January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
Ute Röschenthaler is an anthropologist working on the recent developments on African markets, emerging trade networks and popular cultures in the Global South. Her research interests focus on African urban entrepreneurs who create their own brands, advertise their products in the media and deal with intellectual property rights. This focus she developed due to previous research projects on inner-African and transatlantic trade networks, cultures of memory and histories of diffusion of cult associations and their performances.
Monographs and edited volumes
Ute Röschenthaler und Alessandro Jedlowski (Hrsg.). 2017. Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America: Economic networks, cultural interaction and aspirations of success. London: Zed Books.
Ute Röschenthaler und Alessandro Jedlowski (Hrsg.). 2017. Special Issue “China-Africa Media Interactions”. Journal of African Cultural Studies 29, 1.
Ute Röschenthaler. 2011. Purchasing Culture. The Dissemination of Associations in the Cross River region of Cameroon and Nigeria. (The Harriet Tubmen Series of the African Diaspora). Trenton: Africa World Press.
Mamadou Diawara/Ute Röschenthaler (eds). 2008. Im Blick der Anderen. Auf ethnologischer Forschung in Mali. Frankfurt: Brandes & Apsel.
Andreas Ackermann/Peter Steigerwald/Ute Röschenthaler (eds). 2005. Im Schatten des Kongo. Leo Frobenius. Stereofotografien von 1904-1906. Frankfurt/Main: Frobenius Institut. Pp. 80, with images.
Jürg Schneider/Ute Röschenthaler/Bernhard Gardi (eds). 2005. Fotofieber. Bilder aus West- und Zentralafrika. Die Reisen von Carl Passavant 1883-1885. Basel: Museum der Kulturen und Christoph Merian Verlag. Pp. 247.
Elizabeth M. Chilver/Ute Röschenthaler. 2001. Cameroon’s Tycoon. Max Esser’s Expedition and its Consequences. (commented translation with contributions of the editors). Oxford: Berghahn. Pp. 214.
Recent articles in edited volumes and academic journals
Jedlowski, Alessandro und Ute Röschenthaler. 2017. China-Africa Media Interactions: Media and popular culture between business and state intervention. Introduction to the special Issue “China-Africa Media Interactions”(Hrsg. mit Alessandro Jedlowski). Journal of African Cultural Studies 29, 1: 1–10.
Diakon, Birama und Ute Röschenthaler. 2017.The Chinese Presence in the Malian Mediascape. Special issue “China-Africa Media Interactions”. Journal of African Cultural Studies 29, 1: 96–103.
Ute Röschenthaler und Alessandro Jedlowski. 2017. Landscapes of opportunity, mobility and entrepreneurial perspectives. In: Ute Röschenthaler und Alessandro Jedlowski (Hrsg.). Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America: Economic networks, cultural interaction and aspirations of success. London: Zed Books, S. 1–27.
Röschenthaler, Ute. 2017. African Businesses in Malaysia: “You just have to be smart” to survive. In: Ute Röschenthaler und Alessandro Jedlowski (Hrsg.). Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America: Economic networks, cultural interaction and aspirations of success. London: Zed Books, S. 156–180.
Ute Röschenthaler. 2017. In Constant Search of Money to Survive: African Youths in Malaysia. In: Arndt Graf and Azirah Hashim (Hrsg.). African-Asian Encounters: New Cooperations and New Dependencies. International Institute for Asian Studies Series (Global Asia 7). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, S. 17–45.
Ute Röschenthaler und Antoine Socpa. 2017. Facing the China challenge: Cameroonians between discontent and popular admiration. In: Young-Chan, Kim (Hrsg.). China and Africa: A new Paradigm of Global Business.London: Palgrave, S. 155–188.
Mamadou Diawara/Ute Röschenthaler. 2013. Normenwandel und die Macht der Medien im subsaharischen Afrika (with Mamadou Diawara). In: Fahrmeir, Andreas/Anette Warner (eds). Die Vielfalt normativer Ordnungen. Konflikte und Dynamik in historischer und ethnologischer Perspektive. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 129-164.
Ute Röschenthaler. 2013. Kakao am Kamerunberg. Der Kölner Kaufmann Max Esser und die Folgen seines Pioniergeistes. In: Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst & Anne-Kathrin Horstmann (eds). Köln und der deutsche Kolonialismus. Eine Spurensuche. Köln: Böhlau, 65-71.
Mamadou Diawara/Ute Röschenthaler. 2012. Green Tea in the Sahel: The social history of an itinerant consumer good. The Canadian Journal of African Studies 46, 1: 39-63.
Ute Röschenthaler. 2011. Geistiges Eigentum oder Kulturerbe? Lokale Strategien im Umgang mit kulturellen Ressourcen (Intellectual property or cultural heritage? Local strategies in coping with cultural resources). Sociologus 61, 1: 45-67.
Mamadou Diawara/Ute Röschenthaler. 2011. Immaterielles Kulturgut und konkurrierende Normen: Lokale Strategien des Umgangs mit globalen Regelungen zum Kulturgüterschutz (Immaterial cultural goods and competing norms: local strategies and global regulations to protect cultural goods). Sociologus 61, 1: 1-17.
Ute Röschenthaler. 2011. Pagaies, pirogues et éperons de bateaux: le monde aquatique d'Afrique de l'ouest. Cahiers des Anneaux de la Mémoire (Nantes) 14 (L'Afrique centrale atlantique): 163-180.
Ute Röschenthaler. 2010. The social life of White Man Mimbo and ancestral consumption of bottled beer in Southwest Cameroon. In: Van Wolputte, Steven/ Mattia Fumanti (eds.). Beer as a local and transnational commodity in Africa. Münster: Lit.
Ute Röschenthaler. 2010. "'Celebrating our Heritage'. Lokale Festivals, Erinnerungskultur und neue Identitäten in Kamerun und Nigeria." Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 118, 1-30, http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/workingpapers/Arbeitspapiere.html
Ute Röschenthaler. 2010. Tauschsphären: Geschichte und Bedeutung eines wirtschaftsethnologischen Konzepts. Anthropos 105: 157-77.
Ute Röschenthaler. 2009. Werbung im Kontext: Perspektiven auf ein neues ethnologisches Forschungsfeld. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 134:213-251.
Ute Röschenthaler. 2009. An Ethnography of Associations? Transethnic Research in the Cross River Region. In: Marit Melhuus/ Jon Mitchell/ Helena Wulff (eds.). Present Ethnography. New York: Berghahn Books, 121-134.
Ute Röschenthaler. 2009. The submerged History of Nsanakang. A Glimpse into an Anglo-German encounter. In: Ian Fowler/ Verkijika Fanso (eds.). Encounter, Transformation and Identity. Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands 1891-2000. Festschrift für Shirley Ardener. New York: Berghahn Books (Cameroon Studies Series), 110-140.
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January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
Afrasian Futures is a series of four cutting-edge lectures that mark the conclusion Africa’s Asian Options (AFRASO), a major transdiciplinary research project at Goethe University Frankfurt that has investigated transregional African-Asian interactions and entanglements since 2013.
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming AFRASO Lecture: "Indians and Pakistanis in African Universities: The Cultural Politics of Postcolonial Knowledge-Production" by Shobana Shankar (AFRASO Fellow 2018). The lecture will take place on June, 21st in room SH 0.107 (Seminarhaus, Campus Westend) from 4 pm - 6 pm.
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