Researcher Project A4

E-Mail

calkins@rz.uni-leipzig.de

Address

Orientalisches Institut
Universität Leipzig

Schillerstraße 6
D-04109 Leipzig
Germany

Tel. +49 341 / 9737200
Fax +49 341 / 9737219

Staff - 3rd phase of research

Sandra Calkins, M.A.

Since 07/2012 Associate at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle • 04/2012-06/2012  researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 86 "Difference and Integration" • 01/2011-03/2012 parental leave (except 09-10/2011) • 2009/2012 9 months of fieldwork in northeastern Sudan (Lower Atbara area and Kassala) • 09/2008-12/2010 researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 86 "Difference and Integration", University of Leipzig • 12/2007-02/2008 fieldwork in the Lower Atbara area, north Sudan (M.A. thesis Mobility and Social Security in Northern Sudan) • 2003-2008 study of Oriental Studies (focus: humangeography and economics of the MENA region), Journalism and Indology in Leipzig, Damascus (Syria) and Jaipur (India).

Publications:

Edited volumes

(with J. Gertel) 2011. Nomaden in unserer Welt. Die Vorreiter der Globalisierung: von Mobilität und Handel, Herrschaft und Widerstand. Bielefeld: Transcript.

Articles

2012. Agricultural encroachment in Wadi Mukabrab area: policies of recompense, differentiation and “tribal” belonging. Meroitica 24, Zeitschrift der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin.Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 229-251.

2011. Transhumanz. In: Nippa, A. (ed.): Kleines abc des Nomadismus. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde, 216.

(with J. Büssow, A. Nippa & U. Scharrer) 2011. Wirtschaftlicher Austausch. In: Nippa, A. (ed.) Kleines abc des Nomadismus. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde, 242-245.

(with G. K. Komey) 2011. Umkämpfte Weiden: Landzugang und Überleben im Sudan. Geographische Rundschau 7/8, 28-35.

2011. Dürrejahre im Sudan: Neue Formen nomadischer Mobilität. In: Gertel, J. & S. Calkins (eds.): Nomaden in unserer Welt. Die Vorreiter der Globalisierung: von Mobilität und Handel, Herrschaft und Widerstand. Bielefeld: Transcript, 52-59.

2011. Bauern, Tierhalter und Migranten: Existenzsicherung im marokkanischen Hohen Atlas. In: Gertel, J. & S. Calkins (eds.): Nomaden in unserer Welt. Die Vorreiter der Globalisierung: von Mobilität und Handel, Herrschaft und Widerstand. Transcript, Bielefeld, 148-157.

(with J. Gertel) 2011. Einleitung. In: Gertel, J. & S. Calkins (eds.) Nomaden in unserer Welt. Die Vorreiter der Globalisierung: von Mobilität und Handel, Herrschaft und Widerstand. Bielefeld: Transcript, 8-18

2009. Transformed Livelihoods in the Lower Atbara Area: Pastoral Rashayda. Responses to Crisis. Nomadic Peoples. Special Issue. Pastoralists under Pressure in Present-Day Sudan 13 (1), 45 – 68.

In progress (manuscripts available)

(with E. Ille) 2012. Money for the gatekeeper? Gold mining, international investment and resource politics in Sudan. In: Gertel, J., Rottenburg, R. & S. Calkins (eds.) Disrupting Territories. Oxford: James Currey.

2012. Gaining an access to land: everyday negotiations and ethnic politics in northeastern Sudan. In: Gertel, J., Rottenburg, R. & S. Calkins (eds.) Disrupting Territories. Oxford: James Currey.

2012. Transferred resources and distributive orders in rural Sudan – controversy and cooperation. In Rottenburg, R., E. Ille & S. Calkins (eds.) Institutionalization and Regulation. Emerging Orders in the Sudan. Stuttgart: Reichert.

(with J. Gertel & R. Rottenburg) 2012. Disrupting Territories. Oxford: James Currey.

(with R. Rottenburg & E. Ille) 2012/13. Institutionalization and Regulation. Emerging Orders in the Sudan. Stuttgart: Reichert.