Jacqueline Knörr (born 10 March 1960 in

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) is a German anthropologist. She is Head of Research Group at the

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and Extraordinary Professor at the

Martin Luther University Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. MLU offers German and i ...

in Halle/Saale, Germany. She also works as (political) advisor, consultant, and expert witness in the fields of asylum procedures, human rights issues and (re-)migration and (re-)integration.

Education and degrees

Knörr attended school in

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and Germany. She studied

Social Anthropology Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...

Political Sciences Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...

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and

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at the Universities of Hamburg, Irvine/UCI,

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(M.A.) and

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(PhD) and obtained a

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degree at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Research interests

Knörr's research focuses on collective identifications,

identity politics Identity politics is politics based on a particular identity, such as ethnicity, Race (human categorization), race, nationality, religion, Religious denomination, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, Socioeconomic status, social background ...

, inclusion and exclusion,

ethnic An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, which they collectively believe to have, and long-term endogamy. Ethnicities share attributes like language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, re ...

and national identification,

postcolonial Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and extractivism, exploitation of colonized pe ...

nation-building Nation-building is constructing or structuring a national identity using the power of the state. Nation-building aims at the unification of the people within the state so that it remains politically stable and viable. According to Harris Mylonas, ...

decolonization Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby Imperialism, imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. The meanings and applications of the term are disputed. Some scholar ...

, diaspora and

migration Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to: Human migration * Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another ** International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum le ...

creolization Creolization is the process through which creole languages and cultures emerge. Creolization was first used by linguists to explain how contact languages become creole languages, but now scholars in other social sciences use the term to describe ...

and pidginization, childhood and youth,

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

and generation. She has conducted long-term fieldwork in West Africa, Indonesia and (German and Dutch-speaking) Europe.

Grants

Knörr received research grants from the German Research Foundation ( Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/DFG) as doctoral and postdoctoral member of DFG Research Schools (Graduiertenkolleg/ Sonderforschungsbereich) at the University of Bayreuth (Centre: Intercultural Relations in Africa) and the

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(Centre: Conflicts in the Context of Social and Cultural Diversity). She was awarded the Lise Meitner Habilitation Grant of the Ministry of Science and Research (NRW) and the five-year Minerva Professorship of the

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Joint research projects

Knörr was the MPI for Social Anthropology's Principal Investigator in the research project on ‘Integration and Conflict in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Societies’, conducted in collaboration with the Institute for Social Sciences (ICS) in Lisbon and in the Sierra Leone and Liberia section of the project ‘Traveling Models in Conflict Management’, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Her current involvement in joint research projects includes membership in the executive board of the ‘Society and Culture in Motion’ programme at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Visiting professor-/fellowships

Knörr was Visiting Professor at the

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(2022),

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in Montreal (2008–09), the University of Brasilia (2007, 2016), the University of Bayreuth (2008–09),

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(2006), and the Institute for Social Sciences in Lisbon (2006). She was Visiting Fellow/Researcher at the

University of Indonesia The University of Indonesia (UI; ) is a public university in Depok, West Java and Salemba, Jakarta, Indonesia. It is one of the oldest tertiary-level educational institutions in Indonesia (known as the Dutch East Indies when UI was established) ...

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(2001) and at

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Leadership roles and committee work in scientific/academic organizations

* Scientific Representative, Max Planck Society (2012-2015, 2018-2020) * Mentor, Minerva FemmeNet, Max Planck Society (since 2009) * Head of the Project Development Group, MPI for Social Anthropology, (2005–07) * Board member of the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology (formerly German Anthropological Association / DGV) (2003–07) * Chairwoman of the section ‘Migration, Multiculturality and Identity’ and Associate Board Member of the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology (1995-2003)

Membership in political organizations

*Flüchtlingsrat Nordrhein-Westfalen (Refugee Council North Rhine-Westphalia) *Netzwerk Migration in Europa (Network Migration in Europe) * Pro Asyl *International Refugee Rights Initiative, Rights in Exile Programme * Advisory Board on Migration Policies,

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(SPD), Berlin (00-03)

Publications

Books

* Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity (co-edited with W. Trajano Filho). Leiden: Brill, 2018. * Politics and Policies in Contemporary Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity (co-edited with C. K. Højbjerg and W. P. Murphy). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. * The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective (co-edited with C. Kohl). Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2016 (Open Access

* Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2014 (hardcover), 2018 (paperback). * The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (co-edited with Wilson Trajano Filho). Leiden: Brill, 2010. * Kreolität und postkoloniale Gesellschaft. Integration und Differenzierung in Jakarta. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus Verlag, 2007. * Childhood and Migration. From Experience to Agency (editor). Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers, 2005. * Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives. (co-edited with B. Meier). Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus Verlag and St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Articles

* Global and local models of governance in interaction: configurations of power in Upper Guinea Coast societies (with Anita Schroven). Journal for Contemporary African Studies 37,1: 57-71 (onlin

*Creolization and pidginization as identity-related concepts of language, culture and identity. In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity, pp. 15–35. Leiden: Brill, 2018. * Creolization and pidginization in contexts of postcolonial diversity: content, context, structure (with W. Trajano Filho). In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity, pp. 3–14. Leiden: Brill, 2018. * A war and after: Sierra Leone reconnects, within itself and with the world. In: Hannerz, U. and A. Gingrich (eds.) Small Countries: Structures and Sensibilities, pp. 250–264. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. * Female Genital Cutting in context: The example of Sierra Leone. The Expert Witness 16, 2016: 36-42 (onlin

* Einheit in Vielfalt? Zum Verhältnis ethnischer und nationaler Identität in Indonesien. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) 11–12, 2012: 16-23 (onlin

. * Das Coming-out der Diaspora als Heimat? Kreolische Identität in Sierra Leones Nachkriegsgesellschaft. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 136, 2011: 331–356. * Contemporary creoleness, or: The world in pidginization? Current Anthropology 51, 6, 2010: 731–759. * Creolization and nation-building in Indonesia. In: Cohen, R. and P. Tonninato (eds.) (2009) The Creolization Reader. Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures, pp. 353–363. London: Routledge. * ‘Free the Dragon’ versus ‘Becoming Betawi’. Chinese identity in contemporary Jakarta. Asian Ethnicity 10, 1, 2009: 71–90. * Postkoloniale Kreolität versus koloniale Kreolisierung. Paideuma 55, 2009: 93-115. * Indigenisierung vs. Re-Ethnisierung. Chinesische Identität in Jakarta. Anthropos 1, 2008: 159–177. * Im Spannungsfeld von Traditionalität und Modernität: Die Orang Betawi und Betawi-ness in Jakarta, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 128, 2002, 2: 203–221.

References

External links

Homepage at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Personal website

Website about Knörr at Academia-net
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