Publications

All Publications since 1997

MONOGRAPHS

2014

Care/Sorge. Konstruktion, Reproduktion und Auflösung bedeutsamer Bindungen. Bielefeld: transcript.

Reviews in: Femina politica 24 (2015), 2, pp. 161-162, socialnet Rezensionen: https://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/17988.php, Sociologus.

2003

Privatisierung und soziale Ungleichheit in der osteuropäischen Landwirtschaft. Zwei Fallstudien aus Ungarn und Rumänien. Frankfurt a.M., New York: Campus.

Review in: Focaal 48, 2006: 166-167. http://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/focaal/2006/48/focaal480113.xml

EDITED VOLUMES / SPECIAL ISSUES (ALL PEER REVIEWED)

2017

Reconnecting State and Kinship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (together with Erdmute Alber). http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15744.html, https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/reconnecting-state-and-kinship

Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State. New York: Berghahn Books. (revised reprint, together with Larissa Vetters and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann). http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/ThelenStategraphy

2014

Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State. Special Issue of Social Analysis 58 (3). (together with Larissa Vetters and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann).

2013

The Anthropology of Sibling Relations: Shared Parentage, Experience and Exchange. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (together with Erdmute Alber and Cati Coe).

2012

Rural realities in the post-socialist space. Special Issue of Journal of Rural Studies 28 (2). (together with Rebecca Kay and Sergei Shubin).

2010

Parenting after the Century of the Child: Travelling Ideals, Institutional Negotiations and Individual Responses. Aldershot: Ashgate (together with Haldis Haukanes).

Review in: Sociologus 61 (1), 2011: 119-121.

2009

Social Security in Religious Networks. Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences. New York, Oxford: Berghahn (together with Carolin Leutloff-Grandits and Anja Peleikis).

Reviews in:
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17 (4), 2011: 911-912.
Religion, State & Society 40 (2), 2012: 239-241.
European Journal of Social Security 12 (2), 2010: 173-174.
Annuaire Roum. Anthrop. 2010: 83-85.
Sociologus 60 (2), 2010: 241-244.
Anthropological Notebooks XVI/2, 2010.

2007

Social Security and Care After Socialism, Special section. Focaal 50 (2). (together with Rosie Read).

JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER REVIEWED*)

2017

Political belonging through elder care: temporalities, representations and mutuality. Anthropological Theory. (together with Cati Coe).* http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1463499617742833

2015

Care as Social Organisation: Creating, Maintaining and dissolving significant relations. Anthropological Theory 15 (4): 497-515.*

2014

Introduction to Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Approach to Anthropology of the State. Social Analysis 58 (3): 1-19. (together with Larissa Vetters and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann).*

State Kinning and Kinning the State in Serbian Elder Care Programs. Social Analysis 58 (3): 107-123. (together with Andre Thiemann and Duska Vranjes).*

2012

Rural realities in post-socialist space: Introduction. Journal of Rural Studies 28 (2): 55-62. (together with Rebecca Kay and Sergei Shubin).*

Comparative Anthropology: Achievements, Failures and Futur. Ethnologie Francaise 42 (2): 385-391. (together with Andre Gingrich).

“The natural order of things” and State Policies: Parenting in eastern Germany after 1989. Ethnologie francaise 42 (1): 45-54. (Special issue on Parentés et Paternités, edited by Martine Segalen).*

Economic concepts, common grounds and 'new' diversity in the Anthropology of postsocialism: reply to Dunn and Verdery. Critique of Anthropology 32 (1): 87-90.

2011

Shortage, fuzzy property and other dead ends in anthropological analysis of (post) socialism. Critique of Anthropology 31 (1): 43-61.*

Reply by Katherine Verdery and Elizabeth Cullen Dunn Critique of Anthropology 31 (2): 251-255.

‘The sleep has been rubbed from their eyes’: social citizenship and the reproduction of local hierarchies in rural Hungary and Romania. Citizenship Studies 15 (3-4): 513-527. (together with Stefan Dorondel, Alexandra Szöke and Larissa Vetters).*

2010

Modernität, Mangelwirtschaft und Postsozialismus. Probleme ethnologischer und soziologischer Theoriebildung angesichts gesellschaftlicher Veränderung. Sociologus 60 (1): 15-40.*

Self Sacrifice or natural donation? A life course perspective on grandmothering in New Zagreb (Croatia) and East Berlin (Germany). Horizontes Antropologicos 16 (34): 427-452. (together with Carolin Leutloff-Grandits).*

2007

Introduction. Social security and care after socialism: Reconfigurations of public and private. Focaal 50: 3-18. (together with Rosie Read).*

“Veteran Care” Shifting provision, needs, and meanings of enterprise-centred pensioner care in eastern Germany. In: Social security and care after socialism: Reconfigurations of public and private. Focaal 50: 35-50.*

2006

Law and mutual assistance in families: A comparison of socialist legacies in Hungary and eastern Germany. Journal of Legal Pluralism 53-54: 177-207.*

Lunch in an East German Enterprise – Differences in Eating Habits as Symbols of Collective Identities. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 131: 51-70.*

2005

Violence and social (dis)continuity: comparing collectivization in two East European villages. Social History 30 (1): 25-44.*

2003

“The New Power of Old Men”: Privatisation and Family Relations in Mesterszállás (Hungary). The Anthropology of East Europe Review: Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Eurasia 21 (2): 15-23.

2001

Post-socialist Entrepreneurs in rural Hungary: Social Continuity and Legal Practice in Mesterszállás. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 46 (3-4): 315-342.

HANDBOOKS AND ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLES

2018

Socialism: Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. In: Hilary Callan (ed.): International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. (in press).

Property. In: Hilary Callan (ed.): International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. (in press).

Ethnographic Methods. In: Raj Kollmorgen, Wolfgang Merkel and Hans-Jürgen Wagener (eds.): Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation. Oxford University Press. (in press).

2017

Property: An essential dimension of social organization and change. In: Gertrud Seiser (ed.): Ökonomische Anthropologie: Einführung und Fallbeispiele. Vienna: Facultas, 144-162.

2015

Ethnographische Methoden. In: Raj Kollmorgen, Wolfgang Merkel and Hans-Jürgen Wagener (eds.): Handbuch Transformationsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 255-264.

BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER REVIEWED*)

2017

Reconnecting State and Kinship: Temporalities, Scales, Classifications. In: Tatjana Thelen and Erdmute Alber (eds.): Reconnecting State and Kinship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1-35. (together with Erdmute Alber).*

Stategraphy: Relational Modalities, Boundary Work, and Embededness. In: Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State. New York, Oxford: Berghahn. (revised reprint, together with Larissa Vetters and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann), 1-19.*

State Kinning and Kinning the State in Serbian Elder Care Programs. In: Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 107-123. (revised reprint, together with Andre Thiemann and Duška Roth).*

2015

Care of the Elderly, Migration, Community: Explorations from Rural Romania. In: Erdmute Alber and Heike Drotbohm (eds.): Rethinking Care: Kinship, Work, Institutions, and the Life-Course. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 137-155.*

2013

The Anthropology of Sibling Relations: Explorations in Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange. In: Erdmute Alber, Cati Coe and Tatjana Thelen (eds.): The Anthropology of Sibling Relations: Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-28. (together with Cati Coe and Erdmute Alber).*

2010

Kinning im Alter: Verbundenheit und Sorgebeziehungen ostdeutscher Senior/Innen. In: Erdmute Alber, Bettina Beer, Julia Pauli and Michael Schnegg (eds.): Verwandtschaft heute. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 225-248.

Two German localities: Introduction In: Patrick Heady and Peter Schweitzer (eds.): Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe: The View from Below: Nineteen Localities. Vol. 2. Frankfurt, New York: Campus, 225-231.

Navigating Kinship relations in eastern Germany: love, care and limits. In: Patrick Heady and Peter Schweitzer (Hg.): Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe: The View from Below: Nineteen Localities. Vol. 2. Frankfurt, New York: Campus, 232-267. (zusammen mit Astrid Baerwolf).

Parenting After the Century of the Child: Introduction. In: Tatjana Thelen und Haldis Haukanes (eds.): Parenting After the Century of the Child: Travelling Ideals, Institutional Negotiations and Individual Responses. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1-10. (together with Haldis Haukanes).*

Parenthood and Childhood: Debates within the Social Sciences. In: Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes (eds.): Parenting After the century of the Child: Travelling Ideals, Institutional Negotiations and Individual Responses. Aldershot: Ashgate, 11-33. (together with Haldis Haukanes).*

Privatizing Parenthood – Modernizing Childhood? Paradoxes of School Reform in Eastern Germany. In: Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes (eds.): Parenting After the Century of the Child. Travelling Ideals. Institutional Negotiations and Individual Responses. Aldershot: Ashgate, 141-161.*

2009

Social Security in Religious Networks: An Introduction. In: Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, Anja Peleikis and Tatjana Thelen (eds.): Social Security in Religious Networks. Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 1-30. (together with Carolin Leutloff-Grandits and Anja Peleikis).*

Social Security, Life Courses and Religious Norms: Ambivalent Layers of Support in an Eastern German Protestant Network. In: Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, Anja Peleikis and Tatjana Thelen (eds.): Social Security in Religious Networks. Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 94-122.

2008

Traditionalisierung in der Flexibilisierung: Familiäre Arbeitsteilung in Ostdeutschland. In: Marc Szydlik (ed.): Flexibilisierung. Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 275-294. (zusammen mit Astrid Baerwolf).*

2007

Partition and Partings: The Paradox of German Kinship Ties. In: Smita Tewari Jassal and Eyal Ben-Ari (Hg.): The Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage, 221-242.

2005

Caring Grandfathers. Changes in Support between Generations in East Germany. In: Haldis Haukanes and Frances Pine (eds.): Generations, Kinship and Care: Gendered Provisions of Social Security in Central Eastern Europe. Bergen: Universität Bergen, 163-188.

2004

Gewalt und soziale Reproduktion: ein Vergleich der Kollektivierungspraxis in zwei Dörfern. In: Julia Eckert (ed.): Anthropologie der Konflikte. Bielefeld: transcript, 136-154.

2003

Are the kuláks back? Inherited Capital and Social Continuity in Mesterszállás, Hungary. In: Hannes Grandits and Patrick Heady (eds.): Distinct Inheritances: Property, Family and Community in a Changing Europe. Münster: Lit, 329-346.

“The son of a fox is a fox, the son of a dog a dog”. Forms of capital and local perception of success in a Hungarian village”. In: Viorel Anastasioae (ed.): Breaking the wall: Representing anthropology and anthropological representations in post-communist Eastern Europe. Cluj-Napoca: EFES, 205-228.

2002

Bodenbindung und soziale Kontinuität in Mesterszállás (Ungarn) und Kisiratos (Rumänien). In: Hans Gehl (ed.): Regionale Volkskulturen in Ostmitteleuropa: Abgrenzung – Nachbarschaft – Interethnik. Tübingen: Inst. für Donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde, 155-180.

2001

“Zurück in Zukunft oder: Wer ist ein Bauer?“ Institutionelle Transformation und kollektive Selbstbilder in einer ländlichen Gemeinde in Ungarn. In: Werner Rammert, Gunther Knauthe, Klaus Buchenau and Florian Altenhörner (eds.): Kollektive Identitäten und kulturelle Innovationen: Ethnologische, soziologische und historische Studien. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 279-300.

1997

Ethnische Identität und Soziale Netzwerke. Eine Fallstudie unter Ungarndeutschen. In: Stefanie Lang (ed.): Kulturelle Identität, soziale Netzwerke und Kognition: Berichte ethnologischer Forschungen aus Köln. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 167-192.

REVIEWS

2005

Elizabeth C. Dunn: “Privatizing Poland — Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor” Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, British Journal of Industrial Relations 43 (3): 552-554.

2000

Thomas Schneider: „Landwirtschaft in Hajós. Agrarhistorie und sozialer Wandel in einem ungarndeutschen Dorf“ (Studien zur Volkskultur, 27 Mainz 2), Sociologus 50 (1): 228-229.

WORKING PAPERS

2015

Wege einer relationalen Anthropologie: Ethnographische Einblicke in Verwandtschaft und Staat. Vienna Working Papers in Ethnography.

2008

Local State and Social Security in Rural Communities: a new research agenda and the example of postsocialist Europe. Working paper, Max Planck Institut für ethnologischen Forschung Nr. 105, Halle/Saale.

See also: http://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/publications/working_papers/wp0105.html (together with Thomas Sikor and Andrew Cartwright).

2006

Ambivalenzen der Flexibilisierung: Traditionalisierung in Familien- und Geschlechter-beziehungen in Ostberlin und Brandenburg. Working paper, Max Planck Institut für ethnologischen Forschung Nr. 89, Halle/Saale.

See also: http://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/publications/working_papers/wp0089.html (together with Astrid Baerwolf and Tilo Grätz).

Experiences of Devaluation: Work, Gender and Identity in eastern Germany, Working paper, Max Planck Institut für ethnologischen Forschung Nr. 85, Halle/Saale.

2005

The Loss of Trust: changing social relations in the workplace in eastern Germany, Working Paper, Max Planck Institut für ethnologische Forschung Nr.78, Halle/Saale.

2002

Gewinner und Verlierer in der postsozialistischen Landwirtschaft. In: Gewinner und Verlierer post-sozialistischer Transformationsprozesse: Das Beispiel einer ländlichen Gemeinde in Ungarn. Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Arbeitspapiere Nr. 36: 68-71.