Ruth Mandel

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8. A Place of Their Own: Contesting Spaces and Defining Places in Berlin's Migrant Community

University of California Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1996

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Central Asian Survey, Dec 1, 1998

Staying at Home: Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans. By Rita Sanders . New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. xiv, 256 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. Maps. $110.00, hard bound

Slavic Review, 2017

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Money Makes Us Relatives: Women’s Labor in Urban Turkey, by Jenny B. White. 190 pages, photos, figures, notes, references, index. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. $30.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0292790775

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Dec 1, 1994

Jewish Life in 21st-century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance. By Marcy Brink-Danan. New Anthropologies of Europe and Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. xviii, 218 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. $70.0...

Slavic Review, 2014

The Alevi-Bektashi identity in a foreign context: the example of Berlin

Revue des Etudes Islamiques, 1992

... The Alevi-Bektashi identity in a foreign context: the example of Berlin. Autores: Ruth Mandel... more

Introduction: Transition to Where? Developing Post-Soviet Space

Slavic Review, 2012

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Structural adjustment and soap opera: A case study of a development project in Central Asia

Central Asian Survey, Dec 1, 1998

A Matter of Honour: Experiences of Turkish Women Immigrants, by Tahire Kocturk. 145 pages, tables, references, index. London: Humanities Press International, 1992. $19.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-85649-07609

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Jul 1, 1994

® down the lacuna and false trails transformed into evidence for a Celtic mythology, showing they... more ® down the lacuna and false trails transformed into evidence for a Celtic mythology, showing they lead instead to a mythology about the Celts) is itself, of course, a fantasy, a myth. So, to those who would tell stories, and present new myths, the final contributor, Diane Purkiss, warns: 'it's more important to be

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10. A Marshall Plan of the Mind

Cosmopolitan Anxieties

Islamophobia, Religious Conversion, and Belonging in Europe

History and Anthropology, May 27, 2015

What a pleasure to take part in this event to welcome Esra Ozyurek's new book, Being German, Beco... more What a pleasure to take part in this event to welcome Esra Ozyurek's new book, Being German, Becoming Muslim. This book joins the growing repertoire of critical studies about the increasingly complex and cosmopolitan makeup of Germany. This book is remarkable for many reasons. First, Dr Ozyurek has taken an understudied field, Muslim-German conversion, and has engaged deeply with it. Moreover, she has uncovered a whole host of nuances entailed in this conversion process that had been neither noticed, nor understood, and she has analysed them. Through the lens of these German Muslim converts, the book reveals a new optics, specifically the articulation of Muslimness through German identity and immigrant identity. Tens of thousands of Germans have converted to Islam. In a society where 'Muslim' has come to imply 'non-white immigrant,' social inferior, and even enemy of the state, and, moreover, where German-Islam for many is a contradiction in identitary terms, how then do native Germans Muslims tread across these conundra? Ozyurek's engaging book leads us through these and related issues. She asks probing, and key questions throughout the text, just as she proposes possible explanations. For example, we learn why the former president Wulf's declaration that 'Islam has become part of Germany history,' created an enormous, even scandalous shock. The huge reaction to his statement begs many questions. Why should Islam and German be the contradiction in terms many claim it to be? Who are these Germans who choose to become Muslim? What are their motivations? Can an indigenous German Islam co-exist with the hegemonically Christian German society, any easier than an immigrant Islam, or, more accurately, immigrant Islams? And, also problematized, is the encounter between German Islam and the various Islams practiced by the immigrants. The opening sentence of the book (p. 1) speaks powerfully to this. It is a statement from German-Muslim converts that she heard over and over again: "I would never have become a Muslim if I had met Muslims before I met Islam…" Clearly, many Germans who convert see Islam in a very inorganic way, as a reified state of being, a static set of strictures and teachings, in other words NOT as a living organic, culturally contextualized set of practices, identities and beliefs that inevitably change with place and time. Their Islam is something unrelated to culture and society, a rarefied intellectual and spiritual project.

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Markets and Moralities : Ethnographies of Postsocialism

Book description: Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not ... more

A Village in Baltimore . Doreen Moses

American Anthropologist, Dec 1, 1982

10. A Marshall Plan of the Mind

Media Worlds, 2019

Shifting Cosmopolitics

Cosmopolitan Anxieties, 2008

Reimagining Islams in Berlin

Cosmopolitan Anxieties, 2008

Making Ausländer

Cosmopolitan Anxieties, 2008

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Cosmopolitan Anxieties, 2008

Veiling Modernities

Cosmopolitan Anxieties, 2008

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