Eveline Dürr
Academic Career and Positions Held:
present Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology; Affiliated Professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany.
2013 - 2014: Carson Research Professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich.
2009: Call for a full professorship of Social and Cultural Anthropology (W3), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (declined).
2008: Call for a professorship of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich (accepted).
2006: Acting Head of School, School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Neuseeland
2006: Senior Lecturer (tenure), School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Applied Humanities, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
2006: Deputy Professorship (C4), Institut für Völkerkunde, Universität Freiburg
2004 - 2005: Associate Professor and Postgraduate Programme Leader, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Applied Humanities, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
2002 - 2004: Hochschuldozentin (C2) (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the University of Freiburg, Department of Social Anthropology, Germany.
1997 -1998: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the De¬partment of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, U.S.
1994 - 2002: Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (C1) und Oberassistentin (C2) (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the University of Freiburg. During that time
Academic Education and Qualifications
2000: Habilitation and venia legendi in social anthropology, University of Freiburg (highest German academic degree, required to be eligible at German Universities for a full Professorship).
1991 - 1994: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, affiliated at the University of Freiburg and the Latin American Centre of the Free University, Berlin, funded by a research grant from the German National Science Foundation.
1990: Promotion: Dr. rer. Nat. at the University of Freiburg. Title oft he thesis: Der Aufstand der Tzeltal (1712-1713). Analyse einer Revitalisationsbewegung im kolonialen Mesoamerika Dissertation: 1,7; Rigorosum: 1,3 Prädikat: magna cum laude
1987 - 1990: Doctoral candidate at the University of Freiburg, funded by a research grant from the Ministry for Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
1987: Master of Arts in social anthropology, sociology and literature, University of Freiburg. Grade: A (“sehr gut”).
1984 – 1985: Matriculation at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México D.F. (August 1984-1985)
1982/1983: Matriculation at the University of Freiburg.
1982: Matriculation at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Major subject: social a nthropology, minor subjects: sociology and literature.
Thematic focuses: Urban anthropology, environment and society, mobility, cultural identities and representations
Regional areas of interest: The Americas (in particular Mesoamerica and the US Southwest), Oceania (in particular Aotearoa New Zealand)
Address: https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professorinnen/duerr/index.html
https://www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/staff/professors/duerr/index.html
present Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology; Affiliated Professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany.
2013 - 2014: Carson Research Professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich.
2009: Call for a full professorship of Social and Cultural Anthropology (W3), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (declined).
2008: Call for a professorship of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich (accepted).
2006: Acting Head of School, School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Neuseeland
2006: Senior Lecturer (tenure), School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Applied Humanities, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
2006: Deputy Professorship (C4), Institut für Völkerkunde, Universität Freiburg
2004 - 2005: Associate Professor and Postgraduate Programme Leader, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Applied Humanities, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
2002 - 2004: Hochschuldozentin (C2) (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the University of Freiburg, Department of Social Anthropology, Germany.
1997 -1998: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the De¬partment of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, U.S.
1994 - 2002: Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (C1) und Oberassistentin (C2) (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the University of Freiburg. During that time
Academic Education and Qualifications
2000: Habilitation and venia legendi in social anthropology, University of Freiburg (highest German academic degree, required to be eligible at German Universities for a full Professorship).
1991 - 1994: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, affiliated at the University of Freiburg and the Latin American Centre of the Free University, Berlin, funded by a research grant from the German National Science Foundation.
1990: Promotion: Dr. rer. Nat. at the University of Freiburg. Title oft he thesis: Der Aufstand der Tzeltal (1712-1713). Analyse einer Revitalisationsbewegung im kolonialen Mesoamerika Dissertation: 1,7; Rigorosum: 1,3 Prädikat: magna cum laude
1987 - 1990: Doctoral candidate at the University of Freiburg, funded by a research grant from the Ministry for Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
1987: Master of Arts in social anthropology, sociology and literature, University of Freiburg. Grade: A (“sehr gut”).
1984 – 1985: Matriculation at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México D.F. (August 1984-1985)
1982/1983: Matriculation at the University of Freiburg.
1982: Matriculation at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Major subject: social a nthropology, minor subjects: sociology and literature.
Thematic focuses: Urban anthropology, environment and society, mobility, cultural identities and representations
Regional areas of interest: The Americas (in particular Mesoamerica and the US Southwest), Oceania (in particular Aotearoa New Zealand)
Address: https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professorinnen/duerr/index.html
https://www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/staff/professors/duerr/index.html
less
Related Authors
InterestsView All (12)
Uploads
Papers by Eveline Dürr
The book advances the Anthropology of borders, coloniality, subjectivity, and race, as well as contributing to Chicano and Latino Studies, and Urban Studies. Pushing the boundaries of conventional approaches, this book is methodologically innovative by including team fieldwork, digital ethnography, and illustrative work by a local artist. It fills a gap in Security Studies by examining peer-to-peer vigilance beyond top-down surveillance and bottom-up "sousveillance," and expanding previous understandings of watchfulness as an ambivalent practice that can also express care and contribute to community building, as well as representing a "way of life."
Thus, the modernist epistemology is widely challenged in current discussions inspired by post-humanism and new materialism, in the anthropology of gender, the anthropology of nature, and science and technology studies.
The papers presented in this special issue are selected from two events organized by the editors: a plenary session at the German Anthropological Association (GAA) in Marburg in 2015 entitled “Toward an Anthropology of Life in Times of Multiple Crises” and a conference on “Trans-Environmental Dynamics: Understanding and Debating Ontologies, Politics, and History in Latin America” held at the LMU in Munich in 2015, funded by the Thyssen Foundation and supported by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Sadly, one of the contributors to this special issue, Elke Mader, passed away on 8th of August 2021 after a long illness. She did pioneering work with her long-term fieldwork among the Shuar and Achuar in Amazonian Ecuador
and Peru between the late 1970s and 2000. More recently she worked on global Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan and participatory audiences (Dudrah, Mader, Fuchs 2015) and focused on the anthropology of rituals (this issue) and myths (Mader 2008) as well as on global cultural processes, film and social media.
This special issue inquires into distinct conceptualisations of the world and thus discusses notions of life and personhood, and their consequences. Specifically, the authors ask how environments and life are politically performed, reconfigured and enacted in moments of ecological crisis. In doing so, the papers are concerned with the ontological, political and ecological dimensions of life in indigenous,
modernist and extra-terrestrial conceptions and focus on its boundaries,
fuzziness and transformations. The guiding questions are deliberately provocative: How are the perception of the environmental crisis and the enactment of conflicts and violence related to ontological conceptions ranging from naturalism to animism? More provocatively, what are the consequences for conceptions of personhood and life if sociality goes beyond relations among humans, and if notions of life do not coincide with the biosphere but reach beyond the terrestrial?
These challenging questions concern distinct notions of life, which have become a central topic in anthropology, the humanities and beyond. The politics of life have been a focal point in diverse fields of study, such as research on humanitarianism (Fassin 2007, 2009), reproductive technologies, biotechnology and biomedicine, with an emphasis on emerging forms of life and biopower (Rabinow and Rose 2006; Rose 2009; Raman and Tutton 2010; Milanovic, Merleau-Ponty, and Pitrou 2018). Life has also been a central concern when considering
a damaged planet in the ruins of capitalism (Tsing 2012; Tsing et al. 2017).
In terms of indigenous notions of life, images of public wealth and wellbeing (Santos-Granero 2015) have been related to Amerindian political economies of life (Santos-Granero 2012a, 2012b, 2019) and the “good life” (buen vivir). The rights of nature and the “good life” have become a political and academic topic, inspired by decolonial and post-development positions (Acosta 2010, 2013; Mollo 2011; Gudynas 2011a, 2011b; Altmann 2013, 2014). Notions of life have been associated with animism (Praet 2013a), analogism (Pitrou, Valverde Valdés, and Neurath 2011) and related to vital, ritual (Angé and Pitrou 2016; Pitrou 2017),
mythical and technical processes (Halbmayer 2016; Pitrou 2016). What these approaches have in common is that ontological dimensions figure prominently, challenging classic naturalistic conceptions of the world.
This special issue contributes to the intersections among these debates on ontologies, life-making processes and the notion of life itself. The papers draw on rich ethnographic experiences with indigenous groups in Latin America (Cova, Mader, Praet) and Southeast Asia (Sprenger). While each author investigates a specific set of issues arising out of their local research, five cross-cutting themes emerge: (1) notions and theories of life, and (2) specific forms of crisis and conflict, as well the consequences of ontological plurality. Building on these reflections,
the articles focus on (3) ontological transformations and ritualizations, as well as (4) the consequences of fluid forms of personhood and (5) fuzzy forms of life. Rather than providing a summary of each paper, below, we detail how the individual papers contribute to these five dimensions.
The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. Contributors address case studies in Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru to provide new insights in key concepts such as informality, materiality, and gender. These case studies work to understand which actors, and with what agencies, are forming and transforming street markets and other place-based economies, and to what effects. Remaining sensitive to history, power, and urban politics, this book offers an ethnographically informed cultural and socio-material perspective on how popular economies and commerce thrive, transform, and persist in Latin American cities today. Scholars of anthropology, economics, Latin American studies, urban studies and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
The book advances the Anthropology of borders, coloniality, subjectivity, and race, as well as contributing to Chicano and Latino Studies, and Urban Studies. Pushing the boundaries of conventional approaches, this book is methodologically innovative by including team fieldwork, digital ethnography, and illustrative work by a local artist. It fills a gap in Security Studies by examining peer-to-peer vigilance beyond top-down surveillance and bottom-up "sousveillance," and expanding previous understandings of watchfulness as an ambivalent practice that can also express care and contribute to community building, as well as representing a "way of life."
Thus, the modernist epistemology is widely challenged in current discussions inspired by post-humanism and new materialism, in the anthropology of gender, the anthropology of nature, and science and technology studies.
The papers presented in this special issue are selected from two events organized by the editors: a plenary session at the German Anthropological Association (GAA) in Marburg in 2015 entitled “Toward an Anthropology of Life in Times of Multiple Crises” and a conference on “Trans-Environmental Dynamics: Understanding and Debating Ontologies, Politics, and History in Latin America” held at the LMU in Munich in 2015, funded by the Thyssen Foundation and supported by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Sadly, one of the contributors to this special issue, Elke Mader, passed away on 8th of August 2021 after a long illness. She did pioneering work with her long-term fieldwork among the Shuar and Achuar in Amazonian Ecuador
and Peru between the late 1970s and 2000. More recently she worked on global Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan and participatory audiences (Dudrah, Mader, Fuchs 2015) and focused on the anthropology of rituals (this issue) and myths (Mader 2008) as well as on global cultural processes, film and social media.
This special issue inquires into distinct conceptualisations of the world and thus discusses notions of life and personhood, and their consequences. Specifically, the authors ask how environments and life are politically performed, reconfigured and enacted in moments of ecological crisis. In doing so, the papers are concerned with the ontological, political and ecological dimensions of life in indigenous,
modernist and extra-terrestrial conceptions and focus on its boundaries,
fuzziness and transformations. The guiding questions are deliberately provocative: How are the perception of the environmental crisis and the enactment of conflicts and violence related to ontological conceptions ranging from naturalism to animism? More provocatively, what are the consequences for conceptions of personhood and life if sociality goes beyond relations among humans, and if notions of life do not coincide with the biosphere but reach beyond the terrestrial?
These challenging questions concern distinct notions of life, which have become a central topic in anthropology, the humanities and beyond. The politics of life have been a focal point in diverse fields of study, such as research on humanitarianism (Fassin 2007, 2009), reproductive technologies, biotechnology and biomedicine, with an emphasis on emerging forms of life and biopower (Rabinow and Rose 2006; Rose 2009; Raman and Tutton 2010; Milanovic, Merleau-Ponty, and Pitrou 2018). Life has also been a central concern when considering
a damaged planet in the ruins of capitalism (Tsing 2012; Tsing et al. 2017).
In terms of indigenous notions of life, images of public wealth and wellbeing (Santos-Granero 2015) have been related to Amerindian political economies of life (Santos-Granero 2012a, 2012b, 2019) and the “good life” (buen vivir). The rights of nature and the “good life” have become a political and academic topic, inspired by decolonial and post-development positions (Acosta 2010, 2013; Mollo 2011; Gudynas 2011a, 2011b; Altmann 2013, 2014). Notions of life have been associated with animism (Praet 2013a), analogism (Pitrou, Valverde Valdés, and Neurath 2011) and related to vital, ritual (Angé and Pitrou 2016; Pitrou 2017),
mythical and technical processes (Halbmayer 2016; Pitrou 2016). What these approaches have in common is that ontological dimensions figure prominently, challenging classic naturalistic conceptions of the world.
This special issue contributes to the intersections among these debates on ontologies, life-making processes and the notion of life itself. The papers draw on rich ethnographic experiences with indigenous groups in Latin America (Cova, Mader, Praet) and Southeast Asia (Sprenger). While each author investigates a specific set of issues arising out of their local research, five cross-cutting themes emerge: (1) notions and theories of life, and (2) specific forms of crisis and conflict, as well the consequences of ontological plurality. Building on these reflections,
the articles focus on (3) ontological transformations and ritualizations, as well as (4) the consequences of fluid forms of personhood and (5) fuzzy forms of life. Rather than providing a summary of each paper, below, we detail how the individual papers contribute to these five dimensions.
The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. Contributors address case studies in Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru to provide new insights in key concepts such as informality, materiality, and gender. These case studies work to understand which actors, and with what agencies, are forming and transforming street markets and other place-based economies, and to what effects. Remaining sensitive to history, power, and urban politics, this book offers an ethnographically informed cultural and socio-material perspective on how popular economies and commerce thrive, transform, and persist in Latin American cities today. Scholars of anthropology, economics, Latin American studies, urban studies and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
This introduction to the special section charts the ways in which the con- cept of vigilance has been loosely conceptualized at the intersection between security, surveillance, and border studies. It rethinks vigilance through the conceptual lens of vigilance regimes, as well as through the productivity of watchfulness in different con- texts. Vigilance is conceptualized as an assemblage of moral ideas, belonging, increased attention, and social practice, located in certain sociopolitical contexts, concrete spaces, and technologies. Regimes of vigilance are defined as complex assemblages of practices and discourses that mobilize alertness for specific goals, which are embedded in partic- ular materialities of watchfulness, and which in turn have effects on social practice and processes of subjectivation. This introduction calls for greater analytic attention toward the agency that vigilance produces, and seeks to define vigilance and the regimes that it constitutes, offering a productive lens for the study of socially mobilized alertness.