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Hansj\u00f6rg Dilger (Dr. phil 2004, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin) is a Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. From 2007-13, he was a Junior Professor for Religious Diversity in Transnational Contexts at FU Berlin and from 2005-07 Assistant Professor for African Health and Society (tenure track) at the University of Florida, Gainesville. His research and teaching interests include medical anthropology; the anthropology of religion; kinship, sexuality, gender (esp. masculinities); urban anthropology; and the anthropology of schools and education.
\nBetween 1995 and 2006, Hansj\u00f6rg Dilger conducted fieldwork on HIV\/AIDS and social relations in rural and urban Tanzania, focusing initially on young people’s discourse on AIDS, morality and modernity. He also studied the experiences of people living with HIV\/AIDS and their social and family networks in the context of rural-urban migration. Since 2008, he has done research on Christian and Muslim schooling in Dar es Salaam and the social, political and moral presence of religion in the wake of neoliberal restructuring. This research has also included the aspect of medical mission which has been employed by revivalist religious organizations to access and transform urban space.
\nDilger is head of the Research Area Medical Anthropology at FU Berlin. He is the head of several research projects, including: \u2018The Antiretroviral Therapy in Tanzania: Drugs and Patients in the Context of Global Power Structures and Local Agency\u2019 (2008-2012); \u2018Masculinities and HIV\/AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa\u2019 (2007-2011); \u2018Bioprospecting in the African Renaissance: From Muthi to Intellectual Property Rights\u2019 (2010-13); and \u2018African Medical Migration: Nigerian Doctors in the USA between Moral, Economics and Professional Obligations\u2019 (2013-15). He is a board member of the International Research Network \u2018Religion, AIDS and Social Transformation in Africa\u2019 (RASTA) and research partner of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, G\u00f6ttingen, Research Focus \u2018Medical Diversity\u2019. Between 2004 and 2010, he was the chair of the Work Group Medical Anthropology within the German Anthropological Association (DGV e.V.).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

HIV\/AIDS and social relations; religion and medicine; mobility, migration and health; transnational health interventions; global flows of medical knowledge and healing landscapes; professionalization processes <\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Area(s)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eastern and Southern Africa; migratory contexts in Europe and the USA<\/span><\/p>\n

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Publications (Selection)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Monographs and Edited Volumes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2015. (ed., together with Susann Huschke and Dominik Mattes): \u201eEthics, Epistemology and Engagement: Encountering Values in Medical Anthropology\u201c, Special Issue Medical Anthropology. Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 34(1).
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2014. (ed., together with Marian Burchardt, Rijk Van Dijk und Thera Rasing): \u201eReligion and AIDS Treatment in Africa: Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives\u201c. London: Ashgate Publishers.
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2012. (Eds., together with Abdoulaye Kane and Stacey Langwick) \u2018Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing\u2019. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. (Eds., together with Anita Hardon) \u2018Global AIDS medicines in East African health institutions\u2019. Schwerpunktheft Medical Anthropology. Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 30\/2.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. (Eds., together with Marian Burchardt and Rijk van Dijk) \u2018\u201cThe redemptive moment\u201d: ART and the formation of new religious spaces\u2019. Special Issue, African Journal of AIDS Research 9(4).<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. (Eds., together with Ute Luig) \u2018Morality, Hope and Grief: Anthropologies of Aids in Africa\u2019. Oxford \/ New York: Berghahn Books. (Paperback in 2012)<\/span><\/p>\n

2005. \u2018Leben mit Aids. Krankheit, Tod und soziale Beziehungen in Afrika. Eine Ethnographie\u2019. Frankfurt a.M. \/ New York: Campus. [Engl.: Living with Aids. Illness, Death and Social Relations in Africa. An Ethnography]<\/span><\/p>\n

1999. \u2018Besser der Vorhang im Haus als die Fahne im Wind. Geld, AIDS und Moral im l\u00e4ndlichen Tansania\u2019. M\u00fcnster \/ London: LIT Verlag. [Engl.: \u2018Better the Curtain in the House than the Flag Flowing to and fro\u2019. Money, AIDS and Morality in Rural Tanzania]<\/span><\/p>\n

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2015. (together with Bernhard Hadolt): “Medicine in Context: Towards a Social and Cultural Anthropology of Medicine(s) in an Interconnected World”. In: Medicine, Anthropology, Theory 2 (3). Online:<\/span> http:\/\/www.medanthrotheory.org\/read\/5734\/medicine-in-context<\/a><\/p>\n

2015. (together with Susann Huschke and Dominik Mattes): \u201eEthics, Epistemology and Engagement: Encountering Values in Medical Anthropology\u201c. In: Medical Anthropology 34 (1): 1-10.
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2014 (together with Leah F. Bohle and Uwe Gro\u00df): \u201eHIV-serostatus disclosure in the context of free antiretroviral therapy and socio-economic dependency: experiences among women living with HIV in Tanzania\u201c. In: African Journal of AIDS Research 13 (3): 215-227.
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2014. \u2018Claiming Territory: Medical Mission, Interreligious Revivalism, and the Spatialization of Health Interventions in Urban Tanzania\u2019. In: Medical Anthropology 33 (1), (Special Issue \u2018Turning Therapies: Placing Medical Diversity\u2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

2013. (Together with Linn Lei\u00dfner, Lenka Bosanska, Christina Lampe and Ursula Pl\u00f6ckinger) \u2018Illness Perception and Clinical Treatment Experiences in Patients with M. Maroteaux-Lamy (Mucopolysaccharidosis Type VI) and a Turkish Migration Background in Germany\u2019. In: PlosOne.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. (Together with Susann Huschke, Dominik Mattes and Angelika Wolf) \u2018Medizin und Gesundheit in globalen Felder: Forschen und Studieren am Institut f\u00fcr Ethnologie in Berlin\u2019. In: Ethnoscripts 14 (2): 156-180.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. (Together with Anita Hardon) \u2018Global AIDS medicines in East African health institutions. Introduction\u2019. In: Medical Anthropology 30 (2): 136-57.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. (Together with Rijk van Dijk and Marian Burchardt) \u2018\u201cThe redemptive moment\u201d: ART and the formation of new religious spaces. Introduction\u2019. In: African Journal of AIDS Research 9(4): 373-383.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. (Together with Noelle Sullivan and David Garcia) \u2018Negotiating Professionalism, Economics, and Moral Obligation: An Appeal for Ethnographic Approaches to African Medical Migration\u2019. In: African Diaspora 3 (2): 235-252.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. \u2018Doing Better? Religion, the Virtue-Ethics of Development and the Fragmentation of Health Politics in Tanzania\u2019. In: Africa Today 56 (1): 89-110.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018\u201cWe Are All Going to Die\u201d: Kinship, Belonging and the Morality of HIV\/AIDS-Related Illnesses and Deaths in Rural Tanzania\u2019. In: Anthropological Quarterly 81 (1): 207-232.<\/span><\/p>\n

2007. \u2018Healing the Wounds of Modernity: Community, Salvation and Care in a Neo-Pentecostal Church in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania\u2019. In: Journal of Religion in Africa 37 (1): 59-83.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006. \u2018The Power of Aids: Kinship, Mobility and the Valuing of Social and Ritual Relationships in Tanzania\u2019. In: African Journal of Aids Research 5 (2): 109-21.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005. (Together with Johanna Offe) \u2018Making the Difference? Structure, Agency and Culture in Anthropological Research on Gender and Aids in Africa\u2019. In: Curare 28 (2+3): 266-280. (Special issue \u2018Kulturelle Reaktionen auf AIDS und HIV: Multidisziplin\u00e4re Blicke auf den Umgang mit AIDS und HIV-Patienten weltweit\u2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

2004. (Together with Brigit Obrist and Walter Bruchhausen) \u2018Kranksein, Heilen und Gesundbleiben im Schnittpunkt von Religion und Medizin\u2019. In: Curare 27 (1-2): 27-39. (Special issue \u2018Medical Anthropology in Germany\u2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

2003. \u2018Sexuality, AIDS and the Lures of Modernity: Reflexivity and Morality among Young People in Rural Tanzania\u2019. In: Medical Anthropology 22, 1: 23-52<\/span><\/p>\n

2001. \u2018\u201cLiving PositHIVely in Tanzania\u201d. The Global Dynamics of AIDS and the Meaning of Religion for International and Local AIDS Work\u2019. In: afrika spectrum, 36 (1): 73-90. (Special issue \u2018AIDS in Africa. Broadening the Perspectives\u2019)<\/span><\/p>\n

2001. \u2018AIDS in Africa. Broadening the Perspectives on Research and Policy-Making. An Introduction\u2019. In: afrika spectrum, 36 (1) 2001: 5-16. (Special issue \u2018AIDS in Africa. Broadening the Perspectives\u2019)<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapters in Edited Books<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2013. \u201eNo Public? Class Dynamics, the Politics of Extraversion, and the Non-Formation of Political Publics and (Religious) AIDS Activism in Urban Tanzania\u201c. In: Schmitt, Caroline und Asta Vonderau (eds.): \u00d6ffentlichkeiten in Bewegung. Formationen von transnationalen Kommunikations- und Handlungsr\u00e4umen. Bielefeld: Transcript, 175-206.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. \u2018Targeting the Empowered Individual: Transnational Policy-Making, the Global Economy of Aid and the Limitation of \u201cBiopower\u201d in the Neoliberal Era\u2019. In: Dilger, Hansj\u00f6rg; Kane, Abdoulaye and Stacey Langwick (eds.): Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa. Transnational Health and Healing. pp. 60-91. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. (Together with Stacey Langwick and Abdoulaye Kane) \u2018Introduction: Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts\u2019. In: Dilger, Hansj\u00f6rg; Kane, Abdoulaye and Stacey Langwick (eds.): Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa. Transnational Health and Healing. pp. 1-28. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. (Together with Bernhard Hadolt) \u2018Medizinethnologie\u2019. In: Beer, Bettina und Hans Fischer (eds.): Ethnologie: Einf\u00fchrung und \u00dcberblick. pp. 309-329. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. \u2018Contextualising Ethics: or, the Morality of Knowledge Production in Ethnographic Fieldwork on \u201cthe Unspeakable\u201d\u2019. In: Geissler, Wenzel and Sassy Molyneux (eds.): Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. pp. 99-124. Oxford und New York: Berghahn Books.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. \u2018Macht, Pluralit\u00e4t und soziale Beziehungen: Gesundheit und Heilung im Afrika des 20. Jahrhunderts\u2019. In: Sonderegger, Arno; Grau, Ingeborg and Birgit Englert (eds.): Afrika im 20. Jahrhundert. Geschichte und Gesellschaft. pp. 117-134. Wien: Promedia Verlag.
\n[Reprint of 2011a in: Periplus: Jahrbuch f\u00fcr au\u00dfereurop\u00e4ische Geschichte, Themenheft \u2018Seuchen in der Geschichte Afrikas\u2019 ed. by Roman Loimeier, September 2011, 18-44)<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. \u2018\u201cMy Relatives are Running Away From Me!\u201d Kinship and Care in the Wake of Structural Adjustment, Privatization and HIV\/AIDS in Tanzania\u2019. In: Dilger, Hansj\u00f6rg and Ute Luig (eds.): Morality, Hope and Grief: Anthropologies of Aids in Africa. pp. 102-124. Oxford und New York: Berghahn Books.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. \u2018Introduction. Morality, Hope and Grief: Towards an Ethnographic Perspective in HIV\/AIDS Research\u2019. In: Dilger, Hansj\u00f6rg and Ute Luig (eds.): Morality, Hope and Grief: Anthropologies of Aids in Africa. pp. 1-18. Oxford und New York: Berghahn Books.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. (Together with Bernhard Hadolt) \u2018Medizin im Kontext \u2013 \u00dcberlegungen zu einer Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie der Medizin(en) in einer vernetzten Welt\u2019. In: Dilger, H. and B. Hadolt (eds.): Medizin im Kontext. Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzten Welt. pp. 3-29. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang Verlag.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. \u2018Zwischen Health Citizenship und der Hoffnung auf Heilung: Urbane Lebensentw\u00fcrfe im Kontext neoliberaler Gesundheitsversorgung in Dar es Salaam, Tansania\u2019. In: Dilger, Hansj\u00f6rg and Bernhard Hadolt (eds.): Medizin im Kontext. Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzen Welt. pp. 351-370. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. \u2018\u201cAfrican Sexualities\u201d Revisited: The Morality of Sexuality and Gender in the Era of Globalization and AIDS\u2019. In: Pope, Cynthia; White, Ren\u00e9e T. and Robert Malow (eds.): HIV\/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention\/Intervention. pp. 124-136. London: Routledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006. (Together with Angelika Wolf) \u2018AIDS in Africa. Global, National and Local Reponses to the Development Crisis\u2019. In: Colin Legum (ed.): Africa Contemporary Record Vol. 28 (2001-2002). pp. A133-A150. New York: Africana Publishing Company. <\/span><\/p>\n

2004. \u2018Verwandtschaft und rituelle Praxis in der Moderne: die Aushandlung von \u201cZugeh\u00f6rigkeit\u201d im Spannungsfeld von Land-Stadt-Migration und HIV\/AIDS in Tansania\u2019. In: Dilger, Hansj\u00f6rg; Wolf, Angelika; Fr\u00f6mming, Urte Undine and Kerstin Volker-Saad (eds.): Moderne und postkoloniale Transformation. Ethnologische Schrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Ute Luig. pp. 193-208. Berlin: Wei\u00dfensee Verlag. <\/span><\/p>\n

2003. (Together with Angelika Wolf) \u2018Universalismus versus lokale Besonderheiten: Medizin, Globalisierung und AIDS\u2019. In: Thomas Lux (ed.): Kulturelle Dimensionen von Medizin. Ethnomedizin \u2013 Medizinethnologie \u2013 Medical Anthropology. pp. 252-276. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. <\/span><\/p>\n

2001. (Together with Angelika Wolf) \u2018Ethnologische Perspektiven auf das Verh\u00e4ltnis von Religion und Medizin. Bericht \u00fcber das Panel der AG Medical Anthropology auf der Tagung der DGV in G\u00f6ttingen\u2019. In: curare 2001 (1\/2): 191-195.<\/span><\/p>\n

1996. \u2018Frauen, Geld und Aids: ein Aids-Diskurs von Jugendlichen am \u00f6stlichen Viktoria-See in Tansania\u2019. In: Wolf, Angelika and Michael St\u00fcrzer (eds.): Die Gesellschaftliche Konstruktion von Befindlichkeit. pp. 189-204. Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2011. (Together with Britta Rutert and Gilbert M. Matsabisa) \u2018Bioprospecting in South Africa: Opportunities and Challenges in the Global Knowledge Economy? \u2013 A Field in the Becoming\u2019. In: CAS Working Papers, Center for Area Studies, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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