundary water governance in Southern Africa: Beyond the state. In L. Swatuk, & L. Wirkus (Eds.), Transboundary water governance in Southern Africa – Examining underexplored dimension (Reihe Sustainable peace and global security governance) (pp. 197-207). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

This collection of Southern African case studies is intended to contribute to the burgeoning literature on transboundary water governance (TBWG) particularly as it applies to areas of the Global South. Specifically, the collection interrogates the idea of the ‘boundary’. Transboundary... more