klein[at]dr-thamar-klein.com
http://www.dr-thamar-klein.com/
Thamar Klein has a PhD in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Cologne and focuses inter alia on Medical Anthropology and Queer Theories. Ze is research partner of the Working Group Medical Diversity at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity in Goettingen. Currently ze serves as a member of the Advisory Board for TvT: Transrespect Versus Transphobia Worldwide, as a member of the Editor’s Advisory Board for Liminalis: Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and Resistance, and is the chair of the Working Group Medical Anthropology, a subsection of the German Anthropological Association.
Between 2000 and 2006, ze conducted research on medical pluralism as well as glocalisation and transformation processes within the medical landscapes of Benin (West Africa). The main focus was placed on social interaction systems, decision-making processes of individuals and groups as well as the change of classification systems.
From 2006 to 2009, ze worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale and is since January 2009 research associate at the Somatechnics Research Centre, Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia (now Somatechnics research associate at the Institute for LGBT studies, University of Arizona, United States). Hir postdoc projects examine how global circulating ideas, policies and technologies affect South African transgender identities as well as the classification systems of sex and gender.
From January 2010 to December 2011, ze headed the project ‘Peer Review at the German Research Foundation. Researching into Expert Panels: the example of Collaborative Research Centers’ at the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ ), Bonn / Berlin.
Research Interests
Transnational health policies; Global flows of medical knowledge and healing landscapes; Somatechnologies; Queer Theory, Social Networks and Movements; Classification systems
Research Area(s)
East Africa (Ethiopia); West Afrika (Benin); South Africa (South Africa)
Publications
Monographs and Edited Volumes
2010. (with Kerstin Hadjer): ‘Sozialer Wandel im südlichen Marokko. Beiträge erster Feldforschungen’. Münster u.a.: Lit Verlag.
2009. ‘”Alafia”. Globale und lokale Medizinen in Benin’. Münster: LIT Verlag.
2005. ‘Befindensweisen und therapeutische Wege in Dendougou, Benin’. Dissertation: Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne. Online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/volltexte/2005/1600/
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
2013. ‘Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Access Inequalities to Medical Technologies Faced by Transgendered South Africans’. In: Technology and Innovation, 15(2): 165-179.
2012. ‘Who Decides Whose Gender? Medico-legal classifications of sex and gender and their impact on transgendered South Africans’ family rights’. In: Ethnoscripts, 14(2): 12 -34.
2012. (with Alexandra Kraatz and Stefan Hornbostel) ‘Begutachtungsprozesse im Wettbewerb um Drittmittel. Das Beispiel der Sonderforschungsbereiche’. In: die hochschule, 2/2012, 164‐182.
2011. (with Meike Olbrecht): ‘Triangulation of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Panel Peer Review Research’. International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education (IJCDSE; 2(2), 342–348.
2011. (with Meike Olbrecht): ‘Methoden-Triangulation zur Untersuchung von Gutachtergruppen? Peer Review in der DFG: Panelbegutachtung am Beispiel der Sonderforschungsbereiche’. Qualität in der Wissenschaft. Zeitschrift für Qualitätsentwicklung in Forschung, Studium und Administration, Heft 1/2011, 21-26.
2009. ‘Intersex and Transgender Activism in South Africa’. In: Liminalis 3: 15-41.
2008. ‘Querying medical and legal discourses of queer sexes and genders in South Africa’. In: Anthropological Matters Journal 10(2).
2007. ‘Selecting Therapies in Benin: Making choices between informal, formal, private and public health services’. In: Afrika Spectrum 42(3): 467-481.
2005. (with Kerstin Hadjer and Marion Schopp) ‘Water consumption embedded in its social context, north-western Benin’. In: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, Volume 30, 6-7, S. 357-364.
2004. (with Johanna Offe) ‘Medizinethnologische Forschungen in Sub-Sahara Afrika–ein Überblick’. In: Curare 27 (1+2). Medizinethnologische Herausforderungen: Die AG Medical Anthropology in der Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde e.V.
Chapters in Edited Books
2014. ‘Queering Biopolitics: Normation and Resilience of South African Trans*-Gendered Citizens’. In: E. S. Lewis, R. Borba, B.F. Fabrício and D. Pinto (eds.): Queering Paradigms IV: South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms. Oxford, Berlin, New York: Peter Lang, 270 – 300.
2012. ‘Configuring Trans* Citizens in South Africa: Somatechnics, Self-Formation and Governmentality’. In: Geissler, Paul Wenzel, Rottenburg, Richard and Julia Zenker (eds.), VerKörperungen: Vol. 15. Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa. Contributions from Anthropology (1st ed., pp. 43–74). Bielefeld: Transcript.
2010. (with Meike Olbrecht): ‘How Expert Panels Decide – Peer Review through Commitees’. In: Shoniregun, Charles A. and Galyna A. Akmayeva (eds.): Proceedings of the London International Conference on Education. London: Infonomics Society, 47-48.
2009. ‘L’eau et la santé’. In: Judex, Michael and Hans-Peter Thamm (eds.): IMPETUS Atlas du Bénin. S. 51-52. L’Institut Géographique: Université de Bonn.
2009. (with Kerstin Hadjer and Uwe Singer) ‘Enquête régionale sur la sécurité de la subsistance’. In: Judex, Michael and Hans-Peter Thamm (eds.): IMPETUS Atlas du Bénin. S. 115-116. L’Institut Géographique: Université de Bonn.
2009. (with Kerstin Hadjer and Marion Schopp) ‘La consommation d’eau interpretée en fonctionne du contexte social’. In: Judex, Michael and Hans-Peter Thamm (eds.): IMPETUS Atlas du Bénin. S. 55-56. L’Institut Géographique: Université de Bonn.
2008. ‘Water and Health’. In: Thamm, Hans-Peter, Judex, Michael and Michael Christoph (eds.): IMPETUS Atlas, Benin. 2nd Complete Revised Edition. S. 51-52. Department of Geography: University of Bonn.
2008. (with Kerstin Hadjer and Uwe Singer) ‘Regional Survey on Livelihood Security’. In: Thamm, Hans-Peter, Judex, Michael and Michael Christoph (eds.): IMPETUS Atlas, Benin. 2nd Complete Revised Edition. S. 115-116. Department of Geography: University of Bonn.
2008. (with Kerstin Hadjer and Marion Schopp) ‘Water Consumption embedded in its Social Context’. In: Thamm, Hans-Peter, Judex, Michael and Michael Christoph (eds.): IMPETUS Atlas, Benin. 2nd Complete Revised Edition. S. 55-56. Department of Geography: University of Bonn.
2005. (with Kerstin Hadjer and Marion Schopp) ‘Water consumption in the Upper Ouémé under socio economic aspects’. In: Thamm, Hans-Peter; Schütz, O. and Michael Christoph (eds.): IMPETUS Atlas – Benin – Research Results. Bonn, Publishing House: University of Bonn, Remote Sensing Research Group.
2003. ‘Traditional Birth Attendants’. In: Siegbert Uhlig (eds.): Encyclopeadia Aethiopica I, S. 592-593. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Other
2011. (with Meike Olbrecht) ‘SFB-Begutachtung: Entscheidungsfindung in Gruppen’. In: Hornbostel, Stefan and Anna Schelling (eds.), 2011: Evaluation: New Balance of Power? iFQ-Working Paper No.9. Bonn, 33-45.
2009. ‘Technologies of Trans* Citizen Configuration: The Case of South Africa’. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers. No. 119. http://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/wps/mpi-eth-working-paper-0119.html
2007. Rezension. Dilger, Hansjörg: Leben mit AIDS. Krankheit, Tod und soziale Beziehungen in Afrika. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus Verlag, 2005. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 132(1): 155-157.
Conference Presentations and Organization
2013. Workshop organization together with Hansjörg Dilger: Situating Medical Anthropology: Between the ‘ivory tower of science,” activist engagement, and ethical responsibility. GAA Biannual Conference
2013 ‘Locations: anthropology in the academy, the workplace, and the public sphere”, Mainz University, 04.10.2013, Mainz.
2012. ‘Vermessen: Körperklassifikationen südafrikanischer Bürger_innen.” Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Freiburg, 13.12.2012, Freiburg.
2012. Conference organization together with Bernhard Hadolt: Interstices in Medical Anthropology, 15th Anniversary Conference of the Work Group Medical Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association e.V., University of Vienna, 29.11. – 02.12.2012, Vienna, Austria.
2012. ‘Betwixt and Between: The medicalization of South African liminal gendered citizens.” Interstices in Medical Anthropology, 15th Anniversary Conference of the Work Group Medical Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association e.V., University of Vienna, 29.11. – 02.12.2012, Vienna, Austria.
2012. ‘Queering Biopolitics: Normation and resilience of South African trans*-gendered citizens.” Queering Paradigms IV, 24.07 – 28.07.2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
2012. ‘Ethnologische Perspektiven auf Homosexualität in unterschiedlichen Kulturen.’ CSD- Kulturwoche
2012 – ‘Liebe ohne Grenzen – Akzeptanz von Lesben und Schwulen in allen Kulturen’, 26.06.2012, Bielefeld.
2012. ‘’They were (not) ashamed’: Family from transgendered South African perspectives.” VAD Tagung, University of Cologne, 30.05. – 02.06.2012, Cologne.
2012. ‘Transgender Lost in Translation: Zur Glokalisierung von Körper-klassifikationen am Beispiel Südafrika.’ Gender Salon ³, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 29.02.2012, Munich.
2011. (with Alexandra Kraatz) ‘Lehre – Forschung – Evaluation: Zur diffizilen Situation von ProfessorInnen als Antragsstellende & Gutachtende von SFBs und den daraus folgenden Effekten bei der Panelbegutachtung’. Vortrag gehalten auf dem Workshop: Anwerben – Andocken – Anwenden. Wie reagieren Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen auf neue Herausforderungen für das deutsche Wissenschafts- und Innovationssystem? Social Science Research Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB), Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (Institut für Forschungsinformation und Qualitätssicherung, iFQ), Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI (Fraunhofer ISI), 22.-23.9.2011, Berlin.
2011. ‘Of Prospects and Pitfalls: Panel Peer Review at the German Research Foundation’. INGRoup Sixth Annual Conference, INGRoup interdisciplinary network for group research, Minneapolis, USA (22. Juli 2011).
2011. ‘Im Westen nix Neues? Die Inszenierung von Geschlecht‘.Bielefelder Aktionstage gegen Sexismus und Homophobie, Bielefeld (28. January 2011).
2010. ‘Movin’, Movin’, Movin’‘. Public application lecture for appointment to the position of W1 Junior Professorship at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne (17. December 2010).
2010. ‘Kollektiv korrektiv oder polarisierend? Gruppenbegutachtung am Beispiel der Sonderforschungsbereiche’. Center for Cluster Development, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin (07. October 2010).
2010. ‘Von Platzhirschen und der Gruppe als Korrektiv’. Annual Workshop of the Network Evaluation, Darmstadt (19. July 2010).
2010. ‘Methoden-Triangulation zur Untersuchung von Gutachtergruppen?‘ 13th Annual Conference of DeGEval – Gesellschaft für Evaluation, Luxemburg (17. September 2010).
2010. (with Meike Olbrecht) ‘How Expert Panels Decide – Peer Review through Committees’. London International Conference on Education (LICE-2010), London, UK (06. September 2010).
2010. ‘Geschlechtliche Konfigurationen transsexueller Bürger_innen in Südafrika’. Workshop Aktuelle Forschungen der AG Medical Anthropology, Work Group Medical Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association (DGV), Berlin (19. Juni 2010).
2010. (with Meike Olbrecht) ‘Entscheidungsfindung in Gruppen: Am Beispiel SFB-Begutachtung’. Vortrag gehalten auf der Konferenz Evaluation: New Balance of Power?, 4. iFQ-Jahrestagung in Kooperation mit dem WZB, iFQ Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Berlin (14 Juni 2010).
2010. (with Meike Olbrecht) ‘Panel Peer Review: Begutachtung durch Gruppen’. Forschungskolloquium Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie der LMU München, Lehrstuhl für Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich (09. Juni 2010).
2010. ‘Panelbegutachtung am Beispiel der Sonderforschungsbereiche’. DFG Montagsgespräch im Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, German Research Foundation, Bonn (22. Februar 1010).
2009. ‘(Re)Figuring Trans* Citizens’ Sex and Gender: The Case of South Africa’. Somatechnics Research Center in Sydney, Australia (20. November 2009).
2009. ‘Trans* citizenship in the making: the case of South Africa’. Fourth Annual Workshop Biomedicine in Africa IV, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale (18.-19. Juni 2009).
2008. ‘Von Drachen, Barometern und Widersprüchen: Triangulationsbeispiele aus Forschungsarbeiten in Benin und Südafrika’. Public application lecture for appointment to the position of W1 Junior Professorship at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne (13. November 2008).
2007. ‘Medical, legal and political discourses on trans- and intersexuality in South Africa’. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Gender, Culture and Identity; University of the Western Cape, 18.-19.10.2007, Cape Town, South Africa.
2007. ‘Que(e)rying Bodies in South Africa’. Follow up to the Second Annual Workshop Biomedicine in Africa II, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 04.07.2007, Halle/Saale.
2007. ‘Beispiele für medizinethnologische Forschungen aus Benin und Südafrika’. Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, 30.06.2007, Cologne.
2007. ‘Globalising body perceptions: Medicine, law, inter-, and transsexuality in South Africa’. Second Annual Workshop Biomedicine in Africa II, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 20.03.2007, Halle/Saale.