
Dr Jonatan Kurzwelly
Associate FellowResearch Department:
Glocal Junctions
Contact
E-Mail: kurzwelly@prif.orgCV
since 2022 | Associate Fellow at PRIF |
since 2020 | Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology Institute, University of Göttingen, Germany |
since 2020 | Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of the Free State, South Africa |
2017-2020 | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of the Free State, South Africa |
2019-2020 | Visiting Researcher at AHCISP (Anthropology and History of the Construction of Social and Political Identities), Autonomous University of Barcelona |
2017 | PhD in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, UK |
2013 | MA in Anthropological Research, University of Manchester, UK |
2012 | BA in Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland |
Expertise
Dr Jonatan Kurzwelly is working on the following issues:
- social and personal identities
- identity politics
- nationalism
- radicalisation and extremism
- philosophy of social science
- visual anthropology and experimental research methods
Publications
- Identity Politics and Social Justice | 2023
Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Spiegel, Andrew D. (eds), (2023): Identity Politics and Social Justice, (Vol. 47), Berlin: Springer Nature, https://link.springer.com/journal/10624/volumes-and-issues/47-1.
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- Bones and Injustices: Provenance research, restitutions, and identity politics. Dialectical Anthropology. | 2022
Kurzwelly, Jonatan (2022): Bones and Injustices: Provenance research, restitutions, and identity politics. Dialectical Anthropology., in: Dialectical Anthropology, DOI: 10.1007/s10624-022-09670-9.
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- Wert und Verwendung menschlicher Überreste Vergangene und gegenwärtige Perspektiven im interdisziplinären Dialog | 2022
Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Wilckens, Malin S (2022): Wert und Verwendung menschlicher Überreste Vergangene und gegenwärtige Perspektiven im interdisziplinären Dialog, in: Historische Anthropologie, 30:3, 329–349, DOI: 10.7788/hian.2022.30.3.329.
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- Calcified identities: Persisting essentialism in academic collections of human remains | 2022
Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Wilckens, Malin S (2022): Calcified identities: Persisting essentialism in academic collections of human remains, in: Anthropological Theory, 1-23, DOI: 10.1177/14634996221133872.
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- Custody and custodianship: A reflection on collection terminology through the lens of human remains | 2021
Regina Bendix, Jonatan Kurzwelly, Custody and custodianship: A reflection on collection terminology through the lens of human remains, 2021.
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- Violent categorisation, relative privilege and migrant experiences in a post-apartheid city | 2021
Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Escobedo, Luis (2021): Violent categorisation, relative privilege and migrant experiences in a post-apartheid city, in: Jonatan Kurzwelly, Luis Escobedo (ed.), Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, Cape Town: HSRC Press, https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/migrants-thinkers-storytellers.
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- Transcending social categories: Reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories | 2021
Escobedo, Luis / Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Agbedahin, Komlan (2021): Transcending social categories: Reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories, in: Jonatan Kurzwelly, Luis Escobedo (ed.), Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, Cape Town: HSRC Press, https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/migrants-thinkers-storytellers.
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- Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein | 2021
Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Escobedo, Luis (eds), (2021): Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, Cape Town: HSRC Press, https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/migrants-thinkers-storytellers.
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- Extremism, essentialism and identity: The life story of Muhammad Elvis Ngum | 2021
Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Fernana, Hamid / Ngum, Muhammad Elvis (2021): Extremism, essentialism and identity: The life story of Muhammad Elvis Ngum, in: Jonatan Kurzwelly, Luis Escobedo (ed.), Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, Cape Town: HSRC Press, https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/migrants-thinkers-storytellers.
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- The allure of essentialism and extremist ideologies | 2020
Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Fernana, Hamid / Ngum, Muhammad Elvis (2020): The allure of essentialism and extremist ideologies, in: Anthropology Southern Africa, 43:2, 107–118, DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2020.1759435.
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- Encountering, explaining and refuting essentialism | 2020
Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Rapport, Nigel / Spiegel, Andrew D. (2020): Encountering, explaining and refuting essentialism, in: Anthropology Southern Africa, 43:2, 65–81, DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2020.1780141.
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- Ethnographic Encounters with Essentialism | 2020
Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Rapport, Nigel / Spiegel, Andrew D. (eds), (2020): Ethnographic Encounters with Essentialism, (Vol. 43), 65–81, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/23323256.2020.1780141?needAccess=true&role=button..
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- Photographic Complementarity, and the Story of Abel Pavon | 2019
Kurzwelly, Jonatan (2019): Photographic Complementarity, and the Story of Abel Pavon, in: Visual Anthropology, 32:5, 460–475, DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2019.1671752.
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- Being German, Paraguayan and Germanino: Exploring the Relation Between Social and Personal Identity | 2019
Kurzwelly, Jonatan (2019): Being German, Paraguayan and Germanino: Exploring the Relation Between Social and Personal Identity, in: Identity, 19:2, 144–156, DOI: 10.1080/15283488.2019.1604348.
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- Photographs as Sources in African History | 2018
Gordon, Robert / Kurzwelly, Jonatan (2018): Photographs as Sources in African History, in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.250.
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Other professional activities
since 2021 | Chair of the Commission on the Study of Divisiveness, Discrimination and Marginalisation (SDDM), of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) |
since 2021 | Consultant and associate researcher, in the “Ressourcensuche als Auslöser von Kolonisationsprozessen?” project at University of Tübingen |
2019-2022 | Member of the Executive Council of the Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) association |