Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz

+49 661 9640-4613
+49 661 9640-452
eva.gerharz(at)sk.hs-fulda.de

Sociology with specialisation in globalisation

Head of Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences

Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building 22, Room 25
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda

Consultation hours: by appointment via e-mail

Tasks

CV

  • since 10/18
    Professor of Sociology with a specialisation in globalisation at the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences
  • 04/11-09/18
    Junior Professor of Sociology of Internationalisation and Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum
  • 04/17-03/18
    Representative of the professorship for Development Sociology, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Bayreuth
  • 04/10-03/11
    Representative of the Junior Professorship for Sociology of Internationalisation and Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum
  • 11/07-03/11
    Research Associate at the research focus Transnationalisation and Development (WG Social Anthropology), Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld
  • 03-10/07
    Associate Scientist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, Head of the project "Advancing Minority Rights to Environmental Justice" (Ford-Foundation)
  • 01/02-02/07
    Teaching assignments at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration NRW, division Münster and the Ernst-August-University Göttingen
  • 04/02-07/07
    Doctoral degree at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld
  • 10/95-07/01
    University studies in sociology, political science, law, education and social anthropology at the Universities of Würzburg, Leiden and Bielefeld

Teaching Areas

  • Sociology of globalisation
  • Development and sustainability
  • Migration and mobility
  • Social movements

Areas of Research

  • Social movements
  • Indigenous activism
  • Visions of the future and utopias
  • Transnational migration and development
  • (Post-)conflict reconstruction
  • Democracy and violence
  • Translocal methodologies
  • Mobility(s)
  • Ethnicisation, nationalism and conflict
  • South Asia (Bangladesh and Sri Lanka)

Research Projects

Ongoing research projects

  • Realising Community Development Visions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. Duration: 04/2021 to 07/2023
  • Transnational Bachelorhood. An Ethnography of Singledom amo. Duration: 11/2019 to 10/2022
  • Youth Movements and the Transformation of the Political. Bangladesh and Senegal in a transregional comparison", grant in kind. The project is carried out together with Dr Hosna Shewly, Prof Dr Christian Meyer and Dr Sandrine Gukelberger (University of Konstanz). Find out more about the Konstanz subproject. Duration: 12/18 to 03/22. Link
  • (Un)typically utopian? Future visions of Bengali youth in the environment of Islamic educational institutions in Great Britain and Bangladesh. The project is carried out together with Abantee Harun and Andrea Priori and as part of the special programme "Islam, modern nation state, transnational movements" of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, with Max Stille (NETZ e.V.). Duration: 09/18 to 08/22. Link
  • Ecovillages as lived utopias. The project is carried out together with Antje Daniel (project manager), Dina Falten and Konrad Fentzloff and the project partner of the University of Vienna. Duration: 10/2020 to 07/2021.

Completed research projects

  • Land Grabbing in the Chittagong Hill Tracts: The Environmental and Climate Dimension" Uncovering Security - Emerging Threats, program of the Thompson Reuters Foundation, Stanley Foundation and Gerda Henkel Foundation Cooperation between academia and journalism, with Sohara Mehroze Shachi, 2017
  • "Political Culture in Bangladesh and Senegal: Urban Protest Movements in Transregional Comparison", Mercator Research Centre Ruhr, in cooperation with Christian Meyer, 2015 -2017
  • "German-Arab Research, Qualification and Networking Programme: Conflict, Reconstruction and Problems of Sustainable Development in the Middle East" DAAD program "Higher Education Dialogue with the Islamic World", with Dr. Anja Zorob, 2015 - 2017
  • "Migrant affiliation policies in transregional comparison", with Dr Gilberto Rescher, Centre for Inter-American Studies (CIAS), Bielefeld, 2014

  • "Spaces for violent conflicts in democracies", ZiF working group: together with Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and Christian Meyer; Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, 2013

  • "Migration Routes and Translocal Identity Politics: Dynamics of social entanglement and the constitution of indigenous belonging in Central/North America and South Asia", Ruhr University Bochum, 2012 - 2013

  • "Microdynamics of political communication in world society. The social life of the concept of democracy in two Islamic states", with Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and Christian Meyer, German Research Foundation (DFG), 2011 - 2016

  • "Plurality, (in)equality and social change in South Asia", program "A New Passage to India: university studies, research and practical stays in the context of university cooperation, with Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2010 - 2012

  • "Marginality in South Asia. The example of Bangladesh", Bielefeld University, 2009 - 2010

  • "Microprocesses of political transformation in world society. The social life of democracy in two Islamic societies" with Christian Meyer and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, 2008

Supervision of doctoral degrees

  • Diotima Chattoraj: "Ambivalent Attachments: Shifting Notions of Home among Displaced Sri Lankan Tamils" (2016)
  • Sascha Rosenberger: "Factors Affecting the Development of an Epistemic Landscape in Paraguay as a Developing Country" (2018)
  • Katharina Behmer: "Global Norms and Local Interactions in Post-Conflict Societies: A Case Study on Transitional Justice in Cambodia" Second supervision (2018)
  • Natalie Powroznik: "Manifestations of Religion in Refugee Accommodation Centres in North-Westphalia - A Qualitative Analysis" Second supervision (2019)
  • Hari Purna Tripura: "Social Youth Movements in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh" Maruf Lutfer: "International Migration and Community Development in Bangladesh"
  • Corinna Land: "Contested Displacement and Forced Migration: Situating Exit, Voice and Loyalty in the Global Land Rush Debate in Paraguay"
  • Ali Zaidi: "Understanding Development in Relation to NGOs with the Perspective of Community. An Ethnography of the Development Sector in Pakistan"
  • UK Mong Marma: "Forced Migration and Land. Expulsion in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh" Bablu Chakma: "Marginalisation and Identity of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh"
  • Anja Habersang: "Global Crises and Local Conflicts? Interactions and repositioning using the example of land conflicts in Argentina and Chile"
  • Biswaranjan Tripura: "Indigenous Politics, State and Development in North East India-A Study on Tripura"
  • Reinhilde Sotiria König: "Fairy Dust of Circular Migration. Aspiration, anger and assemblages or memory, mobility and masculinity: The Congolese Diaspora's in Europe in the run-up for the Second Congolese War (1998-2003)" (second supervision)
  • Norina Fischer: "Crisis and Future Imaginations: Changes in Jordanian students' conceptions of the future in times of Corona"
  • Thivita Edwin: "Role of the Tamil Diaspora in Germany in Development Processes in Jaffna, Sri Lanka"
  • Shaden Sabouni: "Neither here, nor there - Narratives of home and belonging of Syrian Refugees in Germany"
  • Katrin Renschler: "Navigating higher education: Conviviality, mobility and aspirations of non-traditional students in Northeast India"
  • Abu Faisal Md. Khaled: "Patron-Client Relationship Between Self-Settled Rohingyas and Local Hosts. Negotiating Belonging, Social Mobility, and Informal Integration" (second supervision)

Memberships

  • International Sociological Association (ISA)
    RC 9: Social Transformations and Sociology of Development
  • German Sociological Association (DGS)
    Section Development Sociology/Social Anthropology (ESSA)
    Section Migration and Ethnic Minorities
  • German Association for Asian Studies (DGA)
  • European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS)
  • Bangladesh Studies Network (BSN)
  • Bangladesh Forum Network
  • Academic Association for Development Policy and Development Theory e.V.

Publications

  • Banerjee, Supurna; Gerharz, Eva (eds.) 2021: Interrogating Aspirations through Migratory Mobilities, Special Section of Transfers 11(2), p. 3-97.
  • Gerharz, Eva; Rescher, Gilberto 2021: Global South, in: Hollstein, Betina; Greshoff, Rainer; Schimank, Uwe; Weiß, Anja (eds.) Soziologie - Sociology in the German Speaking World. Special Issue Sociological Review 2020, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, p. 165-180.
  • Shewly, Hosna J.; Gerharz, Eva 2021: Youth Activism against Rape and the Culture of Impunity in Bangladesh: street protests amidst COVID 19, in: Interface: A Journal for and about social movements 13(1), 38.35
  • Gerharz, Eva; Uddin, Nasir; Chakkarath, Pradeep (eds.) 2018: Indigeneity on the Move. Varying Manifestations of a Globalised Concept, New York: Berghahn.
  • Land, Corinna; Gerharz, Eva 2017: Uprooted Belonging. The Formation of a "Jumma Diaspora" in New York City, in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44(11), p. 1881-1896.
  • Gerharz, Eva 2017: Navigating Unpredictable Sites. Methodological Implications of Positioning during and after Fieldwork in Conflict Societies, in: Social Analysis 61(3), p. 1-18.
  • Hettige, Siri; Gerharz, Eva (eds.) 2015: Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia. Perspectives from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, Delhi: Sage.
  • Gerharz, Eva 2014: The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka. Transnational Commitments to Social Change, London: Routledge, Edinburgh Series on South Asian Studies.
  • Gerharz, Eva 2010: When Migrants Travel Back Home: Changing Identities in Northern Sri Lanka after the Ceasefire of 2002, in: Mobilities 5(1), p. 147-165.

to the complete list of publications: Link

Further Functions

Academic functions

  • Co-Speaker of the Section Development Sociology/Social Anthropology (ESSA) of the German Sociological Association (DGS)
  • Corresponding Member of the Institute for Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr-University Bochum
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor and Francis)
  • Editorial board member of the journal Peripherie Politik.Ökonomie.Kultur (Barbara Budrich)

Evaluator activities

  • Project proposals: e.g. German Research Foundation (DFG), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • Book projects: e.g. Routledge, Palgrave McMillan
  • Journals with peer review: e.g. Asian Ethnicity, Asian Journal of Social Science, Ethnos, HAU: Journal of Anthropological Theory, Indigenous Policy Journal, InterDisciplines, Internationales Asienforum, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Historical Sociology, Mobilities, Migration Letters, Pacific Affairs, Social Identities, South Asia, SAMAJ: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, South Asian History and Culture, Transnational Social Review

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