Curriculum Vitae
Name: Wimmer,
Andreas Peter
Institutional address: Department of Sociology
264
Haines Hall
Tel.
+1 310 267 43 02
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+1 310 825 35 72
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Place of birth: Schaffhausen
(
Citizenships: Swiss
and German
Current position: Full
Professor at the Department of Sociology, UCLA
Education
1994: Habilitation
in social anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the
1992: PhD
in social anthropology (Summa cum laude),
1989: Lic.
Phil. I (M.A.) in social anthropology, sociology and sociology of mass
communications
Linguistic proficiency
German: mother tongue; Spanish: fluent; French:
fluent; English: fluent; Italian: broken
Employment history
2003– Full Professor for
Comparative and Historical Sociology at the Department of Sociology
1999–2002: Full professor
(C4) and founding director of the Department of Political and Cultural Change
at the Centre for Development Research of the
1999/2000 Managing
Director of the Centre for Development Research of the
Swiss Forum for Migration Studies at the
1997–1999: Reader
(Chargé de cours) for sociology of migration at the
1995–1999: Founding
director of the Swiss Forum for Migration Studies at the
1994–1999: Reader
(Privatdozent) at the Ethnological Seminary of the
1994/95: Senior
lecturer (Oberassistent) at the Ethnological Seminary of the
1989–1994: Lecturer
(Assistent) for development anthropology and the anthropology of social
transformations at the Ethnological Seminary of the
Visiting positions,
personal grants and awards
2000/2001 Fellow
of the Centre for Advanced Studies
1998/99 Senior
Associate Member of St Anthony’s College and Senior Visiting Fellow at the
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
1998/99 Heisenberg
Scholar of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn
1995 Grant
by the
1994 Grant
by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Publications
A) Books
A10 Globalisation and Ethnicity.
A9 Kultur als Kompromiss. Zur Dynamik des
Aushandelns von Bedeutungen (Culture as Compromise. The Dynamics of Negotiating
Meaning) (forthcoming).
A8 Andreas Wimmer, Richard Goldstone, Donald Horowitz,
A6 Hans-Peter Kriesi, Klaus Armingeon, Hannes Siegrist and Andreas Wimmer
(eds.). Nation and National Identity. The European Experience in Perspective. Chur: Rüegger, 1999.
A5 Stefan Karlen and Andreas Wimmer (eds.). Integration und
Transformation. Ethnische Gemeinschaften, Staat und Weltwirtschaft in
Lateinamerika seit ca. 1850 (Integration and Transformation. Ethnic Communities,
State, and the World Market in
A4 Hans-Rudolf Wicker, Jean-Luc Alber, Claudio Bolzman, Rosita
Fibbi, Kurt Imhof and Andreas Wimmer (eds.). Das Fremde in der
Gesellschaft. Migration, Ethnizität und Staat (The Other in Society. Migration, Ethnicity, and the
State).
A3 Transformationen. Sozialer Wandel im
indianischen Mittelamerika (Transformations. Social Change in Indian Mesoamerica).
Berlin: Reimer, 1995. 332 p.
A2 Die komplexe Gesellschaft. Eine
Theorienkritik am Beispiel des indianischen Bauerntums (Complex societies.
A
critique of theories with reference to the Indian peasantry). Berlin: Reimer,
1995. 264 p.
A1 Eberhard Berg, Jutta Lauth and Andreas Wimmer (eds.). Ethnologie im
Widerstreit. Kontroversen über Macht, Markt und Geschlecht in fremden Kulturen (Anthropology in
Between. Debates on Power, Market and Gender in Other Cultures).
B)
Articles in books and peer-reviewed journals
B62 « Tribus contre
l`état ? Regard anthropologique sur l’histoire politique du Nord-Iraq »,
in Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée (under review).
B60 “Culture. Towards a reformulation of an anthropological concept”,
in Heinz Harbach and Elmar Lange (eds.), Contemporary German Sociology. Special
issue of the Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology. St. Petersburg, 2001
(translation of a B19). (forthcoming in Russian)
B59 Andreas Wimmer and
B58 “Facing ethnic conflicts”, in Andreas
Wimmer et al. (ed.), Facing Ethnic Conflicts. Towards a New Realism,
2002 (in preparation)
B57 “Conclusion: Towards a new realism”, in
Andreas Wimmer et al. (ed.), Facing Ethnic Conflicts. Toward a New Realism,
2002 (in preparation)
B56 “Globalisierungen avant la lettre. Isomorphisierung
und Heteromorphisierung in einer verflochtenen Welt”, in Sociologus 2002
(translation of B42) (in preparation).
B54 Andreas Wimmer and
B53 “Gleichschaltung ohne Grenzen?
Isomorphisierung und Heteromorphisierung in einer vernetzten Welt
(Synchronization without boundaries?
Isomorphisation and heteromorphisation in an interconnected world)”, in
Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and Ulrich Braukämper (eds.), Ethnologie der
Globalisierung. Perspektiven kultureller Verflechtung (shortened and
translated version of B42). Berlin: Reimer, 2002. Pp.
77-94.
B51 Andreas Wimmer and
B50 Hans Mahnig and Andreas Wimmer. “Integration without immigrant policy: the case
of Switzerland”, in Friedrich Heckmann and Dominique Schnapper (eds.), The Integration of Immigrants in European
Societies. National Differences and Trends of Convergence. Stuttgart:
Lucius & Lucius, 2003, pp. 135-164.
B49 “Etablierte Ausländer und einheimische Aussenseiter. Soziale Kategorienbildung und Beziehungsnetzwerke in
drei Immigrantenquartieren (Established foreigners and indigenous outsiders. Social category formation and networks of relationships in three
immigrant neighbourhoods)”, in Hans-Rudolf Wicker, Rosita Fibbi and Werner Haug
(eds.), Migration und die Schweiz. Zurich:
Seismos, 2003, pp. 207-236 (shortened version of a B46)
B48 “From subject to object of history: The Kurdish nationalist
movement in Northern Iraq since 1991”, in Kurdische Studien
2(1):115-130, 2002.
B47 “Philosophische Implikationen des
ethnologischen Kulturbegriffs (Philosophical implications of the
anthropological concept of culture)”, in Dirk Rustemeyer (ed.), Symbolische
Welten. Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften. Würzburg:
Königshausen und Neumann. Pp. 215-238.
B46 „Multikulturalität oder Ethnisierung?
Kategorienbildung und Netzwerkstrukturen in drei schweizerischen
Immigrantenquartieren (Multi-culturalism or racialization? Category formation and network structures in three Swiss immigrant
neighbourhoods)”, in Zeitschrift für Soziologie 31(1): 4-26, 2002.
B45 “Confini sfumati. Le relazioni tra
sociologia, etnologia e studi floklorici (Blurred boundaries. On the relation between
sociology, anthropology and folklore studies)”, in
Christian Giordano (ed.), Borderline: le scienze sociali tra confini e
sconfinamenti. Annali di Sociologia – Soziologisches Jahrbuch 14.1998/99:
327-341, 2001 (translation of B44).
B44 „Verwischte Grenzen. Zum Verhältnis
zwischen Soziologie, Ethnologie und Volkskunde (Blurred boundaries. On the
relation between sociology, anthropology and folklore studies)”, in Christian Giordano (ed.), Borderline: die Sozialwissenschaften
zwischen Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung. Annali
di Sociologia – Soziologisches Jahrbuch
14.1998/99: 311-326, 2001.
B43 „Katastrophenbefürchtungen in einem
Einwanderungsland à contre coeur (fears of catastrophes in an
immigration country à contre coeur)”, in Edda Curle and Tina Wunderlich
(eds.), Deutschland – ein Einwanderungsland? Rückblick,
Bilanz und neue Fragen. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius,
2001. Pp. 471-484.
B41 “Modernisation as a case of transformation”,
in Georg Elwert, Martin Kohli, Wolf-Hagen Krauth und Waltraud Schelkle (eds.), Paradigms
of Social Change: Modernisation, Development, Transformation, Evolution. Frankfurt: Campus, 2001. Pp. 77-89.
B40 „Ein helvetischer
Kompromiss. Kommentar zum neuen Ausländergesetz (A helvetic compromise. Comments on the new immigration law)”,
in Swiss Political Science Review Review 7(1):97-104, 2001.
B39 “Cultura como
concertación”, in Revista Mexicana de Sociología 62(4):127-157, 2000 (translation
of B20).
B38 Hans Mahnig and Andreas Wimmer. “Especificidad nacional o convergencia? Una tipología de políticas de
inmigración en Europa occidental”, in Migraciones 8: 59-99, 2000
(translation of B37).
B37 Hans Mahnig and Andreas Wimmer. “Country
specific or convergent? A typology of immigrant policies in Western Europe”, in
Journal of International Immigration and Integration 1(2):177-204, 2000.
B36 Etienne Piguet and Andreas Wimmer. « Les nouveaux
'Gastarbeiter'? Les réfugiés sur le marché de travail suisse », in Journal
of International Immigration and Integration 2(1):233-257, 2000.
B35 „Migration
und ethnische Minderheiten (Migration and ethnic minorities)”, in Richard Münch,
Claudia Jauss and Carsten Stark
(eds.), Soziologie 2000. Special issue No. 5 of Soziologische Revue,
2000. Pp.
154-166.
B34 Hans Mahnig and Andreas Wimmer. “Contradictions of inclusion in
a direct democracy: The struggle for political rights of migrants in Zurich”,
in
B33 „Ethnizität (Ethnicity)”, in Bernhard Streck (ed.), Wörterbuch
der Ethnologie. Cologne:
Dumonde, 2000. Pp. 53-55.
B32 « Conclusions :
un nouveau regard sur les migrations (Conclusion: a new perspective on
migration) », in Pierre Centlivres and Isabelle Girod (eds.), Les défis
migratoires à l'aube du troisième millénaire. Zurich: Seismo, 2000. Pp.
531-534.
B31 “Racism in nationalized states. A framework for comparative
research”, in Ter Wal, Jessika and Maykel Verkuyten (eds.), Comparative
Perspectives on Racism. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp.
47-72 (enlarged version of B22).
B30 “Introduction: Perspectives and concepts”, in Hans-Peter
Kriesi, Klaus Armingeon, Hannes Siegrist, and Andreas Wimmer (eds.), Nation
and National Identity. The
European Experience in Perspective. Chur: Rüegger, 1999. Pp. 31-36.
B29 « Globalisations
avant la lettre », in Roland Ris (ed.), De la globalisation et des
sociétés. Actes du Colloque d'automne de l'Académie suisse des sciences
humaines et sociales. Bern: Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und
Sozialwissenschaften, 1999. Pp. 41-53.
B28 “Km
reformu liraneto na edna sozialno-antropologitscheska kategorija”, in Dobrinka
Kostova and Christian Giordano (eds.), Pres Pogleda na Schveizarskite
Sozialni Sauki. Sofia: Marin Drinov Academish Publishers, 1999. Pp. 115-145 (translation of
B19).
B27 „Binnenintegration und Aussenabschliessung. Zur Beziehung
zwischen Wohlfahrtsstaat und Migrationssteuerung in der Schweiz des 20. Jahrhunderts
(Integration and social closure. The relation between welfare state and
migration control in 20th century Switzerland)”, in Michael Bommes und Jost
Halfmann (eds.), Migration in nationalen Wohlfahrtsstaaten. Theoretische und
vergleichende Untersuchungen. Osnabrück: IMIS, 1998.
B26 “Who owns the state? Understanding ethnic conflict in post-colonial
societies”, in Nations and Nationalism 3 (4):631-665, 1997 (enlarged
translation of B10).
B25 „Stammespolitik und die kurdische Nationalbewegung im Irak
(Tribal politics and the Kurdish national movement in Iraq)”, in Carsten Borck,
Eva Savelsberg und Siamend Hajo (eds.), Kurdologie. Ethnizität,
Nationalismus, Religion und Politik in Kurdistan. Münster: Lit, 1997. Pp. 11-43 (enlarged
version of B10).
B24 „Die Rückkehr Zapatas. Sozialhistorische Hintergründe des
Neujahrsaufstandes von Chiapas (The return of Zapatas. The socio-historical
background to the Chiapas rebellion)”, in Ellen Schriek und Hans-Walter Schmuhl
(eds.), Das andere Mexiko. Indigene Völker von Chiapas bis Chihuahua. Giessen: Focus,
1997. Pp.
33-42 (reprint of B8).
B23 „Die Pragmatik der kulturellen Produktion. Anmerkungen zur
Ethnozentrismusproblematik aus ethnologischer Sicht (The pragmatics of cultural
production. Remarks on the problem of ethnocentrism from an anthropological point of
view)”, in Manfred Brocker und Heino H. Nau (eds.), Ethnozentrismus. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag,
1997. Pp.
120-140.
B22 “Explaining racism and xenophobia. A critical review of current
research approaches”, in
B21 « L'héritage
de Herder. Nationalisme, migrations et la pratique théorique de l'anthropologie
(Herder's heritage. Nationalism, migration and the praxis of anthropological theory) », in Tsantsa. Revue de la Société Suisse d'Ethnologie, vol. 1:4-18, 1996.
B20 « L'État-nation
– une forme de fermeture sociale (The nation-state – a form of social
closure) », in Archives Européennes de Sociologie, vol. 37(1):163-179,
1996.
B19 „Kultur. Zur Reformulierung eines ethnologischen Grundbegriffs
(Culture. Towards a reformulation of an anthropological concept)”, in Kölner
Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, vol. 48(3):401-425, 1996.
B18 „Lokalkultur in der Globalgesellschaft. Eine
transformationstheoretische Perspektive auf das indianische Mittelamerika
(Local culture in global society. Indian Middle America from the perspective of
transformation theory)”, in Hans-Peter Müller (ed.), Weltgesellschaft und
kulturelles Erbe. Gliederung und Dynamik der Entwicklungsländer aus
ethnologischer und soziologischer Sicht. Berlin: Reimer, 1996. Pp. 175-195.
B17 „Einleitung (Introduction)”, in Hans-Peter Müller (ed.), Weltsystem
und kulturelles Erbe. Gliederung und Dynamik der Entwicklungsländer aus
ethnologischer und soziologischer Sicht. Berlin: Reimer, 1996. Pp. 9-17.
B16 „Die Rückkehr Zapatas. Sozialhistorische Hintergründe des
Neujahrsaufstandes von Chiapas (The return of Zapata. Sociohistorical backgrounds of
the Chiapas rebellion)”, in Stefan Karlen and Andreas Wimmer (eds.), Integration
und Transformation. Ethnische Gemeinschaften, Staat und Weltwirtschaft in
Lateinamerika seit ca. 1850. Stuttgart: Heinz, 1996. Pp. 241-252 (reprint of B8).
B15 “Historie einer Hochzeit. Ethnologie und Geschichte in
Mittelamerika (Story of a marriage. Anthropology and history in Mesoamerica)”, in
Stefan Karlen and Andreas Wimmer (eds.), Integration und Transformation. Ethnische
Gemeinschaften, Staat und Weltwirtschaft in Lateinamerika seit ca. 1850. Stuttgart: Heinz,
1996. Pp. 3-23.
B14 Stefan Karlen and Andreas Wimmer. “Einleitung (Introduction)”,
in Stefan Karlen and Andreas Wimmer (eds.), Integration und Transformation.
Ethnische Gemeinschaften, Staat und Weltwirtschaft in Lateinamerika seit ca.
1850. Stuttgart: Heinz, 1996. Pp. 6-13.
B13 “Wie universal sind die Menschenrechte? (How universal are
human rights?)”, in Peter Lutz and Peter Ochsner (eds.), Wahrheiten auf der
Spur. Zürich: Orell Füssli, 1996. Pp. 134-144.
B12 “Der Appell an die Nation. Kritische Bemerkungen zu vier
Erklärungen von Xenophobie und Rassismus (The appeal to the nation. Critical remarks on four
explanations of xenophobia and racism)”, in Hans-Rudolf Wicker, Jean-Luc Alber,
Claudio Bolzman, Rosita Fibbi, Kurt Imhof and Andreas Wimmer (eds.), Das
Fremde in der Gesellschaft. Migration, Ethnizität und Staat. Zurich: Seismo,
1996. Pp.173-198.
B11 “Variationen über ein Schema. Zur Infrapolitik des Denkens am
Beispiel eines Mythos der Mixe (Variations on a scheme. On the
infrapolitics of thinking with reference to a myth of the Mixe)”, in Zeitschrift
für Ethnologie 120:51-71, 1995.
B10 “Interethnische Konflikte. Ein Beitrag zur Integration
aktueller Forschungsansätze (Interethnic conflicts. Towards an integration of
different research approaches)”, in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und
Sozialpsychologie 47(3):530-559, 1995.
B9 “Stämme für den Staat. Tribale Politik und die kurdische
Nationalbewegung im Irak (Tribes for the State. Tribal politics and the Kurdish
national movement in Iraq)”, in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und
Sozialpsychologie 47(1):95-113, 1995.
B8 “Die erneute Rebellion der Gehenkten, Chiapas 1994 (Another
rebellion of the hanged, Chiapas 1994)”, in 1999.
Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts 3:59-68,
1995.
B7 “Die ethnische Dynamik in Mexiko und Guatemala (The dynamics
of ethnicity in Mexico and Guatemala)”, in Hans-Peter Müller (ed.), Ethnische
Dynamik in der aussereuropäischen Welt. Zürcher Arbeitspapiere zur
Ethnologie 4, 1994. Pp. 251-294.
B6 “Der Kampf um den Staat. Zur vergleichenden Analyse
interethnischer Konflikte (The fight for the State. Towards a comparative
analysis of ethnic conflicts)”, in Hans-Peter Müller (ed.), Ethnische
Dynamik in der aussereuropäischen Welt. Zürcher Arbeitspapiere zur
Ethnologie 4, 1994. Pp. 511-538.
B5 Ço vedie çloveka k vzbure. In: Národopisné informácie
24(2), 1994 (translation of B3).
B4 “Ethnischer Radikalismus als Gegennationalismus. Indianische
Bewegungen im sechsten Jahrhundert nach Kolumbus (Ethnic radicalism as
counter-nationalism. Indian movements in the sixth century after Columbus)”,
in Peter Gerber (ed.), 500 Jahre danach. Zur heutigen Lage der
indigenen Völker beider Amerika. Chur: Rüegger, 1993. Pp. 127-149.
B3 “Was macht Menschen rebellisch? Über die
Entstehungsbedingungen von sozialen Bewegungen (What makes men rebellious? On the conditions
leading to social movements)”, in Eberhard Berg, Jutta Lauth and Andreas Wimmer
(eds.), Ethnologie im Widerstreit. Kontroversen über Macht,
Markt und Geschlecht in fremden Kulturen. Festschrift für Lorenz G.
Löffler. Munich: Trickster, 1991. Pp. 289–308.
B2 Andreas Wimmer, Eberhard Berg and Jutta Lauth. “Einleitung
(Introduction)” in Eberhard Berg, Jutta Lauth and Andreas Wimmer (eds.), Ethnologie
im Widerstreit. Kontroversen über Macht, Markt und Geschlecht in fremden
Kulturen. Munich: Trickster, 1991. Pp. 1-9.
B1 “Händler gegen Heilige. Landverteilung, Marktstrukturen und
kultureller Wandel im indianischen Mittelamerika (Merchants against the Saints.
Land distribution, market structures and cultural change in Indian
Mesoamerica)”, in Bulletin der Schweizerischen Amerikanistengesellschaft
53/54:49-58, 1989/90.
C) Discussion and working papers, research reports
C18 “Preface”,
in Indra de Soysa and Peter Zervakis (eds.), Does Culture Matter? Politics
and Governance in the Mediterranean. ZEI-Discussion Paper No. C 111, 2002.
Bonn: Center for European Integration Studies, 2002, pp. 7-10.
C16 Andreas Wimmer, Georg Kreis and Werner Haug.
Machbarkeitsstudie für ein Museum für Migration (Feasability Study for a
Museum of Migration). Bonn, Basel and Bern, 2000, 19 p.
C15 Andreas Wimmer, Dieter Karrer, Angela
Stienen und Rebekka Ehret. Integration – Segregation. Interkulturelle
Beziehungen in Basel, Bern und Zürich. Schlussbericht an den
Schweizerischen Nationalfonds (Integration – Segregation. Intercultural Relations in Basel, Bern and Zurich. Final Report to the
Swiss National Science Foundation), 2000, 293 p.
C13 Andreas Wimmer and Etienne Piguet. Asyl und Arbeit. Eine
Studie zur Erwerbsintegration von Asylsuchenden und Flüchtlingen in der Schweiz
(Asylum and work. A study of labour market integration of asylum seekers
and refugees in Switzerland). Neuchâtel, Swiss Forum for Migration Studies,
Research report No. 9, 1997. 46 p.
C12 Juliane Kerlen and Andreas Wimmer. Migrationssteuerung. Zur Entwicklung eines politischen Konzepts in
Deutschland, Frankreich, Schweden und der Europäischen Union (Coping with
root causes of migration. An analysis of the political debates in Germany,
France, Sweden and the European Union). Neuchâtel, Swiss Forum for Migration
Studies, Research report No. 7, 1997. 44 p.
C11 The situation of internally displaced
peoples in Northern Iraq. Report prepared for the UNICEF Representative for
Iraq, 1997. 17p.
C10 Ein Zulassungsmodell für Arbeitsmigranten
von ausserhalb der EU (Towards a new admission policy for immigrants from
outside the EU). Neuchâtel, Swiss Forum for Migration Studies, 1997. 13 p.
C9 Bericht über eine Abklärungsmission in
Bosnien, 6. bis 16. Februar 1997 (Report on a planning and
evaluation mission to Bosnia, February 6 to 16, 1997). Prepared for Caritas
Switzerland, 1997. 21 p.
C8 The resettlement of refugees in
Switzerland. An analysis of current policy and an evaluation of options for the
future. Neuchâtel, Swiss Forum for Migration Studies, Research report No. 5,
1996. 82 p. (translations into German and French)
C7 Bericht über eine Evaluations- und
Abklärungsmission im Nordirak, 5. bis 19. April 1996, zuhanden der
Direktion der Caritas Schweiz (Report on a evaluation and planning mission in
Northern Iraq, April 5 to 19, 1996, prepared for the Directorate of Caritas
Switzerland). 17 p.
C6 Flüchtlingsaussenpolitik und
Migrationsprävention (Politics of refugees and prevention of migration).
Neuchâtel, Swiss Forum for Migration Studies, Research report No. 1, 1995. 21 p.
C5 Integration – Segregation. Interkulturelle
Beziehungen in Basel, Bern und Zürich (Integration–segregation. Intercultural
relations in Basel, Bern and Zurich). Research proposal for the National
Research Program 39 “Migration and Intercultural Relations”, Swiss National
Foundation for the Advancement of Scientific Research, 1995. 19 p.
C4 Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, humanitäre
Hilfe, Migration (Development cooperation, humanitarian aid, migration). Report prepared
for the Directorate of Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, Federal
Department of Foreign Affairs, 1995. 10 p.
C3 Politische Mobilisierung und Ethnizität
in Südafrika
(Political mobilization and ethnicity in South Africa. Project proposal for a
Heisenberg Scholarship of the German Research Community, 1995 (DFG). 24 p.
C2 Report on the evaluation of the rural
rehabilitation program Karava, Northern Iraq, 1993 (translations into French and
German). 28 p.
C1 Program for the rehabilitation of
agricultural and livestock production in rural Kurdistan. Final report of a
planning mission, prepared for Caritas Switzerland and the Kurdish
Reconstruction Organisation, 1992. 84 p.
D) Articles in conference proceedings, newspapers and magazines, unpublished
manuscripts, book reviews, comments and
rejoinders
D26 Andreas
Wimmer and Christian Schetter. „Staatsbildung zuerst. Empfehlungen zum
Wiederaufbau und zur Befriedung Afghanistans”, in Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit 43(7):212-214, 2002.
D25 “Political modernization and the
nationalisation of society”, in Center for the Study of the Imaginary and New
Europe College (eds.), Nation and National Ideology. Past Present and
Prospects. Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the New Europe
College, Bucharest, April 6-7, 2001. Bucharest: The Center for the History
of the Imaginary and New Europe College, 2002. Pp.
308-322.
D24 “Modernizarea
politică şi naţionalizarea societăţii”, in 22
(Bucarest) 12(28):10, 2001.
D23 “Replik auf Alex Sutters 'Randbemerkungen zu einer
Reformulierung des Kulturbegriffs'“, in Tsantsa.
Revue de la Société Suisse d'Ethnologie 5:111-113, 2000.
D22 “Konsens à contre coeur”, in Ethik
und Sozialwissenschaften 11(3):408-409, 2000.
D21 “Territoriale
Schliessung und die Politisierung des Ethnischen (Territorial closure and the
politicisation of ethnicity)”, in Stefan Hradil et al. (eds.), Grenzenlose Gesellschaft.
Beiträge zum Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, der
Oesterreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie und der Schweizerischen
Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Freiburg 1998, 1999. Pp. 1200-1208.
D20 “Rezension von Norbert Roß, Nutz Lok'El Li Kaxlane – Die
Vertreibung der Ladinos aus San Andrés Larraínzar, Chiapas, Mexiko (book
review)”, in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 144(2), 1999.
D19 Hans Mahnig and Andreas Wimmer. “Zurich. The paradox of direct
democracy”, in Proceedings of the Third International Metropolis Conference,
1999.
D18 “Contrecarrer
les idées reçues avec des arguments empiriques. Entretiens avec Andreas Wimmer”,
in Tsantsa Revue de la Société Suisse d'Ethnologie 4:173-177, 1999.
D17 “Rezension von Norbert Roß, Nutz Lok'El Li Kaxlane – Die
Vertreibung der Ladinos aus San Andrés Larraínzar, Chiapas, Mexiko (book
review)”, in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 124(2), 1999.
D16 “Saving culture: resituating the argument (CA-Comment)”, Current
Anthropology, vol. 40 (Supplement):19-21, 1999.
D15 “Diskriminierung bei der Arbeitssuche. Skizze einer Studie zu
einem unerforschten Thema (Discrimination on the labour market. An outline of a
study in a under-researched field)”, in Tangram (Bulletin of the Federal
Commision against Racism) 4:35-39, 1998.
D14 Indianische Bauern in Mittelamerika. Ein
kritischer Rückblick auf vierzig Jahre Theoriengeschichte (Indian peasants in
Mesoamerica. A critical review of forty years of theoretical thinking). Unpublished
M.A. Thesis, University of Zurich, 1998. 154 p.
D13 (co-author and co-editor) IWGIA–Schweiz et al. Bedrohte
Zukunft. Bergvölker in Bangladesh (Threatened future. Mountain peoples in
Bangladesh). Zürich: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität und IWGIA–Zürich, 1998. 96 p.
D12 “Die Politisierung des Ethnischen in der aussereuropäischen Welt
(the politizication of ethnicity in the nonwestern world)”, in Claudia Honegger
et al. (eds.), Gesellschaften im Umbau. Konflikte, Identitäten, Differenzen.
Zurich: Seismo, 1996. Pp. 265-276.
D11 “Mexikos vergessener Süden. Rebellion gegen die
institutionalisierte Revolution (Mexico's forgotten South. Rebellion against
the institutionalised revolution)”, in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Nr. 20, 25.
January 1994.
D10 “Rezension von Rosaldo Aída Hernández Castillo et al., La
experiencia de refugio en Chiapas. Nuevas relaciones en la frontera sur mexicana
(book review)”, in Notas, vol. 2(2):16-17, 1995.
D9 “Rezension von Andreas Brockmann, Santa Martha. Untersuchungen
zur Ethnographie einer Tzotzilgemeinde in Mexiko (book review)”, in Anthropos,
vol. 89(1-3):249f, 1994.
D8 “Haben, Geben, Zerstören. Der Potlatsch, die Umkehrung des
Gewohnten (Having, giving, destroying. The potlatsch, the inversion
of the usual)”, in Luxus. NZZ-Folio 12:55-58, 1994.
D7 “Wir sind die Völkerkunde. Karl-Heinz Kohls kämpferische
Einführung in die Ethnologie (We are anthropology. A pugnacious introduction
to anthropology by Karl-Heinz Kohl)”, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Nr. 108, May 10, 1994.
D6 “Rezension von Frank Lipp, The Mixe of Oaxaca. Religion, Ritual
and Healing (book review)”, in Anthropos 88(1-3):255-56, 1993.
D5 Transformationen symbolischer Praxis. Ein
Modell des sozialen Wandels im indianischen Mittelamerika (Transformations
of symbolic practice. A model of social change in Indian Mesoamerica).
Thesis of habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty I of the University of
Zurich, 1993. (published as A3)
D4 Rätsel und Paradoxa. Eine Kritik
ethnosoziologischer Theorien zum indianischen Bauerntum (Puzzles and paradoxes. A critique of
anthropological theories of the Indian peasantry). Unpublished Ph. D. thesis of
the Ethnological Seminary of the University of Zurich, 1992. (published as A4)
D3 “Viele Deutungen. Die Humanwissenschaften und ihre
Rassismustheorien (Many meanings. The human sciences and their theories on
racism)”, in Fremdenangst, Fremdenhass. NZZ-Folio 6:23-25, 1992.
D2 “Some hypothetical remarks on conflict management in
multicultural societies”, in Report on the League International Training
Seminar on Questions of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe and Canada.
Pp. 26-30. Geneva: League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 1990.
D1 Historias y Leyendas
de San Juan Mazatán, Mixe (History and legends of San Juan Mazatlán, Mixe).
Oaxaca, México: Gade A.C., 1987. 46 p.
Research grants (selection)
|
Financing
body |
Project
title |
Duration |
|
|
|
|
|
Swiss
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Political Division IV |
Co-ordination
of the interdepartmental working groups on preventing migration |
16
months 1995/96 |
|
Swiss
Office for Refugees, Legal Department |
Refugees
and labour market integration |
19
months 1995/97 |
|
Office fédéral de la santé publique,
division médecine |
Documentation et recherche “Migration/santé” |
14
months 1996/98 |
|
Swiss
National Science Foundation and Foundation for Population, Migration and
Environment |
Integration—segregation.
Inter-cultural relations in Basle, Berne and Zurich |
36
months 1996-2000 |
|
Swiss
Office for Refugees, Legal Department |
An
political science analysis of the consultations on the governmental migration
report |
11
months 1996 |
|
Swiss
Office for Refugees, Department for Asylum Seekers and Refugees |
Co-ordination
of the expert group on refugee resettlement policy |
10
months 1996/97 |
|
Swiss
Office for Refugees, Legal Department |
Scientific
advise and co-ordination of the expert commission on migration policy |
11
months 1996/97 |
|
Swiss
National Science Foundation, National Research Programme 39 |
Bibliographie des travaux scientifiques
sur les migrations en Suisse |
7
months 1996/97 |
|
Swiss
Department of Foreign Affairs, Political Division IV |
Preventing
migration. A new policy field in selected European states |
6
months 1996/97 |
|
Swiss
Federal Commission against Racism |
Discrimination
in the fields of family unification and job change. A feasibility study (in
co-operation with the Institute of Public Law of the University of Berne) |
9
months 1996/97 |
|
Swiss
National Science Foundation, National Research Programme 39 |
Immigration et intégration. La
population étrangère en Suisse et au Liechtenstein depuis 1948 |
36 months 1996/00 |
|
Swiss
Federal Commission for Foreigners |
Integration
policies in some European countries |
12
months 1996/97 |
|
European
Union (4th Framework Programme) / Swiss Federal Office of Education and
Science |
Effectiveness
of national integration strategies towards second generation migrant youth in
a comparative perspective |
36
months 1998/01 |
|
Commission
nationale suisse pour l'UNESCO |
Multicultural policies and modes of citizenship in
Zurich (part of an UNESCO/Most research network) |
15 months 1998/99 |
|
Swiss
Office for Refugees, Legal Department |
Determinants of the choice of countries of asylum |
28 months 1997/00 |
|
Swiss
National Science Foundation, National Research Programme 39 |
Histoire de la politique de migration, d’asile et
d’intégration en Suisse depuis 1948 (in co-operation with the Department of
Political Science of the |
19 months 1999/00 |
|
Swiss
National Science Foundation, National Research Programme 39 |
NRP 39. Linking policy making and research |
24 months 1999/00 |
|
Swiss
Office for Refugees, Legal Department |
Comparing
the welfare services for asylum seekers of European states |
12
months 1998/99 |
|
Swiss
Federal Commission for Foreigners |
Integration
policies in |
13
months 1997/98 |
|
Swiss
Department of Foreign Affairs, Political Division IV |
The
policies of fostering return migration. An analysis of the experiences of
four European states |
10
months 1997/98 |
|
German
Foreign Office, Division GF-02 |
Facing ethnic conflict. Perspectives from
research and policy making (an international conference project) |
1999 |
|
Volkswagen-Foundation |
Does
culture matter? Politics and governance in the |
2001 |
|
Volkswagen-Foundation |
Paradigms
of change (an international workshop) |
2002 |
Professional Activities, Board Memberships and Consultancies
since
2002: Co-opted
member of the Institute for World Society, Faculty of Sociology,
2001: Member
of the mid-term evaluation team for the
2001-2006: Vice-chair
of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Social
Anthropology in
since 2000: Member
of the Editorial Board of Global Networks. A Journal of Transnational Affairs (
since 1999: Member
of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation “Bevölkerung, Migration und Umwelt
(Population, Migration and Environment),
since 1999: Member
of the Board of Associate Editors of the Journal of International Migration and
Integration (
1998/1999: Member
of the Management Board of the Metropolis Project (International Forum for
Research and Policy on Migration and Cities), Canada/USA (http://www.international.metropolis.net)
1993-1996: Election
to the board of the Swiss Ethnological Society and as Delegate of that society
at the
1991–1992: Member
of the board of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA),
1990-1996: Member
of the Scientific Commission of the Swiss Ethnological Society
1987–1991: Co-initiator
of the Swiss National Group of the International Work Group for Indigenous
Affairs (IWGIA) (http://www.unibas.ch/iwgia)
Expert
advice and reviews for the Austrian Ministry for Science and Transportation,
the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, the Swiss Academy
for Social Sciences and the Humanities, the Swiss Political Science Review, the
Journal for International Migration and Integration, the Revista Mexicana de
Sociología, Global Networks, A Journal of Transnational Affairs, the Federal
Office for Education and Science, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and
Development, the Volkswagen-Stiftung,, the
Centre for Advanced Studies in Berlin, the Austrian Science Foundation, the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the European Science Foundation,
In
1992, I co-founded a small consultancy firm specializing in culture and
development. I received mandates from NGOs (e.g. Caritas
Field experience
February
1997: Field trip to
April
1992, May 1993, April 1996, July 1997: Field trips to
February
– April 1987: Continuation of field research in
September
1985 – April 1986: Field research on ethnic identity and socio-economic integration
of a Mixe rural community in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico
Teaching experience
A)
1998/99 Seminar:
“Anthropology of migration II: The Swiss case”
1998
Lecture: “Anthropology
of migration I: Theories and models”
1997 Lecture:
“Anthropology of Europe III:
1996/97 Lecture:
“Anthropology of Europe II: Migration research in
1996 Lecture:
“Anthropology of
1994/95 Lecture:
“Conflict and social change I: The anthropology of social movements and
conflicts”
Introductory
course: Social change
1994 Seminar:
“Ethnic conflicts”
Introductory
course: Social change
1993/94 Lecture:
“Ethnic conflicts in North and South”
Undergraduate
course: Social change
1993 Lecture:
“Conflict and social change I: development anthropology”
1992/1993 Undergraduate
course: “Conflict and social change III: Discussion of students research papers”
Lecture:
“Ideology, culture, discourse”
Research
colloquium: “New research approaches in development anthropology” (with Prof.
Müller, C. Wacker and M. Stanek)
1992 Lecture:
“Conflict and social change II: The anthropology of social movements and
conflicts”
1991/1992 Lecture:
“Conflict and social change I: development anthropology”
Introductory
course in anthropology
Lecture:
“Introduction to selected sub disciplines” (with Prof. H.P. Müller)
1991: Seminar:
“Conflict and social change III: Towards an anthropology of
Seminar:
“Ethnicity, nationalism, racism” (with Prof. L.G. Löffler and Margrit Kaufmann)
1990/91: Lecture:
“Conflict and social change II: The anthropology of social movements and
conflicts”
Lecture:
“Introduction to selected sub disciplines” (with Prof. H.P. Müller)
1990: Seminar:
“System analysis of social transformations : Mesoamerican Indian communities”
(with Prof. L.G. Löffler)
Lecture:
“Conflict and social change I: The anthropology of development”
Introductory
course in anthropology
1989/90: Undergraduate
course: “Social morphology II: Social classes”
Undergraduate
course: “Introduction to the development approach of Cuba”
B) University of Neuchâtel (in French)
1998 Lecture:
“Sociologie des migrations II : La Suisse comme pays d’immigration”
1997/98 Lecture: “
Sociologie des migrations I : Théories et modèles “
1997 Lecture:
“Sociologie des migrations I : Théories et modèles”
C) University of Bonn (in English)
Co-organisation
and design of an international and interdisciplinary doctoral programme in
English with roughly 120 students from four continents, including an
interdisciplinary intensive course programme of three months. I personally
teached “Culture and development” as well as “Modelling methods in the social
sciences” in this course programme.
I am
principle supervisor of five PhD students who work on ethnic conflict in South
Africa, the peace process in Guatemala, public administration in multi-ethnic
Lebanon and Malaysia, decentralisation and popular participation in Bolivia,
and institutional dynamics of water management in Nepal.: